KlezCummington 2026

Welcome to KlezCummington 2026 / 5786!

SATURDAY is SOLD OUT! ~ Tickets still available for Friday, register to reserve your spot!

Festival Dates: Friday, July 3rd – Sunday, July 5th

Full Festival Details / FAQs 

Festival Schedule

KlezCummington is a homegrown festival dedicated to the creation and deepening of Yiddish diasporic cultures, serving as a vibrant community hub for contemporary Yiddish performance, musical exploration, cultural transmission and learning, resilience, and joy!

Volunteering
We are seeking volunteers to join our crew! Please consider making a contribution by volunteering at the festival. Volunteer sign-up here!

How much does the festival cost?
KlezCummington is a labor of love, taking countless hours of preparing artistically and logistically for hundreds of people to be nourished and enriched by the music, food, & art – and we could not do this without the generous support of community members like you. That said, we are committed to ensuring that KlezCummington is financially accessible to our community by offering sliding-scale admission. We firmly believe that cultural and artistic work should be accessible to everyone, regardless of financial means. We also recognize the systemic oppression that has led to a vastly unequal distribution of resources in our communities.

With this in mind, we offer 3 sliding scale rates: “resilient”, “sustainer/true cost”, and “abundant.” Please select a rate that reflects the number of days you plan to attend, your meaningful contribution to the festival, and your own financial situation and access to resources. Please give generously within your means, and if you need to be held by community and choose a lower rate at this time, we warmly welcome you to do so. We are so grateful for the incredible support of our community, both monetarily and otherwise, that helps bring this festival to life!

Supporting indigenous-led cultural work in our area
As we do this important work of connecting to our own lineages through relationships to land, language, music, dance, and ritual, it is vital to support those communities that have stewarded this land on which our learning takes place, and to make sure they continue to have access to their land, their languages, and their lineages. We are committed to passing along a portion of the funds we raise for KlezCummington to a local land-based, indigenous-led project called the Ohketeau Cultural Center in our neighboring town of Ashfield, Massachusetts. We invite you to learn about Ohketeau and support their work directly here!

SATURDAY EVENING CULMINATING PERFORMANCE
Co|Respondence / מיט|שטימונג
RED LETTER SOIRÉE

You are cordially invited to:

Co|Respondence / מיט|שטימונג: A Red Letter Soirée — a culminating evening spectacle featuring a concert in the world of Brivele, theatrically staged by artist cohort Jenny Romaine, Ozzy Gold-Shapiro, Yael Horowitz, Eva Sturm-Gross, Sarah Bluestein, Etai Rogers-Fett, Weaver, Lya Finston, and others! 

Inspired by Brivele’s name (meaning "little letter" in Yiddish), we will address the letter as an act of reaching – reaching across time, across borders, bridging the gap between two points, and sometimes falling short. What can letters teach us about failure and immobilization, knowing that we will not always get it right? How can we embrace the risk of embarking on the impossible, even and especially when the stakes are so high? Together, and only together, let us gather and seal this commitment to reaching, failing, and trying again.

Plug in! There will be opportunities throughout the festival to participate in staging this performance – writing letters, printing decorations and banners, making lanterns, and more – all of which will come together for the Red Letter Soirée on the evening of Saturday, July 4th!

KlezCummington 2026 Schedule

View high-resolution schedule HERE