Vancouver Jewish Folk Choir
Searle Friedman, Founder

Tuesdays, 7:30–9:45 pm

The largest, best, and ONLY Yiddish choir west of Winnipeg, the Vancouver Jewish Folk Choir performs the music of the Jewish people in Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino and English.

The Choir performs for holiday celebrations and special events at the Peretz Centre and around the Jewish and mainstream communities.

Major works performed in recent years have included Benyomin der Driter, Ikh Bin a Yid, Oyb Nit Nokh Hekher, and excerpts from Di Yam Gazlonim (Pirates of Penzance, translated into Yiddish by Al Grand).

This year, the choir's annual spring concert will feature the cantata In Amerike (words: Sholem Stern; music: Sid Robinovitch), complete with klezmer band. In addition, the choir will perform shorter works written in Europe looking towards the New World and songs written by Jewish composers "in Amerike" —Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Carole King, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Lowe, Leonard Bernstein.

The Choir welcomes all new members. What better way to spend a Tuesday evening?