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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Greatest Hits: How Zoom is helping to revive Jewish folk music in Canada
Description: The CJN Daily is on vacation this week, so we're rerunning some of our favourite episodes. This one originally aired Aug. 23, 2021.
KlezKanada and the Ashkenaz Festival are some of the largest Jewish and Yiddish arts celebrations in North America, and both are being held mostly virtually this year because of COVID-19. As the pandemic has upended cultural events around the country, so too has it forced these two renowned annual celebrations to figure out new ways to reach fans of Yiddish and Jewish culture.
Despite the hurdles, both events are gearing up for innovative programs...