Happening Now
July 13, 2026
to August 24, 2026
Ashkenaz returns to Earl Bales Park with the fourth annual edition of the Summer Jam FREE concert series.
The Last Horrah is here again, in partnership with the Ashkenaz Festival.
Join us for a day of incredible live music and community as we celebrate the end to this year’s festival and JCC Summer Event Series.
As the summer comes to an end, we’re turning the Honey & Barry Community Park into a cultural playground featuring live music, food vendors, crafts, family friendly activities, and the famous Ashkenaz Parade with the Toronto Klezmer Society jam session. This year, we have more bands, more activities, MORE SEATING, and extending the experience until 10:00 PM. In partnership with the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto and The Ashkenaz Festival, this is the perfect way to end the summer together.
Featuring:
Real-life brothers AJ & Colescott Rubin are time-traveling musical entertainers with a whimsical flair for vaudeville & circus. The Rubin Brothers are third-generation Boston artists known for combining snappy originals with unicycling, juggling, acrobatics, and more.
Ethel Raim is the legendary founder of The Pennywhistlers, an American singing group popular during the 1960s folk music revival. She founded the “Center for Traditional Music and Dance” and was a driving force in creating the Folk Arts Program of the New York State Council on the Arts.
One of the signature events of the Festival since its inception in 1995, the Ashkenaz Parade is a joyous procession of music and giant puppets. This year’s edition will be led by the group Dobranotch and feature our entire community of musicians and Festival attendees.
Hadar Maoz is an Israeli singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and electrifying stage performer whose music bridges 2,500-year-old Persian, Bukharian, and Jewish Central Asian traditions with modern groove, blues, and world music.
Award-winning vocalist Susana Behar moves between Sephardic song, Cuban rhythms and melodies, and Latin American folklore, shaping them into a distinctly contemporary voice that is entirely her own.
You might say the Honorable Mentshn are today’s premiere high-energy aesthetically mid-century tinged, clarinet fronted, nostalgically-leaning, foundationally neo-traditional contemporary repertoire Klezmer ensemble based in the Southern half of Brooklyn with members scattered throughout the US.
Ashkenaz Festival
Honey & Barry Community Park
