KlezMargate 2024

Welcome to KlezMargate 2024

Kent's newest festival of music and dance

KlezMargate celebrates the popular eastern European Jewish music known as 'klezmer', featuring some of the world's best-known performers and teachers of the genre.

Online ticketing is now closed. 

Tickets are available on the door at ARK, Albion Road, CT9 2HP

You can also call 0782 5510881 to reserve a workshop spot 

or join the waiting list for concert/keilidh tickets

Saturday night concert (returns only) * Sunday afternoon KlezKeilidh (returns only)

Klezmer workshops * Yiddish song workshops

Klezmer dance workshops * Evening jam sessions

Schedule
- Friday from 7.30pm to 11pm - registration, meet the artists, jamming until 11pm (free entry)

- Saturday 10am-5.15pm - registration, instrumental workshops (lunch 1.15-2.15)

- Saturday 3.45-5.15pm - dance workshop

- Saturday from 8pm (doors 7.30pm) - klezmer concert (faculty plus special guests) SOLD OUT
followed by jamming & floorspots until midnight

- Sunday 10am-1.30pm - instrumental workshops, Yiddish song workshops

- Sunday 11.40am-1pm - dance workshop

- Sunday from 3pm (doors 2.45pm) - klezmer ceilidh SOLD OUT
followed by jamming & floorspots until 10.30pm

Klezmer Taster Sessions (individual workshops)

SATURDAY instrumental & dance workshops
10.00-12.15 Workshop 1
Welcome, Dancing & Groyser Ensemble I (instrumental plenary)
12.15-13.15 Workshop 2 choice of:
Klezmer Style: New to klezmer (gentle pace) / Advanced (faster pace)
14.15-15.30 Workshop 3 choice of:
Sections: Winds / Strings & Brass / Keyboards & Percussion
15.45-17.15 Workshop 4. Choice of:
Rhythm / Dance (style)

SUNDAY song, instrumental, dance workshops
10.00-11.20 Workshop 5 choice of:
Yiddish song / Instrumental: Jam Skills / Instrumental: Forshpil

11.40-13.30 Workshop 6 choice of:
Yiddish song / Dance (repertoire) / Instrumental: Tenor Lines
Followed by Groyser Ensemble

Prices for individual workshops:
£18 (supporter); £15 standard; £12.50 (conc.); £8.50 (under 18)

Performers and teachers
* Anna Lowenstein (violin) * Daniel Gouly (clarinet) * Flora Curzon (violin & voice) * Francesca Ter-Berg (cello & voice) * Ilana Cravitz (violin & dance) * John Macnaughton (clarinet & sax) * Josh Middleton (accordion) * Pieter St Nicholas (dance & trumpet) * Rachel Weston (voice) * Simon Roth (drums)

Festival venues
ARK, Rosslyn Court, CAMP, Tom Thumb Theatre

Please note workshop tickets do not include the Saturday concert or Sunday Klezmer Keilidh

Contact klezmargate@gmail.com for group ticket discounts for the Yiddish song workshops.

Refund/returns policy
For tickets booked before 11 October:
10% deducted if cancelled before 1 September
20% deducted if cancelled 1 September to 1 October
40% deducted if cancelled after 1 October

For tickets booked on or after 11 October:
Concert & Klezkeilidh tickets
Non-refundable unless the event sells out and we can resell your ticket
Workshop tickets
40% refund if cancelled