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An evening of learning and playing Jewish music with Josh "Socalled" Dolgin

Thursday, March 12, 2026 18:00to19:30
Strathcona Music Building 555 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 1E3, CA
An evening of learning and playing Jewish music with Josh "Socalled" Dolgin

Join us for an evening to learn about traditional Eastern European Jewish music withpianist, accordionist, journalist, photographer, puppet maker, rapper, composer, magician, producer, and instructor, John "Socalled" Dolgin. Josh will share some of his depth of knowledge about Jewish music with attendees and invite them to play some music.

All are welcome.

Thursday, March 12.

6pm-7:30pm (you may leave early)

Strathcona Music Building, Room C-412

Entry to the Strathcona Music Building is via the Elizabeth Wirth Music Building at 527 Sherbrooke Street West.

Josh has lectured and led master classes in music festivals around the world, from Moscow to Paris, from London to LA, and from Krakow to San Francisco, and has performed on every continent. With 8-ish solo albums (and one with Vulfpeck’s Jack Stratton and Michael Winograd as Yiddishe Pirat) and 6 produced musical comedies to his name, he has performed solo or with his band all over the world for more than 25 years. His list of collaborators knows no generational, social, cultural or religious boundaries: Chilly Gonzales, Itzhak Perlman, Lhasa de Sela, Fred Wesley, Andy Statman, Adam Cohen, Boban Markovic, the Mighty Sparrow, Roxanne Shante, Irving Fields, Killah Priest, Matisyahu, Theodore Bikel, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Enrico Macias and Derrick Carter, to name-drop a few. Dolgin was the subject of “The Socalled Movie”, a 2010 feature documentary produced by Gary Beitel and the National Film Board of Canada. Always active doing special projects, he toured Yiddish programs with Austria’s Lungau Big Band and Germany’s Kaiser Quartett, creates themesongs (like the As It Happens remix, heard every night across the country on CBC), directed and released an indie erotica film and created a special program using first world war internment camp archives at the Weimar festival of Yiddish culture.

Hosted by theStudent Affairs Liaison for Jewish Students and the Office of the Dean of Students.

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