2024 Festival Details
Spots fill up quickly, please register in advance! Registration required.
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88 Porter Hill Road, Cummington, MA. Located 24 miles northwest of Northampton. KlezCummington will be hosted on a beautiful 14-acre piece of land cared for by Emmett Leader. It includes a beautiful barn, wood fired bread oven, garden, orchard, fields, woods, and a quiet brook. A short car ride away... you can go hiking and swimming at the Chesterfield Gorge and eat ice cream at the Old Creamery Coop!
Coming from out of town? Here's some suggestions of where to stay!
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Friday night (July 7th) we will gather for a potluck shabbos meal (bring a vegetarian potluck dish to share!) complete with challah freshly baked in our wood-fired oven. We will continue the evening with a rousing shabbos tish [communal sing] into the night.
During the day on Saturday (July 8th) there will be jam sessions, workshops, baking, a lunchtime concert + bagel deli, and other activities. Bring an instrument, or come to hang out and enjoy the music and the woods! All ages welcome. Join us in the evening for a potluck dinner (bring a vegetarian dish to share!) and a concert/dance party! We’ll close shabbos with havdole under the stars, storytelling, and singing together around the fire.
On Sunday (July 9th) we will wrap up the KlezCummington weekend with a festival breakdown work party with kleztronica DJ by Chaia!
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We are a grassroots festival! We are committed to ensuring that KlezCummington is financially accessible to our community through sliding-scale admission – no one turned away due to lack of funds. Tax-deductible donations are gladly accepted to help cover the cost of the festival. A sheynem dank!
We celebrate that there are many valuable ways to contribute to the festival – whether you’re volunteering, leading a jam, bringing a special homemade dish to share, or making a generous donation to support emerging local artists. We deeply appreciate all of your many contributions!
We are also committed to passing along a portion of the funds we raise for KlezCummington to a local land-based, indigenous-led project called the Ohketeau Cultural Center in our neighboring town of Ashfield, Massachusetts. As we do this important work of connecting to our own lineages through relationships to land, language, music, dance, and ritual, it is vital to support those communities that have stewarded this land on which our learning takes place, and to make sure they continue to have access to their land, their languages, and their lineages. You can also donate directly to Ohketeau to support their important and vital work!
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FRIDAY DINNER (July 7th)
Friday evening we will host a community shabbos meal followed by a tish. Dinner will be a vegetarian potluck (bring a dish to share!) with additional food cooked by KlezCummington organizers and challah baked in our wood-fired clay oven on site.SATURDAY LUNCH (July 8th)
We will have a "deli" complete with homemade bagels made in the wood-fired clay oven and pickles from the morning Ashkenazi food workshop with Ozzy Gold-Shapiro!SATURDAY DINNER (July 8th)
We will feast with a vegetarian potluck (bring a vegetarian dish to share!) + fresh bread baked in the cob oven + borsht (made with local veggies from Sawyer Farm) + more!** All food will be strictly vegetarian (no fish). For more food options, the Old Creamery Coop (a small grocery/deli) is located a 5 minute drive away. We will eat grandly!
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KlezCummington would not be possible without the dedicated work of our volunteers! From setting up the space, breaking down, painting signs, staking out the parking area, washing dishes, greeting folks as they arrive, serenading our chefs… there are so many ways to plug in! We are so grateful for all the many hands that make this event possible!
Interested to volunteer? Fill out this form!
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There is electricity, running water, and 4 porta-potties (including one ADA/accessible) on site. There is no wifi. Verizon and AT&T get good service. T-Mobile... not so much. There is Wifi at The Old Creamery Coop, a 5 minute drive away.
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The concerts will take place in a barn which has two entrances. One of the entrances has two steps to the main level, and the other entrance is a narrow ramp. The ground in front of the ramp is uneven. There will be four rented porta-potties (including on that is ADA/accessible) a short walk away from the barn. The parking will be down a slight hill from the event, but there will also be more accessible parking spots right next to the barn. There will be chairs set up all around the event for sitting down. Many of the events during the day will take place entirely outside. In the evening, the bands will play inside the barn, and folks are welcome to listen either from inside the barn or outside the barn on the lawn. We ask that everyone be respectful of others’ choices around masking and social distancing, and expect everyone in attendance to be fully vaccinated. If you have specific questions regarding accessibility, please contact us at info@klezcummington.com.
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PARKING IS LIMITED– carpooling is strongly encouraged!
Looking for/offering a ride? KlezCummington 2023 Ride Share!
Parking will be located on the property. There will be signs to help you find where to go!
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Friday, July 7th: Arrive anytime after 5pm!
Saturday July 8th: Arrive anytime after 10am!
Sunday July 9th: Arrive at 11am to join the Festival Breakdown Party w/ DJ Chaia!
Join us for the whole weekend, or a part of the festival! We strongly request that you register in advance to give a sense of the numbers!
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At this moment, masks are optional in outdoor spaces and encouraged in indoor spaces. Please stay home if you have been recently exposed to COVID or are feeling sick. We are closely monitoring local cases and will update guests about our COVID safety protocols as needed. KlezCummington will take place almost entirely outside. The evening concerts, art installation, and a few workshops will be inside the barn with many open windows, doors and good airflow.
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