The annual Jewish Culture Festival held in Krakow, Poland, is the world’s largest presentation of contemporary culture created by Jews from around the globe. On May 7, the Bay Area can get a taste of that popular gathering at a free, all-ages mini version in Golden Gate Park. Ethiopian Israeli musician Gili Yalo will headline Krakow’s Jewish Culture Festival Pop-Up, with a lineup that also includes blues guitarist and cantorial scion Jeremiah Lockwood and singer-songwriter Happie Hoffman, who hails from Tulsa, Oklahoma. The festival is presented by Bay Area nonprofit Value Culture and co-sponsored by Taube Philanthropies and other local Jewish organizations. Lockwood appeared at the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival in 2009 and 2011 with his band The Sway Machinery, as well as in 2014 with klezmer trumpeter Frank London.

Source: Ethiopian News April 29, 2022 10:13 UTC