KLEZMER JAM AT THE OMA
Tuesday, April 14 | TLS: 19:30 Jam session: 20h | Free Entry
We're excited to announce the start of our semi-regular Klezmer Jam session every 2nd Tuesday of the month.
All instruments and levels are welcome! Whether you're a beginner or a professional, whether you're new to klezmer or have been playing it for years, bring your instrument and join us for the jam session! During this session, we will enjoy sharing tunes with each other in the relaxed and cosy atmosphere of the OMA Café.
We will start with a tune learning session, where we will slowly learn a klezmer tune by ear. This will be followed by a lively jam session, with the participation of young musicians from Poland, France and Germany!
OMA CONCERT: YIDDISH SONG
Thursday, April 16 | Doors 19:30 Concert: 20:00 | Entry: 5/10/15€
A concert of both new and traditional Yiddish Songs with Daniel Kahn, Yuri Vedenyapin and young musiscians from Poland, France and Germany.
GENERATION J PRESENTATION
Saturday, April 18 | Start 18:00 | Free Entry
Forty young people from Germany, France and Poland will be presenting their creative projects!
The participants of the Gen J project are our guests at the OMA this week. Each of them will have the opportunity to work on a creative project with the support of a team of expert mentors.
Join us for an exciting showcase of new Yiddish creativity, featuring musical performances, puppet theatre, new Yiddish poetry, songs, dance choreographies and animations.
We look forward to seeing you there!
For more information about the Generation J Project go to:
concert
May 3, 2026
8:00 p.m.
Jordan White
Australian electric guitarist Jordan White lived and worked in Weimar for many years, so the city and the OMA feel like a “home away from home” to him. In this solo concert, he explores new ways of processing the electric guitar electroacoustically in an intimate, laboratory-like setting. Improvisation and experimentation take center stage here, but White always brings his deep understanding of the jazz tradition as well as his broad experience with other traditions to his solo concerts, so that everything usually sounds at least somewhat musical.
Photo: Anastasiia Kukla
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Liljana Cavaretta
Liljana Cavaretta, a jazz singer studying in Weimar, takes you into the soundscape of her arrangements and compositions. Her pieces tell stories of belonging, pivotal moments of pain and redemption, and unconventional friendships.
Photo: Albrecht van der Heyde
OMA’s Jam — Thursdays at the OMAcafé
Every Thursday: a new series at the OMAcafé. OMA’s Jam.
8 pm, no entry fee
Students from the University of Music invite you to a shared jam session.
It always starts with a short opener concert — then we open the floor.
If you’ve got your instrument under your fingers: join in.
If you just want to listen: come by, hang out, enjoy the café vibe.
Every Thursday | OMAcafé
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GOLESLIDER
Photos (from left to right) by Adam Berry, Shendl Copitman, Luke Eastop, Rah Petherbridge, Zakaria Latouri, Shendl Copitman
Design by Sayumi Yoshida
Concerts
Thursday, May 7 | 07:30 p.m. @ Häselburg (Gera)
Friday, May 8 | 07:30 p.m. @ mon ami (Weimar)
Saturday, May 9 | 07:30 p.m. @ Kleine Synagoge (Erfurt)
Sunday, May 10 | 08:00 p.m. @ exploratorium (Berlin)
Goleslider is a new project that combines newly-composed Yiddish songs with klezmer improvisation and live electronics.
Artistic directors Francesca Ter-Berg (cello/voice/electronics), a pioneer of combining experimental electroacoustic music with klezmer, and Daniel Kahn (multi-instrumentalist/voice), a leading Yiddish songwriter of the 21st century, explore the concept of goles, a Yiddish word that means both exile and diaspora.
The program explores many forms of “exile,” from migration and historical exclusion to cultural and linguistic ruptures. Through new songs that set existing and newly-written Yiddish poetry, Goleslider reconsiders the broad concept of goles in the context of rising nationalism.
Lineup:
Daniel Kahn (voice, accordion, piano, guitar)
Francesca Ter-Berg (cello, live electronics, voice)
Anna Lowenstein (violin)
Malik Schilling (percussion)
Pieter Sint Nicolaas (trumpet, flugelhorn)
Rosamond van Wingerden (voice)
Music samples from Daniel Kahn & Francesca Ter-Berg