AMHERST, Mass.—The Yiddish Book Center has announced the line-up for its annual four-day summer music festival, Yidstock 2013, which will kick off on Thursday, July 18 with the Klezmer Conservatory Band and run through Sunday, July 21.

In addition to the Klezmer Conservatory Band, the line up includes: Klezperanto and Margot Leverett & the Klezmer Mountain Boys; Brass Khazones: Steven Bernstein and Frank London; the Wholesale Klezmer Band; Golem; and the Yidstock All-Stars.

“There are two concerts on the program that no one has ever seen anywhere else, and which will probably never be repeated,” said Seth Rogovoy, Yidstock festival programmer.

“Frank London, trumpeter and founding member of the Klezmatics, and Steven Bernstein, a great jazz trumpeter who’s worked with The Lounge Lizards and Sex Mob, will perform cantorial music together,” said Rogovoy. “They’ll be appearing on the Yidstock bill as Brass Khazones.”

Also without precedent will be a massive jam at the end of the weekend — a “Yidstock All-Stars” band with players from the weekend’s bands, under the musical directorship of Frank London. Among those all-stars are two of the greatest clarinetists in klezmer, who both happen to be women: Ilene Stahl of Klezperanto and Margot Leverett of Klezmer Mountain Boys.

A series of workshops and talks is also on the schedule, including a Yiddish Folk Dance workshop lead by internationally renowned Steve Weintraub; a lecture by Hankus Netsky (a founder of the Klezmer Conservatory Band); an instrumental klezmer workshop; and a talk by author and music critic Seth Rogovoy.

Once again the bands at Yidstock will be rockin’ the shtetl, which in this case is the Yiddish Book Center’s 49,000 square-foot headquarters in Amherst, Mass.

 For more information yiddishbookcenter.org/yidstock or call (413) 256-4900.