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2025 Lineup

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DeVotchKa

Central Stage
Saturday
10:30 pm
Believe it or not, the legendary Denver based quartet DeVotchKa — known for their rich blend of European strings, folksong stylings, punk instincts, and cinematic soundscapes, Grammy nominees for their soundtrack to Little Miss Sunshine — are coming to JetLAG for the first time. Twenty-five years after Supermelodrama, their debut that opened the door to 21st-century cabaret, and twenty years after How It Ends, a record that redefined indie folk with theremin, accordion, and a slow-burning orchestral ache — they bring their sound to Peaceful Valley.
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Vopli Vidopliassova

Central Stage
Friday
11:00 pm
We are thrilled to announce that the Ukrainian folk rock legend—performing on stage since the '80s, championing the use of the Ukrainian language and identity in music, a symbol of Ukraine’s cultural awakening, a pioneer in neo-ethnic and world music, a collaborator with Khaled and Manu Chao, and even a "teacher" to Gogol Bordello according to Eugene Hutz, as well as a participant in WOMAD, Sziget, and the Montreux Jazz Festival, already beloved in the USA and Canada—will perform for the first time at JetLag as part of their big North America Tour 2025.
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Hazmat Modine

Central Stage
Saturday
8:30 pm
Hurray, hurray — our beloved Hazmat Modine is coming back! Third time at JetLAG with their ferocious repertoire and genre-melting blend of American roots, blues, Balkan brass, Gypsy jazz, African grooves, and downtown New York edge. Led by Wade Schuman’s throaty gravel-and-honey vocals and untamed harmonica, the band brings together tuba, horns, banjo, violin, and all kinds of strange and wonderful instruments in a sound that’s raw, rich, and totally their own. Some of the band members will also appear as guest musicians at the Vopli Vidopliasova concert.
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La Manga

Central Stage
Saturday
3:30 pm
For their first appearance at JetLAG, La Manga brings the fierce, ceremonial energy of Colombia’s Caribbean coast. This Brooklyn-based all-female percussive collective channels deep Afro-Indigenous musical traditions with pounding drums, traditional flutes, and call-and-response vocals. Their sound is rooted in oral forms like cumbia, gaita, tambora, and bullerengue — music born in resistance and celebration.
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Midwood

Central Stage
Friday
9:00 pm
We’re excited to welcome Midwood, a psychedelic klezmer-rock fusion quartet from Brooklyn, uniting four outstanding musicians. Virtuoso violinist Jake Shulman-Ment, a master of Eastern European and klezmer folk traditions, returns to JetLAG after performing here a decade ago as Yasha Nazaroff of The Brothers Nazaroff in 2015. He’s joined by multilingual singer, flutist, and multi-instrumentalist Eleonore Weill (Yiddish, French, Romanian, Occitan), who also played JetLAG that year with Fada; genre-defying rock-jazz-klezmer musician Avi Fox-Rosen on guitar; and powerful drummer Richie Barshay, a collaborator of groundbreaking artists such as Chick Corea and The Klezmatics. Don’t miss it!
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The Exuberant Jam: Vanya Zhuk, Garik Bagdagyulyan & Friends

Central Stage
Saturday
6:30 pm
The Exuberant Jam is JetLAG’s signature musical extravaganza — a joyful collapse of genre, style, and category. It celebrates unity in diversity, and though it didn’t always have this name, it always carried this spirit. You can count on hearing something in the rock and blues spectrum, something from klezmer and Romani streets — and much, much more. The name was coined by garage-rock-blues-klezmer guitarist and singer Vanya Zhuk, who will be the heart and soul of the jam — alongside his longtime friend and collaborator across legendary bands, jams, and festivals, including JetLAG itself: the inimitable funk drummer Garik Bagdagulyan. They’ll be joined by many of our beloved musicians. Don’t miss this Saturday-night celebration on the Central Stage.
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Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band

Central Stage
Saturday
2:00 pm
Most of JetLAG’s guests this year, aligning with the theme ‘Neoteric,’ will be newcomers. However, we’re equally excited to welcome back our cherished regulars, whose presence, artistry, and unique personalities are what truly define JetLAG. Among these long-term allies is the indispensable Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band, the wonderful jammers, and the soulful people who’ve become our dear friends over the years. We look forward to their vibrant and eclectic mix of Balkan, Klezmer, and Eastern European brass music, a fusion that will, as usual, kick off the Saturday concert in the true spirit and taste of JetLAG.
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Olya Chikina

Central Stage
Saturday
5:30 pm
Olya Chikina is JetLAG’s voice, JetLAG’s face, JetLAG’s ultimate soulmate. Like the festival itself, Olya is quiet and dynamic, simple and subtle, original and essential—always different, and always the Olya we know and love. For her set on the Central Stage, Olya will be joined by a powerful and congenial team: Vanya Zhuk on guitar, Garik Bagdagulyan on drums, Andrey Matlin on bass and Andrew Alikhanov on clarinet. Olya hardly needs a more detailed introduction — suffice it to say: yes, she’ll be with us again, and so, once again, it will be JetLAG!
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Garik Bagdagyulyan

Central Stage
Saturday
6:30 pm
The inimitable Garik Bagdagulyan—one of the best drummers on the East Coast, our friend and constant guest since 2013—is an essential part of the festival’s soul. With his groove, intuition, versatility, powerful musical presence, and that unmistakable warm wave, Garik has been behind the kit for many unforgettable JetLAG acts over the years. This time, he joins Vanya Zhuk for The Exuberant Jam, and will also play with Olya Chikina, Blueberry Muffin and in other collaborations.
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Squidpig

Central Stage
Saturday
12:30 pm
Emerging from the deep — Squidpig brings a raw, borscht-stained fusion of rock, klezmer, Balkan brass, and unfiltered absurdist funk. With drums, bass, guitar, and sax, this shape-shifting quartet shreds grooves that wobble like a drunk stork at a village wedding. Somewhere between a noise ritual and a cartoon riot, Squidpig might just become your new favorite chimera.
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The Inquisition

Central Stage
Friday
7:30 pm
The Inquisition brings original progressive rock to JetLAG — rich, theatrical, and larger-than-life. In the spirit of Pink Floyd, early Genesis, and King Crimson, this thirteen-member ensemble stages a sweeping rock opera full of drama, storytelling, and vintage grooves — not simply echoing the 1970s sound, but transplanting the spirit of that era into the soil of today.
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Andrew Alikhanov

Central Stage
Saturday
5:30 pm
Portland-based clarinetist Andrew Alikhanov, a member of Chervona, Portland Klezmer All-Stars, Three For Silver, and Michelle Alany & The Mystics, blends klezmer, rock, and global fusion. A returning JetLAG friend, this year he plays in Olya Chikina's set and in The Exuberant Jam with Vanya Zhuk and Garik Bagdagulyan on the Central Stage, as well as in the Utyosov gala at Spell-Art.
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Snatch Adams: Giant Balloon Act

Central Stage
Friday
11:00 pm
Snatch Adams began traveling with the circus as a child. By 12, she was already riding a 5-foot unicycle on 2-foot stilts. Today, she tours the world as a clown known for surreal comedy and dangerous stunts — including her signature Giant Balloon Act, where she climbs inside a giant balloon in an intricate, eccentric, dreamlike spectacle. Don’t miss Snatch and her Giant Balloon at the Central Stage.
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Calapitter (Billy Martin aka illy B)

PANGEA Stage
Saturday
5:30 pm
Calapitter is an adventurous instrumental quartet led by Billy Martin of Medeski Martin & Wood. With Anna Abondolo on bass, Henry Plotnick on keyboards, Nathan Nakadegawa-Lee on reeds, and Martin on drums, the group navigates the space between composition and groove-based improvisation, spiraling between cinematic textures, jazz, experimental surf, and deep-pocket rhythm. Formed during Martin’s explorations in film and experimental sound, Calapitter made its debut at John Zorn’s legendary venue The Stone in 2024 — and now arrives at JetLAG with a set of restless, shape-shifting instrumental fire.
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Daniel Kahn & Jake Shulman-Ment

PANGEA Stage
Saturday
7:00 pm
Detroit-born, Hamburg-based troubadour and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Kahn and New Yorker master fiddler Jake Shulman-Ment have been playing and traveling together in various collaborations for twenty years. The JetLAG audience saw them play together in projects “The Painted Bird” and ‘’Brothers Nazaroff’’. Their recent collaborative repertoire is an intimate and powerful program ranging from original polyglot ballads, bold new treatments of modern Yiddish songs from Gebirtig to Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, to Yiddish translations of lyricists such as Dylan, Cohen, Brecht, Springsteen, Guthrie, Waits, and more. Yiddish serves here as a kind of broken mirror, reflecting both despair and repair, exile and ecstasy, loss of trust and wanderlust.
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Oropendola

PANGEA Stage
Friday
10:00 pm
Oropendola is the project of Brooklyn-based singer, composer, and keyboardist Joanna Schubert, whose music blends theatrical chamber pop, playful dissonance, and lyrical storytelling. With echoes of Fiona Apple and The Roches, her songs move between the whimsical and the intimate, drawing from keys-based art-pop and indie-folk traditions. At JetLAG-2025, Oropendola appears as a full-band quintet, featuring Gabby Sherba and Ledah Finck on harmonies (Finck also on flute and strings), Derek Weaving on bass, and Mike Gebhart on drums. Just days before the release of her new album Swimming, she brings this new material to life on stage. Worth noting: Oropendola—like Euphonia—is the name of a bird, fitting for a project so airborne and bright-feathered
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Medukha

PANGEA Stage
Saturday
10:00 pm
Frequent guests and part of the JetLAG family for a long time already, Medukha returns with their singular sound. Their music resolves contradictions with unsettling ease: grief and playfulness, historical depth and present tense, bedroom lo-fi and folk tradition, professionalism and vulnerability. To those with Eastern European roots in today’s culturally ambiguous world, their sound feels almost medicinal. Medukha draws on ethnographic recordings, folk conventions, and the languages of childhood—warping them into raw, intimate compositions. A wedding song from Southeastern Poland becomes a conversation with a bird. A Ukrainian spring chant melts into ambient abstraction. A melody with disputed origins opens space for new language.
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Tahabdra

PANGEA Stage
Sunday
12:00 am
(saturday night going into sunday)
Tahabdra is the sonic brainchild of Wiggz Caro and Josh Weinberg, two Berklee College of Music graduates with a shared vision of immersive sound. Centered on 528Hz, a frequency believed to be healing and transforming, their music merges live percussion and intricate electronics creating a visceral, multi-sensory experience between ritual and rave. Returning to Pangea Stage after a much-loved appearance of last year, Tahabdra brings a sonic journey that pulses through body, breath, and bass.
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Chingis Dub

PANGEA Stage
Sunday
2:00 am
(saturday night going into sunday)
Chingis Dub, consistent friends and allies of JetLAG, is a dynamic team formed by Sasha Drey, KlimTot, and Sergei Aniskov, united by their passion for blending ancient trance arts with modern vibrancy. They skillfully integrate Tuvan Xöömei singing, powerful didgeridoo bursts, tribal dances, and avant-garde Bauhaus elements. Known for their impactful visuals and theatrical presentations, Chingis Dub sets a new standard with modern electronic rhythms that transform traditional sounds into groundbreaking journeys. Their work not only honors age-old traditions but also pioneers new avenues for musical exploration and innovation.
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Totem Sun Ritual by Winds of Alluria

PANGEA Stage
Saturday
12:00 am
(friday night going into saturday)
Totem Faehy’s incredible throat singing and connection to ritual brings a grounding element. Accompanied by Alluria Healed, shamanic vocalist, includes throat/overtone singing and kulning in her deeply-animistic sound crafting. Their unique ability to work together with these ancient sounds in modern alchemy creates a beautiful storytelling and ritualistic experience.
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Greenhoe & Bilger

PANGEA Stage
Friday
8:30 pm
Longtime collaborators and childhood friends, Eli Greenhoe and Hans Bilger bring their collaborative project to JetLAG 2025. The avant-pop duo crafts intricate songs that fuse narrative lyricism with lush arrangements — where creaky kitchen memories meet Bösendorfers, mandocellos hum alongside layered harmonies, and every detail counts.
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Freddy and Sally

PANGEA Stage
Friday
9:00 pm
Ledah Finck and Eli Greenhoe are Freddy and Sally, a chamber-folk duo weaving together Appalachian and Irish tunes, experimental string textures, and songwriting that folds story into sound. Their set at JetLAG 2025 invites you into an intimate world of folding chairs and resonant strings, where old forms meet new questions.
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Charlotte Jacobs

PANGEA Stage
Saturday
8:30 pm
Belgian-born, New York-based vocalist, composer, and producer Charlotte Jacobs makes her JetLAG debut with a set that bridges avant-pop, jazz, and experimental electronics. Her work drifts between Dutch and English, sung and spoken, melody and noise. Drawing from her background in contemporary dance and jazz vocals, Jacobs layers voice, acoustic textures, and offbeat synths into fluid, mythic compositions. Her latest album a t l a s blends surreal lyricism with chamber music elements and glitchy, lo-fi beats, tracing an emotional arc through memory, folklore, and inner landscapes.
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Amélie

PANGEA Stage
Saturday
2:30 pm
Upstate NY singer-songwriter Amélie brings her acoustically driven narrative songs to Pangea Stage. Drawing inspiration from ’60s and ’70s folk rock — especially Al Stewart — her music weaves lilting melodies and gentle vocals through stories that drift from park benches to the Battle of Antietam, to having a camera as a childhood best friend.
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Yi-Yi

PANGEA Stage
Saturday
4:00 pm
A Ukrainian folk group composed of Caroline Kuhn, Katie Pawluk, and Zoya Shepko, breathes new life into traditional Ukrainian songs through unconventional arrangements and a diverse mix of instruments, including the bandura, violin, banjo, hutsul drum, cello and accordion. Their performances are characterized by three-part polyphony, creating rich sonic tapestries that transport audiences from lively party vibes to poignant moments of heartbreak.
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Open Mic

PANGEA Stage
Saturday
12:00 pm
Share your voice from Pangea Stage on Saturday afternoon! Songs, poetry, jokes, dance, puppetry, stories, all are welcome at the variety open mic. Show us what you got, or come hear what the rest of the fest has to offer!
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Veronika Dolina

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
7:30 pm
For the first time at JetLAG, a luminary of Russian sung poetry and bardic song: Veronika Dolina. On stage since the late 1970s, she is one of the genre’s defining voices. A songwriter in the high poetic tradition, her intimate, sharply crafted songs speak of love, distance, loss, daily life — and, more recently, of today’s distressing realities. These concise emotional miniatures bring philosophical depth to seemingly modest tropes, drawing inspiration from both the Silver Age and the bard tradition of the twentieth century. “If Only We Lived Without Subtleties,” “My House Is Flying,” “I Could Learn to Sew for You,” and dozens of other songs by Veronika Dolina shaped the emotional landscape of a generation and form the canon for those who come next. Now based in France, Veronika Dolina continues to write and perform actively. She is also a literary translator. Her recent wave of creative activity, shared via Facebook and Patreon, brings new dimensions to her poetic world.
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Daniel Kahn & Vanya Zhuk: Bulat Blues

Spell-Art Stage
Friday
8:00 pm
Bulat Okudzhava’s great sung poetry, in Daniel Kahn’s congenial English translations and performed by Daniel together with Vanya Zhuk, first won hearts at JetLAG with the premiere of this project in 2017. Since then, they’ve released a joint album, Bulat Blues. By popular demand, the program returns this year to the Spell-Art stage. If you haven’t heard it—don’t miss it. These are true new American folk songs in English, and at the same time, they are unmistakably, authentically Okudzhava.
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Enver Izmaylov

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
8:45 pm
Welcome back Enver Izmaylov, an internationally celebrated guitarist and trailblazer of the two-handed tapping technique, known for his dazzling fusion of jazz, Crimean Tatar, Balkan, and Turkish folk music. His unforgettable concert on the Spell-Art stage under the rain has, to our joy, been recorded as the Live at JetLAG 2024 album. This summer, he returns to the U.S. for his Strings Across Continents tour, organized by Roots and Chords — releasing a new album and recording with folk-punk innovators Fugu Dugu (whom he met at JetLAG!) and The Klezmatics. Known for high-caliber collaborations — from Bobby McFerrin to members of King Crimson — this time Enver is joined by his grandson and musical heir, Giray Izmaylov, on guitar, and the legendary Frank London on trumpet.
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Frank London

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
10:00 pm
Our friend and inspiration since the very first JetLAG in 2009, Frank London is a cornerstone of New York’s klezmer-jazz-avant-garde scene — trumpeter, bandleader, author of music. Despite serious health challenges last year, Frank recorded stunning new albums, once again revealing himself not only as a powerful composer, but as a master collaborator — a born ensemble player who immerses himself in the collective and brings it to life. This year, we look forward to seeing Frank in the Utyosov gala and Enver Izmaylov’s concert at Spell-Art, in The Exuberant Jam with Vanya Zhuk and Garik Bagdagulyan on the Central Stage, and more. We can’t wait to welcome him back.
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When Sonia Met Boris: Psoy Korolenko & Anna Shternshis

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
4:30 pm
For the first time at JetLAG — When Sonia Met Boris, a lecture-concert by historian Anna Shternshis and cross-genre songster Psoy Korolenko. This academic-artistic project explores everyday Jewish life in the Soviet Union. It began as a companion to Shternshis’s book of the same name and has since evolved into a vibrant performance spanning the war-torn 1940s, the hopeful 1960s, and the disillusioned 1970s. Anna Shternshis is Professor of Yiddish and Director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto, and a Guggenheim Fellow. Her collaboration with Psoy began over a decade ago with their better-known and widely performed, Grammy-nominated project Yiddish Glory, which unearthed long-lost songs from the Soviet Holocaust archive. When Sonia Met Boris, in contrast, has only been performed a handful of times — including once during JetLAG’s 2020 online foray. Now, this rare and intimate program comes to Spell-Art live, for the first time. Blending storytelling, humor, poetry, and music — in Yiddish, Russian, and more — Anna and Psoy bring Soviet Jewish experience to life through a mix of archival material and original performance.
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Among Friends: A Gala Tribute to Leonid Utyosov

Spell-Art Stage
Friday
7:00 pm
Every year, Spell-Art opens JetLAG with a unique conceptual gala set, nurturing the mystique of a strange and contradictory era—the youth-time of many among us. This time, the concert honors the great Odessan Leonid Utyosov (Utesov): legendary Soviet estrada singer, comic actor, and jazzman, who fused Eastern European and klezmer folk with Western pop and jazz. His songs are our cultural memes—and there are rarities too, worth remembering. Among Friends (Tol’ko dlya druzey) is the title of this year’s program, named after a Soviet-era collection of his songs. In this concert, Utyosov brings together a stellar team of our guest artists from across genres: folk, jazz, rock, klezmer, and more. Open JetLAG-2025 with a journey into the world of Utyosov!
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Yuri Naumov

Spell-Art Stage
Friday
10:00 pm
Yuri Naumov returns to Spell-Art with his unmistakable nine-string sound — a fusion of blues, classical phrasing, and raw emotional clarity. A pioneer of what’s been called Transcendental Blues, Naumov plays without picks, coaxing his custom-built guitar into layered harmonies and counterpoints that evoke the depth of three instruments at once. A longtime nomad with roots in New York and performances across the globe, Naumov's songs build immersive sonic worlds — luminous, meditative, and soul-forward. His sets offer a rare kind of nourishment: electric, inward, and deeply human.
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Bard Cocktail: Irina Olimpieva & Evgeny Borovikov

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
2:30 pm
This year, Evgeny Borovikov is joined by Irina Olimpieva, known to many as Tukumtseva, for Bard Cocktail — a bold and wide-spirited blend of styles showcasing the many faces of bard song. Building on last year’s celebrated Maryland performance, this new collaboration stirs together golden-age ballads (Yuri Vizbor, Bulat Okudzhava, the legendary Arik Krupp, Evgeny Klyachkin), Borovikov’s original bard-rock, and contemporary works by Sergey Trukhanov — our beloved friend and lasting inspiration — alongside Sergey Kanashenko and Vladimir Muzykantov. This is bard music with depth and surprise: layered, lyrical, and unafraid to evolve — a top-shelf pour of tradition and invention.
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Vanya Zhuk

Spell-Art Stage
Friday
8:00 pm
Ready for ״ekh, gulyay"? Vanya Zhuk—Garage-Rock-Blues-Klezmer-Romani blending singer-songwriter and luminary guitarist, JetLAG’s longtime friend, who has played dozens of sets since our days at Peaceful Valley. Back with us again! He’ll deliver a cross-genre rock (in wider meaning of the word) set with his longstanding collaborator Garik Bagdagulyan on drums and, together with Daniel Kahn, perform Bulat Blues—an Okudzhava tribute first premiered right here at JetLAG, stealing many hearts.
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Oksana Parshenko & Alexander Alabin

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
6:30 pm
Join us for a beautiful set of beloved Ukrainian songs, brought to life through Oksana Parshenko’s soulful, authentic vocals and Alexander Alabin’s elegant arrangements on keyboard and guitar. A heartfelt celebration of melody, memory, and beauty — with special guest appearances. Alexander Alabin is our long-time friend and guest, known for his work across many past projects and jams. This year, you’ll also see both him and Oksana in the Utyosov tribute gala.
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Sasha Kuznetsov

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
1:30 pm
A solo set by our dear friend and JetLAG goer since 2009 — one of those who grew up with JetLAG. Brooklyn-raised and now Seattle-based, musician Sasha Kuznetsov makes his SPELL-ART stage debut with a collection of original songs: a musical world of gentle apocalypse. A self-taught musician with an intuitive approach to composing, Sasha defines his work as living outside the bounds of musical theory and conventional rules — and yet, what else could it be but music? His songs, built on distinctive and original riffs, marry natural disasters to everyday moments. The end of the world is the beginning of a new one, and Pandora’s gifts are packed in a suitcase.
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Nadia Chechet

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
5:30 pm
First time at JetLAG is Nadia Chechet, a New York-based vocalist and songwriter with roots in Russia and Belarus. A Berklee-trained performer active across jazz, blues, rock, folk, and French chanson, she—like JetLAG itself—moves between genres and languages with precision and ease. With Nate Shaffer on piano, Nadia will present a special set of songs written by her late father, Valery Chechet — a musical thread between generations, voices, and geographies.
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Blueberry Muffins

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
3:30 pm
Blueberry Muffins, a band born from the remarkable alchemists of Spell Art—and beloved guests on this stage year after year—embraces change and reflects the ever-evolving nature of music. From hairstyles and habits to genres and even their original name, they’ve been on a continuous journey of transformation. Bits and pieces of pop, Latin, funk, jazz, and rock come together with lyrics in many languages—genuine, consistent, and always fun.
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Nate Shaffer

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
5:30 pm
We welcome our longtime friend and frequent guest from Massachusetts — pianist, composer, improviser, music director, and teacher Nate Shaffer—this time in a new role. Previously followed and loved at Pangea for his improv-songwriting workshops, he now joins Nadia Chechet for a joint set on the Spell-Art stage—his first time performing there.
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Pour Faire Un Jam: All-Style Good Music Session

Spell-Art Stage
Friday
11:30 pm
An annual spontaneous celebration of all genres of good music — “and all that jazz” — with Andrey Matlin, Alexander Alabin, and other musicians. The jam, both as a happening and as a genre, was born in America — just like the fruity-berry spread that shares its name. It’s a collective improvisation, especially in jazz, but also in any other music, played primarily for the musicians themselves. Improvisation, meditation, immersion — that’s the true flavor of jam. Come taste it Friday at Spell-Art.
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Bamboo is my Teacher with Billy Martin aka illy B

The Timecastle
Saturday
12:00 pm
Join percussionist and improviser Billy Martin for a hands-on workshop exploring rhythm, texture, and sonic play. Participants will be provided with bamboo instruments—percussion and flutes—custom-built by Martin himself. Together, you’ll dive into strategies of collective interplay, polyphony, improvisation, and a concept Martin calls “rhythmic harmony”: a collaborative method he developed for both ensembles and educators. Whether you’re a seasoned musician or just curious, this is a rare chance to co-create in a space where groove meets gesture and structure meets surprise.
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Soul Vibe Moving Meditation with Oleg Skrypka

The Timecastle
Saturday
4:00 pm
Take a break from any kind of hustle or noise and reconnect with yourself in a special Вайб Душi (Soul Vibe) experience led by the legendary Oleg Skrypka of Vopli Vidopliasova, our guest this year. The session includes live conversation, music, and inspiration from Oleg, along with meditation and simple practices for clarity and inner balance. This is, as it were, a mini-retreat for your soul — breathe, listen, and realign. Recharge your energy, open your heart, and celebrate unity in a rare moment with one of Ukraine’s cultural icons.
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Hypnotic Sound Journey with Guy Beider

The Timecastle
Saturday
10:30 am
Back at JetLAG by popular resonance, sound artist and Himalayan bowl expert Guy Yair Beider returns with his signature Hypnotic Sound Journey. Featuring a handpicked ensemble of antique “Stradivarius” singing bowls—each 100–300 years old and selected over a decade of travels across India, Nepal, and Tibet—this immersive session invites participants to dissolve tension and reconnect. Guy’s sequences, grounded in musicology, psychology, and psychoacoustics, are designed to gently guide both seasoned meditators and first-time listeners into a state of deep resonance. The harmonic overtones of these rare bowls create a vibrational field that soothes the nervous system and reawakens the senses. Come lie down, breathe, and enter the stillpoint.
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Butoh with Vangeline

The Timecastle
Saturday
2:00 pm
Internationally acclaimed Butoh artist and educator Vangeline brings her signature workshop and solo performance to JetLAG-2025 — an immersive exploration of stillness, presence, and embodied expression. The workshop offers an introduction to Butoh dance grounded in somatic awareness. Drawing on Noguchi Taiso and nervous system work, Vangeline guides participants — performers and non-performers alike — into movement that is fluid, instinctual, and emotionally resonant. Participants explore the body’s parasympathetic rhythms — rest, digestion, healing — opening a gateway to release and creative depth.
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Guitar Masterclass with Vanya Zhuk

Spell-Art Worskhop Tent
Saturday
1:15 pm
Our dear friend and returning JetLAG favorite Vanya Zhuk will share some insights on adapting the traditional Russian/Romani 7-string guitar style to a 6-string. Plus a no-strings-attached (but strings-related!) Q&A on anything guitar. Bring your guitar!
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The Wild Voice: Somatic Singing with Rowan Katz

The Alcove
Saturday
5:30 pm
First time at JetLAG, all the way from California: Oakland-based vocalist, performer, and holistic voice educator Rowan Katz works at the intersection of vocal experimentation, community ritual, and radical self-expression. This year, they bring both a live singing set and a transformative voice workshop to The Alcove (Pangea). This playful and deeply embodied workshop takes you from somatic voice mapping to guttural growls and whispery yelps, guiding you through a process of vocal reclamation—grounded, weird, and liberatory. The session blends body-based awareness with intuitive sound play, culminating in the shared joy of simple circle songs learned by ear and sung in community.
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Rattlecraft with Totem Faehy

The Alcove
Saturday
1:30 pm
Join artisan and sonic conjurer Totem Faehy for a hands-on dive into rattle-making — one of humanity’s oldest and most versatile arts. Shape sound and intention using natural and found materials, and leave with a handmade rattle charged with your own rhythm and story. For ceremonies, dance floors, or just keeping the bears away. Bring a handle if you can — stick, bone, bamboo, carved wood — plus any small charm you’d like to embed in the magic.
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What we Call Meditation with Jordan Grinstein

The Alcove
Saturday
10:30 am
Yoga and meditation teacher trainer and Ayurvedic practitioner Jordan Grinstein invites you into a radically life-affirming approach to meditation — instinctive, nourishing, and deeply individual. Not demanding rigid techniques, this session is about entering the raw intimacy of life, resting into joy, and emerging restored. What if meditation wasn’t discipline, but delight?
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Vinyasa Yoga with Mike Shick

The Alcove
Saturday
9:30 am
Mike Shick has been leading yoga classes since 2015. Mike and Alice operate Resonance Hot Yoga + Massage in Amherst, MA. At JetLAG, Mike offers a Vinyasa-style flow class for all levels—infused with powerful sequencing, classical form, and vibrant energy. His sessions are rich with detailed cueing, enthusiasm, and encouragement. Mike's aim is to make yoga accessible to all, offering clear modifications alongside reflections on yogic philosophy and how it connects to daily life. His teaching is grounded in his own steady practices of meditation and massage, bringing depth, warmth, and focus to every class.
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Creating Theater in Found Places with Mike Lion

The Alcove
Saturday
3:30 pm
What kind of theatre can happen when you don’t have a theatre or even a stage? How do you turn any environment into a performance space? This interactive workshop will explore the techniques of creating site-specific performance and how a physical space can help jump-start our creativity. Participants will go through a series of playful theatre-making exercises as we turn the areas in and around The Alcove into tiny site-specific theatre venues and create a 10-minute festival of mini-plays. This workshop is open to participants with all levels of experience, no prior theatrical training is necessary. All you need is a willingness to play! Mike Lion is a director, actor, translator, and clown. He is the Co-Artistic Director and co-founder of Seattle's Dacha Theater, which specializes in site-specific productions, immersive spectacles and original work. He frequently directs in non-traditional spaces, working to blur the line between audiences and performers. Catch him Friday night in Insomnia at the Time Castle!
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Intro to Sadhu Board - Standing on Nails with Ruslan Laskey

The Alcove
Saturday
12:00 pm
Sadhu Board is more than a yogic discipline — it’s a ritual, a performance, a still-life in sensation. Standing barefoot on a bed of nails, the body becomes a medium: each nerve ending a brushstroke, each breath a score. This practice sharpens attention, channels energy, and reveals the quiet clarity beyond discomfort. Rakhmetov, the ascetic hero of Nikolai Chernyshevsky's "What Is To Be Done?" and a guiding myth for generations of purposeful idealists, famously slept on nails to train his will — here, we stand.
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Family Systemic Constellations with Rita Feldman

Spell-Art Worskhop Tent
Saturday
12:00 pm
Family Systemic Constellations is a therapeutic method for uncovering and releasing inherited patterns, unresolved trauma, and subconscious entanglements affecting relationships, health, or inner well-being. In this workshop, certified facilitator Rita Feldman, a Hellinger DC Institute alumna, introduces the core principles of constellation practice and guides participants through simple experiential exercises. With a background in energy work and facilitation in both English and Russian, she brings a grounded, integrative approach to personal transformation.
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Kundalini Yoga with Diana Borenshtein

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
11:00 am
Explore Kundalini Yoga as a shared journey. In this open-level workshop, Diana Borenshtein (Lev Teternikov School) introduces partner-based practice that supports physical and emotional strength while opening space for transformation. No experience required. Partners can be friends, relatives, lovers — or we’ll find you one on the spot. Bring water, a mat, and comfortable clothes. Come curious. Leave expanded.
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Puzzle Playland: Shapes, Colors & Cubes!

Spell-Art Worskhop Tent
Saturday
11:00 am
Explore the magical world of puzzles and shapes! From all kinds of Rubik’s cubes to colorful mosaics, magnetic tiles, and creative 3D constructions, let your imagination run wild. Try new twists on familiar puzzles, build your own designs, and see how shapes come to life in flat and 3D space. Perfect for curious minds ages 5–99.
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Insomnia Dream Diner

The Timecastle
Saturday
12:00 am
(friday night going into saturday)
Does theatre make you snore? You’ll feel right at home at Insomnia, the immersive all-night theatrical experience where audiences are encouraged to doze off. You need a refill, hon? It’s the late-night menu at the Dream Diner, the coziest joint in Insomnia. We’ve cooked up your favorite visions in our special snooze-sauce. Sorry, no substitutions… There’s a cosmonaut taking off in your saucer. The boogeyman pours another cup of tea. Pop a loose tooth in the jukebox. Insomnia is open for business. Insomnia returns to JetLag for the 3rd time, playing Friday night from Midnight to 6am at The Time Castle. You can experience it at your leisure — stay for the whole night, or drop in for a nap-sized chunk. We recommend bringing a warm blanket. Clowning, improvisation, interactive theatre, meditation, musical reverie, adorable stuffed animals, decaf and waffles - there’s something for everyone in Insomnia.
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MetaKansk Film Festival

Enchanted School Bus and Central Stage
After a very cool experience last year, Metakansk returns to JetLAG with a new batch of music-driven cinema from around the world. This year’s lineup features short films by young directors — animation, experiment, documentary, and fiction — all woven into a rich visual soup. Catch the main program on the Central Stage after the concerts. The second set — lo-fi vintage gems from the Metakansk archive — screens periodically through the JetLAG weekend within the enchanted school bus on PANGEA. A traveling festival of cinematic oddities and sonic visions.
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Animatorium

Enchanted School Bus and Central Stage
Cultural journalist, writer, and curator Dina Goder — known for her deep work on animation, literature, and the absurd — returns to JetLAG as a dear guest, bringing back her Animatorium project with two programs of animated films for kids and adults! A two-hour dance-driven music program for adults will take over the main concert stage at night — featuring animated music videos set to songs by contemporary artists and bands. The one-hour children’s program in the Enchanted School Bus, stationed at PANGEA's Small Island, is geared toward preschoolers and early elementary kids, showcasing funny and touching cartoons made in recent years.
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Nocturnal Cellist & Ross Lewicki

The Alcove
Sunday
12:00 am
(saturday night going into sunday)
Aliya Ultan — the Nocturnal Cellist — is a composer-improviser from the road, now based in Brooklyn. Raised in motion, she turned to music as a survival instinct, and never stopped moving. Her cello becomes a voice of its own: orchestral and grungy, seductive and unhinged — a medium of myth, memory, and pure sensation. Aliya’s work spans puppetry, circus, and experimental theatre, with collaborators including Poncili Creación (Puerto Rico), Heart of the Beast, and Yoshiko Chuma’s School of Hardknocks. At JetLAG, she is joined by Ross Lewicki for a set of cathartic improvisation, layered textures, and low-frequency spellwork, drawn from her latest album Witch Hunt.
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Rhymes with Orange

The Timecastle
Sunday
12:00 am
(saturday night going into sunday)
We broke all our bodies’ bones after a list of all the animals we made up fell on them. Now we don’t come up with animal names (just in case). Now we come up with animal smells. But all our smells floated away. We tried to invent a machine to get them back. But we accidentally made glasses that point down so we can’t see where they floated to. So we made up some animal sounds, but they all screamed because they couldn’t smell each other, and we went deaf. You could break a bone, but did you know you could break your bones’ heart? By not using your body to go to see rhymes with orange.
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Accordion Soundbath Experience with Dani Che

The Alcove
Sunday
1:30 am
(saturday night going into sunday)
Ten accordions will power your ecstatic, epiphanic journey in this clown-guided meditation, interactive performance, and healing ceremony — brought to you by our dear friend and JetLAG old-timer Dani Che. Spike up your chakras in this ultra-local Ukrainian immigrant take on vibrational therapy! All aerophones welcome.
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Dylan Israelian

The Timecastle
Friday
9:30 pm
THE LONG ISLAND EXPRESSWAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENGLISH DICTIONARY CUSTOMER COMPLAINT HELPLINE: Enjoy unprecedented access to the exhilarating life of a LIECCEDCCD employee, Representative Peck-Pentacle. Watch as he professionally fields astute grievances from the dictionary’s embroiled readership, survives labyrinthine customer anecdotes, and navigates the unique office culture at Long Island Expressway Community College." (c) In other words, welcome to an absurdist, playful, and keenly offbeat improv journey with Dylan Israelian — a soul of JetLAG and Pangea, Rhymes with Orange member, creator of the zine Floater’s Digest and other philocomedic artefacts, to the spectrum of which belongs this very Dictionary.
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The Day the Fish Took Flight by Futuristan.lab (Ardak Mukanova + Anvar Musrepov)

PANGEA Small Island
Futuristan.lab, a Kazakhstan-based multimedia collective focused on decolonial narratives and shifting perspectives, present an eschatological between-the-worlds installation — the oarfish, often called the “Apocalypse fish” inhabits the ocean’s abyssal depths. Each rare rise into shallow waters unleashes a surge of doomsday headlines. In Japanese lore, the oarfish is the messenger of Ryūjin, the sea god who reigns in the underwater palace of Ryūgū. Across the regions where this “king of herrings” appears, folklore links its surfacing or stranding with impending natural calamities. This project reflects two realities: the fish’s body, surreally suspended in the sky, and its generative, ghostly avatar — an omen emerging from clouds of data, warning of ecological collapse.
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The Modular Experience with Reuven Grehan

The Laundry Room
Enter the Laundry Room — yes, the actual one on the central field — and find yourself in a shifting sonic landscape. Reuven Grehan brings his analog modular synthesizer and digital gear into the hum of washers and dryers, transforming it into a temple of slow-burning sequences, thick ambient pads, and melodic drift. Performances evolve throughout Saturday, like the machines around them — repetitive, hypnotic, and strangely alive. Reuven Grehan is an amateur electronic musician, experimenting with Berlin School Electronic Music to help enhance his visual artwork. The equipment he uses is primarily centered around a single Analog Modular Synthesizer, accompanied by a number of smaller digital keyboard synths and external effects.
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Anam Chaya

The Alcove
Saturday
12:00 am
(friday night going into saturday)
Anam Chaya is a multidisciplinary performance weaving together diasporic folk music, ritual, and storytelling. Rooted in somatic practice and cultural reclamation, it invites participants—especially those navigating displacement, loss, and longing—into communal remembrance. Audiences are immersed in a global tapestry of music that evokes the ancestral ache for belonging. A ritual of mourning and joy, where grief gives way to celebration. It's led by Rowan Katz — vocalist, poet, folklorist, physical theater artist, and somatic voice educator — whose work explores gender, trauma, queerness, Jewish diaspora, grief, and mysticism.
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Vangeline: The Slowest Wave, a Butoh Dance Performance

The Timecastle
Saturday
9:00 pm
Following her Butoh Workshop, Vangeline returns to the stage with The Slowest Wave — a solo performance at the crossroads of dance and neuroscience. Rooted in the tradition of Japanese Butoh and shaped by decades of radical practice, her work is slow, exacting, and unflinchingly honest. As founder of the New York Butoh Institute, she merges somatic research, social practice, and ritual performance into a singular presence, inviting the audience into deep time — a shared stillness that expands movement and perception.
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The Rite of Flame and Water

The Pond at PANGEA
Saturday
7:30 pm
Join Totem Faehy and Nocturnal Cellist at Pangea's Pond for a unique fusion of sound, nature, and mindfulness as we embark on an elemental ritual meditation on fire and water.
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alisochka ~ c a r r i e d

The Alcove
Sunday
3:00 am
(saturday night going into sunday)
Alisochka is a singer-songwriter who offers music in the spirit of healing — drawing on the tradition of what some call medicine songs. She channels spiritually resonant melodies from around the world and transmits them in English, Russian, and other languages. Her style involves transadaptation (to borrow Daniel Kahn’s term): rendering heart-healing, soul-lifting songs across cultures and tongues. She performs original pieces with voice, shruti box, kashakas, and other strange and magical traditional instruments. Joined by fellow JetLAG curators Liebe Vaynshteyn and Psoy Korolenko, Alisochka will present Songs of being carried ~ & coming into life.
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Unscripted Playback Theater

Spell-Art Worskhop Tent
Saturday
2:30 pm
Unscripted Playback Theater returns to JetLAG with a new performance exploring this year’s theme: “Euphonia vs Cacophony: Two Sides of the Same Coin.” What happens when Cacophony enters the mix? Is there a relationship? Will you face or avoid the differences? Do opposites attract? HOW does that work? Imagine seeing your life as a live improv show: you tell a story — it’s instantly played back. No script, no filter — just raw moments and shared insight.
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Trio Natividas

The Alcove
Saturday
7:00 pm
A communal singing workshop presented by our long term friends and guests draws on traditional harmonies, roots music, and spontaneous co-creation. We’ll explore voice, rhythm, and memory through call-and-response, improvisation, and playful singing games. Singing through the bones, honoring ancestors, and harmonizing into the now. The team was born in January 2025 in a moment of spontaneous jam and shared intention. Volga (Weston, MA) is a drummer, songwriter, and ritualista with roots in jazz and multilingual chant. Aliya (NY) is a healing artist blending music, movement, and psychology. Georgette (Germany) merges soul, RnB, and jazz with her Cameroonian-Austrian heritage.
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CAT Rave

The Timecastle
Saturday
10:30 pm
Step into the unhinged, high-energy world of CAT RAVE, an immersive puppet experience from Brooklyn-based puppeteer and clown Anthony Sellitto-Budney. Fresh from the Eugene O’Neill Puppetry Conference and a 12-city puppet slam tour, CAT RAVE follows a clown on a chaotic quest through a first job, a haunted inbox, and the mystery of how to enter the rave party portal — with help from a Rave Wizard and other mystical creatures, including you, dear JetLAG-goer.
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Zolly Doom

The Alcove
Saturday
1:30 am
(friday night going into saturday)
Ever wanted to attend a psychedelic clownic performance? Here you are. When you come to JetLAG (and you definitely will), don’t miss this duo: Silly Gilly on harp and Borbo on percussion and electronics. It’s Zolly Doom, not Dolly Zoom — a fuzzy distortion of space-time, stretched through harp strings and beat blips. Come (un)focus your ears and eyes with Zolly Doom in the Alcove, Pangea, JetLAG!
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Gut Glass: Sakhana/Mohler/Morton

The Timecastle
Sunday
2:30 am
(saturday night going into sunday)
We’re excited to welcome Gut Glass — the Brooklyn-based duo of Shoham Sakana Manela and Maggie Mohler, known for pairing woodwinds with an inventive array of typewriters, bicycle parts, rubber bands, and more. For this special Time Castle set, they’re joined by Caroline Morton on double bass to form a trio that navigates ambience, free improvisation, and post-jazz glasscore.
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Bardyachaya Sobaka Theater

Bardyachaya Sobaka Camp
Bardyachaya Sobaka Theater is a beloved presence at JetLAG and other East Coast gatherings, known for their sharp, surprising musical-poetic shows in the best traditions of teatral'ny kapustnik — a genre mixing satire, parody, song, and literary mischief. After cheerfully delighting us last year, they’re back with their new spectacle - a fun version of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Steadfast Tin Soldier.
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Dizzy & Dangerous

The Village

Come to Dizzy and Dangerous to explore circus arts, dance, and everything in between. It’s a place to get sweaty, get weird, and find the kind of balance that only shows up when you’re a little off it.

Schedule of Events:
Friday
7:30–8:30 pm – Dance Lifts, Dips, and Tricks with Lucas-Michael Jones
9:00–10:30 pm – El Beat De La Cumbia with La Manga from Columbia

Saturday
10:00–11:00 am – Fireless Flow Workshop with Eugene and Jeli
11:00 am–12:00 pm – Lomir Geyn a Tentsele! – Yiddish Dance Between Worlds
1:30–3:00 pm – Acro Ball with Equilibrium Acrobatics (Taylor and Kerri)
4:30–6:00 pm – Tango Argentino – The Magic of Connection
6:00–7:00 pm – Fusion Partner Dance with Lucas-Michael Jones

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Pochemuchki

PANGEA Theme Camp Island

Pochemuchki Theme Camp invites you to wander into Baba Yaga’s Playground, where the line between reality and the mystical melts away. From her mossy balota (bog) to Baba Yaga’s candlelit izbushka (hut), our camp will be alive all weekend with curious creatures, cozy corners, and of course, a magical lineup of DJs spinning tunes to wake the woodland spirits.

Friday
8:00–9:00 pm – Niney (House/Deep House – sunset vibe)
10:00–11:00 pm – ELIYAHU MOSHE (Hebrew/Arabic)
11:15 pm–12:15 am – dj chmig (DNB/Techno)
12:30–1:30 am – MAXIMA (Techno)
1:45–2:45 am – Bash Odin (Electronica, House, Dance)

Saturday
8:00–9:00 pm – MITSUBISHIS (Ethereal 4x4 Techno)
10:00–11:00 pm – LAZLO (Hard Groove/Trance)
11:15 pm–12:15 am – DJ Mishka (EDM/Dubstep)
12:30–1:30 am – DJ EiLO (Nightmare Mix)
2:00–3:00 am – ELIYAHU MOSHE (Reggae)

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Babeland

PANGEA Theme Camp Island

Babeland is a joyful, Waldorf-inspired kids' camp at JetLAG Festival, rooted in attachment parenting and hands-on creativity, where mindful families gather in the heart of Pangea Island to build, play, and connect - amid joyful chaos, blazing sun, and the occasional barefoot dance party.

Babeland Schedule 2025 (subject to change – check in at camp)‍

Friday, June 20
5–7 pm – Mini Village with Alya
7:30–9 pm – Candleholders with Olena and Tatiana

Saturday, June 21
9–11 am – Kids' Woodworking Playground with Nastya
11 am–12 pm – Yoga for All with Natasha Mars
12–1:30 pm – Playful Math and Puzzles
1:30–3 pm – Bubbles and Pea Constructor
3:30–5:30 pm – Puppet Show Prep
9–9:30 pm – Puppet Show

Sunday, June 22
9–10:30 am – Bracelet Making with OlgaWolf and Olga Vaschuk
10:30 am–12 pm – Chamber Concert with Sasha and Serezha

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The Ambient Lighthouse + "Horizontal Rave"

The Village

The iconic Ambient Lighthouse returns, now with enhanced structure, continuing to serve as both a beacon and a striking visual landmark. One of the tallest art installations at JetLAG, it will also illuminate the heart of Pangea Village.

Introducing the all-new Horizontal Rave! This Cuddle Puddle Sound Lounge offers a unique multi-sensory experience. Blending art and community, this installation doubles as a chill-out zone and a social hub. Expect mesmerizing visuals, a dynamic light show, and ambient yet pulsating low-volume techno spun by live DJs. It's designed to encourage connection, contemplation, and even dreams.

Horizontal Rave Lineup

Friday Eve
7:00 PM – Opening Drinks
7:30 PM – DJ RoMan (+DJ Borka)
9:30 PM – Noise Haus / Mike Gusev (Interactive)
11:00 PM – Dot 2 Dot / Visuals

Saturday Early Morning
1:00 AM – Invisible Beast / Singing Bowl (Interactive)
2:30 AM – DomeTV Figli Migli Animation by Budovsky
4:00 AM – the ORB Experience / AM DJ

Saturday
1:00 PM – DJ RoMan Vinyl Set
3:00 PM – DJ Shmumer / Sasha FF
6:00 PM – Noise Haus / Mike Gusev (Interactive)
7:00 PM – DomeTV Caleidoscope (Experience)
8:00 PM – DJ Yarka
10:00 PM – DJ RoMan

Saturday/Sunday Night
12:00 Midnight – DJ Borka
2:00 AM – DJ Shmumer + Dot 2 Dot
5:00 AM – the ORB Experience / AM DJ

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Goblin Market

PANGEA Theme Camp Island

Welcome to the Goblin Market, a fantastical space that combines vending, workshops, and bespoke musical instruments in a unique immersive experience! Come buy some trinkets with “gold” coins, trade zines at the Little Free Zine Library, or participate in a workshop on watercolor painting and zinemaking, and enjoy the discordant cacophony of our Goblin Orchestra.

Schedule of Events
Friday
9:00 PM – Goblin Orchestra kickoff performance

Saturday
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM – Watercolor Workshop
12:45 PM – Goblin Orchestra (80s hits)
1:45 PM – 2:45 PM – Zine-making Workshop
3:15 PM – Goblin Orchestra (90s hits)
3:45 PM – 4:15 PM – Poetry Reading
4:45 PM – Goblin Orchestra (00s hits)
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM – Watercolor Workshop
7:30 PM – Goblin Orchestra (recent pop)
8:00 PM – Goblin Adventures (Tabletop RPG)

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Slope Sonic

PANGEA Theme Camp Island

<Slope Sonic> is a collective of friends, dreamers, artists, DJs, and creators. Our camp is a celebration of music, art, and community. We dedicate our space to our brothers and sisters from the Tribe of Nova, holding their spirit in our hearts as we come together in unity and joy. Come dance, connect, and share the vibes with us.

Saturday daytime: Don’t miss our all-vinyl, original World Music dance party — a journey through rhythm, roots, and soul. Our DJ lineup is posted at the camp entrance and by the stage. See you on the dance floor and in our chill-out tent by the river.

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Kogan Art Factory

PANGEA Theme Camp Island

Kogan Art Factory is a multidimensional art experience that blends craftsmanship, geometry, and light. Featuring handcrafted 2D and 3D installations made from wood, glow-in-the-dark yarn, and UV-active strings, the space invites participants into a world of visual wonder. By day, the camp offers a creative, hands-on atmosphere where guests can observe the details of the structures, engage in conversations about art and geometry, and even witness parts of the building process. As night falls, the environment transforms—illuminated by blacklights, the installations glow vividly, creating an immersive and otherworldly experience.

Designed to be both interactive and reflective, the camp encourages exploration, curiosity, and connection. Guests are welcome to walk through, photograph, or simply sit and absorb the glowing patterns. Strategically placed in an open space near a forest strip, the natural surroundings become part of the installation, with trees used to suspend larger works. The result is a living art gallery under the stars—one that celebrates community, creativity, and the transformative power of light and imagination.

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MuRamuXi

PANGEA Theme Camp Island

MuRamuXi is an ultra-spiritual camp blending Shamanic and Eastern esoteric practices. We’ll create space for expression, idea exchange, and learning.

Friday, June 20
Morning: Surya Kavach, Surya Namaskar, pranic healing at sunrise; Pranayama; Sadhu Board (standing on nails, intention work); Yoga
Afternoon: Tai Chi
Evening: Kirtan; 5 Rhythms ecstatic dance

Saturday, June 21
Morning: Surya Kavach, Surya Namaskar, pranic healing; Pranayama; Yoga
Afternoon: Tai Chi
Evening: Medicine music circle; Shamanic drumming and fire dancing

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Neurographica Project

PANGEA Theme Camp Island

The Neurographica Workshop will take place Saturday 6/21 from 2-5 pm. The theme is “Light Your Stars.”

Neurographica is a creative process that helps one see and solve psychological questions and dilemmas through drawing by following certain algorythms. It’s a process between you, paper and pen that opens a wonderful opportunity to achieve results and experience joy, relaxation, coming to terms with oneself and the world around you “Light Your Stars”: we will look at the area or areas in your life that require more light, excitement, dynamics and put life and joy into them.

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Psytrance and Friends

PANGEA Theme Camp Island

Psytrance and adjacent music:
Friday sundown – Saturday morning: psytrance ritual
Saturday – late: cooldown event

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Okroshka Camp

The Village

Come for the okroshka, stay for the good vibes! Bring your bowl and ложка at 2PM to Pangea Village. Find our green & white pop-up tents to enjoy okroshka with or without meat, with kefir or with kvas. First come, first served, while supplies last.

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Cafe

PANGEA Theme Camp Island

Our little Cafe is coming back to Pangea! Come hang out with us, share the love, sip delicious coffee, and reconnect with your lovely memories from JetLags past. Feel free to bring your own cups to be filled, baked goods to share, and maybe volunteer for a shift.

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Central Stage
Central Stage

DeVotchKa

Central Stage
Saturday
10:30 pm
Believe it or not, the legendary Denver based quartet DeVotchKa — known for their rich blend of European strings, folksong stylings, punk instincts, and cinematic soundscapes, Grammy nominees for their soundtrack to Little Miss Sunshine — are coming to JetLAG for the first time. Twenty-five years after Supermelodrama, their debut that opened the door to 21st-century cabaret, and twenty years after How It Ends, a record that redefined indie folk with theremin, accordion, and a slow-burning orchestral ache — they bring their sound to Peaceful Valley.
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Vopli Vidopliassova

Central Stage
Friday
11:00 pm
We are thrilled to announce that the Ukrainian folk rock legend—performing on stage since the '80s, championing the use of the Ukrainian language and identity in music, a symbol of Ukraine’s cultural awakening, a pioneer in neo-ethnic and world music, a collaborator with Khaled and Manu Chao, and even a "teacher" to Gogol Bordello according to Eugene Hutz, as well as a participant in WOMAD, Sziget, and the Montreux Jazz Festival, already beloved in the USA and Canada—will perform for the first time at JetLag as part of their big North America Tour 2025.
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Hazmat Modine

Central Stage
Saturday
8:30 pm
Hurray, hurray — our beloved Hazmat Modine is coming back! Third time at JetLAG with their ferocious repertoire and genre-melting blend of American roots, blues, Balkan brass, Gypsy jazz, African grooves, and downtown New York edge. Led by Wade Schuman’s throaty gravel-and-honey vocals and untamed harmonica, the band brings together tuba, horns, banjo, violin, and all kinds of strange and wonderful instruments in a sound that’s raw, rich, and totally their own. Some of the band members will also appear as guest musicians at the Vopli Vidopliasova concert.
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La Manga

Central Stage
Saturday
3:30 pm
For their first appearance at JetLAG, La Manga brings the fierce, ceremonial energy of Colombia’s Caribbean coast. This Brooklyn-based all-female percussive collective channels deep Afro-Indigenous musical traditions with pounding drums, traditional flutes, and call-and-response vocals. Their sound is rooted in oral forms like cumbia, gaita, tambora, and bullerengue — music born in resistance and celebration.
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Midwood

Central Stage
Friday
9:00 pm
We’re excited to welcome Midwood, a psychedelic klezmer-rock fusion quartet from Brooklyn, uniting four outstanding musicians. Virtuoso violinist Jake Shulman-Ment, a master of Eastern European and klezmer folk traditions, returns to JetLAG after performing here a decade ago as Yasha Nazaroff of The Brothers Nazaroff in 2015. He’s joined by multilingual singer, flutist, and multi-instrumentalist Eleonore Weill (Yiddish, French, Romanian, Occitan), who also played JetLAG that year with Fada; genre-defying rock-jazz-klezmer musician Avi Fox-Rosen on guitar; and powerful drummer Richie Barshay, a collaborator of groundbreaking artists such as Chick Corea and The Klezmatics. Don’t miss it!
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The Exuberant Jam: Vanya Zhuk, Garik Bagdagyulyan & Friends

Central Stage
Saturday
6:30 pm
The Exuberant Jam is JetLAG’s signature musical extravaganza — a joyful collapse of genre, style, and category. It celebrates unity in diversity, and though it didn’t always have this name, it always carried this spirit. You can count on hearing something in the rock and blues spectrum, something from klezmer and Romani streets — and much, much more. The name was coined by garage-rock-blues-klezmer guitarist and singer Vanya Zhuk, who will be the heart and soul of the jam — alongside his longtime friend and collaborator across legendary bands, jams, and festivals, including JetLAG itself: the inimitable funk drummer Garik Bagdagulyan. They’ll be joined by many of our beloved musicians. Don’t miss this Saturday-night celebration on the Central Stage.
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Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band

Central Stage
Saturday
2:00 pm
Most of JetLAG’s guests this year, aligning with the theme ‘Neoteric,’ will be newcomers. However, we’re equally excited to welcome back our cherished regulars, whose presence, artistry, and unique personalities are what truly define JetLAG. Among these long-term allies is the indispensable Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band, the wonderful jammers, and the soulful people who’ve become our dear friends over the years. We look forward to their vibrant and eclectic mix of Balkan, Klezmer, and Eastern European brass music, a fusion that will, as usual, kick off the Saturday concert in the true spirit and taste of JetLAG.
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Olya Chikina

Central Stage
Saturday
5:30 pm
Olya Chikina is JetLAG’s voice, JetLAG’s face, JetLAG’s ultimate soulmate. Like the festival itself, Olya is quiet and dynamic, simple and subtle, original and essential—always different, and always the Olya we know and love. For her set on the Central Stage, Olya will be joined by a powerful and congenial team: Vanya Zhuk on guitar, Garik Bagdagulyan on drums, Andrey Matlin on bass and Andrew Alikhanov on clarinet. Olya hardly needs a more detailed introduction — suffice it to say: yes, she’ll be with us again, and so, once again, it will be JetLAG!
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Garik Bagdagyulyan

Central Stage
Saturday
6:30 pm
The inimitable Garik Bagdagulyan—one of the best drummers on the East Coast, our friend and constant guest since 2013—is an essential part of the festival’s soul. With his groove, intuition, versatility, powerful musical presence, and that unmistakable warm wave, Garik has been behind the kit for many unforgettable JetLAG acts over the years. This time, he joins Vanya Zhuk for The Exuberant Jam, and will also play with Olya Chikina, Blueberry Muffin and in other collaborations.
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Squidpig

Central Stage
Saturday
12:30 pm
Emerging from the deep — Squidpig brings a raw, borscht-stained fusion of rock, klezmer, Balkan brass, and unfiltered absurdist funk. With drums, bass, guitar, and sax, this shape-shifting quartet shreds grooves that wobble like a drunk stork at a village wedding. Somewhere between a noise ritual and a cartoon riot, Squidpig might just become your new favorite chimera.
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The Inquisition

Central Stage
Friday
7:30 pm
The Inquisition brings original progressive rock to JetLAG — rich, theatrical, and larger-than-life. In the spirit of Pink Floyd, early Genesis, and King Crimson, this thirteen-member ensemble stages a sweeping rock opera full of drama, storytelling, and vintage grooves — not simply echoing the 1970s sound, but transplanting the spirit of that era into the soil of today.
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Andrew Alikhanov

Central Stage
Saturday
5:30 pm
Portland-based clarinetist Andrew Alikhanov, a member of Chervona, Portland Klezmer All-Stars, Three For Silver, and Michelle Alany & The Mystics, blends klezmer, rock, and global fusion. A returning JetLAG friend, this year he plays in Olya Chikina's set and in The Exuberant Jam with Vanya Zhuk and Garik Bagdagulyan on the Central Stage, as well as in the Utyosov gala at Spell-Art.
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Snatch Adams: Giant Balloon Act

Central Stage
Friday
11:00 pm
Snatch Adams began traveling with the circus as a child. By 12, she was already riding a 5-foot unicycle on 2-foot stilts. Today, she tours the world as a clown known for surreal comedy and dangerous stunts — including her signature Giant Balloon Act, where she climbs inside a giant balloon in an intricate, eccentric, dreamlike spectacle. Don’t miss Snatch and her Giant Balloon at the Central Stage.
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PANGEA Stage
PANGEA Stage

Calapitter (Billy Martin aka illy B)

PANGEA Stage
Saturday
5:30 pm
Calapitter is an adventurous instrumental quartet led by Billy Martin of Medeski Martin & Wood. With Anna Abondolo on bass, Henry Plotnick on keyboards, Nathan Nakadegawa-Lee on reeds, and Martin on drums, the group navigates the space between composition and groove-based improvisation, spiraling between cinematic textures, jazz, experimental surf, and deep-pocket rhythm. Formed during Martin’s explorations in film and experimental sound, Calapitter made its debut at John Zorn’s legendary venue The Stone in 2024 — and now arrives at JetLAG with a set of restless, shape-shifting instrumental fire.
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Daniel Kahn & Jake Shulman-Ment

PANGEA Stage
Saturday
7:00 pm
Detroit-born, Hamburg-based troubadour and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Kahn and New Yorker master fiddler Jake Shulman-Ment have been playing and traveling together in various collaborations for twenty years. The JetLAG audience saw them play together in projects “The Painted Bird” and ‘’Brothers Nazaroff’’. Their recent collaborative repertoire is an intimate and powerful program ranging from original polyglot ballads, bold new treatments of modern Yiddish songs from Gebirtig to Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, to Yiddish translations of lyricists such as Dylan, Cohen, Brecht, Springsteen, Guthrie, Waits, and more. Yiddish serves here as a kind of broken mirror, reflecting both despair and repair, exile and ecstasy, loss of trust and wanderlust.
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Oropendola

PANGEA Stage
Friday
10:00 pm
Oropendola is the project of Brooklyn-based singer, composer, and keyboardist Joanna Schubert, whose music blends theatrical chamber pop, playful dissonance, and lyrical storytelling. With echoes of Fiona Apple and The Roches, her songs move between the whimsical and the intimate, drawing from keys-based art-pop and indie-folk traditions. At JetLAG-2025, Oropendola appears as a full-band quintet, featuring Gabby Sherba and Ledah Finck on harmonies (Finck also on flute and strings), Derek Weaving on bass, and Mike Gebhart on drums. Just days before the release of her new album Swimming, she brings this new material to life on stage. Worth noting: Oropendola—like Euphonia—is the name of a bird, fitting for a project so airborne and bright-feathered
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Medukha

PANGEA Stage
Saturday
10:00 pm
Frequent guests and part of the JetLAG family for a long time already, Medukha returns with their singular sound. Their music resolves contradictions with unsettling ease: grief and playfulness, historical depth and present tense, bedroom lo-fi and folk tradition, professionalism and vulnerability. To those with Eastern European roots in today’s culturally ambiguous world, their sound feels almost medicinal. Medukha draws on ethnographic recordings, folk conventions, and the languages of childhood—warping them into raw, intimate compositions. A wedding song from Southeastern Poland becomes a conversation with a bird. A Ukrainian spring chant melts into ambient abstraction. A melody with disputed origins opens space for new language.
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Tahabdra

PANGEA Stage
Sunday
12:00 am
(saturday night going into sunday)
Tahabdra is the sonic brainchild of Wiggz Caro and Josh Weinberg, two Berklee College of Music graduates with a shared vision of immersive sound. Centered on 528Hz, a frequency believed to be healing and transforming, their music merges live percussion and intricate electronics creating a visceral, multi-sensory experience between ritual and rave. Returning to Pangea Stage after a much-loved appearance of last year, Tahabdra brings a sonic journey that pulses through body, breath, and bass.
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Chingis Dub

PANGEA Stage
Sunday
2:00 am
(saturday night going into sunday)
Chingis Dub, consistent friends and allies of JetLAG, is a dynamic team formed by Sasha Drey, KlimTot, and Sergei Aniskov, united by their passion for blending ancient trance arts with modern vibrancy. They skillfully integrate Tuvan Xöömei singing, powerful didgeridoo bursts, tribal dances, and avant-garde Bauhaus elements. Known for their impactful visuals and theatrical presentations, Chingis Dub sets a new standard with modern electronic rhythms that transform traditional sounds into groundbreaking journeys. Their work not only honors age-old traditions but also pioneers new avenues for musical exploration and innovation.
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Totem Sun Ritual by Winds of Alluria

PANGEA Stage
Saturday
12:00 am
(friday night going into saturday)
Totem Faehy’s incredible throat singing and connection to ritual brings a grounding element. Accompanied by Alluria Healed, shamanic vocalist, includes throat/overtone singing and kulning in her deeply-animistic sound crafting. Their unique ability to work together with these ancient sounds in modern alchemy creates a beautiful storytelling and ritualistic experience.
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Greenhoe & Bilger

PANGEA Stage
Friday
8:30 pm
Longtime collaborators and childhood friends, Eli Greenhoe and Hans Bilger bring their collaborative project to JetLAG 2025. The avant-pop duo crafts intricate songs that fuse narrative lyricism with lush arrangements — where creaky kitchen memories meet Bösendorfers, mandocellos hum alongside layered harmonies, and every detail counts.
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Freddy and Sally

PANGEA Stage
Friday
9:00 pm
Ledah Finck and Eli Greenhoe are Freddy and Sally, a chamber-folk duo weaving together Appalachian and Irish tunes, experimental string textures, and songwriting that folds story into sound. Their set at JetLAG 2025 invites you into an intimate world of folding chairs and resonant strings, where old forms meet new questions.
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Charlotte Jacobs

PANGEA Stage
Saturday
8:30 pm
Belgian-born, New York-based vocalist, composer, and producer Charlotte Jacobs makes her JetLAG debut with a set that bridges avant-pop, jazz, and experimental electronics. Her work drifts between Dutch and English, sung and spoken, melody and noise. Drawing from her background in contemporary dance and jazz vocals, Jacobs layers voice, acoustic textures, and offbeat synths into fluid, mythic compositions. Her latest album a t l a s blends surreal lyricism with chamber music elements and glitchy, lo-fi beats, tracing an emotional arc through memory, folklore, and inner landscapes.
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Amélie

PANGEA Stage
Saturday
2:30 pm
Upstate NY singer-songwriter Amélie brings her acoustically driven narrative songs to Pangea Stage. Drawing inspiration from ’60s and ’70s folk rock — especially Al Stewart — her music weaves lilting melodies and gentle vocals through stories that drift from park benches to the Battle of Antietam, to having a camera as a childhood best friend.
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Yi-Yi

PANGEA Stage
Saturday
4:00 pm
A Ukrainian folk group composed of Caroline Kuhn, Katie Pawluk, and Zoya Shepko, breathes new life into traditional Ukrainian songs through unconventional arrangements and a diverse mix of instruments, including the bandura, violin, banjo, hutsul drum, cello and accordion. Their performances are characterized by three-part polyphony, creating rich sonic tapestries that transport audiences from lively party vibes to poignant moments of heartbreak.
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Open Mic

PANGEA Stage
Saturday
12:00 pm
Share your voice from Pangea Stage on Saturday afternoon! Songs, poetry, jokes, dance, puppetry, stories, all are welcome at the variety open mic. Show us what you got, or come hear what the rest of the fest has to offer!
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Spell-Art Stage
Spell-Art Stage

Veronika Dolina

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
7:30 pm
For the first time at JetLAG, a luminary of Russian sung poetry and bardic song: Veronika Dolina. On stage since the late 1970s, she is one of the genre’s defining voices. A songwriter in the high poetic tradition, her intimate, sharply crafted songs speak of love, distance, loss, daily life — and, more recently, of today’s distressing realities. These concise emotional miniatures bring philosophical depth to seemingly modest tropes, drawing inspiration from both the Silver Age and the bard tradition of the twentieth century. “If Only We Lived Without Subtleties,” “My House Is Flying,” “I Could Learn to Sew for You,” and dozens of other songs by Veronika Dolina shaped the emotional landscape of a generation and form the canon for those who come next. Now based in France, Veronika Dolina continues to write and perform actively. She is also a literary translator. Her recent wave of creative activity, shared via Facebook and Patreon, brings new dimensions to her poetic world.
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Daniel Kahn & Vanya Zhuk: Bulat Blues

Spell-Art Stage
Friday
8:00 pm
Bulat Okudzhava’s great sung poetry, in Daniel Kahn’s congenial English translations and performed by Daniel together with Vanya Zhuk, first won hearts at JetLAG with the premiere of this project in 2017. Since then, they’ve released a joint album, Bulat Blues. By popular demand, the program returns this year to the Spell-Art stage. If you haven’t heard it—don’t miss it. These are true new American folk songs in English, and at the same time, they are unmistakably, authentically Okudzhava.
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Enver Izmaylov

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
8:45 pm
Welcome back Enver Izmaylov, an internationally celebrated guitarist and trailblazer of the two-handed tapping technique, known for his dazzling fusion of jazz, Crimean Tatar, Balkan, and Turkish folk music. His unforgettable concert on the Spell-Art stage under the rain has, to our joy, been recorded as the Live at JetLAG 2024 album. This summer, he returns to the U.S. for his Strings Across Continents tour, organized by Roots and Chords — releasing a new album and recording with folk-punk innovators Fugu Dugu (whom he met at JetLAG!) and The Klezmatics. Known for high-caliber collaborations — from Bobby McFerrin to members of King Crimson — this time Enver is joined by his grandson and musical heir, Giray Izmaylov, on guitar, and the legendary Frank London on trumpet.
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Frank London

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
10:00 pm
Our friend and inspiration since the very first JetLAG in 2009, Frank London is a cornerstone of New York’s klezmer-jazz-avant-garde scene — trumpeter, bandleader, author of music. Despite serious health challenges last year, Frank recorded stunning new albums, once again revealing himself not only as a powerful composer, but as a master collaborator — a born ensemble player who immerses himself in the collective and brings it to life. This year, we look forward to seeing Frank in the Utyosov gala and Enver Izmaylov’s concert at Spell-Art, in The Exuberant Jam with Vanya Zhuk and Garik Bagdagulyan on the Central Stage, and more. We can’t wait to welcome him back.
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When Sonia Met Boris: Psoy Korolenko & Anna Shternshis

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
4:30 pm
For the first time at JetLAG — When Sonia Met Boris, a lecture-concert by historian Anna Shternshis and cross-genre songster Psoy Korolenko. This academic-artistic project explores everyday Jewish life in the Soviet Union. It began as a companion to Shternshis’s book of the same name and has since evolved into a vibrant performance spanning the war-torn 1940s, the hopeful 1960s, and the disillusioned 1970s. Anna Shternshis is Professor of Yiddish and Director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto, and a Guggenheim Fellow. Her collaboration with Psoy began over a decade ago with their better-known and widely performed, Grammy-nominated project Yiddish Glory, which unearthed long-lost songs from the Soviet Holocaust archive. When Sonia Met Boris, in contrast, has only been performed a handful of times — including once during JetLAG’s 2020 online foray. Now, this rare and intimate program comes to Spell-Art live, for the first time. Blending storytelling, humor, poetry, and music — in Yiddish, Russian, and more — Anna and Psoy bring Soviet Jewish experience to life through a mix of archival material and original performance.
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Among Friends: A Gala Tribute to Leonid Utyosov

Spell-Art Stage
Friday
7:00 pm
Every year, Spell-Art opens JetLAG with a unique conceptual gala set, nurturing the mystique of a strange and contradictory era—the youth-time of many among us. This time, the concert honors the great Odessan Leonid Utyosov (Utesov): legendary Soviet estrada singer, comic actor, and jazzman, who fused Eastern European and klezmer folk with Western pop and jazz. His songs are our cultural memes—and there are rarities too, worth remembering. Among Friends (Tol’ko dlya druzey) is the title of this year’s program, named after a Soviet-era collection of his songs. In this concert, Utyosov brings together a stellar team of our guest artists from across genres: folk, jazz, rock, klezmer, and more. Open JetLAG-2025 with a journey into the world of Utyosov!
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Yuri Naumov

Spell-Art Stage
Friday
10:00 pm
Yuri Naumov returns to Spell-Art with his unmistakable nine-string sound — a fusion of blues, classical phrasing, and raw emotional clarity. A pioneer of what’s been called Transcendental Blues, Naumov plays without picks, coaxing his custom-built guitar into layered harmonies and counterpoints that evoke the depth of three instruments at once. A longtime nomad with roots in New York and performances across the globe, Naumov's songs build immersive sonic worlds — luminous, meditative, and soul-forward. His sets offer a rare kind of nourishment: electric, inward, and deeply human.
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Bard Cocktail: Irina Olimpieva & Evgeny Borovikov

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
2:30 pm
This year, Evgeny Borovikov is joined by Irina Olimpieva, known to many as Tukumtseva, for Bard Cocktail — a bold and wide-spirited blend of styles showcasing the many faces of bard song. Building on last year’s celebrated Maryland performance, this new collaboration stirs together golden-age ballads (Yuri Vizbor, Bulat Okudzhava, the legendary Arik Krupp, Evgeny Klyachkin), Borovikov’s original bard-rock, and contemporary works by Sergey Trukhanov — our beloved friend and lasting inspiration — alongside Sergey Kanashenko and Vladimir Muzykantov. This is bard music with depth and surprise: layered, lyrical, and unafraid to evolve — a top-shelf pour of tradition and invention.
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Vanya Zhuk

Spell-Art Stage
Friday
8:00 pm
Ready for ״ekh, gulyay"? Vanya Zhuk—Garage-Rock-Blues-Klezmer-Romani blending singer-songwriter and luminary guitarist, JetLAG’s longtime friend, who has played dozens of sets since our days at Peaceful Valley. Back with us again! He’ll deliver a cross-genre rock (in wider meaning of the word) set with his longstanding collaborator Garik Bagdagulyan on drums and, together with Daniel Kahn, perform Bulat Blues—an Okudzhava tribute first premiered right here at JetLAG, stealing many hearts.
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Oksana Parshenko & Alexander Alabin

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
6:30 pm
Join us for a beautiful set of beloved Ukrainian songs, brought to life through Oksana Parshenko’s soulful, authentic vocals and Alexander Alabin’s elegant arrangements on keyboard and guitar. A heartfelt celebration of melody, memory, and beauty — with special guest appearances. Alexander Alabin is our long-time friend and guest, known for his work across many past projects and jams. This year, you’ll also see both him and Oksana in the Utyosov tribute gala.
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Sasha Kuznetsov

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
1:30 pm
A solo set by our dear friend and JetLAG goer since 2009 — one of those who grew up with JetLAG. Brooklyn-raised and now Seattle-based, musician Sasha Kuznetsov makes his SPELL-ART stage debut with a collection of original songs: a musical world of gentle apocalypse. A self-taught musician with an intuitive approach to composing, Sasha defines his work as living outside the bounds of musical theory and conventional rules — and yet, what else could it be but music? His songs, built on distinctive and original riffs, marry natural disasters to everyday moments. The end of the world is the beginning of a new one, and Pandora’s gifts are packed in a suitcase.
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Nadia Chechet

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
5:30 pm
First time at JetLAG is Nadia Chechet, a New York-based vocalist and songwriter with roots in Russia and Belarus. A Berklee-trained performer active across jazz, blues, rock, folk, and French chanson, she—like JetLAG itself—moves between genres and languages with precision and ease. With Nate Shaffer on piano, Nadia will present a special set of songs written by her late father, Valery Chechet — a musical thread between generations, voices, and geographies.
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Blueberry Muffins

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
3:30 pm
Blueberry Muffins, a band born from the remarkable alchemists of Spell Art—and beloved guests on this stage year after year—embraces change and reflects the ever-evolving nature of music. From hairstyles and habits to genres and even their original name, they’ve been on a continuous journey of transformation. Bits and pieces of pop, Latin, funk, jazz, and rock come together with lyrics in many languages—genuine, consistent, and always fun.
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Nate Shaffer

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
5:30 pm
We welcome our longtime friend and frequent guest from Massachusetts — pianist, composer, improviser, music director, and teacher Nate Shaffer—this time in a new role. Previously followed and loved at Pangea for his improv-songwriting workshops, he now joins Nadia Chechet for a joint set on the Spell-Art stage—his first time performing there.
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Pour Faire Un Jam: All-Style Good Music Session

Spell-Art Stage
Friday
11:30 pm
An annual spontaneous celebration of all genres of good music — “and all that jazz” — with Andrey Matlin, Alexander Alabin, and other musicians. The jam, both as a happening and as a genre, was born in America — just like the fruity-berry spread that shares its name. It’s a collective improvisation, especially in jazz, but also in any other music, played primarily for the musicians themselves. Improvisation, meditation, immersion — that’s the true flavor of jam. Come taste it Friday at Spell-Art.
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Workshops
Workshops

Bamboo is my Teacher with Billy Martin aka illy B

The Timecastle
Saturday
12:00 pm
Join percussionist and improviser Billy Martin for a hands-on workshop exploring rhythm, texture, and sonic play. Participants will be provided with bamboo instruments—percussion and flutes—custom-built by Martin himself. Together, you’ll dive into strategies of collective interplay, polyphony, improvisation, and a concept Martin calls “rhythmic harmony”: a collaborative method he developed for both ensembles and educators. Whether you’re a seasoned musician or just curious, this is a rare chance to co-create in a space where groove meets gesture and structure meets surprise.
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Soul Vibe Moving Meditation with Oleg Skrypka

The Timecastle
Saturday
4:00 pm
Take a break from any kind of hustle or noise and reconnect with yourself in a special Вайб Душi (Soul Vibe) experience led by the legendary Oleg Skrypka of Vopli Vidopliasova, our guest this year. The session includes live conversation, music, and inspiration from Oleg, along with meditation and simple practices for clarity and inner balance. This is, as it were, a mini-retreat for your soul — breathe, listen, and realign. Recharge your energy, open your heart, and celebrate unity in a rare moment with one of Ukraine’s cultural icons.
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Hypnotic Sound Journey with Guy Beider

The Timecastle
Saturday
10:30 am
Back at JetLAG by popular resonance, sound artist and Himalayan bowl expert Guy Yair Beider returns with his signature Hypnotic Sound Journey. Featuring a handpicked ensemble of antique “Stradivarius” singing bowls—each 100–300 years old and selected over a decade of travels across India, Nepal, and Tibet—this immersive session invites participants to dissolve tension and reconnect. Guy’s sequences, grounded in musicology, psychology, and psychoacoustics, are designed to gently guide both seasoned meditators and first-time listeners into a state of deep resonance. The harmonic overtones of these rare bowls create a vibrational field that soothes the nervous system and reawakens the senses. Come lie down, breathe, and enter the stillpoint.
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Butoh with Vangeline

The Timecastle
Saturday
2:00 pm
Internationally acclaimed Butoh artist and educator Vangeline brings her signature workshop and solo performance to JetLAG-2025 — an immersive exploration of stillness, presence, and embodied expression. The workshop offers an introduction to Butoh dance grounded in somatic awareness. Drawing on Noguchi Taiso and nervous system work, Vangeline guides participants — performers and non-performers alike — into movement that is fluid, instinctual, and emotionally resonant. Participants explore the body’s parasympathetic rhythms — rest, digestion, healing — opening a gateway to release and creative depth.
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Guitar Masterclass with Vanya Zhuk

Spell-Art Worskhop Tent
Saturday
1:15 pm
Our dear friend and returning JetLAG favorite Vanya Zhuk will share some insights on adapting the traditional Russian/Romani 7-string guitar style to a 6-string. Plus a no-strings-attached (but strings-related!) Q&A on anything guitar. Bring your guitar!
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The Wild Voice: Somatic Singing with Rowan Katz

The Alcove
Saturday
5:30 pm
First time at JetLAG, all the way from California: Oakland-based vocalist, performer, and holistic voice educator Rowan Katz works at the intersection of vocal experimentation, community ritual, and radical self-expression. This year, they bring both a live singing set and a transformative voice workshop to The Alcove (Pangea). This playful and deeply embodied workshop takes you from somatic voice mapping to guttural growls and whispery yelps, guiding you through a process of vocal reclamation—grounded, weird, and liberatory. The session blends body-based awareness with intuitive sound play, culminating in the shared joy of simple circle songs learned by ear and sung in community.
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Rattlecraft with Totem Faehy

The Alcove
Saturday
1:30 pm
Join artisan and sonic conjurer Totem Faehy for a hands-on dive into rattle-making — one of humanity’s oldest and most versatile arts. Shape sound and intention using natural and found materials, and leave with a handmade rattle charged with your own rhythm and story. For ceremonies, dance floors, or just keeping the bears away. Bring a handle if you can — stick, bone, bamboo, carved wood — plus any small charm you’d like to embed in the magic.
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What we Call Meditation with Jordan Grinstein

The Alcove
Saturday
10:30 am
Yoga and meditation teacher trainer and Ayurvedic practitioner Jordan Grinstein invites you into a radically life-affirming approach to meditation — instinctive, nourishing, and deeply individual. Not demanding rigid techniques, this session is about entering the raw intimacy of life, resting into joy, and emerging restored. What if meditation wasn’t discipline, but delight?
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Vinyasa Yoga with Mike Shick

The Alcove
Saturday
9:30 am
Mike Shick has been leading yoga classes since 2015. Mike and Alice operate Resonance Hot Yoga + Massage in Amherst, MA. At JetLAG, Mike offers a Vinyasa-style flow class for all levels—infused with powerful sequencing, classical form, and vibrant energy. His sessions are rich with detailed cueing, enthusiasm, and encouragement. Mike's aim is to make yoga accessible to all, offering clear modifications alongside reflections on yogic philosophy and how it connects to daily life. His teaching is grounded in his own steady practices of meditation and massage, bringing depth, warmth, and focus to every class.
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Creating Theater in Found Places with Mike Lion

The Alcove
Saturday
3:30 pm
What kind of theatre can happen when you don’t have a theatre or even a stage? How do you turn any environment into a performance space? This interactive workshop will explore the techniques of creating site-specific performance and how a physical space can help jump-start our creativity. Participants will go through a series of playful theatre-making exercises as we turn the areas in and around The Alcove into tiny site-specific theatre venues and create a 10-minute festival of mini-plays. This workshop is open to participants with all levels of experience, no prior theatrical training is necessary. All you need is a willingness to play! Mike Lion is a director, actor, translator, and clown. He is the Co-Artistic Director and co-founder of Seattle's Dacha Theater, which specializes in site-specific productions, immersive spectacles and original work. He frequently directs in non-traditional spaces, working to blur the line between audiences and performers. Catch him Friday night in Insomnia at the Time Castle!
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Intro to Sadhu Board - Standing on Nails with Ruslan Laskey

The Alcove
Saturday
12:00 pm
Sadhu Board is more than a yogic discipline — it’s a ritual, a performance, a still-life in sensation. Standing barefoot on a bed of nails, the body becomes a medium: each nerve ending a brushstroke, each breath a score. This practice sharpens attention, channels energy, and reveals the quiet clarity beyond discomfort. Rakhmetov, the ascetic hero of Nikolai Chernyshevsky's "What Is To Be Done?" and a guiding myth for generations of purposeful idealists, famously slept on nails to train his will — here, we stand.
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Family Systemic Constellations with Rita Feldman

Spell-Art Worskhop Tent
Saturday
12:00 pm
Family Systemic Constellations is a therapeutic method for uncovering and releasing inherited patterns, unresolved trauma, and subconscious entanglements affecting relationships, health, or inner well-being. In this workshop, certified facilitator Rita Feldman, a Hellinger DC Institute alumna, introduces the core principles of constellation practice and guides participants through simple experiential exercises. With a background in energy work and facilitation in both English and Russian, she brings a grounded, integrative approach to personal transformation.
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Kundalini Yoga with Diana Borenshtein

Saturday
11:00 am
Explore Kundalini Yoga as a shared journey. In this open-level workshop, Diana Borenshtein (Lev Teternikov School) introduces partner-based practice that supports physical and emotional strength while opening space for transformation. No experience required. Partners can be friends, relatives, lovers — or we’ll find you one on the spot. Bring water, a mat, and comfortable clothes. Come curious. Leave expanded.
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Puzzle Playland: Shapes, Colors & Cubes!

Spell-Art Worskhop Tent
Saturday
11:00 am
Explore the magical world of puzzles and shapes! From all kinds of Rubik’s cubes to colorful mosaics, magnetic tiles, and creative 3D constructions, let your imagination run wild. Try new twists on familiar puzzles, build your own designs, and see how shapes come to life in flat and 3D space. Perfect for curious minds ages 5–99.
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Special Events
Special Events

Insomnia Dream Diner

The Timecastle
Saturday
12:00 am
(friday night going into saturday)
Does theatre make you snore? You’ll feel right at home at Insomnia, the immersive all-night theatrical experience where audiences are encouraged to doze off. You need a refill, hon? It’s the late-night menu at the Dream Diner, the coziest joint in Insomnia. We’ve cooked up your favorite visions in our special snooze-sauce. Sorry, no substitutions… There’s a cosmonaut taking off in your saucer. The boogeyman pours another cup of tea. Pop a loose tooth in the jukebox. Insomnia is open for business. Insomnia returns to JetLag for the 3rd time, playing Friday night from Midnight to 6am at The Time Castle. You can experience it at your leisure — stay for the whole night, or drop in for a nap-sized chunk. We recommend bringing a warm blanket. Clowning, improvisation, interactive theatre, meditation, musical reverie, adorable stuffed animals, decaf and waffles - there’s something for everyone in Insomnia.
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MetaKansk Film Festival

Enchanted School Bus and Central Stage
After a very cool experience last year, Metakansk returns to JetLAG with a new batch of music-driven cinema from around the world. This year’s lineup features short films by young directors — animation, experiment, documentary, and fiction — all woven into a rich visual soup. Catch the main program on the Central Stage after the concerts. The second set — lo-fi vintage gems from the Metakansk archive — screens periodically through the JetLAG weekend within the enchanted school bus on PANGEA. A traveling festival of cinematic oddities and sonic visions.
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Animatorium

Enchanted School Bus and Central Stage
Cultural journalist, writer, and curator Dina Goder — known for her deep work on animation, literature, and the absurd — returns to JetLAG as a dear guest, bringing back her Animatorium project with two programs of animated films for kids and adults! A two-hour dance-driven music program for adults will take over the main concert stage at night — featuring animated music videos set to songs by contemporary artists and bands. The one-hour children’s program in the Enchanted School Bus, stationed at PANGEA's Small Island, is geared toward preschoolers and early elementary kids, showcasing funny and touching cartoons made in recent years.
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Nocturnal Cellist & Ross Lewicki

The Alcove
Sunday
12:00 am
(saturday night going into sunday)
Aliya Ultan — the Nocturnal Cellist — is a composer-improviser from the road, now based in Brooklyn. Raised in motion, she turned to music as a survival instinct, and never stopped moving. Her cello becomes a voice of its own: orchestral and grungy, seductive and unhinged — a medium of myth, memory, and pure sensation. Aliya’s work spans puppetry, circus, and experimental theatre, with collaborators including Poncili Creación (Puerto Rico), Heart of the Beast, and Yoshiko Chuma’s School of Hardknocks. At JetLAG, she is joined by Ross Lewicki for a set of cathartic improvisation, layered textures, and low-frequency spellwork, drawn from her latest album Witch Hunt.
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Rhymes with Orange

The Timecastle
Sunday
12:00 am
(saturday night going into sunday)
We broke all our bodies’ bones after a list of all the animals we made up fell on them. Now we don’t come up with animal names (just in case). Now we come up with animal smells. But all our smells floated away. We tried to invent a machine to get them back. But we accidentally made glasses that point down so we can’t see where they floated to. So we made up some animal sounds, but they all screamed because they couldn’t smell each other, and we went deaf. You could break a bone, but did you know you could break your bones’ heart? By not using your body to go to see rhymes with orange.
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Accordion Soundbath Experience with Dani Che

The Alcove
Sunday
1:30 am
(saturday night going into sunday)
Ten accordions will power your ecstatic, epiphanic journey in this clown-guided meditation, interactive performance, and healing ceremony — brought to you by our dear friend and JetLAG old-timer Dani Che. Spike up your chakras in this ultra-local Ukrainian immigrant take on vibrational therapy! All aerophones welcome.
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Dylan Israelian

The Timecastle
Friday
9:30 pm
THE LONG ISLAND EXPRESSWAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENGLISH DICTIONARY CUSTOMER COMPLAINT HELPLINE: Enjoy unprecedented access to the exhilarating life of a LIECCEDCCD employee, Representative Peck-Pentacle. Watch as he professionally fields astute grievances from the dictionary’s embroiled readership, survives labyrinthine customer anecdotes, and navigates the unique office culture at Long Island Expressway Community College." (c) In other words, welcome to an absurdist, playful, and keenly offbeat improv journey with Dylan Israelian — a soul of JetLAG and Pangea, Rhymes with Orange member, creator of the zine Floater’s Digest and other philocomedic artefacts, to the spectrum of which belongs this very Dictionary.
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The Day the Fish Took Flight by Futuristan.lab (Ardak Mukanova + Anvar Musrepov)

PANGEA Small Island
Futuristan.lab, a Kazakhstan-based multimedia collective focused on decolonial narratives and shifting perspectives, present an eschatological between-the-worlds installation — the oarfish, often called the “Apocalypse fish” inhabits the ocean’s abyssal depths. Each rare rise into shallow waters unleashes a surge of doomsday headlines. In Japanese lore, the oarfish is the messenger of Ryūjin, the sea god who reigns in the underwater palace of Ryūgū. Across the regions where this “king of herrings” appears, folklore links its surfacing or stranding with impending natural calamities. This project reflects two realities: the fish’s body, surreally suspended in the sky, and its generative, ghostly avatar — an omen emerging from clouds of data, warning of ecological collapse.
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The Modular Experience with Reuven Grehan

The Laundry Room
Enter the Laundry Room — yes, the actual one on the central field — and find yourself in a shifting sonic landscape. Reuven Grehan brings his analog modular synthesizer and digital gear into the hum of washers and dryers, transforming it into a temple of slow-burning sequences, thick ambient pads, and melodic drift. Performances evolve throughout Saturday, like the machines around them — repetitive, hypnotic, and strangely alive. Reuven Grehan is an amateur electronic musician, experimenting with Berlin School Electronic Music to help enhance his visual artwork. The equipment he uses is primarily centered around a single Analog Modular Synthesizer, accompanied by a number of smaller digital keyboard synths and external effects.
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Anam Chaya

The Alcove
Saturday
12:00 am
(friday night going into saturday)
Anam Chaya is a multidisciplinary performance weaving together diasporic folk music, ritual, and storytelling. Rooted in somatic practice and cultural reclamation, it invites participants—especially those navigating displacement, loss, and longing—into communal remembrance. Audiences are immersed in a global tapestry of music that evokes the ancestral ache for belonging. A ritual of mourning and joy, where grief gives way to celebration. It's led by Rowan Katz — vocalist, poet, folklorist, physical theater artist, and somatic voice educator — whose work explores gender, trauma, queerness, Jewish diaspora, grief, and mysticism.
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Vangeline: The Slowest Wave, a Butoh Dance Performance

The Timecastle
Saturday
9:00 pm
Following her Butoh Workshop, Vangeline returns to the stage with The Slowest Wave — a solo performance at the crossroads of dance and neuroscience. Rooted in the tradition of Japanese Butoh and shaped by decades of radical practice, her work is slow, exacting, and unflinchingly honest. As founder of the New York Butoh Institute, she merges somatic research, social practice, and ritual performance into a singular presence, inviting the audience into deep time — a shared stillness that expands movement and perception.
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The Rite of Flame and Water

The Pond at PANGEA
Saturday
7:30 pm
Join Totem Faehy and Nocturnal Cellist at Pangea's Pond for a unique fusion of sound, nature, and mindfulness as we embark on an elemental ritual meditation on fire and water.
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alisochka ~ c a r r i e d

The Alcove
Sunday
3:00 am
(saturday night going into sunday)
Alisochka is a singer-songwriter who offers music in the spirit of healing — drawing on the tradition of what some call medicine songs. She channels spiritually resonant melodies from around the world and transmits them in English, Russian, and other languages. Her style involves transadaptation (to borrow Daniel Kahn’s term): rendering heart-healing, soul-lifting songs across cultures and tongues. She performs original pieces with voice, shruti box, kashakas, and other strange and magical traditional instruments. Joined by fellow JetLAG curators Liebe Vaynshteyn and Psoy Korolenko, Alisochka will present Songs of being carried ~ & coming into life.
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Unscripted Playback Theater

Spell-Art Worskhop Tent
Saturday
2:30 pm
Unscripted Playback Theater returns to JetLAG with a new performance exploring this year’s theme: “Euphonia vs Cacophony: Two Sides of the Same Coin.” What happens when Cacophony enters the mix? Is there a relationship? Will you face or avoid the differences? Do opposites attract? HOW does that work? Imagine seeing your life as a live improv show: you tell a story — it’s instantly played back. No script, no filter — just raw moments and shared insight.
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Trio Natividas

The Alcove
Saturday
7:00 pm
A communal singing workshop presented by our long term friends and guests draws on traditional harmonies, roots music, and spontaneous co-creation. We’ll explore voice, rhythm, and memory through call-and-response, improvisation, and playful singing games. Singing through the bones, honoring ancestors, and harmonizing into the now. The team was born in January 2025 in a moment of spontaneous jam and shared intention. Volga (Weston, MA) is a drummer, songwriter, and ritualista with roots in jazz and multilingual chant. Aliya (NY) is a healing artist blending music, movement, and psychology. Georgette (Germany) merges soul, RnB, and jazz with her Cameroonian-Austrian heritage.
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CAT Rave

The Timecastle
Saturday
10:30 pm
Step into the unhinged, high-energy world of CAT RAVE, an immersive puppet experience from Brooklyn-based puppeteer and clown Anthony Sellitto-Budney. Fresh from the Eugene O’Neill Puppetry Conference and a 12-city puppet slam tour, CAT RAVE follows a clown on a chaotic quest through a first job, a haunted inbox, and the mystery of how to enter the rave party portal — with help from a Rave Wizard and other mystical creatures, including you, dear JetLAG-goer.
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Zolly Doom

The Alcove
Saturday
1:30 am
(friday night going into saturday)
Ever wanted to attend a psychedelic clownic performance? Here you are. When you come to JetLAG (and you definitely will), don’t miss this duo: Silly Gilly on harp and Borbo on percussion and electronics. It’s Zolly Doom, not Dolly Zoom — a fuzzy distortion of space-time, stretched through harp strings and beat blips. Come (un)focus your ears and eyes with Zolly Doom in the Alcove, Pangea, JetLAG!
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Gut Glass: Sakhana/Mohler/Morton

The Timecastle
Sunday
2:30 am
(saturday night going into sunday)
We’re excited to welcome Gut Glass — the Brooklyn-based duo of Shoham Sakana Manela and Maggie Mohler, known for pairing woodwinds with an inventive array of typewriters, bicycle parts, rubber bands, and more. For this special Time Castle set, they’re joined by Caroline Morton on double bass to form a trio that navigates ambience, free improvisation, and post-jazz glasscore.
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Bardyachaya Sobaka Theater

Bardyachaya Sobaka Camp
Bardyachaya Sobaka Theater is a beloved presence at JetLAG and other East Coast gatherings, known for their sharp, surprising musical-poetic shows in the best traditions of teatral'ny kapustnik — a genre mixing satire, parody, song, and literary mischief. After cheerfully delighting us last year, they’re back with their new spectacle - a fun version of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Steadfast Tin Soldier.
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Theme Camps
Theme Camps

Dizzy & Dangerous

The Village

Come to Dizzy and Dangerous to explore circus arts, dance, and everything in between. It’s a place to get sweaty, get weird, and find the kind of balance that only shows up when you’re a little off it.

Schedule of Events:
Friday
7:30–8:30 pm – Dance Lifts, Dips, and Tricks with Lucas-Michael Jones
9:00–10:30 pm – El Beat De La Cumbia with La Manga from Columbia

Saturday
10:00–11:00 am – Fireless Flow Workshop with Eugene and Jeli
11:00 am–12:00 pm – Lomir Geyn a Tentsele! – Yiddish Dance Between Worlds
1:30–3:00 pm – Acro Ball with Equilibrium Acrobatics (Taylor and Kerri)
4:30–6:00 pm – Tango Argentino – The Magic of Connection
6:00–7:00 pm – Fusion Partner Dance with Lucas-Michael Jones

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Pochemuchki

PANGEA Theme Camp Island

Pochemuchki Theme Camp invites you to wander into Baba Yaga’s Playground, where the line between reality and the mystical melts away. From her mossy balota (bog) to Baba Yaga’s candlelit izbushka (hut), our camp will be alive all weekend with curious creatures, cozy corners, and of course, a magical lineup of DJs spinning tunes to wake the woodland spirits.

Friday
8:00–9:00 pm – Niney (House/Deep House – sunset vibe)
10:00–11:00 pm – ELIYAHU MOSHE (Hebrew/Arabic)
11:15 pm–12:15 am – dj chmig (DNB/Techno)
12:30–1:30 am – MAXIMA (Techno)
1:45–2:45 am – Bash Odin (Electronica, House, Dance)

Saturday
8:00–9:00 pm – MITSUBISHIS (Ethereal 4x4 Techno)
10:00–11:00 pm – LAZLO (Hard Groove/Trance)
11:15 pm–12:15 am – DJ Mishka (EDM/Dubstep)
12:30–1:30 am – DJ EiLO (Nightmare Mix)
2:00–3:00 am – ELIYAHU MOSHE (Reggae)

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Babeland

PANGEA Theme Camp Island

Babeland is a joyful, Waldorf-inspired kids' camp at JetLAG Festival, rooted in attachment parenting and hands-on creativity, where mindful families gather in the heart of Pangea Island to build, play, and connect - amid joyful chaos, blazing sun, and the occasional barefoot dance party.

Babeland Schedule 2025 (subject to change – check in at camp)‍

Friday, June 20
5–7 pm – Mini Village with Alya
7:30–9 pm – Candleholders with Olena and Tatiana

Saturday, June 21
9–11 am – Kids' Woodworking Playground with Nastya
11 am–12 pm – Yoga for All with Natasha Mars
12–1:30 pm – Playful Math and Puzzles
1:30–3 pm – Bubbles and Pea Constructor
3:30–5:30 pm – Puppet Show Prep
9–9:30 pm – Puppet Show

Sunday, June 22
9–10:30 am – Bracelet Making with OlgaWolf and Olga Vaschuk
10:30 am–12 pm – Chamber Concert with Sasha and Serezha

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The Ambient Lighthouse + "Horizontal Rave"

The iconic Ambient Lighthouse returns, now with enhanced structure, continuing to serve as both a beacon and a striking visual landmark. One of the tallest art installations at JetLAG, it will also illuminate the heart of Pangea Village.

Introducing the all-new Horizontal Rave! This Cuddle Puddle Sound Lounge offers a unique multi-sensory experience. Blending art and community, this installation doubles as a chill-out zone and a social hub. Expect mesmerizing visuals, a dynamic light show, and ambient yet pulsating low-volume techno spun by live DJs. It's designed to encourage connection, contemplation, and even dreams.

Horizontal Rave Lineup

Friday Eve
7:00 PM – Opening Drinks
7:30 PM – DJ RoMan (+DJ Borka)
9:30 PM – Noise Haus / Mike Gusev (Interactive)
11:00 PM – Dot 2 Dot / Visuals

Saturday Early Morning
1:00 AM – Invisible Beast / Singing Bowl (Interactive)
2:30 AM – DomeTV Figli Migli Animation by Budovsky
4:00 AM – the ORB Experience / AM DJ

Saturday
1:00 PM – DJ RoMan Vinyl Set
3:00 PM – DJ Shmumer / Sasha FF
6:00 PM – Noise Haus / Mike Gusev (Interactive)
7:00 PM – DomeTV Caleidoscope (Experience)
8:00 PM – DJ Yarka
10:00 PM – DJ RoMan

Saturday/Sunday Night
12:00 Midnight – DJ Borka
2:00 AM – DJ Shmumer + Dot 2 Dot
5:00 AM – the ORB Experience / AM DJ

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Goblin Market

PANGEA Theme Camp Island

Welcome to the Goblin Market, a fantastical space that combines vending, workshops, and bespoke musical instruments in a unique immersive experience! Come buy some trinkets with “gold” coins, trade zines at the Little Free Zine Library, or participate in a workshop on watercolor painting and zinemaking, and enjoy the discordant cacophony of our Goblin Orchestra.

Schedule of Events
Friday
9:00 PM – Goblin Orchestra kickoff performance

Saturday
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM – Watercolor Workshop
12:45 PM – Goblin Orchestra (80s hits)
1:45 PM – 2:45 PM – Zine-making Workshop
3:15 PM – Goblin Orchestra (90s hits)
3:45 PM – 4:15 PM – Poetry Reading
4:45 PM – Goblin Orchestra (00s hits)
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM – Watercolor Workshop
7:30 PM – Goblin Orchestra (recent pop)
8:00 PM – Goblin Adventures (Tabletop RPG)

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Slope Sonic

PANGEA Theme Camp Island

<Slope Sonic> is a collective of friends, dreamers, artists, DJs, and creators. Our camp is a celebration of music, art, and community. We dedicate our space to our brothers and sisters from the Tribe of Nova, holding their spirit in our hearts as we come together in unity and joy. Come dance, connect, and share the vibes with us.

Saturday daytime: Don’t miss our all-vinyl, original World Music dance party — a journey through rhythm, roots, and soul. Our DJ lineup is posted at the camp entrance and by the stage. See you on the dance floor and in our chill-out tent by the river.

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Kogan Art Factory

PANGEA Theme Camp Island

Kogan Art Factory is a multidimensional art experience that blends craftsmanship, geometry, and light. Featuring handcrafted 2D and 3D installations made from wood, glow-in-the-dark yarn, and UV-active strings, the space invites participants into a world of visual wonder. By day, the camp offers a creative, hands-on atmosphere where guests can observe the details of the structures, engage in conversations about art and geometry, and even witness parts of the building process. As night falls, the environment transforms—illuminated by blacklights, the installations glow vividly, creating an immersive and otherworldly experience.

Designed to be both interactive and reflective, the camp encourages exploration, curiosity, and connection. Guests are welcome to walk through, photograph, or simply sit and absorb the glowing patterns. Strategically placed in an open space near a forest strip, the natural surroundings become part of the installation, with trees used to suspend larger works. The result is a living art gallery under the stars—one that celebrates community, creativity, and the transformative power of light and imagination.

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MuRamuXi

PANGEA Theme Camp Island

MuRamuXi is an ultra-spiritual camp blending Shamanic and Eastern esoteric practices. We’ll create space for expression, idea exchange, and learning.

Friday, June 20
Morning: Surya Kavach, Surya Namaskar, pranic healing at sunrise; Pranayama; Sadhu Board (standing on nails, intention work); Yoga
Afternoon: Tai Chi
Evening: Kirtan; 5 Rhythms ecstatic dance

Saturday, June 21
Morning: Surya Kavach, Surya Namaskar, pranic healing; Pranayama; Yoga
Afternoon: Tai Chi
Evening: Medicine music circle; Shamanic drumming and fire dancing

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Neurographica Project

PANGEA Theme Camp Island

The Neurographica Workshop will take place Saturday 6/21 from 2-5 pm. The theme is “Light Your Stars.”

Neurographica is a creative process that helps one see and solve psychological questions and dilemmas through drawing by following certain algorythms. It’s a process between you, paper and pen that opens a wonderful opportunity to achieve results and experience joy, relaxation, coming to terms with oneself and the world around you “Light Your Stars”: we will look at the area or areas in your life that require more light, excitement, dynamics and put life and joy into them.

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Psytrance and Friends

Psytrance and adjacent music:
Friday sundown – Saturday morning: psytrance ritual
Saturday – late: cooldown event

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Okroshka Camp

The Village

Come for the okroshka, stay for the good vibes! Bring your bowl and ложка at 2PM to Pangea Village. Find our green & white pop-up tents to enjoy okroshka with or without meat, with kefir or with kvas. First come, first served, while supplies last.

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Cafe

PANGEA Theme Camp Island

Our little Cafe is coming back to Pangea! Come hang out with us, share the love, sip delicious coffee, and reconnect with your lovely memories from JetLags past. Feel free to bring your own cups to be filled, baked goods to share, and maybe volunteer for a shift.

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JetLAG-2025: EUPHONIA!

When we say JetLAG is about Good Music — and we have always said that — we don’t limit “music” to its narrow meaning. For all the sages of sound, from Pythagoras to Bach, music is a synonym for the beauty of cosmic order, the symphonia of creation.

This brings us to the concept of Euphonia. Sounds much like Euphoria — the spelling difference is less than a letter. But meaning-wise, Euphonia is harmony, not elation; a pure joy, not fleeting ecstasy.

The word comes from Ancient Greek, the language Pythagoras spoke. “Eu” means good, well. “Phone” stands for sound, voice. “Euphonia” means a comforting, inspiring, uplifting synergy of sounds. The term can apply to all things melodic, musical, good-sounding. Its antonym is kakophonia, bad sound. And where there is Euphonia, there is no cacophony. Or if there is, it only supports beauty in its own way.

In the mid-19th century, composer Hector Berlioz imagined a city Euphonia, where music ruled, harmony was law, the conductor the soul. Around the same time, serendipitously, a talking machine Euphonia was created and exhibited—an awesome visual and acoustic installation. Featuring a human mask, it simulated our speech through a combination of piano, bellows, mechanical vocal organs. Euphonia is also the name of a beautiful, colorful bird celebrated for its sweet song. And JetLAG recalls all of these—a "city" where nature, culture, and technology blend in a single symphonia: Euphonia.

When we say JetLAG is about Good Music, we mean a world united by the beautiful power of harmony. We mean a space where sounds, vibes, rhythms foster unity, empathy, collective creativity, the spirit of encounter, joy, and love. We mean Euphonia.

Euphonia means good sound. Euphonia sounds good. You-phonia means you. You sound good. Welcome to the City of Music!

Welcome to EUPHONIA!
Welcome to JetLAG-2025!