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JetLAG 2026: PERPETUA
FEATURING THE KLEZMATICS · DEERHOOF · OMAR TORREZ & PRINTZ BOARD · MARIPOSAS GALÁCTICAS · PAPERNY TAM · AURIKA STAGE · SPELL ART · TIMECASTLE · THEME CAMPS · WORKSHOPS · SPECIAL EVENTS · BEACH & SWIMMING LAKE · AND MORE...
full lineup coming soon
Each time unique, same but different, JetLAG has been known for constant change and reinvention. This year we celebrate this quality of our festival in this very particular way — and it led us to the title PERPETUA.

In Latin, perpetua means “everlasting,” but more than just that. Perpetuum mobile — motion sustained from within. In perpetuity — duration without a preset end. Saint Perpetua, a 3rd-century martyr from Carthage, associates with faith, fidelity, endurance, and inner force. These images depict continuity not as stasis, but as motion — persistence through change, steadfastness in the face of change.

Things change. Things stay the same. Some things change by staying the same. They hold their core while the surroundings shift — and in a changed landscape, the unchanged is no longer the same.
Full Lineup
Stage Aurika
Spell-Art Stage
The TimeCastle
Outpost Soznania
Other Spaces
Art & Theme Camps
Dizzy & Dangerous

Deerhoof

Stage Aurika
Saturday, August 15, 2026
10:00 pm
Unclassifiable legends of distortion and silliness and magic. Bathing listeners in glorious dual-guitar feedback, disorienting drum outbursts and chirpy pop melodies for more than 30 years. Satomi Matsuzaki, Greg Saunier, John Dieterich and Ed Rodriguez create an inspiring and absurd universe all their own.
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The Klezmatics & Joshua Nelson

Stage Aurika
Friday, August 14, 2026
11:00 pm
Grammy-winning pioneers of modern klezmer, The Klezmatics celebrate 40 years at the forefront of global roots music with We Were Made For These Times — a bold new album and live program shaped by songs of protest, resilience, and radical joy. Blending Yiddish song with Black gospel, Latin rhythms, and avant-jazz, the band transforms tradition into a living, evolving musical language — urgent, joyful, and deeply relevant today. For this program, The Klezmatics are joined by Joshua Nelson, the acclaimed “Prince of Kosher Gospel,” bringing Yiddish roots and gospel power into a shared musical space.
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Omar Torrez and Printz Board

Stage Aurika
Saturday, August 15, 2026
8:00 pm
Omar Torrez’s musical recipe is equal parts post-modern rock, Mexican and Cuban son, gutbucket blues, stunning guitar wizardry, and soulful songwriting. He first gained recognition as a finalist at the Jimi Hendrix Guitar Competition at Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival, performing on a borrowed guitar, and is best known for playing with Tom Waits on the Glitter and Doom world tour. More recently, he has collaborated with legendary Russian singer-songwriter Boris Grebenshikov. Omar is joined by Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist, producer, songwriter, and singer Printz Board, best known for his work with Black Eyed Peas and the production group Bucky Jonson.
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Mariposas Galácticas

Stage Aurika
Friday, August 14, 2026
9:00 pm
Mariposas Galácticas is an 8-piece Cumbia Klezmer Punk band based in Philly. Combining band members’ South American and Jewish ancestries, the band creates a unique diasporic sound that gets audiences everywhere dancing with rebellious joy. By honoring their Indigenous Andean musical heritage, blended together with punkified ancient Jewish melodies, the band plays a mixture of original and classic tunes that span different languages, cultures, and genres. Mariposas have collaborated with international acts like Os Mutantes, Son Rompe Pera and Kumbia Queers, and they continue to accompany their communities’ struggle for liberation everywhere from prominent stages to cultural, activist and community spaces.
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ReBelle

Stage Aurika
Saturday, August 15, 2026
2:00 pm
Co-founded by Manou Africa and Kalpana Devi, ReBelle is a roots reggae and soul project rooted in African liberation, Rasta consciousness, visionary feminine power, and a deep love for humanity and Gaia. Singing in Wolof, Creole, French, and English, ReBelle brings together ceremony, protest, and celebration, with harmonies, chants, and rhythms grounded in the ancestral drum. Since joining creative forces in 1994, Manou and Kalpana have performed and toured across the U.S. and West Africa, creating music that carries stories of sufferation, justice, love, unity, and triumph. ReBelle has shared stages with reggae greats including The Wailers, Burning Spear, Toots and the Maytals, Steel Pulse, and Culture, while continuing to build spaces for music, activism, and collective healing.
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Stefani Bondari

Stage Aurika
Saturday, August 15, 2026
3:30 pm
Stefani Bondari is a Brooklyn-based songwriter, vocalist, and pianist whose music moves between art-pop, post-rock, classical influence, and NYC’s DIY scene. Blending intimate songwriting with expansive sound, she creates a space where personal reflection becomes shared experience. Performing with her band, including Billy Svolos and Judah Sweig, Stefani brings to life music shaped by community, vulnerability, and the powerful freedom of exploration.
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No One And The Somebodies

Stage Aurika
Saturday, August 15, 2026
5:00 pm
No One And The Somebodies describe themselves as “a weirdo punk band of 4 siblings from Westchester/NYC, loudly flailing about since 2001.” Their music ricochets between post-punk, indie punk, angular art-rock, basement-show chaos, melodic hooks, shout-along vocals, sudden rhythmic detours, and a distinctly DIY New York spirit. Equal parts nervous energy, humor, political frustration, and barely-held-together disorder, their songs often feel like they are mutating in real time without ever losing momentum.
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Sobolik

Stage Aurika
Saturday, August 15, 2026
12:00 am
(friday night going into saturday)
Sobolik is a producer, DJ, promoter, and label curator based in Queens, NY, pushing the boundaries of underground electronic music. With a deeply technical approach to production and an intuitive ear for sound design, they build rhythmic, ethereal soundscapes that move fluidly across genres while maintaining a distinct sonic identity. Describing themselves as a “digital forager,” Sobolik digs through curious textures, fragmented samples, and unconventional sounds, reshaping them into bouncy, percussive, otherworldly club tracks that balance experimental detail with undeniable dancefloor energy.
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Guy Grano

Stage Aurika
Sunday, August 16, 2026
1:30 am
(saturday night going into sunday)
Rooted in rhythmic storytelling, Guy Grano weaves hypnotic grooves, organic textures, ritual percussion, and atmospheric depth into sets that unfold with patience and purpose. Drawing from global musical traditions and underground electronic culture, he crafts fluid journeys that evolve with the energy of the moment, turning the dance floor into an immersive space for movement, connection, and shared experience.
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Pike and Star Coop

Stage Aurika
Friday, August 14, 2026
7:30 pm
Kooperativ Zvezda (also known as “Pike and Star Coop”) are underground veterans led by their tireless frontman and chief songwriter known as Pike Zvezdochkin. While nominally a punk rock band, their sound moves freely across styles — from old romance to rap — brought to life with unpredictable, high-energy stage performances. The lineup features Boston-based musicians Igor Pokhis, Sasha Sverlov, and Ksyusha Po, joined by Sasha Drey and Pike’s partner in life and art, the poet and provocateur KataXXXreza. Together they deliver a set built around the band’s strongest recent material, alongside a selection of brand-new premieres.
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Robber Crabs

Stage Aurika
Saturday, August 15, 2026
6:30 pm
The Robber Crabs are a NYC-based quartet combining the influences of No Wave and 1910s-20s jazz, with a surreal, subversive sense of humor. Led by saxophonist Elijah Shiffer, this band has existed since 2014. Their most recent album "Callithumpian" was recorded live in various locations including at the 2024 Avant Garde A Clue festival in Rochester, NY.
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Tru Sounds

Stage Aurika
Saturday, August 15, 2026
3:00 am
(friday night going into saturday)
Tru Sounds is a DJ project with over 12 years of experience behind the decks, focused on live mixing across bass-driven electronic styles including dubstep, trap, halftime, drum & bass, house, and related club forms. Working in a flexible, ongoing format without fixed schedules, Tru Sounds treats DJ sets as open-ended selections built for movement, attention, and shared listening energy, moving between heavier rhythmic material and more melodic or groove-based sections depending on context and space.
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Katoala

Stage Aurika
Sunday, August 16, 2026
12:00 am
(saturday night going into sunday)
Katoala (pronounced “kat-wala”) is a DJ and sound artist crafting journeys through emotion, memory, and human experience. Originally from Taiwan and now based in Boston, she works across deep and organic house, melodic techno, trance, and immersive electronic textures, shaping sets that center presence, connection, and subtle transformation. Drawing from the intersection of healing and art, her performances function less as displays than as shared sonic environments — carefully constructed arcs where perception shifts, attention softens, and listeners move through states of dissolution and return, meeting again inside the same unfolding dream.
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Aaron Fractal

Stage Aurika
Saturday, August 15, 2026
3:00 am
(saturday night going into sunday)
Aaron Fractal is a DJ, artist, and event organizer connected to psychedelic gathering culture in rural New England. He first entered this world through music, collecting sounds and developing his skills as a DJ in order to express himself through performance, then began sharing his art at events and organizing gatherings of his own in 2008. His work is shaped by the belief that this culture is built through creativity, self-improvement, honesty, kindness, and a shared sense of “we.”
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Miracle Johan

Stage Aurika
Saturday, August 15, 2026
12:30 pm
This story begins a long time in the future, when Miracle Johan crash landed on Earth through a space portal of sorts. He crash landed into the tundra and discovered that his powers were enhanced when in the earth’s atmosphere. Realizing he had unlimited powers on this planet, he decided he must use them for good. These days, this looks a lot like a 3-piece rock band with some of the oldest friends continuing to mine time and space in an effort to eradicate arbitrary constraints.
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Alexey Paperny

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday, August 15, 2026
9:30 pm
Alexey Paperny is a musician, poet, playwright, and director, and a prominent figure of the independent Russian-language cultural scene. He is the founder and frontman of Paperny T.A.M., whose songs have achieved cult status across several generations of listeners. Paperny’s work also spans theater and playwriting: his play won a Fringe First in Edinburgh in 1991, and he has authored and directed many experimental theater projects. He was also behind two landmark cultural spaces in Moscow, vital hubs for independent music, theater, and cross-cultural performance. Since leaving Russia in 2022, he has continued to perform internationally, often appearing in a chamber acoustic duo with his son Sasha on bass, sustaining his distinctive dialogue with audiences through song, rhythm, word, and theatrical act.
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Zhenya Rock & Nataly

Spell-Art Stage
Friday, August 14, 2026
9:30 pm
Zhenya Rock & Nataly bring a fiercely alive mix of Balkan rhythms, Romani song, American roots music, rock’n’roll energy, dance, improvisation, and celebratory spirit. Equal parts concert and communal celebration, their performances dissolve the distance between stage and crowd, pulling audiences into something joyful, chaotic, and deeply human. Led by virtuosic guitarist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Zhenya Rock — leader of Balkan Laikas, founding member and lead guitarist of Red Elvises through 2004, and creator of Zeegrass with Pat Mastelotto of King Crimson — the project moves fluidly between traditions and atmospheres, from intimate acoustic moments to explosive dance-floor momentum. Alongside him, Nataly adds movement, theatricality, and a magnetic presence that transforms each set into its own unpredictable experience.
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Psoy Korolenko

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday, August 15, 2026
6:30 pm
Psoy Korolenko is a songwriter, performer, lecturer, and translator of songs — a “wandering scholar,” “contemporary minstrel,” and “avant-bard,” as he has been called. Working at the intersection of genres, languages, and styles, Psoy sings in Russian, Yiddish, English, French, Portuguese, and other languages, moving between cabaret, folklore, klezmer, bardic song, literary play, and improvisation. His unique one person show brings together linguistic mischief, musical freedom, and the restless energy where every song is also a journey.
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Angela Shteingart

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday, August 15, 2026
7:30 pm
Angela Shteyngart is an Israeli theater actress, poet, bard, and singer-songwriter whose concerts move freely between song, monologue, humor, and intimate theatrical storytelling. Associated with Israel’s Gesher Theater, she brings an actor’s timing, emotional precision, and deep sense of audience to every performance, turning each song into a small theatrical event. In her program “Мы к вам заехали на час” (“We’ve Dropped By for an Hour”), Angela, joined by Gary Katz on guitar, presents a repertoire that combines the Russian-language bardic tradition with warmth, wit, reflection, and a rare ability to move from laughter to tenderness in a single gesture.
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Bardyachaya Sobaka

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday, August 15, 2026
2:00 pm
Bardyachaya Sobaka is a theatrical songwriter and performer collective, creators of a festival of the same name and a beloved presence at East Coast cultural gatherings. Known for performances that are both playful and culturally rich, they work in the style of teatral’ny kapustnik — a genre combining satire, parody, song, and literary wit. They present The Capricious Prince, a retelling of Alexei Tolstoy’s The Golden Key and the broader Buratino narrative, a culturally central Soviet-era adaptation of the Pinocchio story that spans multiple generations through film and theatre. The work is reinterpreted as a vaudeville and, as is often the case with Bardyachaya Sobaka, draws on Roma musical and theatrical traditions.
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vadim pevzner

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday, August 15, 2026
5:30 pm
vadim pevzner known as pev, bard gone bad, poet, musician, and occasional game changer. old favorites, newer work, and non poetry.
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Blueberry Muffins

Spell-Art Stage
Friday, August 14, 2026
8:30 pm
Blueberry Muffins is an ensemble built around transformation, reinvention, and the constantly shifting nature of music. From changing musical directions to playful self-redefinition, the group embraces movement as part of its identity — something reflected in the title of their current program, Standards Reframed. Blending shades of pop, Latin, funk, jazz, and rock with lyrics in multiple languages, Blueberry Muffins create a kaleidoscopic sound that is sincere, cohesive, and forever new.
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Gary Katz and Andrey Matlin

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday, August 15, 2026
8:30 pm
Two outstanding New York musicians bring Na Dvoikh, an intimate acoustic program built around song and poetry. The repertoire ranges from Frank Sinatra and Leonard Cohen to the songs of Mark Freidkin and his poetic Russian translations of Georges Brassens. Gary Katz, widely known for his tribute concerts devoted to iconic singers while also composing original symphonic music, will be joined by pianist and jazz saxophonist Andrey Matlin, a member of Blueberry Muffins and other musical projects, and an important figure in the de facto house band of Spell Art stage. Together they present an evening where Sinatra, Cohen, Brassens, and Freidkin meet in a wonderful trip.
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Lev and Olga Frayman feat. Volodymyr Gitin

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday, August 15, 2026
4:30 pm
Lev and Olga Frayman are a Minneapolis-based musical duo who have performed together for over 20 years, blending acoustic Russian bardic songs with rock and roll, bossa nova, and other world music traditions. The married couple is highly active in the local Ukrainian community and known for their guitar improvisations and powerful harmonies. Joining them is Volodymyr Gitin, a virtuoso clarinetist and conductor from Odesa, Ukraine, and a key member of the Ukrainian folk band Kommuna Lux, which blends Odesa songs, klezmer, and Ukrainian folk music.
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There is Only a Moment

Spell-Art Stage
Friday, August 14, 2026
6:30 pm
This tribute concert celebrates the 100th birthday of Aleksandr Zatsepin, one of the most influential Soviet and Russian composers of popular music, whose film work produced a vast catalogue of songs that became cultural “memes” long before the internet era. His music is deeply embedded in the memory of everyone who grew up in the USSR, forming part of a shared sonic vocabulary across generations, while also carrying a distinct Western pop sensibility—melodic, catchy, and rhythmically light, often blending cinematic storytelling with accessible form. Over decades, these songs moved far beyond their original films to become standalone cultural references, continuously performed, reinterpreted, and instantly recognizable as part of everyday musical language.
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Marat Rikelman and Nora Zaychik

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday, August 15, 2026
3:30 pm
Atlanta-based duo Marat Rikelman and Nora Zaychik bring songs that travel comfortably between laughter and reflection, irony and sincerity, the everyday and the unexpected. Marat is a songwriter, guitarist, and performer whose original songs range from playful, humorous stories to deeply personal and dramatic narratives, often finding a surprising balance somewhere in between. Nora’s warm vocals and stage presence bring these songs to life, transforming them into conversations shared with the audience. Marat and Nora combine original songs, humor, storytelling, and the easy chemistry of two people who have spent decades making music and life together.
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Taras Shuplat

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday, August 15, 2026
2:30 pm
Taras Shuplat and Ilya Gitelman have been performing together for around fifteen years within the bardic song tradition, appearing at festivals, concerts, and song gatherings across the United States. Long active in the community, they were also laureates of the historic Samarskie Bardy festival and the original Grusha in the later years of those festivals' classic era. Their repertoire combines Taras's own songs—both to his own lyrics and to poems by other authors—with interpretations of works by fellow songwriters including Igor Kuzmin, Semyon Bystryak, and Masha Shkolnik, alongside songs in Ukrainian such as Taras's setting of a poem by Misha Yudovsky and Sviatoslav Vakarchuk's Misto Vesny.
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I Dressed Like Him

The TimeCastle
Saturday, August 15, 2026
8:00 pm
Claude “CJ” Johnson is a Brooklyn-based dancer, choreographer, and movement director originally from Chicago. A graduate of The Chicago Academy for the Arts and SUNY Purchase College, he has performed works by major choreographers including Merce Cunningham, Trisha Brown, Twyla Tharp, Mark Morris, and Aszure Barton, and was a full-time company dancer with A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham from 2017 to 2022. As a performer, choreographer, and Black queer artist, CJ approaches dance as a powerful catalyst for self-expression, social change, and the translation of human experience. His work I Dressed Like Him reveals a shifting series of personas through a single outfit, blending Butoh, poetry, sound, raw physicality, and dark humor into a haunting, rhythmic dance story.
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Mother Pigeon’s Revival

The TimeCastle
Saturday, August 15, 2026
5:30 pm
Mother Pigeon’s Revival, formerly Mother Pigeon’s Impeckable Puppet Show, is the larger-than-life musical entertainment wing of Mother Pigeon’s Workshop. Based on the real-life adventures of renowned New York City wildlife artist Mother Pigeon/Tina Piña and her wild downtown friends — Frankie the Pigeon, Max the Rat, and Roman the Raccoon — the show brings back the grand old days of sing-alongs, jamborees, home-spun fun, and handcrafted art. With theatrical songs for everyone, messages and stories from animal friends, and lyric books for the audience, Mother Pigeon’s Revival invites everybody to sing along.
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Broom

The TimeCastle
Saturday, August 15, 2026
9:00 pm
Broom is an ambient music collective that describes itself as an “experimental street cleaning service.” Their sound is atmospheric and immersive, built from layered textures that move between dreamlike introspection and raw, unfiltered emotion. Focused on exploration, artistic freedom, and genre-blurring sonic experiments, Broom invites listeners into a space where ambient music becomes both cleansing ritual and strange urban drift.
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Community Garden Puppets

The TimeCastle
Saturday, August 15, 2026
7:00 pm
Community Garden Puppets is a Brooklyn-based puppetry collective working across full-body puppetry, live music, projection, and shadow theatre. Their practice combines handcrafted visual storytelling with performative sound environments, creating layered stage compositions where puppets, light, and image operate as integrated narrative elements. Their work often develops around symbolic character figures and episodic scenes that explore transformation, relationships, and elemental imagery.
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Maria Camia

The TimeCastle
Friday, August 14, 2026
11:30 pm
Maria Camia brings Aricama, her long-evolving practice of spiritual sci-fi theater, introspective hypnosis, and participatory imagination — through both performance and workshop. A Filipino-American visual and theater artist based in Brooklyn, Maria works in the space between ritual, play, healing, and speculative storytelling, building immersive experiences where inner landscapes become collective worlds. She will also lead Fun Sticker Workshop to Align with Your Best Energetic Signature, a guided creative session combining meditation, visualization, and sticker-making. Participants will imagine and design new “internal programs” to interrupt limiting patterns and install fresh energies into everyday life, leaving with handmade symbolic reminders for laptops, water bottles, notebooks, and beyond.
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Vinyasa Yoga + Sound Journey

The TimeCastle
Saturday, August 15, 2026
9:30 am
Celebrate your body, come and flow like the breeze. Let the sound waves wash your mind into ease. Mike will start by leading a Vinyasa flow. Ya know? to get yo moving in the direction of where you want to be. Alice will follow with a calling in of natures sweet harmonies. With little sweat beads on your brow you’ll hear ear birds whisper, “Oh my, WOW!”
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Cloud Baby

The TimeCastle
Saturday, August 15, 2026
1:00 pm
A cloud descends to Earth and needs your help. i, Cloud is a participatory clown show where audiences teach a cloud how to communicate, play, and live amongst humans. Combining physical comedy, improvisation, and audience interaction, the piece creates a joyful, psychedelic, and heartfelt bridge between humans and weather.
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Rhymes with Orange

The TimeCastle
Sunday, August 16, 2026
1:00 am
(saturday night going into sunday)
RMO Presents The Further Away Show // Im takin my wizard and im takin some baby and were goin on the freeway // And im making them lunch im makin them tuna sandwiches were goin on the freeway // Im takin my cat and im takin on my neighbor and were goin on the freeway // Takin my cat and im takin all his food and stuff throwin’ it on the freeway // Turn on your favorite music for the freeway // Takin my blankets and my blankets bag just in case i get stuck overnight or something // Dont know where im goin but i got some baby and my wizard with me we’ll never be lost so longs as we’re together // Racking up the thousand tickets on the freeway // Goin full speed on the freeway to ticket town // You’re an impossible shape of a person
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Druga Duga

The TimeCastle
Saturday, August 15, 2026
1:00 am
(friday night going into saturday)
What do an electric harp, didgeridoo, and a balloon pipe organ have in common? They’re all part of Druga Duga, a time-traveling, future-folk opera born out of a rainbow in neo-Yugoslavia (Year 4120). Bringing free-improv jazz, holy fool theatrics, psychedelia, and Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir aesthetics, their whimsical, "hope-core" performance explores intuition and love in defiance of inner darkness (with audience participation). Including Gillian Harrill, Theo Akpinar, Bodhi Dayal, Matt Genkin, and costumes by Luna Gomberg, the band, understanding string theory, believes the world vibrates as a massive symphony. Their concerts are immersive, interactive events featuring spontaneous improvisations and Ancient Babylonian chants. Audiences are guided through gibberish-sung songs, invited to play human instruments, and treated to an aggressively protected, comically large stage lever and an exploration of silence. At the core of their whimsical storytelling is a message of radical optimism, often stopping the music to earnestly check in on how the audience is feeling, using the power of music to process the heavier realities of the human experience across time and space, seriousness and silliness.
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Dylan Israelian

The TimeCastle
Friday, August 14, 2026
9:00 pm
Dylan Israelian is a raconteur of unreliable whodunits woven from cast-off poetry, eavesdropped admirals, and totally unsound linguistic practices — a storyteller who leads the audience on aimless capers through poignant fragments which puzzle together to form a totally bizarre picture. The editor of the unique zine Floater’s Digest, focused on absurdist writing, neologisms, playing out old and new memes, and performs in collaborative project Rhymes With Orange (RMO) and in solo formats that emphasize narrative instability, linguistic play, and live composition.
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Wool and Wall: On Thay're Waye

The TimeCastle
Saturday, August 15, 2026
4:00 pm
Mimebaby theater, co-founded by Philadelphia-based performers MK and Heather, creates absurdist physical theater built from childlike play, twisted language, clown logic, and the pleasure of making audiences squirm and laugh. Their work flips forms upside down and sideways, using grotesque humor and questionable audacity to reveal the unseriousness of being serious. In Wool and Wall: On Thay’re Waye, two companions are trying to get through — but passage is never simple. Their request becomes a performance, the performance becomes a lesson, the lesson becomes a tale, and the tale may or may not belong to a pig. Grounded in companionship, misunderstanding, and the old tradition of performing just to get by, mimebaby invites the audience into a world where every gap is a stage.
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Jungl Car

The TimeCastle
Saturday, August 15, 2026
2:30 am
(friday night going into saturday)
Jungl Car is an electronic music duo composed of Joel and his interdimensional companion, Gorf. Through the power of immersion, storytelling, and audience interactivity, Jungl Car explores the depths of our collective consciousness to bring healing and direction in a world with such a repressed shadow.
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Hands Can't Space Bicycle

The TimeCastle
Saturday, August 15, 2026
4:30 pm
Matt Genkin is a theater & music artist from NYC. Hands Can’t Space Bicycle centers on the life of a small tiny insect. The insect is completely unimportant & it really won’t matter at all to anyone whether it lives or dies. Furthermore, the creature is absolutely common, and to most people indistinguishable from millions of its kind, teeming in fields, trees, and kitchens. Even these masses are a detail that, for even the most observant landscape artists, is likely not worth a little fleck of brown paint (or perhaps purple or a woody red). Thus the main thrust of the show, and by extension the show itself, is superfluous and vastly unlikely to make much of a difference in anyone’s life. The audience is advised that small creatures may be attracted to food items and interesting-looking people.
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Kundalini Partner Yoga

The TimeCastle
Saturday, August 15, 2026
11:30 am
Explore Kundalini Partner Yoga as a shared journey through movement, breath, awareness, and connection. Based on the teachings and practices of the Lev Teternikov School, this open-level class uses partner yoga exercises to support body awareness, physical and emotional strength, trust, openness, and interaction with another person. No previous yoga experience, flexibility, or partner is required: come with a friend, relative, or loved one, or attend on your own and partners will be matched during the class. Please bring a yoga mat, water, and comfortable clothes, and avoid strong perfumes or scented lotions. The class is led by Diana Borenshtein, Ph.D., a certified Kundalini Yoga instructor and certified instructor and representative of the Lev Teternikov School in the Boston area.
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MONDO EUPHORIA

Outpost Soznania
Saturday, August 15, 2026
9:00 pm
An ecstatic electronic arts collective of poets, artists, music-makers, and world-builders invoking rapture and transformation through sound and spectacle. Fierce, vital, and urgent, their work moves through alchemy, trance, mysticism, and collective celebration, creating immersive experiences where electronic ritual becomes mass hallucination and spirit liberation.
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VoicePlay Workshop with Mela Closs

Outpost Soznania
Saturday, August 15, 2026
12:00 pm
VoicePlay is a joyful workshop for somatic and vocal exploration, inviting participants to use the voice as a tool for healing, expression, and embodied play. Through breathing techniques, vocal improvisation, body relaxation, deep listening, traditional somatic practices, and connection with inner sounds waiting to be expressed, the workshop creates a safe space for experimentation and discovery. It is led by Mela Closs, a Brooklyn-based voice ritualist and musician who creates playful experiences grounded in imagination, healing, and transformation. With a background in music and theater education, Mela uses movement, singing, breathing, ritual, and ceremony to help open new pathways of expression and empowerment; as a musician, she explores ambient, drone-heavy soundscapes and dramatic vocals in Zelenaya and solo performance-art projects.
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The Sacred Fool: A Clown Workshop with Baba Yana

Outpost Soznania
Saturday, August 15, 2026
6:00 pm
Baba Yana is the Soviet Jewish grandma clown you didn’t know you needed. Created and performed by Danielle Levsky, a child of post-Soviet family from Kyiv, Baba Yana draws on the holy fool tradition, physical comedy, and the gallows humor of the immigrant kitchen table. In this workshop, participants use clown techniques, trust exercises, and inner child work to shed social masks and reconnect with play, vulnerability, and authentic emotional expression. Through the practice of “beautiful failure,” the clown’s secret weapon, the workshop explores how letting go of the need to be competent or cool can open real connection and presence. No clown experience is necessary — only a willingness to look silly. Danielle is a certified clown teacher, yoga instructor, performer, and producer whose original clown theater has appeared at Lincoln Center, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and venues across the U.S.
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Kids Arts + Crafts with Peggy from Camp Little Notch!

Outpost Soznania
Saturday, August 15, 2026
9:30 am
Kids of all ages, join Peggy from Camp Little Notch for a fun arts and crafts morning!
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Maria Camia's Fun Sticker Workshop to Align with Best Energetic Signature

Outpost Soznania
Saturday, August 15, 2026
4:30 pm
As an Introspective Hypnosis Practitioner since 2020, Maria sees the pattern of limiting programs placed in childhood creating disturbance later in life. Join her in this creative sticker workshop to imagine a new internal program to override old habits and mentalities. In this workshop, Maria will lead a guided meditation to feel the current energies in our bodies and later, all will imagine what energies they wish to install in their bodies to live a more fun life. Participants will create and leave with a sticker to put on their water bottle, laptop, or somewhere important to remind them of their new program whenever they see it. Feel it, then become it! Maria Camia, a Brooklyn-based, Filipino-American Spiritual/Sci-Fi Introspective Hypnosis Visual/Theater Artist, has dedicated 13 ongoing years to creating Aricama, the land of practice play and healing in pursuit to make imagination useful in a traumatized society. She has performed original work for JACK, HEREarts, La MaMa Experimental Club, Kino Saito, Chicago International Puppet Festival, Dixon Place, and others. Maria received the PGOGNY BIPOC Scholarship, The Jim Henson Workshop and Production Grants for her full length shows NEW MONY! and THE HEALING SHIPMENT. Maria is also an Introspective Hypnosis Practitioner where she guides clients one-on-one through the subconscious to bring more empowerment into the body.
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Mimebaby Workshop

Outpost Soznania
Saturday, August 15, 2026
1:30 pm
MK and Heather– two philadelphia-based, pig-ironed, stage idiots, are cofounders of mimebaby theater. Their training and curiosities have led them to each other and into the fires of absurdism and physical language. By adopting childlike play, they thrust their bodies into work that twists words, tickles bellies, flips forms upside down and sideways. They use this pleasure-driven method of creation to highlight the unseriousness of being serious in order for people to see a grotesque version of their world and laugh at it. They are inspired by Elena Ferrante, the Vlogbrothers, Nathan Fielder, and all clowns. They aim to make audiences squirm and delight in their questionable audacity.
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Community Garden Puppets Workshop

Outpost Soznania
Saturday, August 15, 2026
3:00 pm
The workshop is led by Community Garden Puppets, the Brooklyn-based puppetry collective working across full-body puppetry, live music, projection, and shadow theatre, who will also present a full performance at the festival. It focuses on making puppets from natural and found materials, with an emphasis on construction methods inspired by forest environments and improvised fabrication processes.
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Mermaiding with Zoya Sunbody

At the Lake
Saturday, August 15, 2026
2:00 pm
Shhhh I’ll let you in on a secret…. Zoya Sunbody turns into a mermaid if she touches water! Bring your swimsuit, because after her harp opera in the Timecastle, she will lead everyone down to the lake to literally play mermaids. “Play” might be the wrong word, because she actually secretly is a real mermaid. Just don’t tell the evil merfolk hunter Rasperov, desperate for the rumored immortality serum within the scales of siren tales. In terms of her voice, Zoya will sing for you just a little bit in the water, but not so much as to alert her whereabouts to the skilled poacher on patrol. Zoya does enjoy switching to her mermaid form sometimes. It allows her to be playful in a new way.
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Opening Ceremony

At the Lake
Thursday, August 13, 2026
9:00 pm
Ricardo Frota and Volga Bo (Wellbees Village) have been playing together since 2010, bringing music shaped by voice, rhythm, and attentive listening. For this gathering, they open the festival space through shared sound and collective presence, drawing loosely on Indigenous frameworks of gratitude and orientation toward place. Using drums, percussion, song, and improvised voice, they invite you into a circle where sound becomes a way of structuring attention and intention at the start of the festival. Ricardo is a multi-instrumentalist, educator, and sound explorer trained in Brazil and at the New England Conservatory, known for participatory musical work across generations, while Volga is a frame-drummer, songwriter, and ritual-oriented performer whose practice moves between jazz influence, global percussion, and chant-based forms.
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Bird Watching with Elijah

At the Lake
Saturday, August 15, 2026
1:00 pm
Join Elijah Shiffer for a birding walk around Camp Little Notch! We will explore the forest and lake edge habitats of the campground and see what birds we can find. There are no eBird checklists yet for this location so we can help expand on the bird knowledge of this area! Some binoculars will be provided but if you have your own please bring them.
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Kids Nature Hike with Tyler from Camp Little Notch!

At the Lake
Saturday, August 15, 2026
11:30 am
Join Tyler from Camp Little Notch for a nature hike through the trails and trees, see all the flora, creeks, and little critters - for kids and their parents!
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Bodhi Dayal

At the Gates
Friday, August 14, 2026
7:00 pm
Bodhi is a passionate didgeridoo player devoted to sharing the immersive power of this ancient instrument. He has traveled and studied with players across Croatia, Austria, Spain, and France, learning from some of the world’s leading didgeridoo musicians. Combining deep didgeridoo vibrations with the pulse of a cajón kick drum, Bodhi creates a powerful movement experience — something physical, resonant, and felt through the whole body. He will also appear as a wandering performer, welcoming guests with the primal, grounding voice of the didgeridoo as they journey from parking lot to camping and check-in.
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Ritual Boat

At the Lake
Saturday, August 15, 2026
7:30 pm
Mysterious creatures will emerge from the lake, mellifluous music will ring forth, a sumptuous feast for the eyes and ears of all. Come witness the sacred rituals guided by Totem's shamanic deviousness, Jeli's fire fairy dancing and water dances atop a floating dragonfly...
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Family Systemic Constellations Workshop

At the Amphitheater
Saturday, August 15, 2026
1:00 pm
Rita Feldman is a certified Family Systemic Constellations facilitator, natural healer, Reiki Master-Teacher, shamanic practitioner, sound healer, spiritual guide, master esthetician, and chemical engineer, of Bert Hellinger's school. Her workshop introduces Systemic Constellations as an experiential practice for exploring hidden family, personal, and organizational patterns, including transgenerational trauma, relationship dynamics, emotional blocks, and recurring difficulties. Participants may observe, take part in a constellation, and experience “representative perception,” looking into the roots of personal and systemic issues.
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Perpetua Parade

Saturday, August 15, 2026
11:00 am
The Perpetua Parade is a beautifully chaotic train winding its way through the terrain of Camp Little Notch. Led by the Neo-Yugoslavian experimental band Druga Duga and Community Garden Puppets, this procession is a loud, joyful tribute to the dizzy, beautiful haze of perpetual jetLAG. Everyone is invited to jump into the slipstream, grab a sound toy, or just scream, bang pots, and make some noise with some giant puppets. It is an ecstatic march through the camp — a celebration of getting lost in the rhythm and staying in that blissful jetLAG forever.
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Dragonian Domecile

Art Installation
Beware Dragonia’s Domecile, fore it is guarded by a fierce fiery dragon’s breath and the gust of its beating wings. If you can cross beyond her defenses, within her belly you will find safe haven and a modicum of her most prized possessions. Created by Eugene Zeleny and Ri Dresser, this installation doubles as an interactive motion sensing puppet and a place of respite. Inside, you will find shade, cozy floor pillows, and a treasure chest with dragons eggs containing gifts. We encourage each visitor to take an egg with them for good luck on their travels through the festival.
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The Followers

Art Installation
The Followers is a contemporary reinterpretation of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. The installation depicts a joker-like Piper leading a procession of rats toward the water. The Piper is half human and half robotic, representing the seductive power of artificial intelligence. The rats willingly follow the Piper, unaware of the danger ahead. They symbolize humanity becoming hypnotized by technologies that constantly entertain, guide, and capture our attention. This installation was designed by Svetlana Yuzhelevskaya and brought to life by Boston-based artists, each of whom sculpted a rat. It is a collaborative artwork made possible through the creativity, generosity, and dedication of both the participating artists and the Boston community, whose support helped turn this vision into reality.
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The Moss Spinner

Art Installation
The Louisiana-born, Boston-based artist, Elsa the Fool, is a mixed media maker with a love for finding the whimsy in chaos. Inspired by food, music, and nature, she brings her ideas to life with interactive forms from hats to life-size puppets. Elsa is an avid believer in human creativity without the use of generative Artificial Intelligence. She aims to show those who are anxiously curious about making art how easy it truly is to create something from nothing. Elsa has hosted several Medieval-themed events in Boston as her own foolish Jester character. This will be her first step into festival installation art, and she is beyond excited to bring her work to JetLAG 2026. Be sure to keep an eye out for her piece “The Moss Spinner,” which can be found amidst the woodland in the trees.
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Luna Sanctuary

Theme Camp
Luna Sanctuary is a cozy 24-hour refuge at JetLAG—a place to slow down, recharge, and reconnect. Created by the Kuznetsovy. Step inside our glowing 20-foot dome and discover ambient music, soft lights, creative activities, quiet corners for reflection, and the mysterious Secret Making Tower, where you can leave an anonymous wish, confession, dream, or secret—and perhaps find one left by someone else. Come rest under the Moon. Leave with a story
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Pochemuchki

Theme Camp
Deep in the heart of the forest, where the trees whisper secrets and moonlight dances on the mossy ground, Baba Yaga invites you to her enchanted DJ booth: a mystical fusion of folklore, music, and magic. Inspired by her legendary chicken-legged hut, the cabins’ legs appear to be moving as the bass shakes the ground. Step into the world of Slavic legend reimagined for the festival scene, where Baba Yaga's lair pulses with basslines and her cauldron bubbles with beats. The booth, crafted with natural materials, is crowned by a gnarled roof adorned with sticks, lanterns, and symbols. The playlist is as unpredictable as Baba Yaga herself, blending deep house, forest trance, grimey riddim and eclectic world beats. Each DJ who takes the helm must "earn" the witch’s favor—whether by spinning a magical incantation or sharing a story of how they stumbled upon her mysterious grove. Come enjoy the music from the nearby zen palace chill spaces, and if you're lucky you may even find the secret sasquatch society.
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<Slope Sonic>

Theme Camp
<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.
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Chabad-Chaos

Theme Camp

Chabad-Chaos returns with a full weekend of Shabbat programming, including services, a jam zone, inspiring conversations, Shabbat meals, and plenty of l'chaim. Rabbi Eli Kogan will be on hand throughout the weekend.

Friday, Aug. 14: The Tefillin Booth will be open all day. Shabbat Candle Lighting begins at 7:30 PM, including a memorial ceremony honoring the victims of the Nova Festival and October 7. Kabbalat Shabbat follows at 8:00 PM, with Kiddush and a communal Shabbat meal afterward.

Saturday, Aug. 15: Morning Services begin at 11:00 AM, followed by Torah Reading at 12:00 PM and Kiddush & Shabbat Meal at 1:30 PM. Afternoon Shabbat Conversations include Mystical Secrets of Shabbat with Eli Kogan (4:00 PM), Where in Life Are We Waiting for Someone Else to Make the First Move with Avraham Sandler (5:00 PM), Jewish Law as the Theoretical Physics of Many Worlds with Arye Dubinsky (6:00 PM), and Is it a Mitzvah to Be Happy? with Yehuda Pevzner (7:00 PM). The weekend concludes with Havdalah at 9:00 PM, followed by a kumzitz with guitars and lots of l'chaim at 10:30 PM.

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Self Serve Soundbath

Art Installation
Studies show that after lengthy intervals of sonic exploration, the ears may develop phonic fatigue and accumulate acoustic toxins. Recent advancements in the field of audiology have allowed for unprecedented levels of automation in the soundbath industry. Let our breakthrough technology cleanse the deepest grooves of your auditory appendages from even the most persistent toxic buildup. Recalibrate your sensory inputs, cast away distortion and disonance, and reset any discord at the Self Serve Soundbath. Achieve sonic enlightenment, all by yourself! (Imagination not included)
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Practical Magick

Theme Camp

Back for his second year, Antony La Bozetta (A.K.A. Magi), will bring his craft and the Magick to JetLAG. This interactive experience includes classes and workshops covering such topics as:

- Basic Wicca beliefs and tenants.

- Intro to Tarot reading.

- Using Wicca to survive in the modern world.

Among others as well! Private Tarot readings are available at all times as well!!! Friday and Saturday - class schedule to be posted at camp - morning to midnight! All are welcome!

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Wellbees

Theme Camp
Information TBA
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Flow Arts Workshop - Staff and Poi

At 
Dizzy & Dangerous
Friday, August 14, 2026
5:00 pm
Taught By 
Jeli Maer & Eugene Zeleny
Jeli and Eugene are excited to bring flow arts learning to Jetlag once again, instructing all skill and age ranges to learn the basics of poi and traditional/contact staff!
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Country Swing (Partner) Dancing

At 
Dizzy & Dangerous
Friday, August 14, 2026
6:00 pm
Taught By 
Jack & Liza
Cuddles, lifts, and dips, oh my! Bring your friends and cowboy boots if you have 'em. No partner necessary.
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Movement Lab

At 
Dizzy & Dangerous
Friday, August 14, 2026
7:00 pm
Taught By 
Anush Revazyan
Discover your body movement while exploring improvisation, musicality and authentic expression through guided exercises
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Romani (Gypsy Folk) Dance for Men and Women

At 
Dizzy & Dangerous
Friday, August 14, 2026
8:00 pm
Taught By 
Zhenya & Nataly Rock.
Led by Zhenya and Nataly Rock, this interactive workshop blends an illustrated lecture with dance practice, exploring Romani men's and women's dance, music, rhythms, and costume history before bringing both styles together in a shared dance.
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Coalescence Ecstatic Dance

At 
Dizzy & Dangerous
Saturday, August 15, 2026
12:00 am
Taught By 
DJ Zamora
This dance practice will facilitate ecstatic joy, groundedness, and full embodiment. Prepare to drop into your body and leave your mind behind. Ecstatic dance is a non-conversational movement practice to facilitate mindfulness, so please keep chatter low on the dance floor.
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Fundamentals of Massage

At 
Dizzy & Dangerous
Saturday, August 15, 2026
10:00 am
Taught By 
Mariam Khazhinsky
A hands-on workshop focusing on connecting through shoulder and hand massage loose clothing and partners encouraged
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Improv Comedy

At 
Dizzy & Dangerous
Saturday, August 15, 2026
11:00 am
Taught By 
Maya Bialik & Liza Bialik
Trust yourself, support others, and discover what we'll create together! No experience necessary. No audience included.
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Integral Yoga

At 
Dizzy & Dangerous
Saturday, August 15, 2026
12:30 pm
Taught By 
Śreya Sasha
Integral Yoga A traditional Hatha Yoga class with a gentle, steady flow, relaxation between poses, and clear guided instruction throughout. This comprehensive, balanced practice helps cultivate strength, flexibility, and inner calm. No experience necessary—all are welcome.
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Resting Freely in Love, Wonder and Creativity

At 
Dizzy & Dangerous
Saturday, August 15, 2026
2:00 pm
Taught By 
Jordan Grinstein
Let's explore our favorite ways of accessing instinctive meditation: breathing, listening to music, dancing, gazing at nature, cherishing energy, and all the forms of love, where mind wandering is celebrated as part of the body's natural healing wisdom.
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Acro Ball

At 
Dizzy & Dangerous
Saturday, August 15, 2026
3:15 pm
Taught By 
Taylored Acro & Kerri
Come one come all and join us for an ACRO BALL!! Have you ever wanted to lift your friends up, both figuratively and literally?!? Well then this is the offering for you!! In 90 minutes you'll tumble, wumble, play games and be entertained!! Learning how to soar and save lives!! No experience or partners necessary, just fun flows and incredible vibes!!
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Creation Station

At 
Dizzy & Dangerous
Saturday, August 15, 2026
4:30 pm
Taught By 
Claude CJ Johnson
Finding the artistic virtuosity through the movement of a body
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Klezmer Instrumental and Vocal Workshop

At 
Dizzy & Dangerous
Saturday, August 15, 2026
5:30 pm
Taught By 
Klezmatics
Join the Klezmatics for the Klezmer Vocal, or Klezmer Instrumental class, held side by side.
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Armenian Folk Dance

At 
Dizzy & Dangerous
Saturday, August 15, 2026
7:00 pm
Taught By 
Anush Revazyan
Discover the beauty of Armenian folk dancing through easy-to-learn circle dances that bring people together.
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Connecting through Tango

At 
Dizzy & Dangerous
Saturday, August 15, 2026
9:00 pm
Taught By 
Yuriy
Learn to connect with your partner in dance through some basic Argintine Tango steps.
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Bachata Fundamentals

At 
Dizzy & Dangerous
Saturday, August 15, 2026
11:30 pm
Taught By 
Aleksei & Rivka
The irresistible passion of Latin music and the connection encircling the dancing couple, the musicians, and the floor.
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Salsa Fundamentals

At 
Dizzy & Dangerous
Sunday, August 16, 2026
12:15 am
Taught By 
Aleksei & Rivka
The music and moves of hot sun, shining sand, and salty ocean, blending across continents and countries.
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Central Stage
Central Stage

Deerhoof

Stage Aurika
Saturday
10:00 pm
Unclassifiable legends of distortion and silliness and magic. Bathing listeners in glorious dual-guitar feedback, disorienting drum outbursts and chirpy pop melodies for more than 30 years. Satomi Matsuzaki, Greg Saunier, John Dieterich and Ed Rodriguez create an inspiring and absurd universe all their own.
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The Klezmatics & Joshua Nelson

Stage Aurika
Friday
11:00 pm
Grammy-winning pioneers of modern klezmer, The Klezmatics celebrate 40 years at the forefront of global roots music with We Were Made For These Times — a bold new album and live program shaped by songs of protest, resilience, and radical joy. Blending Yiddish song with Black gospel, Latin rhythms, and avant-jazz, the band transforms tradition into a living, evolving musical language — urgent, joyful, and deeply relevant today. For this program, The Klezmatics are joined by Joshua Nelson, the acclaimed “Prince of Kosher Gospel,” bringing Yiddish roots and gospel power into a shared musical space.
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Omar Torrez and Printz Board

Stage Aurika
Saturday
8:00 pm
Omar Torrez’s musical recipe is equal parts post-modern rock, Mexican and Cuban son, gutbucket blues, stunning guitar wizardry, and soulful songwriting. He first gained recognition as a finalist at the Jimi Hendrix Guitar Competition at Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival, performing on a borrowed guitar, and is best known for playing with Tom Waits on the Glitter and Doom world tour. More recently, he has collaborated with legendary Russian singer-songwriter Boris Grebenshikov. Omar is joined by Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist, producer, songwriter, and singer Printz Board, best known for his work with Black Eyed Peas and the production group Bucky Jonson.
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Mariposas Galácticas

Stage Aurika
Friday
9:00 pm
Mariposas Galácticas is an 8-piece Cumbia Klezmer Punk band based in Philly. Combining band members’ South American and Jewish ancestries, the band creates a unique diasporic sound that gets audiences everywhere dancing with rebellious joy. By honoring their Indigenous Andean musical heritage, blended together with punkified ancient Jewish melodies, the band plays a mixture of original and classic tunes that span different languages, cultures, and genres. Mariposas have collaborated with international acts like Os Mutantes, Son Rompe Pera and Kumbia Queers, and they continue to accompany their communities’ struggle for liberation everywhere from prominent stages to cultural, activist and community spaces.
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ReBelle

Stage Aurika
Saturday
2:00 pm
Co-founded by Manou Africa and Kalpana Devi, ReBelle is a roots reggae and soul project rooted in African liberation, Rasta consciousness, visionary feminine power, and a deep love for humanity and Gaia. Singing in Wolof, Creole, French, and English, ReBelle brings together ceremony, protest, and celebration, with harmonies, chants, and rhythms grounded in the ancestral drum. Since joining creative forces in 1994, Manou and Kalpana have performed and toured across the U.S. and West Africa, creating music that carries stories of sufferation, justice, love, unity, and triumph. ReBelle has shared stages with reggae greats including The Wailers, Burning Spear, Toots and the Maytals, Steel Pulse, and Culture, while continuing to build spaces for music, activism, and collective healing.
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Stefani Bondari

Stage Aurika
Saturday
3:30 pm
Stefani Bondari is a Brooklyn-based songwriter, vocalist, and pianist whose music moves between art-pop, post-rock, classical influence, and NYC’s DIY scene. Blending intimate songwriting with expansive sound, she creates a space where personal reflection becomes shared experience. Performing with her band, including Billy Svolos and Judah Sweig, Stefani brings to life music shaped by community, vulnerability, and the powerful freedom of exploration.
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No One And The Somebodies

Stage Aurika
Saturday
5:00 pm
No One And The Somebodies describe themselves as “a weirdo punk band of 4 siblings from Westchester/NYC, loudly flailing about since 2001.” Their music ricochets between post-punk, indie punk, angular art-rock, basement-show chaos, melodic hooks, shout-along vocals, sudden rhythmic detours, and a distinctly DIY New York spirit. Equal parts nervous energy, humor, political frustration, and barely-held-together disorder, their songs often feel like they are mutating in real time without ever losing momentum.
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Sobolik

Stage Aurika
Saturday
12:00 am
Sobolik is a producer, DJ, promoter, and label curator based in Queens, NY, pushing the boundaries of underground electronic music. With a deeply technical approach to production and an intuitive ear for sound design, they build rhythmic, ethereal soundscapes that move fluidly across genres while maintaining a distinct sonic identity. Describing themselves as a “digital forager,” Sobolik digs through curious textures, fragmented samples, and unconventional sounds, reshaping them into bouncy, percussive, otherworldly club tracks that balance experimental detail with undeniable dancefloor energy.
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Guy Grano

Stage Aurika
Sunday
1:30 am
Rooted in rhythmic storytelling, Guy Grano weaves hypnotic grooves, organic textures, ritual percussion, and atmospheric depth into sets that unfold with patience and purpose. Drawing from global musical traditions and underground electronic culture, he crafts fluid journeys that evolve with the energy of the moment, turning the dance floor into an immersive space for movement, connection, and shared experience.
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Pike and Star Coop

Stage Aurika
Friday
7:30 pm
Kooperativ Zvezda (also known as “Pike and Star Coop”) are underground veterans led by their tireless frontman and chief songwriter known as Pike Zvezdochkin. While nominally a punk rock band, their sound moves freely across styles — from old romance to rap — brought to life with unpredictable, high-energy stage performances. The lineup features Boston-based musicians Igor Pokhis, Sasha Sverlov, and Ksyusha Po, joined by Sasha Drey and Pike’s partner in life and art, the poet and provocateur KataXXXreza. Together they deliver a set built around the band’s strongest recent material, alongside a selection of brand-new premieres.
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Robber Crabs

Stage Aurika
Saturday
6:30 pm
The Robber Crabs are a NYC-based quartet combining the influences of No Wave and 1910s-20s jazz, with a surreal, subversive sense of humor. Led by saxophonist Elijah Shiffer, this band has existed since 2014. Their most recent album "Callithumpian" was recorded live in various locations including at the 2024 Avant Garde A Clue festival in Rochester, NY.
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Tru Sounds

Stage Aurika
Saturday
3:00 am
Tru Sounds is a DJ project with over 12 years of experience behind the decks, focused on live mixing across bass-driven electronic styles including dubstep, trap, halftime, drum & bass, house, and related club forms. Working in a flexible, ongoing format without fixed schedules, Tru Sounds treats DJ sets as open-ended selections built for movement, attention, and shared listening energy, moving between heavier rhythmic material and more melodic or groove-based sections depending on context and space.
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Katoala

Stage Aurika
Sunday
12:00 am
Katoala (pronounced “kat-wala”) is a DJ and sound artist crafting journeys through emotion, memory, and human experience. Originally from Taiwan and now based in Boston, she works across deep and organic house, melodic techno, trance, and immersive electronic textures, shaping sets that center presence, connection, and subtle transformation. Drawing from the intersection of healing and art, her performances function less as displays than as shared sonic environments — carefully constructed arcs where perception shifts, attention softens, and listeners move through states of dissolution and return, meeting again inside the same unfolding dream.
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Aaron Fractal

Stage Aurika
Saturday
3:00 am
Aaron Fractal is a DJ, artist, and event organizer connected to psychedelic gathering culture in rural New England. He first entered this world through music, collecting sounds and developing his skills as a DJ in order to express himself through performance, then began sharing his art at events and organizing gatherings of his own in 2008. His work is shaped by the belief that this culture is built through creativity, self-improvement, honesty, kindness, and a shared sense of “we.”
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Miracle Johan

Stage Aurika
Saturday
12:30 pm
This story begins a long time in the future, when Miracle Johan crash landed on Earth through a space portal of sorts. He crash landed into the tundra and discovered that his powers were enhanced when in the earth’s atmosphere. Realizing he had unlimited powers on this planet, he decided he must use them for good. These days, this looks a lot like a 3-piece rock band with some of the oldest friends continuing to mine time and space in an effort to eradicate arbitrary constraints.
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PANGEA Stage
PANGEA Stage

I Dressed Like Him

The TimeCastle
Saturday
8:00 pm
Claude “CJ” Johnson is a Brooklyn-based dancer, choreographer, and movement director originally from Chicago. A graduate of The Chicago Academy for the Arts and SUNY Purchase College, he has performed works by major choreographers including Merce Cunningham, Trisha Brown, Twyla Tharp, Mark Morris, and Aszure Barton, and was a full-time company dancer with A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham from 2017 to 2022. As a performer, choreographer, and Black queer artist, CJ approaches dance as a powerful catalyst for self-expression, social change, and the translation of human experience. His work I Dressed Like Him reveals a shifting series of personas through a single outfit, blending Butoh, poetry, sound, raw physicality, and dark humor into a haunting, rhythmic dance story.
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Mother Pigeon’s Revival

The TimeCastle
Saturday
5:30 pm
Mother Pigeon’s Revival, formerly Mother Pigeon’s Impeckable Puppet Show, is the larger-than-life musical entertainment wing of Mother Pigeon’s Workshop. Based on the real-life adventures of renowned New York City wildlife artist Mother Pigeon/Tina Piña and her wild downtown friends — Frankie the Pigeon, Max the Rat, and Roman the Raccoon — the show brings back the grand old days of sing-alongs, jamborees, home-spun fun, and handcrafted art. With theatrical songs for everyone, messages and stories from animal friends, and lyric books for the audience, Mother Pigeon’s Revival invites everybody to sing along.
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Broom

The TimeCastle
Saturday
9:00 pm
Broom is an ambient music collective that describes itself as an “experimental street cleaning service.” Their sound is atmospheric and immersive, built from layered textures that move between dreamlike introspection and raw, unfiltered emotion. Focused on exploration, artistic freedom, and genre-blurring sonic experiments, Broom invites listeners into a space where ambient music becomes both cleansing ritual and strange urban drift.
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Community Garden Puppets

The TimeCastle
Saturday
7:00 pm
Community Garden Puppets is a Brooklyn-based puppetry collective working across full-body puppetry, live music, projection, and shadow theatre. Their practice combines handcrafted visual storytelling with performative sound environments, creating layered stage compositions where puppets, light, and image operate as integrated narrative elements. Their work often develops around symbolic character figures and episodic scenes that explore transformation, relationships, and elemental imagery.
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Maria Camia

The TimeCastle
Friday
11:30 pm
Maria Camia brings Aricama, her long-evolving practice of spiritual sci-fi theater, introspective hypnosis, and participatory imagination — through both performance and workshop. A Filipino-American visual and theater artist based in Brooklyn, Maria works in the space between ritual, play, healing, and speculative storytelling, building immersive experiences where inner landscapes become collective worlds. She will also lead Fun Sticker Workshop to Align with Your Best Energetic Signature, a guided creative session combining meditation, visualization, and sticker-making. Participants will imagine and design new “internal programs” to interrupt limiting patterns and install fresh energies into everyday life, leaving with handmade symbolic reminders for laptops, water bottles, notebooks, and beyond.
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Vinyasa Yoga + Sound Journey

The TimeCastle
Saturday
9:30 am
Celebrate your body, come and flow like the breeze. Let the sound waves wash your mind into ease. Mike will start by leading a Vinyasa flow. Ya know? to get yo moving in the direction of where you want to be. Alice will follow with a calling in of natures sweet harmonies. With little sweat beads on your brow you’ll hear ear birds whisper, “Oh my, WOW!”
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Cloud Baby

The TimeCastle
Saturday
1:00 pm
A cloud descends to Earth and needs your help. i, Cloud is a participatory clown show where audiences teach a cloud how to communicate, play, and live amongst humans. Combining physical comedy, improvisation, and audience interaction, the piece creates a joyful, psychedelic, and heartfelt bridge between humans and weather.
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Rhymes with Orange

The TimeCastle
Sunday
1:00 am
(saturday night going into sunday)
RMO Presents The Further Away Show // Im takin my wizard and im takin some baby and were goin on the freeway // And im making them lunch im makin them tuna sandwiches were goin on the freeway // Im takin my cat and im takin on my neighbor and were goin on the freeway // Takin my cat and im takin all his food and stuff throwin’ it on the freeway // Turn on your favorite music for the freeway // Takin my blankets and my blankets bag just in case i get stuck overnight or something // Dont know where im goin but i got some baby and my wizard with me we’ll never be lost so longs as we’re together // Racking up the thousand tickets on the freeway // Goin full speed on the freeway to ticket town // You’re an impossible shape of a person
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Druga Duga

The TimeCastle
Saturday
1:00 am
(friday night going into saturday)
What do an electric harp, didgeridoo, and a balloon pipe organ have in common? They’re all part of Druga Duga, a time-traveling, future-folk opera born out of a rainbow in neo-Yugoslavia (Year 4120). Bringing free-improv jazz, holy fool theatrics, psychedelia, and Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir aesthetics, their whimsical, "hope-core" performance explores intuition and love in defiance of inner darkness (with audience participation). Including Gillian Harrill, Theo Akpinar, Bodhi Dayal, Matt Genkin, and costumes by Luna Gomberg, the band, understanding string theory, believes the world vibrates as a massive symphony. Their concerts are immersive, interactive events featuring spontaneous improvisations and Ancient Babylonian chants. Audiences are guided through gibberish-sung songs, invited to play human instruments, and treated to an aggressively protected, comically large stage lever and an exploration of silence. At the core of their whimsical storytelling is a message of radical optimism, often stopping the music to earnestly check in on how the audience is feeling, using the power of music to process the heavier realities of the human experience across time and space, seriousness and silliness.
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Dylan Israelian

The TimeCastle
Friday
9:00 pm
Dylan Israelian is a raconteur of unreliable whodunits woven from cast-off poetry, eavesdropped admirals, and totally unsound linguistic practices — a storyteller who leads the audience on aimless capers through poignant fragments which puzzle together to form a totally bizarre picture. The editor of the unique zine Floater’s Digest, focused on absurdist writing, neologisms, playing out old and new memes, and performs in collaborative project Rhymes With Orange (RMO) and in solo formats that emphasize narrative instability, linguistic play, and live composition.
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Wool and Wall: On Thay're Waye

The TimeCastle
Saturday
4:00 pm
Mimebaby theater, co-founded by Philadelphia-based performers MK and Heather, creates absurdist physical theater built from childlike play, twisted language, clown logic, and the pleasure of making audiences squirm and laugh. Their work flips forms upside down and sideways, using grotesque humor and questionable audacity to reveal the unseriousness of being serious. In Wool and Wall: On Thay’re Waye, two companions are trying to get through — but passage is never simple. Their request becomes a performance, the performance becomes a lesson, the lesson becomes a tale, and the tale may or may not belong to a pig. Grounded in companionship, misunderstanding, and the old tradition of performing just to get by, mimebaby invites the audience into a world where every gap is a stage.
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Jungl Car

The TimeCastle
Saturday
2:30 am
(friday night going into saturday)
Jungl Car is an electronic music duo composed of Joel and his interdimensional companion, Gorf. Through the power of immersion, storytelling, and audience interactivity, Jungl Car explores the depths of our collective consciousness to bring healing and direction in a world with such a repressed shadow.
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Hands Can't Space Bicycle

The TimeCastle
Saturday
4:30 pm
Matt Genkin is a theater & music artist from NYC. Hands Can’t Space Bicycle centers on the life of a small tiny insect. The insect is completely unimportant & it really won’t matter at all to anyone whether it lives or dies. Furthermore, the creature is absolutely common, and to most people indistinguishable from millions of its kind, teeming in fields, trees, and kitchens. Even these masses are a detail that, for even the most observant landscape artists, is likely not worth a little fleck of brown paint (or perhaps purple or a woody red). Thus the main thrust of the show, and by extension the show itself, is superfluous and vastly unlikely to make much of a difference in anyone’s life. The audience is advised that small creatures may be attracted to food items and interesting-looking people.
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Kundalini Partner Yoga

The TimeCastle
Saturday
11:30 am
Explore Kundalini Partner Yoga as a shared journey through movement, breath, awareness, and connection. Based on the teachings and practices of the Lev Teternikov School, this open-level class uses partner yoga exercises to support body awareness, physical and emotional strength, trust, openness, and interaction with another person. No previous yoga experience, flexibility, or partner is required: come with a friend, relative, or loved one, or attend on your own and partners will be matched during the class. Please bring a yoga mat, water, and comfortable clothes, and avoid strong perfumes or scented lotions. The class is led by Diana Borenshtein, Ph.D., a certified Kundalini Yoga instructor and certified instructor and representative of the Lev Teternikov School in the Boston area.
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Spell-Art Stage
Spell-Art Stage

Alexey Paperny

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
9:30 pm
Alexey Paperny is a musician, poet, playwright, and director, and a prominent figure of the independent Russian-language cultural scene. He is the founder and frontman of Paperny T.A.M., whose songs have achieved cult status across several generations of listeners. Paperny’s work also spans theater and playwriting: his play won a Fringe First in Edinburgh in 1991, and he has authored and directed many experimental theater projects. He was also behind two landmark cultural spaces in Moscow, vital hubs for independent music, theater, and cross-cultural performance. Since leaving Russia in 2022, he has continued to perform internationally, often appearing in a chamber acoustic duo with his son Sasha on bass, sustaining his distinctive dialogue with audiences through song, rhythm, word, and theatrical act.
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Zhenya Rock & Nataly

Spell-Art Stage
Friday
9:30 pm
Zhenya Rock & Nataly bring a fiercely alive mix of Balkan rhythms, Romani song, American roots music, rock’n’roll energy, dance, improvisation, and celebratory spirit. Equal parts concert and communal celebration, their performances dissolve the distance between stage and crowd, pulling audiences into something joyful, chaotic, and deeply human. Led by virtuosic guitarist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Zhenya Rock — leader of Balkan Laikas, founding member and lead guitarist of Red Elvises through 2004, and creator of Zeegrass with Pat Mastelotto of King Crimson — the project moves fluidly between traditions and atmospheres, from intimate acoustic moments to explosive dance-floor momentum. Alongside him, Nataly adds movement, theatricality, and a magnetic presence that transforms each set into its own unpredictable experience.
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Psoy Korolenko

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
6:30 pm
Psoy Korolenko is a songwriter, performer, lecturer, and translator of songs — a “wandering scholar,” “contemporary minstrel,” and “avant-bard,” as he has been called. Working at the intersection of genres, languages, and styles, Psoy sings in Russian, Yiddish, English, French, Portuguese, and other languages, moving between cabaret, folklore, klezmer, bardic song, literary play, and improvisation. His unique one person show brings together linguistic mischief, musical freedom, and the restless energy where every song is also a journey.
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Angela Shteingart

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
7:30 pm
Angela Shteyngart is an Israeli theater actress, poet, bard, and singer-songwriter whose concerts move freely between song, monologue, humor, and intimate theatrical storytelling. Associated with Israel’s Gesher Theater, she brings an actor’s timing, emotional precision, and deep sense of audience to every performance, turning each song into a small theatrical event. In her program “Мы к вам заехали на час” (“We’ve Dropped By for an Hour”), Angela, joined by Gary Katz on guitar, presents a repertoire that combines the Russian-language bardic tradition with warmth, wit, reflection, and a rare ability to move from laughter to tenderness in a single gesture.
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Bardyachaya Sobaka

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
2:00 pm
Bardyachaya Sobaka is a theatrical songwriter and performer collective, creators of a festival of the same name and a beloved presence at East Coast cultural gatherings. Known for performances that are both playful and culturally rich, they work in the style of teatral’ny kapustnik — a genre combining satire, parody, song, and literary wit. They present The Capricious Prince, a retelling of Alexei Tolstoy’s The Golden Key and the broader Buratino narrative, a culturally central Soviet-era adaptation of the Pinocchio story that spans multiple generations through film and theatre. The work is reinterpreted as a vaudeville and, as is often the case with Bardyachaya Sobaka, draws on Roma musical and theatrical traditions.
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vadim pevzner

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
5:30 pm
vadim pevzner known as pev, bard gone bad, poet, musician, and occasional game changer. old favorites, newer work, and non poetry.
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Blueberry Muffins

Spell-Art Stage
Friday
8:30 pm
Blueberry Muffins is an ensemble built around transformation, reinvention, and the constantly shifting nature of music. From changing musical directions to playful self-redefinition, the group embraces movement as part of its identity — something reflected in the title of their current program, Standards Reframed. Blending shades of pop, Latin, funk, jazz, and rock with lyrics in multiple languages, Blueberry Muffins create a kaleidoscopic sound that is sincere, cohesive, and forever new.
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Gary Katz and Andrey Matlin

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
8:30 pm
Two outstanding New York musicians bring Na Dvoikh, an intimate acoustic program built around song and poetry. The repertoire ranges from Frank Sinatra and Leonard Cohen to the songs of Mark Freidkin and his poetic Russian translations of Georges Brassens. Gary Katz, widely known for his tribute concerts devoted to iconic singers while also composing original symphonic music, will be joined by pianist and jazz saxophonist Andrey Matlin, a member of Blueberry Muffins and other musical projects, and an important figure in the de facto house band of Spell Art stage. Together they present an evening where Sinatra, Cohen, Brassens, and Freidkin meet in a wonderful trip.
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Lev and Olga Frayman feat. Volodymyr Gitin

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
4:30 pm
Lev and Olga Frayman are a Minneapolis-based musical duo who have performed together for over 20 years, blending acoustic Russian bardic songs with rock and roll, bossa nova, and other world music traditions. The married couple is highly active in the local Ukrainian community and known for their guitar improvisations and powerful harmonies. Joining them is Volodymyr Gitin, a virtuoso clarinetist and conductor from Odesa, Ukraine, and a key member of the Ukrainian folk band Kommuna Lux, which blends Odesa songs, klezmer, and Ukrainian folk music.
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There is Only a Moment

Spell-Art Stage
Friday
6:30 pm
This tribute concert celebrates the 100th birthday of Aleksandr Zatsepin, one of the most influential Soviet and Russian composers of popular music, whose film work produced a vast catalogue of songs that became cultural “memes” long before the internet era. His music is deeply embedded in the memory of everyone who grew up in the USSR, forming part of a shared sonic vocabulary across generations, while also carrying a distinct Western pop sensibility—melodic, catchy, and rhythmically light, often blending cinematic storytelling with accessible form. Over decades, these songs moved far beyond their original films to become standalone cultural references, continuously performed, reinterpreted, and instantly recognizable as part of everyday musical language.
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Marat Rikelman and Nora Zaychik

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
3:30 pm
Atlanta-based duo Marat Rikelman and Nora Zaychik bring songs that travel comfortably between laughter and reflection, irony and sincerity, the everyday and the unexpected. Marat is a songwriter, guitarist, and performer whose original songs range from playful, humorous stories to deeply personal and dramatic narratives, often finding a surprising balance somewhere in between. Nora’s warm vocals and stage presence bring these songs to life, transforming them into conversations shared with the audience. Marat and Nora combine original songs, humor, storytelling, and the easy chemistry of two people who have spent decades making music and life together.
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Taras Shuplat

Spell-Art Stage
Saturday
2:30 pm
Taras Shuplat and Ilya Gitelman have been performing together for around fifteen years within the bardic song tradition, appearing at festivals, concerts, and song gatherings across the United States. Long active in the community, they were also laureates of the historic Samarskie Bardy festival and the original Grusha in the later years of those festivals' classic era. Their repertoire combines Taras's own songs—both to his own lyrics and to poems by other authors—with interpretations of works by fellow songwriters including Igor Kuzmin, Semyon Bystryak, and Masha Shkolnik, alongside songs in Ukrainian such as Taras's setting of a poem by Misha Yudovsky and Sviatoslav Vakarchuk's Misto Vesny.
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Workshops
Workshops

MONDO EUPHORIA

Saturday
9:00 pm
An ecstatic electronic arts collective of poets, artists, music-makers, and world-builders invoking rapture and transformation through sound and spectacle. Fierce, vital, and urgent, their work moves through alchemy, trance, mysticism, and collective celebration, creating immersive experiences where electronic ritual becomes mass hallucination and spirit liberation.
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VoicePlay Workshop with Mela Closs

Saturday
12:00 pm
VoicePlay is a joyful workshop for somatic and vocal exploration, inviting participants to use the voice as a tool for healing, expression, and embodied play. Through breathing techniques, vocal improvisation, body relaxation, deep listening, traditional somatic practices, and connection with inner sounds waiting to be expressed, the workshop creates a safe space for experimentation and discovery. It is led by Mela Closs, a Brooklyn-based voice ritualist and musician who creates playful experiences grounded in imagination, healing, and transformation. With a background in music and theater education, Mela uses movement, singing, breathing, ritual, and ceremony to help open new pathways of expression and empowerment; as a musician, she explores ambient, drone-heavy soundscapes and dramatic vocals in Zelenaya and solo performance-art projects.
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The Sacred Fool: A Clown Workshop with Baba Yana

Saturday
6:00 pm
Baba Yana is the Soviet Jewish grandma clown you didn’t know you needed. Created and performed by Danielle Levsky, a child of post-Soviet family from Kyiv, Baba Yana draws on the holy fool tradition, physical comedy, and the gallows humor of the immigrant kitchen table. In this workshop, participants use clown techniques, trust exercises, and inner child work to shed social masks and reconnect with play, vulnerability, and authentic emotional expression. Through the practice of “beautiful failure,” the clown’s secret weapon, the workshop explores how letting go of the need to be competent or cool can open real connection and presence. No clown experience is necessary — only a willingness to look silly. Danielle is a certified clown teacher, yoga instructor, performer, and producer whose original clown theater has appeared at Lincoln Center, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and venues across the U.S.
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Kids Arts + Crafts with Peggy from Camp Little Notch!

Saturday
9:30 am
Kids of all ages, join Peggy from Camp Little Notch for a fun arts and crafts morning!
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Maria Camia's Fun Sticker Workshop to Align with Best Energetic Signature

Saturday
4:30 pm
As an Introspective Hypnosis Practitioner since 2020, Maria sees the pattern of limiting programs placed in childhood creating disturbance later in life. Join her in this creative sticker workshop to imagine a new internal program to override old habits and mentalities. In this workshop, Maria will lead a guided meditation to feel the current energies in our bodies and later, all will imagine what energies they wish to install in their bodies to live a more fun life. Participants will create and leave with a sticker to put on their water bottle, laptop, or somewhere important to remind them of their new program whenever they see it. Feel it, then become it! Maria Camia, a Brooklyn-based, Filipino-American Spiritual/Sci-Fi Introspective Hypnosis Visual/Theater Artist, has dedicated 13 ongoing years to creating Aricama, the land of practice play and healing in pursuit to make imagination useful in a traumatized society. She has performed original work for JACK, HEREarts, La MaMa Experimental Club, Kino Saito, Chicago International Puppet Festival, Dixon Place, and others. Maria received the PGOGNY BIPOC Scholarship, The Jim Henson Workshop and Production Grants for her full length shows NEW MONY! and THE HEALING SHIPMENT. Maria is also an Introspective Hypnosis Practitioner where she guides clients one-on-one through the subconscious to bring more empowerment into the body.
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Mimebaby Workshop

Saturday
1:30 pm
MK and Heather– two philadelphia-based, pig-ironed, stage idiots, are cofounders of mimebaby theater. Their training and curiosities have led them to each other and into the fires of absurdism and physical language. By adopting childlike play, they thrust their bodies into work that twists words, tickles bellies, flips forms upside down and sideways. They use this pleasure-driven method of creation to highlight the unseriousness of being serious in order for people to see a grotesque version of their world and laugh at it. They are inspired by Elena Ferrante, the Vlogbrothers, Nathan Fielder, and all clowns. They aim to make audiences squirm and delight in their questionable audacity.
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Community Garden Puppets Workshop

Saturday
3:00 pm
The workshop is led by Community Garden Puppets, the Brooklyn-based puppetry collective working across full-body puppetry, live music, projection, and shadow theatre, who will also present a full performance at the festival. It focuses on making puppets from natural and found materials, with an emphasis on construction methods inspired by forest environments and improvised fabrication processes.
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Special Events
Special Events

Mermaiding with Zoya Sunbody

At the Lake
Saturday
2:00 pm
Shhhh I’ll let you in on a secret…. Zoya Sunbody turns into a mermaid if she touches water! Bring your swimsuit, because after her harp opera in the Timecastle, she will lead everyone down to the lake to literally play mermaids. “Play” might be the wrong word, because she actually secretly is a real mermaid. Just don’t tell the evil merfolk hunter Rasperov, desperate for the rumored immortality serum within the scales of siren tales. In terms of her voice, Zoya will sing for you just a little bit in the water, but not so much as to alert her whereabouts to the skilled poacher on patrol. Zoya does enjoy switching to her mermaid form sometimes. It allows her to be playful in a new way.
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Opening Ceremony

At the Lake
Thursday
9:00 pm
Ricardo Frota and Volga Bo (Wellbees Village) have been playing together since 2010, bringing music shaped by voice, rhythm, and attentive listening. For this gathering, they open the festival space through shared sound and collective presence, drawing loosely on Indigenous frameworks of gratitude and orientation toward place. Using drums, percussion, song, and improvised voice, they invite you into a circle where sound becomes a way of structuring attention and intention at the start of the festival. Ricardo is a multi-instrumentalist, educator, and sound explorer trained in Brazil and at the New England Conservatory, known for participatory musical work across generations, while Volga is a frame-drummer, songwriter, and ritual-oriented performer whose practice moves between jazz influence, global percussion, and chant-based forms.
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Bird Watching with Elijah

At the Lake
Saturday
1:00 pm
Join Elijah Shiffer for a birding walk around Camp Little Notch! We will explore the forest and lake edge habitats of the campground and see what birds we can find. There are no eBird checklists yet for this location so we can help expand on the bird knowledge of this area! Some binoculars will be provided but if you have your own please bring them.
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Kids Nature Hike with Tyler from Camp Little Notch!

At the Lake
Saturday
11:30 am
Join Tyler from Camp Little Notch for a nature hike through the trails and trees, see all the flora, creeks, and little critters - for kids and their parents!
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Bodhi Dayal

At the Gates
Friday
7:00 pm
Bodhi is a passionate didgeridoo player devoted to sharing the immersive power of this ancient instrument. He has traveled and studied with players across Croatia, Austria, Spain, and France, learning from some of the world’s leading didgeridoo musicians. Combining deep didgeridoo vibrations with the pulse of a cajón kick drum, Bodhi creates a powerful movement experience — something physical, resonant, and felt through the whole body. He will also appear as a wandering performer, welcoming guests with the primal, grounding voice of the didgeridoo as they journey from parking lot to camping and check-in.
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Ritual Boat

At the Lake
Saturday
7:30 pm
Mysterious creatures will emerge from the lake, mellifluous music will ring forth, a sumptuous feast for the eyes and ears of all. Come witness the sacred rituals guided by Totem's shamanic deviousness, Jeli's fire fairy dancing and water dances atop a floating dragonfly...
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Family Systemic Constellations Workshop

At the Amphitheater
Saturday
1:00 pm
Rita Feldman is a certified Family Systemic Constellations facilitator, natural healer, Reiki Master-Teacher, shamanic practitioner, sound healer, spiritual guide, master esthetician, and chemical engineer, of Bert Hellinger's school. Her workshop introduces Systemic Constellations as an experiential practice for exploring hidden family, personal, and organizational patterns, including transgenerational trauma, relationship dynamics, emotional blocks, and recurring difficulties. Participants may observe, take part in a constellation, and experience “representative perception,” looking into the roots of personal and systemic issues.
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Perpetua Parade

Saturday
11:00 am
The Perpetua Parade is a beautifully chaotic train winding its way through the terrain of Camp Little Notch. Led by the Neo-Yugoslavian experimental band Druga Duga and Community Garden Puppets, this procession is a loud, joyful tribute to the dizzy, beautiful haze of perpetual jetLAG. Everyone is invited to jump into the slipstream, grab a sound toy, or just scream, bang pots, and make some noise with some giant puppets. It is an ecstatic march through the camp — a celebration of getting lost in the rhythm and staying in that blissful jetLAG forever.
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Theme Camps
Theme Camps

Dragonian Domecile

Beware Dragonia’s Domecile, fore it is guarded by a fierce fiery dragon’s breath and the gust of its beating wings. If you can cross beyond her defenses, within her belly you will find safe haven and a modicum of her most prized possessions. Created by Eugene Zeleny and Ri Dresser, this installation doubles as an interactive motion sensing puppet and a place of respite. Inside, you will find shade, cozy floor pillows, and a treasure chest with dragons eggs containing gifts. We encourage each visitor to take an egg with them for good luck on their travels through the festival.
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The Followers

The Followers is a contemporary reinterpretation of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. The installation depicts a joker-like Piper leading a procession of rats toward the water. The Piper is half human and half robotic, representing the seductive power of artificial intelligence. The rats willingly follow the Piper, unaware of the danger ahead. They symbolize humanity becoming hypnotized by technologies that constantly entertain, guide, and capture our attention. This installation was designed by Svetlana Yuzhelevskaya and brought to life by Boston-based artists, each of whom sculpted a rat. It is a collaborative artwork made possible through the creativity, generosity, and dedication of both the participating artists and the Boston community, whose support helped turn this vision into reality.
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The Moss Spinner

The Louisiana-born, Boston-based artist, Elsa the Fool, is a mixed media maker with a love for finding the whimsy in chaos. Inspired by food, music, and nature, she brings her ideas to life with interactive forms from hats to life-size puppets. Elsa is an avid believer in human creativity without the use of generative Artificial Intelligence. She aims to show those who are anxiously curious about making art how easy it truly is to create something from nothing. Elsa has hosted several Medieval-themed events in Boston as her own foolish Jester character. This will be her first step into festival installation art, and she is beyond excited to bring her work to JetLAG 2026. Be sure to keep an eye out for her piece “The Moss Spinner,” which can be found amidst the woodland in the trees.
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Luna Sanctuary

Luna Sanctuary is a cozy 24-hour refuge at JetLAG—a place to slow down, recharge, and reconnect. Created by the Kuznetsovy. Step inside our glowing 20-foot dome and discover ambient music, soft lights, creative activities, quiet corners for reflection, and the mysterious Secret Making Tower, where you can leave an anonymous wish, confession, dream, or secret—and perhaps find one left by someone else. Come rest under the Moon. Leave with a story
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Pochemuchki

Deep in the heart of the forest, where the trees whisper secrets and moonlight dances on the mossy ground, Baba Yaga invites you to her enchanted DJ booth: a mystical fusion of folklore, music, and magic. Inspired by her legendary chicken-legged hut, the cabins’ legs appear to be moving as the bass shakes the ground. Step into the world of Slavic legend reimagined for the festival scene, where Baba Yaga's lair pulses with basslines and her cauldron bubbles with beats. The booth, crafted with natural materials, is crowned by a gnarled roof adorned with sticks, lanterns, and symbols. The playlist is as unpredictable as Baba Yaga herself, blending deep house, forest trance, grimey riddim and eclectic world beats. Each DJ who takes the helm must "earn" the witch’s favor—whether by spinning a magical incantation or sharing a story of how they stumbled upon her mysterious grove. Come enjoy the music from the nearby zen palace chill spaces, and if you're lucky you may even find the secret sasquatch society.
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<Slope Sonic>

<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.
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Chabad-Chaos

Chabad-Chaos returns with a full weekend of Shabbat programming, including services, a jam zone, inspiring conversations, Shabbat meals, and plenty of l'chaim. Rabbi Eli Kogan will be on hand throughout the weekend.

Friday, Aug. 14: The Tefillin Booth will be open all day. Shabbat Candle Lighting begins at 7:30 PM, including a memorial ceremony honoring the victims of the Nova Festival and October 7. Kabbalat Shabbat follows at 8:00 PM, with Kiddush and a communal Shabbat meal afterward.

Saturday, Aug. 15: Morning Services begin at 11:00 AM, followed by Torah Reading at 12:00 PM and Kiddush & Shabbat Meal at 1:30 PM. Afternoon Shabbat Conversations include Mystical Secrets of Shabbat with Eli Kogan (4:00 PM), Where in Life Are We Waiting for Someone Else to Make the First Move with Avraham Sandler (5:00 PM), Jewish Law as the Theoretical Physics of Many Worlds with Arye Dubinsky (6:00 PM), and Is it a Mitzvah to Be Happy? with Yehuda Pevzner (7:00 PM). The weekend concludes with Havdalah at 9:00 PM, followed by a kumzitz with guitars and lots of l'chaim at 10:30 PM.

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Self Serve Soundbath

Studies show that after lengthy intervals of sonic exploration, the ears may develop phonic fatigue and accumulate acoustic toxins. Recent advancements in the field of audiology have allowed for unprecedented levels of automation in the soundbath industry. Let our breakthrough technology cleanse the deepest grooves of your auditory appendages from even the most persistent toxic buildup. Recalibrate your sensory inputs, cast away distortion and disonance, and reset any discord at the Self Serve Soundbath. Achieve sonic enlightenment, all by yourself! (Imagination not included)
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Practical Magick

Back for his second year, Antony La Bozetta (A.K.A. Magi), will bring his craft and the Magick to JetLAG. This interactive experience includes classes and workshops covering such topics as:

- Basic Wicca beliefs and tenants.

- Intro to Tarot reading.

- Using Wicca to survive in the modern world.

Among others as well! Private Tarot readings are available at all times as well!!! Friday and Saturday - class schedule to be posted at camp - morning to midnight! All are welcome!

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Wellbees

Information TBA
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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!