KlezKanada
KlezKanada was founded by a group of local cultural activists led by Hy and Sandy Goldman in 1996. In its first year its festival had roughly 300 participants. It was inspired by KlezKamp, a similar festival in New York State which had been founded a few years earlier. By the late 1990s KlezKanada had grown in size and began attracting many of the top musicians in the field, as well as offering a scholarship program for young musicians. In an article on klezmer, Mike Anklewicz noted the development of the festival: 
The camp is based around courses and lectures during the day (relating to klezmer music, Yiddish, and other topics) and concerts at night. In 2001, "of the [festival's] 37 teaching and performance staff, 22 were New York-based." Since then, the festival faculty has become more diverse: in 2018, fewer than half of the teaching faculty were American, while over a third came from Canada, and the rest from other countries, including Germany, Poland, and Russia.
History
KlezKanada () is a Canadian organization for the promotion of klezmer music and Yiddish culture.