Yosl and the Yingels
Yosl and the Yingels are a Yiddish swing and folk band who fuse together classic Jewish European folk songs with Yiddish big band and theatre music. Formed in the summer of 2021 as a pandemic busking project, their repertoire spans across the wide Ashkenazi Diaspora, with music originating from America to Turkiye. Yosl and the Yingles are the only Toronto-based secular artists dedicated to writing original music in the now rarely spoken Yiddish language. The band is the project of lead singer and accordionist Joseph ‘Yosl’ Landau, who is one of the only Canadian writers of Yiddish music in the ‘fray veld’ today. Catch them playing all around the city or reach out to have them play at your very own Simcha!
Our first EP of original music will be out in early Spring 2024!
