Bob Dylan in 1974 (photo Barry Feinstein) Created to develop rising talent, Fellowship recipients will be selected by a world-class…
The Klezmatics (AMHERST, Mass.) – The Klezmatics, Frank London and the Yidstock All-Stars, and David Krakauer’s Mazel Tov Cocktail Party…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – The Rogovoy Report, the long-running weekly email digest linking to news, features, and the arts, has found…
With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of…
(HUDSON, N.Y., June 15, 2021) – Seth Rogovoy will write a book about George Harrison for Oxford University Press, according to Publishers Marketplace, which describes WITHIN YOU WITHOUT YOU: Listening to George Harrison as “a critical reappraisal, giving Harrison his due as a musician, composer, and human being, revealing the crucial contributions he made to…
Created to develop rising talent, Fellowship recipients will be selected by a world-class panel of songwriters: Juliette Armanet, Patty Griffin, John Mellencamp, Carla Morrison and Nas (TULSA, Okla.) — The Bob Dylan Center [BDC] and Universal Music Publishing Group [UMPG], the world’s leading music publishing company, have joined forces to launch the Bob Dylan Center…
(AMHERST, Mass.) – The Klezmatics, Frank London and the Yidstock All-Stars, and David Krakauer’s Mazel Tov Cocktail Party headline the 11th annual YIDSTOCK: The Festival of New Yiddish Music, taking place at the Yiddish Book Center over the course of four days, Thursday, July 13-Sunday, July 16, 2023. YIDSTOCK artistic director Seth Rogovoy curated this…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – The Rogovoy Report, the long-running weekly email digest linking to news, features, and the arts, has found a new home on Substack. It is now available as a Substack column delivered free to subscriber inboxes as well as being available for viewing in a web browser at https://rogovoyreport.substack.com, where it will be…
With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend … TAYLOR MAC RETURNS to MASS MoCA Taylor Mac and longtime musical partner Matt Ray sit down with MASS MoCA director Kristy Edmunds to dig into…
With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend … Fans of chamber music have lots to choose from this weekend. THE ORCHESTRA NOW OFFERS FREE CHAMBER MUSIC at BARD FISHER CENTER Members of The…
With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend … DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND and SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS at MAHAIWE Tonight at 8pm at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington, Mass., the Dirty Dozen Brass Band…
With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend … TRIBE DEBUTS ‘Touch of RED’ at MASS MoCA The visionary arts collective TRIBE—led by artistic director and choreographer Shamel Pitts—debuts its new program, Touch of RED,…
With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend … PALMER TRIO JOINS CANTILENA CHOIR for DANCE-RELATED PROGRAM Music at Trinity and the Cantilena Chamber Choir present Music for the Dance, a program combining choral…
With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend … STRING BEAN PARTY BRINGS QUIRKY ACOUSTIC BLEND to DEWEY HALL Old-time acoustic duo String Bean Party brings its quirky blend of early folk, string-band music,…
With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend … COCEK! BRASS BAND BRINGS HORNS to LION’S DEN The Cocek! Brass Band brings its eclectic, edgy mix of horn-based ethnic music, drawing from New Orleans, the Balkans,…
With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend … FRESHGRASS BRINGS GARY CLARK JR., YOLA and TANYA TUCKER to MASS MoCA The annual FreshGrass Festival of roots music at MASS MoCA in North Adams takes place…
With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend … PATRICK WATSON in SHEFFIELD, Mass., and WOODSTOCK, N.Y. Montreal-based singer-songwriter Patrick Watson bookends our region with two shows this weekend, playing Race Brook Lodge in…
With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend … THE ORCHESTRA NOW PLAYS MAHLER’S FIFTH The Orchestra Now kicks off its eighth season with Mahler’s heroic Fifth Symphony plus George Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Lilacs and…
With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend … PS21 BRINGS CURTAIN DOWN ON SUMMER PS21 Performance Spaces for the 21st Century in Chatham, N.Y., brings the curtain down on its summer season with a…
With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend … TERENCE BLANCHARD BRINGS JAZZ to MASS MoCA Jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard stops by MASS MoCA with his Grammy Award-nominated quintet The E-Collective, joined by the…
With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend … CIARRA FRAGALE at THE CLARK Indie pop artist Ciarra Fragale, formerly of the Hudson Valley and currently based in North Adams, Mass., performs on the outdoor terrace…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Berkshire Opera Festival’s 2022 season culminates with a new staging of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s comedy-tragedy masterpiece Don Giovanni by BOF co-founder Jonathon Loy at the Mahaiwe on Saturday, August 20, at 1pm; Tuesday, August 23, at 7:30pm; and Friday, August 26, at 7:30pm. BOF artistic director and co-founder Brian Garman conducts…
With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend … CHVRCHES and CAFUNÉ BRING INDIE-POP SOUNDS to MASS MoCA Female-led indie pop is on tap tonight at MASS MoCA in North Adams at 8pm, with Scottish electro-pop…
