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(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Rising international star Blitz the Ambassador and the Berkshires’ own Misty Blues headline the seventh annual MCLA Blues and Funk Festival on Friday and Saturday, February 3-4, 2012. The festival takes place at various venues on or near the MCLA campus in North Adams. According to Jonathan Secor, director of...
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(ALBANY, N.Y.) – On the heels of the release of The Question Jar Show, a two-disc live album culled from recordings of his 2009 tour of the same name, Mike Doughty brings his Book of Drugs tour, featuring new songs and readings from his new memoir, The Book of Drugs (Da Capo Press, due...
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(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center has been awarded a $100,000 capital grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Cultural Facilities Fund in conjunction with MassDevelopment. This grant requires a 100 percent match, meaning the Mahaiwe must raise one dollar for every dollar granted. The funds will support important safety upgrades, chimney repair,...
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(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – It’s a not-so-well-kept secret that the best meals coming out of restaurant kitchens are often those that a chef and his crew whip up for the staff of the restaurant. Since last December, Mezze Bistro + Bar has been offering diners staff-meal specials with a casual, more affordable menu featuring cook’s...
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Norah Jones is set to release a new album this spring entitled Little Broken Hearts (Blue Note/EMI), a collaboration with the producer and musician Danger Mouse. With all songs co-written by the two, and all instrumental duties split between them, the album is, in essence, a duet album by the Grammy Award-winning singer and...
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(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The critically acclaimed documentary film, PINA, about the legendary choreographer Pina Bausch, by Oscar-nominated director Wim Wenders, screens on Thursday, February 2, 2012, at the Beacon Cinema, in an event presented by the Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF)’s REEL FRIENDS Film Society. Ella Baff, executive and artistic director of Jacob’s Pillow,...
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(LENOX, Mass.) – In lieu of the annual Labor Day Weekend Jazz Festival, which has been a fixture at Tanglewood for several decades but will not take place this summer, the Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced several new jazz concerts that will occur during the regular Tanglewood season, including legendary pianist Chick Corea, who...
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(PITTSFIELD, Mass., January 26, 2012) – Veteran actress Debra Jo Rupp, star of TV’s That ‘70s Show and a part-time Berkshirite, will star as Dr. Ruth Westheimer in a new one-woman play about the famed sexologist by Mark St. Germain at Barrington Stage Company (BSC) this summer. Dr. Ruth, All the Way will premiere...
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(ADAMS, Mass.) – The annual Thunderbolt Ski Race down the state’s highest mountain will take place this year on Saturday, March 3, 2012, (originally scheduled for February 11 but POSTPONED until March 3 due to lack of snow!!) immediately followed by a free winter festival in downtown Adams. A hundred intrepid backcountry skiers and...
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NEW CLARK EXHIBITION EXPLORES THE ART OF COPYING (WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – The Clark will open its latest exhibition, Copycat: Reproducing Works of Art, on Saturday, January 29, 2012. Exploring the line between innovation and imitation, the exhibition features 50 prints and photographs that are both original works of art and repetitions of drawings, prints,...
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