FOLK-ROCK ROYALTY BEN TAYLOR COMING to HELSINKI HUDSON
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Fresh from a tour of Northern Europe and the United Kingdom, folk-rock singer-songwriter Ben Taylor will perform at Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, April 18, at 9pm. Taylor, a longtime favorite of Helsinki audiences dating back to the club’s origins in Great Barrington, Mass., is touring with a new batch of songs, slated for a new album tentatively titled Clouds In The Dirt and due to be released in May 2014. Taylor released his last studio album, Listening, in late 2012. The fabulous Woodstock singer-songwriter Simi Stone will warm up the crowd for Taylor with a solo acoustic set of her patented “Mountain Motown” music.
Pedja Muzijevic
PIANIST PEDJA MUZIJEVIC to PERFORM WORKS by HAYDN, LISZT, CHOPIN and CAGE at WILLIAMS
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Pianist Pedja Muzijevic will perform works by Haydn, Liszt, Chopin and John Cage in Brooks Rogers Recital Hall on the Williams College campus on Friday, April 18, at 8pm. Muzijevic also presides over a master class with Williams College music students on Thursday, April 17, at 4:15pm in Brooks Rogers Recital Hall. Both events are free and open to the public. For the concert on Friday, Muzijevic’s performance spans three centuries of music for piano. He begins with Haydn’s Sonata in C major, John Cage’s “The Seasons,” two works by Franz Liszt: “Schlaflos! Frage und Antwort” and “Bagatelle sans tonalite,” and Wagner-Liszt “Isolde’s Liebestod.” After a brief intermission, Muzijevic will conclude with 24 Preludes, op. 28 by Frederic Chopin.
INDIE-ROCKERS SPOTTISWOODE & HIS ENEMIES to CELEBRATE NEW ‘ANGLICANA’ RELEASE at HELSINKI HUDSON
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – New York City-based indie-rock group Spottiswoode & His Enemies, led by Englishman Jonathan Spottiswoode, will celebrate the release of its brand-new recording, English Dream, at Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, April 19, at 9pm. With his deep, gravelly voice, his quirky, acerbic songwriting, and his eclectic musical palette, Spottiswoode should appeal to fans of Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, the National, Ray Davies, Randy Newman and Nick Cave.
PLAN AHEAD….
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – On the heels of the release of their internationally acclaimed EP “Lost in the Internet,” Berkshire-based dubstep duo Barely Alive will headline Rock the Block 2.0, taking place on Main Street in downtown North Adams on Sunday, May 4, 2014, from 2 to 8pm, with Barely Alive expected to take the stage at 6pm. The block party will also include performances by Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) student clubs such as the Allegrettos, Nexus, Dance Company and local bands including Rebel Alliance and T-Bone Daddy. There will be flash mobs, carnival activities, zumba, poetry lessons, musical chairs, local restaurants, community organizations, and much more.
ALTERNATIVE ROCK SUPERSTAR BECK to PERFORM at MASS MoCA
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Beck, one of the most critically acclaimed and influential creative forces in alternative rock over the past 20 years, will perform at MASS MoCA on Tuesday, June 24, 2014, at 8pm. The concert comes on the heels of the release of “Morning Phase,” a career-topping album that harkens to the heyday of 1970s California folk-rock and orchestral rock, an album awash in beautiful textures and sounds, and an album that has already been likened in impact and significance to Bob Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks.”