A selective, curatorial view of the cultural highlights of the upcoming weekend in the greater Berkshire region.
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Hunger will be on the plate, as well as a free community dinner, a film screening, and a panel discussion, when the Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF) and Monument Mountain Regional High School join forces to present an evening focusing on the plague of hunger on Thursday, March 13, 2014, at…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – The Jimmy Greene Quartet, led by saxophonist, composer, and educator Jimmy Greene, will perform at Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall on the Williams College campus on Saturday, March 15, 2014, at 8 p.m. In a concert featuring many of Greene’s own compositions, he will be joined by pianist Xavier Davis, bassist Dezron Douglas, and…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – The Berkshire Symphony will perform works by Keith Fitch, Bernard Rands, and Ludwig van Beethoven in Chapin Hall on the Williams College campus on Friday, March 14, 2014, at 8 p.m. There is a pre-concert talk with guest conductor Michael Adelson before the concert at 7:15 p.m. in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, adjacent…
(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 8:30pm. The concert comes on the heels of the release of “Morning Phase,” a career-topping album that harkens to the heyday…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Legendary blues singer-guitarist Buddy Guy (Friday, July 11), Broadway musical star Bernadette Peters (Sunday, October 12), folk-rock singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant (Saturday, July 5), and modern jazz artists Joshua Redman and The Bad Plus (Friday, August 8), will perform at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in upcoming months. The Bernadette Peters program…
(AMHERST, Mass.) – Shane Baker, the king of contemporary Yiddish vaudeville, joins forces with contemporary Yiddish theater stars Yelena Shmulenson and Allen Lewis Rickman to present Purim Shmurim, a modern-day megillah, mixing music, magic, and mummery – the tale of Esther told through favorite folk and theater tunes, classic comedy sketches, snippets of historical Purim…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Sonic Youth cofounder Kim Gordon brings her newest musical project, Body/Head — a Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd-inspired improvisational duo – to the Hunter Center at MASS MoCA on Saturday, March 15, 2014, at 8pm. Joining Gordon will be Northampton-based free-noise guitarist Bill Nace. Kim Gordon rose to prominence as co-founder, bassist,…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Nationally acclaimed comedienne Loni Love brings her stand-up tour to the Colonial Theatre on March 7, 2014, at 8pm. Love is co-host of the new daytime talk show “The Real,” a guest DJ for “The Ellen Show,” a regular panelist on E!’s “Chelsea Lately,” co-host of “CafeMocha Radio Show,” and author of…
NEW MASS MoCA INSTALLATION REIMAGINES WHISTLER’S ‘PEACOCK ROOM’ (NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – In his first major museum exhibition on the East Coast, painter Darren Waterston‘s installation Filthy Lucre – the centerpiece of his exhibition Uncertain Beauty – reimagines James McNeill Whistler’s decorative masterpiece Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (1876-77). The exhibition, for…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – One of Afropop’s living legends, Oliver Mtukudzi, bring his fusion of traditional Zimbabwean music and African funk along with his band, the Black Spirits, to Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, March 7, 2014, at 9pm. Mtukudzi is so renowned in his native land and throughout Southern Africa that his nickname, “Tuku,” has…
