A selective, curatorial view of the cultural highlights of the upcoming weekend in the greater Berkshire region.
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen return to Club Helsinki Hudson to help ring out the old and ring in the new New Orleans-style on New Year’s Eve, Thursday, December 31, at 9pm. Cleary has been a mainstay on the New Orleans R&B scene for over 35 years. As a singer,…
JOHN PIZZARELLI BRINGS FRANK SINATRA CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION to MAHAIWE (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Pop-jazz guitarist and vocalist John Pizzarelli celebrates the centennial of Frank Sinatra’s birthday at the Mahaiwe on Saturday, December 19, at 8pm, with “Swing 7 Frank Sinatra Centennial Celebration.” Using greats like Ellington, Cole and Sinatra and the songs of writers such…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The 10th annual Berkshire Theatre Group community production of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol,” presented for the fifth time at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield and including 30 talented young Berkshire county actors, many of whom are returning to the Colonial Theatre, and some who are performing for the first time, runs…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Moroccan-dosed dub-jazz collective Club D’Elf, featuring superstar keyboardist John Medeski of Medeski Martin and Wood fame, returns to Club Helsinki Hudson with its funky world-trance grooves on Sunday, December 20, at 8pm. The brainchild of Boston bassist/composer Mike Rivard (Morphine, Either Orchestra, Guster, Boston Pops), Club d’Elf is a constellation of top…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Ohio-raised, Brooklyn-based band the National will perform its only 2016 headlining show in the Northeast United States at MASS MoCA on Saturday, June 11, at 8pm, in Joe’s Field – the main concert site for the biannual Solid Sound Festival curated by Wilco, which is taking this year off. In 2016,…
(AMHERST, Mass.) – The world-renowned Klezmatics will headline the fifth annual Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music, at the Yiddish Book Center July 14-17, 2016. The lineup for the four-day festival also includes the original klezmer revival outfit Klezmer Conservatory Band, led by Hankus Netsky and featuring guest vocalists Eleanor Reissa and Lorin Sklamberg…
HUSBAND-AND-WIFE PIANO DUO PERFORM HOLIDAY-THEMED RECITAL at MAHAIWE (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Husband-and-wife piano duo Soyeon Kate Lee and Ran Dank will perform a holiday-themed concert at the Mahaiwe on Saturday, December 12, at 6pm, as part of the Close Encounters With Music chamber music series. Works on the two- and four-handed program include Beethoven’s…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – “Nari,” a multimedia performance piece based on the story of the women of the famed Indian musical family of Ravi Shankar, who with George Harrison of the Beatles helped bring Indian music to the West in the 1970s, will get a work-in-progress showing in the Hunter Center at MASS MoCA on…
(LENOX, Mass.) – A special holiday-themed edition of New York City-based storytelling troupe The Liar Show will hold court in the Drawing Room at The Mount on Saturday, December 12, at 7 pm. Seasoned storytellers Andy Christie, Tara Clancy, Martin Dockery, and Andy Ross will share personal stories about the trials and tribulations of the…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Author Pankaj Challa will read from his work at The Mount on Sunday, December 13, at 3pm. Challa has been working on a novel and a collection of short stories at The Mount as this fall’s Stone Court Writer-in-Residence. Challa’s new work is based on his dissertation, called “The Happiness of Wandering…
