A selective, curatorial view of the cultural highlights of the upcoming weekend in the greater Berkshire region.
(KINGSTON, N.Y.) – Heartland rocker Melissa Etheridge sheds the trappings of her full complement of musicians to perform as solo show at the Bardavon on Sunday, June 14 at 7pm, as part of her “Melissa Etheridge: This is M.E Solo” tour. When I first saw Etheridge perform solo in a small concert hall in…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – The night after the newly formed Charlie Hunter Trio debuts its new album, “Let the Bells Ring On,” at Joe’s Pub in Manhattan, Hunter brings his new lineup and music to Club Helsinki Hudson, the new home base for the trio’s drummer, music visionary Bobby Previte, on Thursday, June 11, at 8pm,…
‘MISS AMERICANA’ NATALIA ZUKERMAN to PLAY MASS MOCA (NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) — Singer-songwriter Natalia Zukerman, the slide, lap steel, guitar and dobro wizard who is a scion of an American musical dynasty, brings her folk, jazz, country and blues-inflected songs to the Dré Wapenaar Pavilion at MASS MoCA on Saturday, June 6, at 8pm. Zukerman…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – An exhibition of sculpture by Berkshire native Luke Egan will open at Shire City Sanctuary with a Meet the Artist event on Friday, June 5, 2015, from 5 to 7pm. Egan currently lives in Northampton and works in his studio in Easthampton. His work is focused primarily on the notion of legacy,…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – An exhibition of new and recent paintings by Pittsfield artist Joan Palano Ciolfi will be on view at the new BerkshireNow gallery space at the Berkshire Museum from Friday, June 5 through August 30, 2015. Ciolfi’s paintings are expressive oils infused with energy and texture. Her work is vibrant and atmospheric and…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – The work of New Yorker cartoonist and award-winning graphic memoirist Roz Chast is featured in “Roz Chast: Cartoon Memoirs,” a new exhibition on view at Norman Rockwell Museum from Saturday, June 6, 2015, through October 26, 2015. From her timelessly funny cartoons for the New Yorker and lively children’s picture books,…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) — Singer-songwriter Natalia Zukerman, the slide, lap steel, guitar and dobro wizard who is a scion of an American musical dynasty, brings her folk, jazz, country and blues-inflected songs to the Dré Wapenaar Pavilion at MASS MoCA on Saturday, June 6, 2015, at 8pm. Zukerman combines the pop songcraft of Shawn…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – The Late Regulars, a new jazz trio featuring three of the Hudson area’s finest instrumental and improvisational talents, will perform their mix of original compositions and renditions by great jazz composers of the 1960s and ‘70s at Club Helsinki Hudson on Monday, June 8, at 8pm. Drummer Otto Hauser, bassist Terence Murren,…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Four-time Grammy Award-nominee Femi Kuti, son of the late Fela Anikulapo Kuti, whose name was nearly synonymous with “Afrobeat,” will carry on his father’s legacy, combining swirling African rhythms and gritty textures with horn-laced funk in songs laced with social and political messages performed by his band, Positive Force, at Club Helsinki…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Singer-songwriter Martin Sexton, a longtime favorite of Club Helsinki audiences, returns to Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, June 5, at 9pm, to perform his singular blend of folk, soul, jazz, gospel, and pop. His live performances are the stuff of legend, and as a festival headliner and solo performer he easily commands…
