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April 30/30 Poetry Challenge: Nobody Will Listen

Nobody Will Listen by Seth Rogovoy Go ahead and say it. Say what’s on your mind. It don’t matter. Nobody will listen. And if they do. They will probably just say “Shut up.” Which is the best that you can hope for. Because it means They hear you. Written for the WordXWord April 30/30 Poetry…

Filmmaker Remembered Fondly

(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass., March 4, 2012) – Sanjiban Sellew was remembered fondly at a celebration of his life and work this afternoon at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, where a crowd seemingly well in excess of 500 flocked to pay tribute to the late filmmaker, master cabinet maker and woodworker, and all-around eccentric, as well as…

Theo Bleckmann Reinterprets Kate Bush on ‘Hello Earth!’

After tackling American maverick composer Charles Ives and receiving a Grammy Award nomination for it, vocalist Theo Bleckmann now takes on the mysterious songbook of British pop recluse Kate Bush. Beyond merely re-creating Kate Bush’s music, Hello Earth! The Music of Kate Bush (Winter & Winter) takes it into other realms of sound and interpretation.…

Art Tour and Reception at Cranwell Resort

(LENOX, Mass.) – Cranwell Resort, Spa and Golf Club will host an art tour and reception on Saturday, January 28, 2012, from 4 to 6 p.m, featuring works by photographers and ceramicists represented by Sohn Fine Art Gallery in Stockbridge, as well as by Marilyn Kalish, artist and owner of Vault Gallery in Great Barrington,…

Superstar Roots-Music Duo Blends Punk Spirit and Bluegrass at Club Helsinki

(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile, from the Punch Brothers, and Nickel Creek guitarist Michael Daves perform a concert of bluegrass standards played with punk-rock abandon at Club Helsinki Hudson on Wednesday, January 11, 2012, at 8 p.m. Last year, the vocal-instrumental duo released Sleep with One Eye Open, an impassioned collaboration and conversation…

It’s Not the Cellphones – It’s the Driving, Stupid

by Seth Rogovoy The first time my father took me out in a car to teach me to drive, he told me always to think of the car as a “loaded weapon.” It was a rare flourish of metaphorical fancy utterly uncharacteristic of him, which is mostly why I remember it to this very day.…

(Concert Review) Lyle Lovett at the Mahaiwe

Lyle Lovett at the Mahaiwe (photo Seth Rogovoy) MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Lyle Lovett and his Acoustic Group Saturday, December 17, 2011 Review by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – There are still a few performers out there who work hard for their money, who equally value craftsmanship and entertainment, who continue to challenge themselves…

Celtic Holiday Concert at The Clark with Barra MacNeils

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – The Barra MacNeils kick off the annual Williamstown Holiday Walk Weekend with a concert at The Clark on Friday, December 2, 2011, at 8 pm. The Cape Breton-based family group will be performing original songs as well as vocal and instrumental standards. Hailing from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, the award-winning family…

The Other Basement Tapes: The Rolling Stones’s Exile on Main Street

by Seth Rogovoy Since its release thirty-eight years ago, the Rolling Stones’s double album, Exile on Main Street, has widely been regarded as the British rock ’n’ roll band’s greatest achievement and one of the greatest — if not the greatest — rock albums of all time. Rolling Stone magazine recently called it “certainly rock…