(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) — Jon Hamm of “Mad Men” fame makes his North Adams debut in a work-in-progress performance at MASS MoCA on Saturday, December 8, in collaboration with Wilco’s Glenn Kotche and choreographer Danielle Agami. The piece, tentatively titled “Fishing,” is described as “a ravishing piece of multidisciplinary performance that explores the beautiful, simple…
(TIVOLI, N.Y.) – Author and music journalist Seth Rogovoy will join fellow Hudson Valley/Catskills rockers/authors Tony Fletcher, Holly George-Warren, and Robert Burke Warren in “Writers Who Rock: A Panel Discussion,” moderated by rocking writer Peter Aaron, at the Tivoli Free Library on Friday, August 3, at 6pm. A Q&A session will follow the talk. Peter Aaron is the…
(AMHERST, Mass.) – YIDSTOCK: The Festival of New Yiddish Music is emphasizing the “new” in its title this year with a lineup comprised almost entirely of performers new to Yidstock audiences, including David Krakauer, one of the world’s great klezmer clarinetists and bandleaders, and Beyond the Pale, Canada’s premiere Jewish-roots music outfit. Also making their Yidstock…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Seth Rogovoy will be one of eight career journalists and educators who will explore “The Future of Local Journalism” in a panel discussion at Columbia-Greene Community College on Tuesday, March 20, at 7pm. Other panelists include David Scribner of the Berkshire Edge; Jimmy Buff of Radio Kingston; and Enid Futterman of imby.…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – The world-renowned Merlin and Polina Shepherd Klezmer Duo brings its innovative blend of world music, jazz, classical, Islamic, Russian, Yiddish, and klezmer sounds to Club Helsinki Hudson on Sunday, April 8, at 7pm, as part of the Rogovoy Salon, the music and literary series curated and hosted by cultural journalist and music critic Seth…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Renowned landscape painter Stephen Hannock will take part in Colloquium 2018: Making Art, Making Artists: Mentoring from Cole and Church to Today in the Arts Center Theatre at Columbia-Greene Community College (C-GCC) on Thursday, March 1, at 7pm. The discussion will be moderated by Yura Adams, an artist and art educator currently…
(LENOX, Mass.) – David Crosby and Mary Chapin Carpenter, along with Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen, are the latest popular artists to be added to Tanglewood’s 2018 summer season, performing in the Shed on Saturday, June 16, at 7pm. Additionally, legendary Americana artists Emmylou Harris and Ry Cooder will perform in the Shed on Sunday, July…
According to a press release issued today by the Berkshire Museum, the Museum and the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office today filed a joint request with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court seeking court approval for the Museum to take necessary steps to ensure its financial future. The agreement would authorize the museum to sell works of…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Classic rockers Roger Daltrey, Steve Miller, and Peter Frampton have been added to Tanglewood’s summer lineup of popular artists, which already includes Stephen Stills and Judy Collins (6/17), Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (6/29), James Taylor (7/3 & 4), and Steve Martin and Martin Short (9/2). Following in the wake of his…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Jamaican-born funk-poet Everton Sylvester and Searching for Banjo bring their unique blend of spoken word and deep reggae grooves to Club Helsinki Hudson on Sunday, December 3, at 7pm, as part of the monthly “Rogovoy Salon” music, literary, and art series curated and hosted by cultural journalist Seth Rogovoy. Sylvester’s song-poems recount…
