(LENOX, Mass.) — Berkshire Grown’s annual Harvest Supper celebrating local food and farms takes place Monday, September 19, at 6:30-8:30 pm at Eastover Hotel and Resort in Lenox. The Farm to Table feast features dishes prepared by Berkshire Grown member chefs using fresh ingredients from local farms. Food will be paired with samplings from regional…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center will open its doors to the community for a free screening of the New York Philharmonic performing Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, led by Music Director Alan Gilbert, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of 9/11. The “Concert for New York,” taped the previous night…
(NEW MARLBOROUGH, Mass.) – Hilary Gardner and the West 73rd Quartet will pay tribute to legendary composer Kurt Weill from a jazz perspective, incorporating those musical and theatrical influences that have made his music compelling to listeners from all walks of life, with a concert at the historic Meeting House on the Village Green in…
by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass., May 9, 2002) — Simon and Garfunkel. Loggins and Messina. Eurythmics. Hall and Oates. The pop-rock landscape is littered with the scattered remains of duos that rarely lasted a decade, much less the 20 years together that John Flansburgh and John Linnell are celebrating this year. [Editor’s note: This…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) — Grace Kelly, Phil Woods, Armen Donelian, Gregory Caputo, and the Berkshires Jazz Youth Ensemble will be among the performers at the 2011 Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, October 7-20. Now in its seventh year, the festival comprises some two dozen concerts and events throughout downtown Pittsfield. In addition to headline concerts on Oct. 14-15,…
(NEW MARLBOROUGH, Mass.) – Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday will be celebrated in words, music, and pictures with a talk and performance by Dylan author Seth Rogovoy and an exhibition of rarely seen photographs by Ken Regan, one of very few photographers given behind-the-scenes access to Dylan since 1966, as part of the Music & More…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – A new documentary film exposing how misguided government policy favors industrial agriculture at the expense of small family farms will screen at the Beacon Cinema in Pittsfield on Thursday, September 22, 2011, at 7pm. Tickets are only $5. The special screening of Farmageddon: The Unseen War on American Family Farms, is presented…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – A public reception for Flight, a new exhibition of photographs capturing birds in flight over the Atlantic Ocean by Cassandra Sohn, takes place on Saturday, Sept 10, from 4 to 7, at the Sohn Fine Art Gallery, where the work will remain on view through October 10, 2011. There will be a…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Yoga for Beginners, Meditation, Kundalini Yoga, QiGong, and afternoon Ashtanga Mysore are just some of the new classes being offered at Sruti Yoga Center this fall, beginning in September 2011. “It was always my wish to have Sruti serve the community with a variety of entry points and avenues to deepen…
(CHATHAM, N.Y.) – New York City-based Parsons Dance – noted for its uplifting, athletic, engaging contemporary style that often commissions new scores by contemporary composers, including Dave Matthews, Steely Dan, Juan Garcia Esquival, Michael Gordon of Bang on a Can, John Corigliano, and Phil Woods, as well as such standbys as Bach, Schubert, and Rossini…
