(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – If, as they say, it’s true that the Velvet Underground only sold 1,000 albums in its time, but everyone who bought one formed a rock band, then the same can probably be said for country-rock legend Gram Parsons, who is much more talked about than he was ever heard. Parsons is…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Vinisha’s Garden, a four-month course in transformative and healing arts for women, will be offered at Sruti Yoga Center beginning on September 10, 2011. Led by Amy Webb, owner/founder of Sruti, Vinisha’s Garden meets every other Saturday for 3 hours with make-up sessions on Fridays, and is for all ages and…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Brad Mehldau, widely regarded as the most innovative and virtuosic jazz pianist of his generation, performs solo at Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall on Thursday, August 25, at 8 p.m. Mehldau, who turned 41 on Tuesday this week and who grew up in nearby West Hartford, Conn., is considered one of the rare jazz…
(LENOX, Mass.) – The Boston Symphony Orchestra begins its final weekend of the 2011 Tanglewood season Friday, August 26, with its first-ever performance of George Gershwin’s great American masterpiece, the blues-and-jazz-inflected Porgy and Bess, which examines African-American life in the South during the 1920s. The great Itzhak Perlman joins the orchestra on Saturday, August 27,…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Berkshire Playwrights Lab will present a staged reading of Anna Ziegler’s An Incident, directed by Bob Jaffe on Wednesday, August 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. A family drama, An Incident follows the Nadelmans from New York City to Maine, as parents Philip and Lillian visit Joey,…
(NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – A community of visual and performance artists, as well as poets, philosophers, and thinkers of all kinds will gather for the Vanishing Art Festival at the Abode of the Message from Wednesday, August 24 to Sunday, August 28, 2011, to consider what life could look like if we return to the…
(CHATHAM, N.Y.) – To Fuel The Fire, a large-scale mask and puppet theatre production by Arm-of-the-Sea Theater about the ecological costs of acquiring and delivering energy, will take place at PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century on Saturday, August 27, at 3 and 7. Created after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, this…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – Richard P. Brown, Patricia Gerbarg, and Yoga of the Mind founder Heather Mason will teach “Breath~Body~Mind: Training for Trauma,” at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health from Sunday, August 28 through Friday, September 2, 2011. This 6-day intensive will enable yoga teachers, yoga therapists, health care providers, and disaster relief workers to…
(CUMMINGTON, Mass.) – Jazz greats Charles Neville and Avery Sharpe will headline a musical fundraiser for the Old Creamery Cooperative on Friday, August 26 at 7 p.m. in the Plainfield Congregational Church. Local gypsy-jazz band Swing Caravan will open. The Old Creamery in Cummington, the general store and cultural and social center for the central…
(FALLS VILLAGE, Conn.) – The Torah of music and the music of Torah is the theme of “Kula Shira: Music as Spiritual Practice,” a week-long Jewish music festival and workshop at Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center from Monday, August 29 to Monday, September 5. Over the course of the week, attendees will enjoy performances by…
