(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Minnesota-based string band Saint Anyway brings its unique “stomp-grass” sound to Castle Street Café on Saturday, October 5, 2013, at 7:30pm. Hailing from Duluth, Minn., the birthplace of Bob Dylan, Saint Anyway plays a hard-driving, hard-picking North Country bluegrass-inflected original roots music it calls “stomp-grass” that should appeal to fans of…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – A night of original jazz compositions featuring composer-musicians who ordinarily play top jazz clubs and concert stages around the world takes place on Saturday, October 13, at 8pm, in the Celestial Bar at Castle Street Cafe, when Larry Chernicoff’s Beauty and the Beat Band performs, featuring a reunion of the Tokarz…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – On Saturday, June 2, 2012, Great Barrington native Galen Clark returns home with his Portland, Oregon-based electronic jazz group, Trio Subtonic, to Castle Street Café, as part of an East coast tour celebrating the release of their third recording, I’ll Meet You There Tomorrow. Trio Subtonic evolved from a long-time collaboration…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Pianist Armen Donelian leads his trio in performance at Castle Street Cafe on Saturday, December 10, 2011, at 7:30 pm. Accompanying Donelian, who has performed and recorded since 1975 as a featured solo pianist, leader of his own quintet and trio, and with jazz legends including Sonny Rollins, Chet Baker, Paquito…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The Castle Street Café’s former neighbor, the Berkshire Community Action Council (BCAC), which used to operate a food pantry and fuel assistance office, shut its doors recently, just when fuel assistance budgets have been decimated and as the price of home heating oil has doubled. The restaurant is stepping in to…
(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…
