Tag Archive for Pittsfield

Downtown Studios and Gallery Open Doors to Public

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – After significant updating to the sprawling gallery and artist studios, the NUarts Studios and Gallery will be reopening its doors on Saturday, May 23, 2015, at 4-7pm. New works by the artists will be on display in the gallery, and many of them will open their studios for this first event of…

Boston Folk-Rock Collective Kicks Off Barrington Stage Cabaret

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Boston-based folk-rock collective Session Americana kicks off the 2015 Mr. Finn’s Cabaret season at Barrington Stage Company (BSC) on Sunday, May 17, and Monday, May 18, at 8pm. A kind of all-star supergroup of Boston-based roots-music talent, the core of the band includes singer-songwriter Ry Cavanaugh, drummer Billy Beard (Patty Griffin), multi-instrumentalist…

‘The Kingston Trio’ to Play the Colonial

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The three musicians currently performing as the Kingston Trio take the stage at the Colonial Theatre on Friday, May 15, 2015, at 7pm. Placing value on entertainment more than on folk authenticity or politics, the original Kingston Trio helped to popularize and commercial folk music during the original folk revival of the…

(Concert Review) BoDeans, Colonial Theater, Pittsfield, Mass., 4.16.15

BoDeans Colonial Theater Pittsfield, Mass. Thursday, April 16, 2015 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Time and trends may have finally come around for the BoDeans, who have played an Americana-tinged style of heartland rock since forming in Wisconsin in 1983, during the reign of new-wave, dance-rock and hair-metal, and years before…

Photographer Sally Eagle Shares Recent Images of Cuba at Berkshire Museum

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Photographer Sally Eagle presents “Cuba at the Turning Point,” an illustrated talk on her recent trip to the Caribbean island much in the enws of late, at Berkshire Museum on Saturday, April 18, 2015, at 10:30 am. Eagle spent three weeks traveling around Cuba in December 2014, photographing the everyday lives of…

Jim Schantz Landscapes Featured at Berkshire Museum

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Luminous, vibrant landscapes by Berkshire-based artist Jim Schantz are on view at Berkshire Museum now through Sunday, May 10, 2015, the first exhibition in a new series to be mounted in the Museum’s Crane Room. Titled “Into the Light,” the exhibition is curated by Maria Mingalone, the museum’s director of interpretation. An…

Artists to Discuss ‘Abstraction’ at the Whitney Arts Center

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Artists Richard Britell, Julio Granda, and Geoffrey Moss will take place in the first of a projected series of Artists Discussions at the Whitney Center for the Arts on Saturday, March 28, 2015, at 5pm. The discussion topic will be “Abstraction,” and admission is free. Britell, Granda, and Moss have long, successful…

Pianist to Offer ‘Ten Decades of Jazz Piano’ at Baba Louie’s

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – New York City-based pianist Bill Mays will offer a program called “Ten Decades of Jazz Piano” as part of the Pittsfield 10×10 Upstreet Arts Festival on Saturday, February 21, 2015, at 8pm, at Baba Louie’s Backroom. The program, a presentation of Berkshires Jazz, takes familiar works by 10 different composers – one…