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Kinks Cofounder Dave Davies to Play the Colonial

CONCERT POSTPONED DUE TO SNOWSTORM. STAY TUNED FOR MAKEUP DATE….   (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Guitarist Dave Davies, who with his brother, Ray Davies, cofounded the incredibly influential English rock group the Kinks, will perform at the Colonial Theatre on Wednesday, November 26, 2014, at 7:30pm. While Ray Davies was the group’s primary singer and songwriter,…

Country-Rockers Pure Prairie League to Play the Colonial

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The current touring lineup of country-rock outfit Pure Prairie League will bring its peaceful, easy feeling to the Colonial on Saturday, November 15, 2014, at 8pm. Best known for the band’s 1973 hit, “Amie,” the group personified the soft-rock sound of the early 1970s. Pure Prairie League’s eponymous first album used a…

Jay Messer Quintet to Play Baba Louie’s Backroom

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The Jay Messer Quintet will bring its jazz stylings to Baba Louie’s Backroom on Friday, December 6, 2013, at 8pm, in a concert produced by Berkshires Jazz in conjunction with downtown Pittsfield’s First Fridays Artswalks, in which two dozen venues will be featuring paintings and other hanging art from local and regional…

Mary Verdi Sings Xmas Songs at the Colonial

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Mary Verdi brings her “Christmas at The Colonial” program, featuring special guests Bobby Sweet and Ron Ramsey, to the Colonial Theatre on Saturday, November 30, 2013, at 7pm and Sunday, December 1, at 2pm.  The family-oriented program includes a sing-along of old favorites, dancing, a children’s choir, a bell choir, and a…

Rock Legend Dave Mason to Play the Colonial

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Legendary rocker Dave Mason, a founding member of the English rock group Traffic, will perform at the Colonial on Wednesday, October 9, 2013, at 7:30pm. Mason is best known for writing and recording “Feelin’ Alright” with Traffic (later made into a hit by Joe Cocker) and for his 1977 soft-rock hit single,…

New Play About Guys in a Barbershop to Be Staged in a Barbershop

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Kaufman’s Barber Shop, about a group of first-generation American-Jewish businessmen and professionals in upstate New York who meet regularly to have their hair cut and to socialize away from a society that accepts them only marginally, gets its world premiere in an innovative production by Shakespeare & Company staged on location at…

Hemingway and Fitzgerald Face Off in New Play at Barrington Stage

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.)  – Scott and Hem in the Garden of Allah, a new play about the friendship and rivalry between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, premieres at Barrington Stage Company (BSC) from Thursday, August 15, 2013, through Sunday, September 29, 2013, on the St. Germain Stage at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts…