Bob Dylan Center and Universal Music Announce Inaugural Bob Dylan Center Songwriter Fellowship

Yidstock Festival to Present the Klezmatics, David Krakauer, Eleanor Reissa and Socalled Alongside Rising Stars of Klezmer

The Rogovoy Report Finds a New Home on Substack

Berkshire and Hudson Valley Regional Cultural Preview (Nov 18-20, 2022)

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Bob Dylan Center and Universal Music Announce Inaugural Bob Dylan Center Songwriter Fellowship

Created to develop rising talent, Fellowship recipients will be selected by a world-class panel of songwriters: Juliette Armanet, Patty Griffin, John Mellencamp, Carla Morrison and Nas (TULSA, Okla.) — The Bob Dylan Center [BDC] and Universal Music Publishing Group [UMPG], the world’s leading music publishing company, have joined forces to launch the Bob Dylan Center…

Yidstock Festival to Present the Klezmatics, David Krakauer, Eleanor Reissa and Socalled Alongside Rising Stars of Klezmer

(AMHERST, Mass.) – The Klezmatics, Frank London and the Yidstock All-Stars, and David Krakauer’s Mazel Tov Cocktail Party headline the 11th annual YIDSTOCK: The Festival of New Yiddish Music, taking place at the Yiddish Book Center over the course of four days, Thursday, July 13-Sunday, July 16, 2023. YIDSTOCK artistic director Seth Rogovoy curated this…

The Rogovoy Report Finds a New Home on Substack

(HUDSON, N.Y.) – The Rogovoy Report, the long-running weekly email digest linking to news, features, and the arts, has found a new home on Substack. It is now available as a Substack column delivered free to subscriber inboxes as well as being available for viewing in a web browser at https://rogovoyreport.substack.com, where it will be…

Berkshire and Hudson Valley Regional Cultural Preview (Nov 4-6, 2022)

With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend …     DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND and SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS at MAHAIWE Tonight at 8pm at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington, Mass., the Dirty Dozen Brass Band…

Berkshire and Hudson Valley Regional Cultural Preview (Oct 21-27, 2022)

With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend …   TRIBE DEBUTS ‘Touch of RED’ at MASS MoCA The visionary arts collective TRIBE—led by artistic director and choreographer Shamel Pitts—debuts its new program, Touch of RED,…

Berkshire and Hudson Valley Regional Cultural Preview (Oct 14-20, 2022)

With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend …     PALMER TRIO JOINS CANTILENA CHOIR for DANCE-RELATED PROGRAM Music at Trinity and the Cantilena Chamber Choir present Music for the Dance, a program combining choral…

Berkshire and Hudson Valley Regional Cultural Preview (Sep 30-Oct 2, 2022)

With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend … COCEK! BRASS BAND BRINGS HORNS to LION’S DEN The Cocek! Brass Band brings its eclectic, edgy mix of horn-based ethnic music, drawing from New Orleans, the Balkans,…

Berkshire and Hudson Valley Regional Cultural Preview (Sept 16-22, 2022)

  With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend …   PATRICK WATSON in SHEFFIELD, Mass., and WOODSTOCK, N.Y. Montreal-based singer-songwriter Patrick Watson bookends our region with two shows this weekend, playing Race Brook Lodge in…

Berkshire and Hudson Valley Regional Cultural Preview (Sept 9-14, 2022)

With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend …   THE ORCHESTRA NOW PLAYS MAHLER’S FIFTH The Orchestra Now kicks off its eighth season with Mahler’s heroic Fifth Symphony plus George Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Lilacs and…

Berkshire and Hudson Valley Regional Cultural Preview (Sept 2-4, 2022)

With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend …   PS21 BRINGS CURTAIN DOWN ON SUMMER PS21 Performance Spaces for the 21st Century in Chatham, N.Y., brings the curtain down on its summer season with a…

Berkshire and Hudson Valley Regional Cultural Preview (Aug 26-31, 2022)

With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend … TERENCE BLANCHARD BRINGS JAZZ to MASS MoCA Jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard stops by MASS MoCA with his Grammy Award-nominated quintet The E-Collective, joined by the…

Berkshire and Hudson Valley Regional Cultural Preview (August 19-25 2022)

With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend … CIARRA FRAGALE at THE CLARK Indie pop artist Ciarra Fragale, formerly of the Hudson Valley and currently based in North Adams, Mass., performs on the outdoor terrace…

Berkshire Opera Festival Brings ‘Don Giovanni’ to Mahaiwe

(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Berkshire Opera Festival’s 2022 season culminates with a new staging of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s comedy-tragedy masterpiece Don Giovanni by BOF co-founder Jonathon Loy at the Mahaiwe on Saturday, August 20, at 1pm; Tuesday, August 23, at 7:30pm; and Friday, August 26, at 7:30pm. BOF artistic director and co-founder Brian Garman conducts…