A selective, curatorial view of the cultural highlights of the upcoming weekend in the greater Berkshire region.
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Hudson’s own Dust Bowl Faeries, a gothic chamber-folk outfit led by interdisciplinary artist Ryder Cooley, celebrates the release of its eponymous debut album at Club Helsinki Hudson on Sunday, March 6, at 8pm. The band will be joined by a handful of guest musicians who appear on the album, which will be…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – An innovative exhibition of the work of Berkshire architect Stephen Dietemann, along with that of three photographers who have documented his work, goes on view in the BerkshireNow gallery space at the Berkshire Museum on Saturday, March 5, and will remain on display through Sunday, May 22, 2016. There will be a…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – “What’s Next?,” an exhibition of artwork by Karen Moss, opens at MCLA Gallery 51 on Thursday, March 3, with a free, opening reception from 5 to 7pm. The show, on display through April 24, showcases Moss’s most recent work, which appropriates materials and imagery from everyday life. Moss created the…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the 2007 National Book Award for poetry, will give a reading of his work at Williams College on Monday, March 7, at 7pm, in the ’62 Center’s Adams Memorial Theater. This event is free and open to the public.…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) — Renowned flutist Diva Goodfriend-Koven will perform works by Haydn, Farrenc, Martinu, and Messiaen with faculty members Anne Legêne on cello and Larry Wallach on piano at Simon’s Rock College on Sunday, March 6, at 3pm, in the Kellogg Music Center, as part of the Faculty Recital Series. Admission is free and…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) — Alloy Orchestra mastermind Ken Winokur brings his new film and live music project Psychedelic Cinema, which revitalizes cult filmmaker Ken Brown’s Super 8 films from the late 1960s (once used as light shows for Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, and Sly Stone), to Club B10 at MASS MoCA on Saturday, March…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Boston-based twang-rocker Sarah Borges launches her new album, “Good and Dirty,” at Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, February 26, at 9pm. Borges brings a full band with her – including producer Eric “Roscoe” Ambel – to introduce her audience to her new music as well as old favorites. Borges mines early rock…
A highly selective preview of cultural events taking place this weekend in the greater Berkshires region, including a new music-theater production at MASS MoCA by an avant-garde all-star team; Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Marc Cohn at the Colonial in Pittsfield; acclaimed contemporary violist Nadia Sirota at Williams; the final weekend of Barrington Stage’s 10X10 New Play…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Acclaimed contemporary violist Nadia Sirota – one of my favorite new-music instrumentalists – will give a solo recital interspersed with an interpretive and narrative talk on her collaborations with contemporary composers and the creation of her hit radio show “Meet the Composer” at Williams College on Thursday, February 25, at 5pm in…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – “Aging Magician,” a multimedia music-theater collaboration among theater-maker Rinde Eckert, composer Paola Prestini, director Julian Crouch, and instrument-maker Mark Stewart, gets a work-in-progress showing in the Hunter Center at MASS MoCA on Sunday, February 28, at 2pm. Produced by Beth Morrison, whom audiences will remember from October 2014’s arresting music-theater production,…
