A selective, curatorial view of the cultural highlights of the upcoming weekend in the greater Berkshire region.
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Massachusetts-based indie-folk quartet Darlingside brings its singular four-part harmonies and classically influenced chamber-pop to Club Helsinki Hudson on Thursday, January 14, at 8pm. Vermont-based DuPont Brothers will open the show. Friends for ten years, the members of Darlingside met as students at Williams College. During school they began writing and singing together…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Club Helsinki Hudson’s annual Elvis Birthday Bash, featuring the Lustre Kings plus other special guests, will take place on Friday, January 15, at 9pm, just one week after what would have been Elvis Presley’s 81th birthday. Elvis Presley’s impact on all music that came after him is impossible to tally. Bob Dylan,…
NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL at WILLIAMS FEATURES WORKS by REICH, LANG, RILEY, RZEWSKI, COLEMAN (WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – I/O Fest ’16, this year’s three-day festival of new music at Williams College, takes place Thursday, January 7, through Saturday, January 9, and will feature performances exploring works by composers including Steve Reich, David Lang, Terry Riley, Ornette Coleman,…
(LAKEVILLE, Conn.) – The Michael Musillami Trio with Special Guests performs at the Hotchkiss School on Friday, January 8, at 7pm in Katherine M. Elfers Hall, Esther Eastman Music Center. Veteran jazz guitarist and composer Michael Musillami and his flagship trio, featuring bassist Joe Fonda and drummer George Schuller, will perform music from their new…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – I/O Fest ’16, this year’s three-day festival of new music at Williams College, takes place Thursday, January 7, through Saturday, January 9, and will feature performances exploring works by composers including Steve Reich, David Lang, Terry Riley, Ornette Coleman, Frederic Rzewski, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, and John Cage. The festival includes concerts, a lecture,…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Out of the Studio, an exhibition featuring works by eight local painters, sculptors, and burlesque dancers, opens at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts on Friday, January 8, with a reception at 4pm. The reception, hosted by the artists themselves featuring live music and an appearance by Gypsy Layne Cabaret & Company,…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Bully, the Nashville-based rock quartet that is the brainchild of Alicia Bognanno and is already earning comparisons to 1990s pop-punk bands like Hole, the Breeders, and Veruca Salt, brings its melodic hardcore confessionals to Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, January 8, at 9pm. As lead singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer and engineer of…
BERKSHIRE BACH PRESENTS a BAROQUE NEW YEAR’S EVE at THE MAHAIWE (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Berkshire Bach Society celebrates its 25th season with its annual “Bach at New Year’s” program, featuring the Berkshire Bach Ensemble and director-harpsichordist Kenneth Cooper at the Mahaiwe on Thursday, December 31, 2015, at 6pm. Soloists are Eugene Drucker, Benjamin Luxon,…
(SHEFFIELD, Mass.) – Regional swing outfit One Straw Revolution will help Race Brook Lodge revive its Swing Night with a reunion concert in the Barn Space at Race Brook on Saturday, January 2, at 8pm. One Straw Revolution is well known by the southern Berkshire community, which frequently swung to the group’s rhythms in the late 1990s at the the Old Egremont…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Berkshire Bach Society celebrates its 25th season with its annual “Bach at New Year’s” program, featuring the Berkshire Bach Ensemble and director-harpsichordist Kenneth Cooper at the Mahaiwe on Thursday, December 31, 2015, at 6pm. Soloists are Eugene Drucker, Benjamin Luxon, Allan Dean, Neil Mueller, Gerald Serfass, Joel Pitchon, Meg Owens, Ronald…
