A selective, curatorial view of the cultural highlights of the upcoming weekend in the greater Berkshire region.
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Nearly 50 years to the date when Arlo Guthrie and his pal, Rick Robbins, were arrested by Stockbridge Police Officer Bill Obanhein, setting into motion a cross-platform series of cultural events that has made “Alice’s Restaurant” nearly as much a Thanksgiving tradition as eating turkey, Guthrie will be on hand for…
(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, November 28, at 8pm. One Straw Revolution is well known by the southern Berkshire community, which frequently swung to the group’s rhythms in the…
(KINGSTON, N.Y.) – Grammy Award and Juno Award-winning artist Sarah McLachlan, the pop-rock singer-songwriter who founded Lilith Fair in 1997, performs at the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) on Sunday, November 29 at 7:30pm. With over 25 years in the recording industry, Sarah McLachlan is a multi-platinum singer and songwriter best known for her intimate…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Following up on his August tribute to R&B legend Junior Walker, jazz legend Don Byron brings his group of musician friends back to Club Helsinki Hudson for an encore performance featuring the music of Walker, Ray Charles, and other soul, funk and jazz artists, on Saturday, November 28, at 9pm. Joining Byron…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Hudson’s own Tommy Stinson, a co-founder of the legendary post-punk outfit the Replacements and a touring member of Guns n’ Roses, inaugurates “Friday Night Is Killing Me,” a series of events he will host featuring surprise musical guests at Club Helsinki Hudson on Wednesday, November 25, at 8pm. The shows will be…
STEPHIN MERRITT of MAGNETIC FIELDS PLAYS ‘A to Z’ in CONCERT at MASS MoCA (NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) — Singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt, the contemporary bard of wry romance, will perform an alphabetically ordered concert of 26 songs from his vast catalog, which includes the Magnetic Fields’ masterpiece “69 Love Songs” and two dozen albums under four…
(AMHERST, Mass.) – The Adaskin String Trio, with clarinetist Pascal Archer and violinist Annie Trepanier, will perform Grammy Award-winning composer Osvaldo Golijov’s landmark 1994 composition, “The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind,” and a piece by Mozart, at the Yiddish Book Center on Sunday, November 22, 2015, at 2pm. Golijov’s work, recorded by the…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Mark Peskanov will be the featured soloist when the Berkshire Symphony performs the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in Chapin Hall at Williams College on Friday, November 20, 2015, at 8pm. The program will also include Roy Harris’s Symphony No. 3 and Johannes Brahms’s Third Symphony. There is a pre-concert talk with conductor Ronald…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Justin Hillman celebrates the release of his new album, “Have I Not Found You Yet?,” with a concert at the Whitney Center for the Arts on Friday, November 20, 2015, at 7:30pm. Hillman performs with his band, Good Company. Ryan Hommel warms up the crowd with a solo acoustic set. Born and…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) — Singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt, the contemporary bard of wry romance, will perform an alphabetically ordered concert of 26 songs from his vast catalog, which includes the Magnetic Fields’ masterpiece “69 Love Songs” and two dozen albums under four different band names, in the Hunter Center at MASS MoCA on Saturday, November 21,…
