A selective, curatorial view of the cultural highlights of the upcoming weekend in the greater Berkshire region.
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Comedian Paula Poundstone will perform at the Colonial on Saturday, September 26, 2015, at 8pm. Paula Poundstone is recognized as one of Comedy Central’s 100 greatest stand-ups of all time. Poundstone won an American Comedy Award for Best Female Stand-up Comic, and in 2010 she was one of a select group voted…
(LENOX, Mass.) – In back-to-back events, authors Darryl Pinckney and Kate Bolick will kick off Touchstones: Conversations at The Mount, a series featuring writers discussing modern cultural issues or “cultural flashpoints,” on Thursday, September 17, 2015, at 7:30pm, followed by poet Gjertrud Schnackenberg, who will deliver the annual Amy Clampitt Memorial Poetry Reading at the…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Hudson’s own Buffalo Stack brings its bluesy brand of roots-rock to Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, September 25, at 9pm. With slide blues guitar, gospel organ chords, New Orleans-style horns, and group harmonies, Buffalo Stack can’t help but recall Woodstock heroes the Band. In fact, it was at Levon Helm’s barn in…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – An all-star group of rock ‘n’ roll talent, including Jules Shear, Gail Ann Dorsey, Rick and Jerry Marotta, and Scott Petito, will pay tribute to the Hudson Valley’s most famous rock group ever in “Reelin’ in the Years: The Music of Steely Dan” at Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, September 26, at…
CONTEMPORANEOUS to PERFORM FREE CONCERT of NEW WORKS at CLARK ART INSTITUTE (WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) — Contemporaneous, a 21-member new-music ensemble that performs the works of living composers through innovative concerts, commissions, recordings, and educational programs, performs a free concert at the Clark Art Institute on Saturday, September 12, 2015, at 3 pm. The concert…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – The Williams Chamber Players will perform an eclectic program of ballads, chamber works by Ravel and Brahms, and a setting of Robert Lowell’s poetry by Frederic Sharaf in their first concert of the season in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall on the Williams College campus on Friday, September 11, 2015, at 8pm. The event…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – “Walking the Sea,” a solo photography exhibit and screening of two films by Anton Ginzburg, opens on Thursday, September 10, 2015, with a reception from 5 to 7pm at the Daniels Art Center at Simon’s Rock College. The exhibition will be on view through December 15, 2015. Drawing on the tradition…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) — Contemporaneous, a 21-member new-music ensemble that performs the works of living composers through innovative concerts, commissions, recordings, and educational programs, performs a free concert at the Clark Art Institute on Saturday, September 12, 2015, at 3 pm. The concert will be held outdoors on the Spencer Terrace at the Clark’s Lunder Center…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Johnny Irion’s roots-rocking outfit, U.S. Elevator, brings its brand-new collection of original tunes to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, September 12, at 9pm. Perhaps best known as one-half of the husband-and-wife folk duo, Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion, Irion taps into his own roots as an alt-country rocker on his band’s…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – The Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra, known for playing salsa-fied versions of indie rock songs by the likes of Arcade Fire, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, Santigold, and Animal Collective, kick off the 2015-16 MCLA Presents! season on the MCLA Quad, outside in front of newly renovated Bowman Hall, on…
