A selective, curatorial view of the cultural highlights of the upcoming weekend in the greater Berkshire region.
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – An unprecedented cast reunion and screening of “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” the classic 1978 comedy directed by John Landis and starring the late John Belushi, will take place at the Mahaiwe on Saturday, April 25, 2015, at 7pm, in a presentation by the Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF). Cast members expected…
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – The American Symphony Orchestra (ASO) will perform works by Leoš Janácek, Hermann Goetz, and Alberto Ginastera in the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College on Friday, April 24, 2015, and Saturday, April 25, at 8 p.m. The program – the ASO’s final concert of the season – includes Janácek’s…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Hudson’s own Buffalo Stack brings its bluesy brand of roots-rock to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, April 25, at 9pm. With slide blues guitar, gospel organ chords, New Orleans-style horns, and group harmonies, bluesy roots-rockers Buffalo Stack can’t help but recall Woodstock heroes the Band. In fact, it was at Levon Helm’s barn…
KENNY ARONOFF to HELP BoDEANS ROCK the COLONIAL (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – It will be a special homecoming when heartland rockers the BoDeans perform at the Colonial on Thursday, April 16, at 7:30pm, as the group is touring with Stockbridge native and local hero Kenny Aronoff – one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll drummers in…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – “Pressure Cooker,” a documentary about an inner-city high school culinary arts class that garnered the Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF) Audience Award and Jury Prize Award for Best Documentary in 2009, will have an encore screening as part of BIFF’s 10th Anniversary Season on Sunday, April 19, 2015, at 11am, at…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Caroline Rose, named by NPR’s Bob Boilen as his favorite discovery at 2014’s Americana Music Festival, brings her unique style of postmodern blues to the Tavern at the Williams Inn on Saturday, April 18, 2015, at 7:30pm (doors open at 6pm), as part of the Barntone Sessions series. Described by Boilen as…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Photographer Sally Eagle presents “Cuba at the Turning Point,” an illustrated talk on her recent trip to the Caribbean island much in the enws of late, at Berkshire Museum on Saturday, April 18, 2015, at 10:30 am. Eagle spent three weeks traveling around Cuba in December 2014, photographing the everyday lives of…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) — Emily Kalish will perform original works by five contemporary composers in a solo violin recital in the Kellogg Music Center at Simon’s Rock College on Sunday, April 19 at 3pm as part of the Simon’s Rock Alumni Concert Series. The concert is open to the public and admission is free. Kalish…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The New York Woodwind Quintet will play a diverse program including works by Renaissance composer Monteverdi, Beethoven, Anton Reicha, and Jean Francaix at the Mahaiwe on Saturday, April 18, 2015, at 6pm, as part of the Close Encounters With Music chamber series. An ensemble-in-residence at the Juilliard School in New York…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Ohio-based folk-Americana group Over the Rhine brings its glistening harmonies and wistful ballads to Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, April 17, at 9pm. Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist are the core of Over the Rhine, named after the Cincinnati neighborhood from which they hail. Over the Rhine’s recent albums of moody, bluesy…
