The Bob Dylan Examiner reports that Columbia Records A&R executive and record producer Don DeVito has died. “DeVito is most known to Bob Dylan fans for his production of the 1976 album, Desire. He co-produced the live albums Hard Rain and At Budokan, was “Captain In Charge” (and behind the remix of the 1999 reissue)…
SUPERSTARS of AFROBEAT and FUNK PAY TRIBUTE to JAMES BROWN at the MAHAIWE (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Former James Brown sidemen Pee Wee Ellis and Maceo Parker team up with Afrobeat superstars Cheikh Lô and Vusi Mahlasela in Still Black, Still Proud, a musical exploration of the give-and-take between James Brown’s funk soul and African…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – MASS MoCA’s Hunter Center becomes the site of a Latin explosion on Saturday, November 5, 2011, as La Excelencia brings its young outlook to the energizing sound of Salsa Dura. This self-proclaimed “New Generation of Salsa Dura” rehashes classic salsa from the 1970s, maintaining the genre’s traditions while expanding upon its…
by Seth Rogovoy I’m no arborist, and I don’t know anything about trees. And I know that the Bradford Pear trees lining downtown Great Barrington’s Main Street are controversial, to say the least, and some self-styled experts claim they are the wrong trees in the wrong location, and at the end of their lifespans, anyway.…
by Seth Rogovoy (GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass., and ZUCCOTTI PARK, New York, N.Y.) – The Sim’sMobile pulled out of downtown Great Barrington at 8 a.m. on Monday morning, destination lower Manhattan. At the wheel was Steve Vilot, owner of Sim’s Salon and Barber Shops in Pittsfield and Great Barrington, Mass., as well as a recognized authority…
Steven Bernstein CLUB HELSINKI HUDSON Hudson, N.Y. SEX MOB October 11, 2011 Review by Seth Rogovoy (HUDSON, N.Y.) – Last Friday night at Club Helsinki, Steven Bernstein and his band, Sex Mob, demonstrated why they remain one of the most fun, wacky, enjoyable and outrageous party bands of the downtown avant-garde. Joined for the occasion…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – The Love Show digs its roots in Grace Lee Boggs’ declaration that “linking love and revolution is an idea whose time has come.” Five of New York’s most acclaimed soul vocalists — Carla Cook, Helga Davis, Marcelle Davies Lashley, James Staten Jr., and Jason Walker — will spread their love on…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) The Harrison Gallery will present a show of two gallery favorites: realist painter Nick Patten and bronze sculptor Susan Read Cronin. The artists will attend the opening reception on Saturday, October 1, 2011, from 5 until 7 pm. Nick Patten paints the interiors of rooms in old houses with direct and reflected light…
BOB DYLAN CELEBRATION with AUTHOR/SINGER SETH ROGOVOY and PHOTOGRAPHER KEN REGAN (NEW MARLBOROUGH, Mass.) – Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday will be celebrated in words, music, and pictures with a talk and performance by Dylan author Seth Rogovoy and an exhibition of rarely seen photographs by Ken Regan, one of very few photographers given behind-the-scenes access…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Grammy Award-winning cabaret artist and songwriter Amanda McBroom makes an encore engagement with Michael Brourman at Barrington Stage Company for two performances Friday, September 23 and Saturday, September 24, 2011, at 8pm at BSC Stage 2 (36 Linden Street, Downtown Pittsfield). McBroom first came to the attention of the music public when…
