(LENOX, Mass.) – Brandi Carlile, Roger Daltrey, John Fogerty, and Jon Batiste have been added to Tanglewood’s Popular Artists Series for summer 2024, joining the previously announced James Taylor, the Pretenders, Kool & the Gang, Judy Collins, Rufus Wainwright, and Indigo Girls. Other performers include indie-rockers Dispatch, Scottish alt-rock singer-songwriter KT Tunstall, George Thorogood, folk-pop…
(AMHERST, Mass.) February 27, 2023 — Aaron Lansky, the Yiddish Book Center’s visionary founder and MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant winner, will retire from his role as president of the center in June 2025. Susan Bronson, the center’s long-time and accomplished executive director, will assume the position of president. Following his retirement, Lansky will remain at…
(WEST STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) by Noah Peretz and Seth Rogovoy – Theater, comedy, and an eclectic musical menu are on tap for The Foundry’s winter-spring season, kicking off with a weekend of comic performances featuring New York City comedian Mina Hartong on Friday, February 9, at 1pm, when Hartong, a member of Lincoln Center Directors Lab…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) — Ny Whitaker has been named executive director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Center for Freedom and Democracy (known as the Du Bois Freedom Center), following a seven-month, national search funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Whitaker will oversee operations, fundraising, and programming while reporting to…
(LENOX, Mass.) – James Taylor returns to Tanglewood with his All-Star Band for performances on Wednesday, July 3, and Thursday, July 4, 2024, at 8pm, in the Koussevitzky Music Shed. This summer marks 50 years since Taylor first performed at Tanglewood on July 30, 1974. The two dates scheduled this July will bring the total…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Berkshire restaurateur Josh Irwin (Cantina 229, MoonCloud) will open a “fast casual” food establishment in a space adjacent to the Triplex Cinema. Plans call for a 550-square-foot space, accessible from both the interior of the Triplex and the exterior on the Triplex patio via a takeout window. Juju’s will open in…
Created to develop rising talent, Fellowship recipients will be selected by a world-class panel of songwriters: Juliette Armanet, Patty Griffin, John Mellencamp, Carla Morrison and Nas (TULSA, Okla.) — The Bob Dylan Center [BDC] and Universal Music Publishing Group [UMPG], the world’s leading music publishing company, have joined forces to launch the Bob Dylan Center…
(AMHERST, Mass.) – The Klezmatics, Frank London and the Yidstock All-Stars, and David Krakauer’s Mazel Tov Cocktail Party headline the 11th annual YIDSTOCK: The Festival of New Yiddish Music, taking place at the Yiddish Book Center over the course of four days, Thursday, July 13-Sunday, July 16, 2023. YIDSTOCK artistic director Seth Rogovoy curated this…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – The Rogovoy Report, the long-running weekly email digest linking to news, features, and the arts, has found a new home on Substack. It is now available as a Substack column delivered free to subscriber inboxes as well as being available for viewing in a web browser at https://rogovoyreport.substack.com, where it will be…
With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend … COCEK! BRASS BAND BRINGS HORNS to LION’S DEN The Cocek! Brass Band brings its eclectic, edgy mix of horn-based ethnic music, drawing from New Orleans, the Balkans,…
