(AMHERST, Mass.) – The Klezmatics, Eleanor Reissa, Socalled, and Paul Shapiro’s Ribs & Brisket Revue headline the 10th annual YIDSTOCK: The Festival of New Yiddish Music, taking place at the Yiddish Book Center over the course of four days, Thursday, July 7-Sunday, July 10, 2022. This year’s festival – once again curated by Yidstock artistic…
The cultural highlights in our region this weekend include opera, comedy, folk, jazz … plus a whole lot more. MID-WINTER MOZART Soprano Maria Valdes and tenor Alex McKissick will perform arias and duets written throughout Mozart’s career in “Mid-Winter Mozart,” a presentation of Berkshire Opera Festival (BOF) at St. James Place in Great Barrington,…
(NEW YORK, N.Y.) – Simon & Schuster will publish The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan on November 8, 2022. This is the first book of new writing since Dylan’s Chronicles, Volume One (published in 2004 and on the New York Times bestseller lists for over 50 weeks) and since winning the Nobel Prize…
Internationally acclaimed Dutch Yiddish singer Niki Jacobs will bring her Yiddish version of Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis’s “Mauthausen Cycle” to three Northeastern U.S. venues in mid-March. Performing with her classical/klezmer ensemble, Jacobs will present her Holocaust-themed program drawn from “The Ballad of Mauthausen,” also known as the “Mauthausen Cantata,” at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theatre…
(WOODSTOCK, N.Y.) — Darlene Love, Joan Osborne, Kate Pierson (B-52s), Genya Ravan, Amy Rigby, and Simi Stone headline We Got the Beat, a women-in-music summit featuring three days of concerts, panel discussions, film screenings, conversations, and more, at the legendary Bearsville Theater in Woodstock on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, March 25-27, 2022. The brainchild…
The cultural highlights in our region this weekend include lots of jazz, symphonic music, punk-rock, Celtic fusion … plus a whole lot more. HUDSON JAZZ FESTIVAL The Hudson Jazz Festival kicks off the first of a two-weekend run celebrating the artistry of Black jazz musicians and their innovations as part of the festival’s “Lift…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – The 2022 edition of the Hudson Jazz Festival, dubbed “Lift Every Voice” after the Black national anthem, promises an eight-day festival celebrating the artistry of Black jazz musicians and their innovation of the genre. The festival, taking place over the course of two long weekends (February 10-13 and 17-20) at Hudson Hall,…
(NEW YORK, N.Y.) — Eleanor Reissa’s new memoir, The Letters Project: A Daughter’s Journey, will be published on Tuesday, January 18, 2022, by Post Hill Press. A second-generation Holocaust memoir, Reissa’s new book reads like a mystery, recounting the compelling story of her discovery of a cache of letters written in the 1940s from her…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Julianne Boyd, founder and artistic director of Barrington Stage Company (BSC), has announced plans to retire at the end of the 2022 season. The Board of Trustees is conducting a national search for her successor, who will assume leadership in the fall of 2022. For a comprehensive appreciation of Julie Boyd’s accomplishments…
Seth Rogovoy, the author of “Bob Dylan: Prophet Mystic Poet” and the winner of a Simon Rockower Prize for his groundbreaking article, “Leonard Cohen’s Mystical Midrash,” will explore the profound Jewish roots of these two artists and how they influenced their creative work in online multimedia presentations in late September 2021. Dorot will present Rogovoy’s…
