(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Virtuosic Gypsy swing guitarist Stephane Wrembel performs with his quartet in the Dré Wapenaar Pavilion at MASS MoCA on Saturday, August 23, 2014, at 8pm. Wrembel has been called the second coming of Django Reinhardt – a fretboard wizard who embellishes the hot jazz of the 1930s with flourishes of world…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Sonic Youth offshoot band Lee Ranaldo and the Dust, featuring Sonic Youth members Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley, will perform at Club Helsinki Hudson on Tuesday, October 8, 2013, at 8pm, simultaneous with the release of their new album, “Last Night on Earth,” that same day. The album’s first single, “Lecce, Leaving,”…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Legendary rocker Dave Mason, a founding member of the English rock group Traffic, will perform at the Colonial on Wednesday, October 9, 2013, at 7:30pm. Mason is best known for writing and recording “Feelin’ Alright” with Traffic (later made into a hit by Joe Cocker) and for his 1977 soft-rock hit single,…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – From the opening bars of “Assessing the Assessors,” the first track on Not Getting Behind Is The New Getting Ahead, it’s clear that renowned guitarist Charlie Hunter and drummer Scott Amendola have gone someplace new and different. The duo, which performs at Club Helsinki Hudson on Friday, October 19, 2012, at 9pm,…
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Noir-rocker Eilen Jewell and surf-rock guitar band Los Straitjackets kick off the weekend with a doubleheader at Club Helsinki on Friday, June 1, 2012, at 9pm. Jewell, the self-styled “Queen of the Minor Key,” is performing after releasing a honky-tonk-flavored album of the same name; Los Straitjackets are about to release a…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Guitar virtuoso Frank Vignola and his band, the Hot Club Trio, will give a concert at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Friday August 19, at 8, that melds gypsy jazz, bluegrass, swing, and front-porch picking into an eclectic, upbeat sound all their own. Vignola is noted for his eclecticism and…
