(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) — Singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt, the contemporary bard of wry romance, will perform an alphabetically ordered concert of 26 songs from his vast catalog, which includes the Magnetic Fields’ masterpiece “69 Love Songs” and two dozen albums under four different band names, in the Hunter Center at MASS MoCA on Saturday, November 21,…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Obie Award-winning writer Kirsten Childs’ “Buffalo Bella: An American Tall Tale,” a musical exploring the African-American experience in the Old West, is one of three new musical theater projects that will be presented in Club B10 at MASS MoCA on Saturday, November 14, at 8pm, as part of the annual Sundance…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Chicago-bred standup star Beth Stelling brings her “razor-sharp wit combined with her girl-next-door aesthetic” to Club B-10 at MASS MoCA on Saturday, November 7, 2015, at 8pm. A laid-back demeanor juxtaposed with brave humor has made Beth Stelling a favorite on the Chicago and Los Angeles standup circuit for over eight…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) — Comedian Solomon Georgio brings his pungent brand of indignant irreverence to MASS MoCA on Saturday, August 29, 2015, at 8pm. Little known in the comedy world until his much-lauded debut on “Conan,” Georgio is making a name for himself with tongue-in-cheek humor that takes on race, colonialism, and sexuality. The self-described…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – The 14th annual Bang on a Can Summer Marathon, a six-hour day-night boundary-busting festival finale featuring 50-plus musicians and composers from around the world, will bring to a close this summer’s Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA on Saturday, August 1, 2015, starting at 4pm and running…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – The sounds of new music will resound throughout the campus, galleries, hallways and concert stages of MASS MoCA for the 14th summer in a row, as the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival brings together an all-star lineup of composers, performers, teachers, and fellows. Festival highlights include a performance of…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) — Singer-songwriter Natalia Zukerman, the slide, lap steel, guitar and dobro wizard who is a scion of an American musical dynasty, brings her folk, jazz, country and blues-inflected songs to the Dré Wapenaar Pavilion at MASS MoCA on Saturday, June 6, 2015, at 8pm. Zukerman combines the pop songcraft of Shawn…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – The folk-rock trio the Lone Bellow brings its rootsy take on Americana to MASS MoCA for the annual Memorial Day weekend kickoff concert on Saturday, May 23, 2015, at 8pm. The group’s recent album, “Then Came the Morning,” was produced by Bryce Dessner of the National, and introduced a more contemporary…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Sex Mob, trumpeter Steven Bernstein’s wild and wooly avant-jazz party band, performs its brand-new original score to a live screening of “Maciste in Hell,” a seminal film of the Italian silent era, in Club B-10 at MASS MoCA on Saturday, April 4, 2015, at 8pm. The movie stars Bartolomeo Pagano as…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Trad-country-rocker Dwight Yoakam, bluegrass legends the Del McCoury Band, Indiana alt-country rockers Houndmouth, Malian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Vieux Farka Touré, jam-band avatars Leftover Salmon, Boston-based trio the Ballroom Thieves, and acoustic roots band Cat and The Moon, and The Man in Grass, an all-star tribute to Johnny Cash, headline Freshgrass, the annual three-day bluegrass…
