(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.). – Debo Band, the Boston-based group led by Ethiopian-American saxophonist Danny Mekonnen, fronted by charismatic vocalist Bruck Tesfaye, and specializing in vintage Ethiopian pop-funk, headlines Rock the Block, a festival produced by the Performing Arts Management (PAM) class at performs at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA), taking place on Sunday, May…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – New York-based theater company American Vicarious performs Jon Lipsky’s politically-charged, experimental theater piece Living in Exile, a two-character retelling of Homer’s Iliad, at Williams College on April 10-12, 2012, and at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) on April 13-15. Jon Lipsky’s Living in Exile, directed by Christopher McElroen and featuring…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert, who lives in Williamstown, Mass., will present “Field Notes from Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change”, at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA), the annual Elizabeth and Lawrence Vadnais Environmental Issues Lecture, on Wednesday, April 4, 2012, at 7 p.m. in Murdock Hall, room 218. The…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Rising international star Blitz the Ambassador and the Berkshires’ own Misty Blues headline the seventh annual MCLA Blues and Funk Festival on Friday and Saturday, February 3-4, 2012. The festival takes place at various venues on or near the MCLA campus in North Adams. According to Jonathan Secor, director of special…
