(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – A guided walking tour of public art with a nautical theme inspired by Herman Melville’s great American novel, Moby-Dick, which was written here in Pittsfield, will take place on Saturday, August 25, 2012, beginning at 1p.m. Led by artist and educator Craig Langlois, the 90-minute guided walk – which sets off from…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The famed Woody’s Roadhouse of Washington, Mass., will be celebrated with a “Woody’s Roadhouse Reunion Concert” featuring acts that performed at the greatly beloved Berkshire venue of yore, including the Commander Cody Band, Fat, the Spampinato Brothers Band (featuring Joey and Johnny formerly of NRBQ) and Burnt Bacon and The Home Fries,…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Great Barrington resident Alfred Brewer, who is 18 years old, will perform the Concertino, Opus 4, for trombone, by Ferdinand David, with the Stockbridge Sinfonia on Sunday, August 19, 2012, at 6pm at the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church on 74 First St. in Pittsfield. The free concert by the Sinfonia, conducted and…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – ArtBerkshires concludes its summer 2012 programming this week with three events: a conversation with artist Maggie Mailer at Ferrin Gallery on Wednesday, August 15, 2012; a gallery tour of RETHINK!, the contemporary American Indian artists exhibition at Berkshire Museum by curator Maria Mingalone on Friday, August 17, 2012; and a Dish and…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Six Berkshire poets will read works by poets who inspired them along the way in Poet Via Poet with Page+Stage, a presentation of this week’s WordXWord Festival in downtown Pittsfield, at yBar and Gallery 25, on Monday and Tuesday, August 13 and 14, 2012. The poets include Curtis Asch, Gabriel Squailia, Nakeida…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – From the Tony Award-nominated revival of Ragtime and straight off the national tour of Memphis, Broadway’s Quentin Earl Darrington performs QED, Chapter 1: Verse 1, an evening of song at Barrington Stage Company’s new Mr. Finn’s Cabaret on Friday and Saturday, August 10 and 11, 2012, at 9:30 pm. The cabaret-style performance…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Young poets are sought to participate in a fast-paced poetry event, Head-to-Head Haiku, on August 12, 2012, as the opening event in this year’s WordXWord Festival, which runs August 11-18 in various locations in downtown Pittsfield. Head-to-Head Haiku is a fun, good-humored twist on the Poetry Slam format. In H-T-H, poets come…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – DownBeat award-winning baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan performs an intimate gig in the backroom at Baba Louie’s Sourdough Pizza on Friday, August 3, 2012, at 8 p.m., part of the Berkshires Jazz series attached to Pittsfield’s monthly First Fridays Artswalks. Smulyan will be accompanied by pianist Noah Baerman and the Berkshires Jazz Duo,…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The Starry Outpost, a collection of new paintings and drawings by Maggie Mailer that expands the narratives of her two previous bodies of work, The Volcano Sitters and The Balloonists, opens with a reception at Ferrin Gallery on Saturday, August 4, 2012, from 4 to 6 pm, and runs through September 2.…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The annual WordXWord Festival celebrating written, spoken and sung words kicks off on Saturday, August 11, 2012, with its popular rooftop party and will feature over 40 events over the course of the following week, including participation by such nationally known writers and spoken-word performers as Derrick C. Brown, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz…
