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The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) is welcomed back to the Spa Little Theater for its summer residency from June 16-August 18. Part of its year-round presence in Saratoga Springs, the six-concert series is under the direction of Wu Han and David Finkel and features numerous guest artists.
Shakespeare & Company presents A Body of Water by Lee Blessing, directed by James Warwick, June 21 through July 21 outdoors at the Roman Garden Theatre. Moss and Avis, a sophisticated and successful couple, wake up one morning in an isolated summer house high above a picturesque body of water. The weather’s fine; the view’s magnificent. There’s only one problem — neither of them can remember who they are. When a young woman named Wren arrives, information starts to flood in. But will it help? Her explanations seem only to make Moss and Avis’ world — as well as ours —
Shakespeare & Company presents Shake It Up: A Shakespeare Cabaret, directed by Allyn Burrows, July 2 – 7 in the Tina Packer Playhouse. A spirited celebration of Shakespeare-influenced music, text, and storytelling for folks new to or steeped in Shakespeare, this limited run takes the stage at the peak of the Berkshires’ summer season. A devised production with some of Berkshire County’s finest musicians and Shakespearian actors, this musical event makes for a unique gambol through the foibles of love. If music be the food of love, rock on!
Celebrate the start of summer immersed in art, architecture, and nature as we unveil five fresh additions to the Sculpture & Architecture Park and our summer exhibition Nathan Young: Tune It Or Die! in the Newmark Gallery. Feel the sizzle of the season with large-scale new commissions by artists Riley Hooker and Kiyan Williams, architects Beom Jun Kim and Jimenez Lai, and the American premiere of Germane Barnes’ critically-acclaimed Venice Biennale commission. Stay tuned for details on everything our Summer Season Opening Party has to offer, including activations bursting with unexpected pleasures and an engine revving performance.
Music by the WildCat O’Halloran Band Guitar-slinger Wildcat O'Halloran has been thrilling audiences in Western Massachusetts for over 30 years, and is currently promoting his newest album "Lead me Not into Temptation - I can Find it by Myself". (His 17th Album, Here Lies a Fool, twice reached number one on Blues Guitar One radio)... building on the success of the previous: "Can't Fall Off The Floor" "Deck of Cards" " NYC Chill", "Hot Pulldown", "Midnight Service Call", "Party Up In Heaven", and “Drinkin' With the Harp Girls” each of which was played on over 200 stations, and called “crazy-fun”
Join us for our second conversation in our Reflections on Democracy series as we explore the topic of Philanthropy. On July 11th, The Du Bois Freedom Center will welcome Dr. Marvin Carr, Chair of the Council on Foundations and Director of The Center for Racial Equity at Walmart, who will be in conversation with our Visiting Scholar on Democracy, The Honorable Michael Blake. This program is free, open to the public, and all are welcome to attend. Advance registration required by June 28th.
Join us for our second conversation in our Reflections on Democracy series as we explore the topic of Philanthropy. On July 11th, The Du Bois Freedom Center will welcome Dr. Marvin Carr, Chair of the Council on Foundations and Director of The Center for Racial Equity at Walmart, who will be in conversation with our Visiting Scholar on Democracy, The Honorable Michael Blake. This program is free, open to the public, and all are welcome to attend. Advance registration required by June 28th.
Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music returns to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA! Join us on Thursday, July 11 at 7:30 p.m. ET for our opening concert, The Klezmatics, the internationally acclaimed, Grammy Award-winning modern klezmer outfit. Blending instrumental and vocal virtuosity and experimentation with theatricality firmly rooted in klezmer and Yiddish tradition, The Klezmatics brought the revival of klezmer into the rock era. The Klezmatics are Lorin Sklamberg, vocals, piano, and guitar; Matt Darriau, clarinet, saxophone, and recorders; Lisa Gutkin, violin; Paul Morrisett, bass and tsimbl; and Richie Barshay, drums. The Ruth Woolfe Memorial Concert About Yidstock: Now in its twelfth year,
Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music returns to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA! Join us on Friday, July 12 at 2:00 p.m. ET for a performance by vocalist Judy Bressler, one of the most renowned interpreters of Yiddish song in our time, and pianist Hankus Netsky, founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band. Helen and Irving Sunshine Memorial Concert About Yidstock: Now in its twelfth year, Yidstock brings the best in klezmer and new Yiddish music to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. From July 11 to 14, this four-day festival will include musicians and performers at
Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music is returns to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA! Join us on Friday, July 12 at 5:00 p.m. for a performance by Levyosn, a new quartet specializing in Yiddish song and klezmer. Founded in 2021, the band takes its name from the Ashkenazi Hebrew word for the leviathan, a mythical sea creature traveling the world’s oceans collecting songs, krill, and dreams. Levyosn’s repertoire includes traditional music and original songs presented in intricate arrangements with rich vocal harmonies, as featured on their debut album, Levoysns Lullaby (Borscht Beat, 2023). Levyosn is vocalist/guitarist Adah Hetko, violinist/vocalist Lysander Jaffe,
Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music is returns to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA! Join us on Friday, July 12 at 5:00 p.m. for a performance by Levyosn, a new quartet specializing in Yiddish song and klezmer. Founded in 2021, the band takes its name from the Ashkenazi Hebrew word for the leviathan, a mythical sea creature traveling the world’s oceans collecting songs, krill, and dreams. Levyosn’s repertoire includes traditional music and original songs presented in intricate arrangements with rich vocal harmonies, as featured on their debut album, Levoysns Lullaby (Borscht Beat, 2023). Levyosn is vocalist/guitarist Adah Hetko, violinist/vocalist Lysander Jaffe,
Shakespeare & Company presents Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, directed by Kate Kohler Amory, July 13 through August 18 outdoors at the Arthur S. Waldstein Amphitheatre. The Comedy of Errors takes over Shakespeare & Company’s outdoor mainstage this summer – The Bard’s fast-paced and farcical story of mistaken identities that begins with two sets of twins separated by a storm at sea, and culminates in a raucous series of misunderstandings and mishaps.
Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music returns to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA! Join us on Saturday, July 13 at 8:00 p.m. for a performance by Gephilte, a jam-band experiment in Yiddish funk, the latest boundary-busting project from renowned Canadian Yiddish hip-hop provocateur Josh Dolgin aka Socalled. Taking cues from his funk/klezmer supergroup Abraham Inc, Socalled has brought together an ensemble of fellow Canadian virtuosos to explore Yiddish repertoire in a freewheeling, borderless style, using the incredible Yiddish repertoire to groove out and make audiences move. The Joan A. Backman Memorial Concert About Yidstock: Now in its twelfth
Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music returns to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA! Join us on Sunday, July 14 at 12:00 p.m. for a performance by Yiddish duo Daniel Kahn & Jake Shulman-Ment, featuring Richie Barshay. Drawing on Daniel and Jake’s acclaimed 2023 duo album The Building & Other Songs, as well as their work together in both The Painted Bird and Brothers Nazaroff, this program ranges from original polyglot ballads, radical treatments of modern Yiddish songs from Gebirtig to Schaechter-Gottesman to new Yiddish translations of lyricists such as Dylan, Cohen, Brecht, Springsteen, Guthrie, Waits, and more. The
Come listen to the tunes of the RiverBend Band Folk rock with high energy, driven by harmony, violin, and accordion featuring the cream of the crop of Berkshire musicians: Amy Attias, John Nalepa, Johnny Culpo, Pete Prieto
Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music returns to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA! Join us on Sunday, July 14 at 3:00 p.m. for a performance by Basya Schechter and Avi Fox-Rosen as they present an original composition for 20th-century Eastern European Yiddish poet Itsik Manger’s collection of Khumesh Lider (Bible stories). Characters we know and love like Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah are plucked out of Canaan and set in interwar Eastern Europe. Hasidim, Turks, Egyptians, and Canaanites collide in the mythical geography Manger creates. The music weaves together a singer-songwriter aesthetic with theater, pop, and world music influences,
Sherry Steiner will performance from 12:30 - 1:20 pm Ambient Improvisational piano and double-necked ukulele instrumentals Daryl Brooke will be performing 1:30 - 2:30 pm Daryl Brooke is a faculty artist for CATA and the steel guitar player for the Firetown Road Band. Daryl is a seasoned musician and steel guitar player, who enjoys performing solo throughout the Berkshires with a repertoire that crosses all music genres best described as tropical roots Americana. More information here: https://darylbrooke.com/
Shakespeare & Company presents the World Premiere of Carey Crim's The Islanders, directed by Regge Life, July 25 through August 25 in the Tina Packer Playhouse. Anna lives an insular life on an underpopulated island in the Great Lakes. She has few friends and likes it that way. Her quiet, controlled world is turned upside down by the arrival of a charming but secretive new neighbor Dutch. For different reasons, Dutch and Anna have each retreated from mainstream society. Can their connection survive the revelations that must inevitably come with true intimacy?
The Sirens will be performing so stop by and enjoy the music! Wanda Houston, Elizabeth Berliner, and Liv Commins The Sirens are three powerhouse women of song: legendary performer Wanda Houston, talented guitarist and solo artist Elizabeth Berliner, and gifted singer/ songwriter and comedienne Liv Cummins. Captivating entertainers on their own, these magical muses combine to seduce audiences with gorgeous voices and enticing harmonies through the catchy melodies and clever, heartfelt lyrics of Sandy McKnight's original pop songs, with a little folk, rock, jazzy blues, bluesy jazz and country thrown in the mix. https://www.facebook.com/thesirens22
Shakespeare & Company, in association with Great Barrington Public Theater, presents Flight of the Monarch by Jim Frangione, directed by Judy Braha, August 3 – 25 in the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre. Two siblings, Sheila and Thomas, were both born and raised in a small, New England fishing village where they still live. This darkly comic play explores how siblings’ lives are intertwined, what we owe to the people who know and love us best, and how family members’ needs and desires may push the boundaries of what we can be expected to do for others.