Apr 19 Friday
The Tuesday Club of Stockbridge Presents the Eagles Trombone Ensemble, 19 April, 4:30 pm
Please join the members of the Tuesday Club of Stockbridge for a concert by the fabulous Eagles Trombone Ensemble. The Ensemble will entertain and delight with a varied musical program of toe-tapping pop tunes from the 40’s through the 90’s. The Ensemble has performed for many local events including an annual performance at the Lenox Rhubarb Festival in June. They have also performed on NPR radio and were the first group to be invited to perform twice at the Linde Center for Music and Learning at Tanglewood.
The concert will be held in the First Congregational Church of Stockbridge, 4 Main Street, Stockbridge MA . Tickets are $20 and include a reception following the program, plus a raffle, with lots of goodies to eat and win. Raffle tickets are $5 apiece or 5 tickets for $20 – what a deal! All proceeds will be donated to the Elizabeth Freeman House. Cash only. Tickets may be purchased at the door."
Ray Chen is a violinist who redefines what it is to be a classical musician in the 21st century. With a media presence that enhances and inspires the classical audience and reaches out to millions through his unprecedented online following, his remarkable musicianship transmits to a global audience. He performs works by Vitali, Bach, Beethoven, Saint-Saëns and Franck.
The Mount Holyoke College Department of Film Media Theater ends the 2023-24 season with an immersive experience celebrating the classic tale by William Shakespeare, “As You Like It.”
Join us for one of Shakespeare’s most endearing comedies where we escape to the Forest of Arden with an enjoyable cast of characters including a jester in motley, a melancholy lord, a cross-dressed maid, a lovestruck shepherd, a banished duke, and many more. When the court meets the country, hijinks ensue all in pursuit of the most noble of emotions - LOVE.
“Our production is set in Elizabethan England complete with our own version of The Globe Theater (The Rooke), Elizabethan costumes and, in collaboration with the Five College Early Music Ensemble, songs and music to set the mood. We hope you will step back back in time with us for an evening of fun and frolic as we retell this exuberant classic.” - Director, Noah Ilya-Alexis Tuleja
This production is directed by Mount Holyoke College’s Department of Film Media Theater Chair, Noah Ilya-Alexis Tuleja. Set Design by Vannessa James, Costume Design by Jensen Glick & Maggie Brown ‘24, Lighting Design by Julia Keeling ‘24, and Sound Design by Lara Dubin.
Performance Dates and Times:Thursday, April 18, 7:30 pmFriday, April 19, 7:30 pmSaturday, April 20, 7:30 pmSunday, April 21, 2:00 pm
Tickets: $10 general | $8 students and senior citizens
For more information or to reserve tickets, please visit mhc.ludus.com or contact our box office at MHCRookeTheatre@gmail.com
Apr 20 Saturday
Carrie and Michael Kline’s lives circle around one another and are inspired by Appalachian music and culture. Their voices carry the songs with truth and authenticity, and their guitar accompaniments and haunting harmonies get you where you live. With their lifelong focus on West Virginia history and tradition, their performances celebrate the old-time singers as well as the songs.
We place our songs in a historical, folkloric context with stories and images to set the stage for the songs. We sing in the kind of tight, high mountain harmony that comes from living and loving together for thirty years, having met in the Valley and recently returned after 26 years as West Virginia-based folklorists, oral historians, and music makers. Our guitar accompaniments are also in closely arranged harmony, with Michael’s melodic lines and Carrie’s rhythm and runs, elevated by Joe Blumenthal’s upright bass arrangements. www.folktalk.org
Suggested donation: $15 to $25 (or pay as you are able)
Reservations at diacrowe@yahoo.com or call 413-835-1695
Listen at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CH8woGxbnk
Apr 21 Sunday
Enjoy a musical journey through many countries with Judy Handler & Mark Levesque at 3 pm Sunday, April 21, at Unitarian Universalist Society East, 153 Vernon St. West, Manchester. Suggested donation $15. They perform their own inspiring arrangements on guitars and mandolin and will include music from the U.S., Europe, Eastern Europe, Brazil, Latin America and more! Audiences respond with enthusiasm to their extraordinary sound, passionate performance, amusing anecdotes, and the joyful spirit of their music.
For details visit https://uuse.org/concerts
Husband and wife duo, Handler & Levesque, have performed over 2,500 concerts together over the past 30 years throughout the United States and Europe. They create unique programs of guitar duets and music for guitar and mandolin. Their friendly and entertaining way of chatting with audiences immediately makes a personal and authentic connection.
Apr 22 Monday
Katie Castagno’s “Our Queer Elders” uses song to celebrate and elevate the lives of queer icons throughout history. At a time when queer history and queer voices are increasingly erased, “Our Queer Elders” is part sentimental and part cheeky, whether it’s an account of Rachel Carson’s whirlwind romance with Dorothy Freeman, a hypothetical look into a clandestine meeting of Sally Ride and Russian cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya during the Cold War, or a rollicking love song from Emily Dickinson to Susan Gilbert.
Katie Castagno is a geologist by day and a musician by night. Drawing on roots in rural New England and collegiate a cappella, Katie writes about people, places, and geological phenomena. Katie is a Smith College alum and is now the director of the Land-Sea Interaction Program at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, MA.
Apr 27 Saturday
Renaissance Jukebox presents music inspired by the works of Wm. Shakespeare(and beyond): In Spring...As oft 'twixt May and April is to see,When winds breathe sweet, unruly though they be. from A Lover's Complaint, pub. 1609
This program includes quotes, songs, ballads, and instrumental works associated with Shakespeare in his own era, and modern songs that connect with our personal and sometimes unruly responses to Shakespeare’s texts. Works of Campion, Danyel, Dowland, Holborne, and other 17th-century composers, in juxtaposition with modern songs evoking related stories, moods, and/or imagery, by Jason Isbell, Cat Stevens, the Everly Brothers, Phoebe Bridgers, Hozier and others.
Renaissance Jukebox is comprised of longtime early music performers Donnie Cotter (voice), Meg Pash (lute, voice, viol) and Chris Stetson (lute, mandolin), newly joined by McKay Perry (violin) and Liam Birkerts (bass viol). As individual and intergenerational artists they have explored the song literature of the 16th and 17th centuries with modern singer-songwriter styles from folk to rock, country, and jazz, and have come to value and enjoy presenting thematic and expressive connections among multiple genres across the centuries.