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'Live on the Lake' Lineup Starts 16th Season on July 5| 03:58PM / Wednesday, June 28, 2017 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Greylock Federal Credit Union and Live 95.9 WBEC FM will host their "Live on the Lake" community concert series for the 16th consecutive season on Wednesday evenings from July 5 through Aug. 23 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Burbank Park on Onota Lake in Pittsfield.
License to Groove opens this year’s concert series on July 5. Whiskey City follows on July 12, with The Bomb on July 19 and Shyne on July 16 rounding out July. In August, On Tap will perform Aug. 2, Wildcare on Aug. 9, Legal Tender on Aug. 16 and Hotshot Hillbillys on Aug. 23.
"Live on the Lake concerts are a Berkshire summer tradition and Greylock, in partnership with Live 95.9 WBEC FM, is
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Classical Beat: Tanglewood, Taconic Music and 'Ragtime' at Barrington StageBy Stephen Dankner, Special to iBerkshires
01:46PM / Wednesday, June 28, 2017 | |
For many music lovers, Tanglewood in Lenox virtually defines music in the Berkshires. It is the largest summer presenter, with the most comprehensive schedule of performances across the full spectrum of musical styles and genres. Before getting into imminent opening events, bookmark the Boston Symphony's website for the full summer concert schedule, season highlights, tickets and general information. During the opening week's events, from Wednesday, June 28, through Tuesday, July 4, Tanglewood celebrates the opening of their 77th Music Festival with a generous sampling of popular, classical and new music/dance concerts that are sure to attract audiences. Here's a preview of
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NEA Chairman Sees, Hears About Pittsfield's Cultural RenaissanceBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
11:01PM / Monday, June 26, 2017 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The creative forces in Pittsfield didn't have to work hard to convince the chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts that the arts can be a powerful force in community and economic restoration. Jane Chu was, if anything, way ahead of them. "We believe that there's something in the arts for everyone and there's something for everyone in the arts," she said, adding, "At the heart of why people want to be in a community is because they want to belong, and they want to find meaning, and they're looking for vitality that may be on the level of looking for things to do but also 'I want to contribute 0 Comments
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'The Mastheads' Inaugural Writers' Residency Launches in July| 03:11PM / Monday, June 26, 2017 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Mastheads Writers' Residency Program is set to launch its inaugural monthlong residency on July 3 with a launch party at Hotel on North. Five writers from around the country will converge on the city, each paired with a private studio for a month-long residency, complemented by city-wide public programming and events.
The brainchild of husband and wife architecture team Chris Parkinson and Tessa Kelly, The Mastheads project recognizes Pittsfield's legacy of writers of the American Renaissance, including Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Between the years of
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Review: 'Ragtime' at Barrington Stage Company A Relevent, Beautiful MusicalBy Nancy Salz, Special to iBerkshires
02:36PM / Monday, June 26, 2017 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — We were downright perplexed as we entered the theater.
How can they possibly turn that nearly empty stage into turn-of-the-century America in all of its complexity? We're supposed to be seeing the great, big musical "Ragtime," but all that is in front of us is a hint of a set bathed in old-fashioned sepia tones. We seem to be in a Victorian house, but there are just a few wooden chairs here and there, an old upright piano off to the right. Perhaps more furniture is under the old canvas tarps draped at the sides of the empty, slightly-raised wooden floor.
Slowly a young boy, who we learn is from a wealthy, suburban white family, emerges
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'Cars 3': It Thinks it Can, It Thinks it CanBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires film critic
01:27PM / Friday, June 23, 2017 | |
 Point of disclosure: I am a lifelong, died-in-the-wool car enthusiast. As a child I spent endless hours on the floor pushing toy cars around, speeding under the kitchen table, through my mother's legs, around the linoleum perimeter, over the saddle leading to the foyer for the long straight to my bedroom. There, circling to the cheers of my other toys, I issued an acknowledging "zoom, zoom, rhoom, rhoom," then scooted back into the hallway and made a hairpin right into the carpeted living room, the off-road part of my imaginary Indy 500. Thus I know and embrace firsthand the special, magical relationship some of us humans have with the spiritual successor to Old Dobbin, 1 Comment
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The Classical Beat: Summer 2017 Music Festival BeginsBy Stephen Dankner, Special to iBerkshires
12:48PM / Wednesday, June 21, 2017 | |
 The summer concert season is virtually upon us, and how lucky are we music lovers to be living right here, in the Berkshires, at what can only be described as "Music Central"? With programs in Lenox and in Manchester, Vt., concertgoers will have a wide selection of music in a multiplicity of styles to enjoy in venues large and small: from solo jazz piano to the stellar Chris Botti with the Boston Pops, followed by a celebration of beloved show tunes by Rodgers and Hammerstein at Tanglewood. Added to this, Taconic Music offers a feast of chamber music by Strauss and Ravel, and a master class with the distinguished classical cellist/mentor Sharon Robinson. Scanning the upcoming
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Free Fun Fridays Return This Summer| 02:25PM / Monday, June 19, 2017 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Two Berkshire County museums bookend the Highland Street Foundation's ninth annual Free Fun Fridays initiative, a summer program that offers visitors no-cost admission to many of the most treasured cultural venues in Massachusetts.
Eighty-five institutions, from art museums to zoos, will join the program, an increase from the 80 venues that took part in 2016. This summer, each week for 10 consecutive Fridays — beginning June 23 and continuing through Aug. 25 — multiple venues will welcome visitors, free-of-charge.
"Free Fun Fridays provides access to the best exhibits, programs and experiences that the city and the commonwealth have to
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Berkshire Mountain Faerie Festival Returns This Saturday By Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
07:28PM / Thursday, June 15, 2017 | |
 ADAMS, Mass. — The Berkshire Mountains Faerie Festival has grown beyond the town of Adams and is drawing magic from throughout Berkshire County. And the festival set this Saturday, June 17, from 10 to 10 at Bowe Field is expected to double attendance. "We have taken from last year what worked really well and went, poof!" Adams Arts Advisory Board member and organizer Gail Sellers said. "Last year, we had 2,000 people so we are hoping to double that and we are getting people from outside the immediate area and it is not just an Adams event." The event features more than 40 artists, crafters, performers and vendors from Cheshire, North 0 Comments
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'My Cousin Rachel': Relatively MysteriousBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
05:21PM / Thursday, June 15, 2017 | |
 I kept thinking, "It can't be that ... it's too obvious." Thus were my incredulous musings while trying to figure if Rachel Weisz's title character in director Roger Michell's "My Cousin Rachel" was the husband-murderer her newest suitor initially thought she was. You see, I'm terrible at unraveling mysteries. I've been trying to solve the meaning of life for decades, and still nothing.
So I had to question my suspicion, which in turn became the main reason why this otherwise average motion picture held my interest. That said, Weisz sure can sow the doubt.
Granted, it's possible that, like Sam Claflin's 24-year- old Philip, the wealthy
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