Our 2016 Arts Festival opens with the Opera Showcase in May and bookends programs of theatre, spoken word and music with Old Country Road in September. June brings Appalachian music of the Berkshire Mountain Boys and the jazz/swing of Noble and Sparkman. July will feature Celebrating the Legend of Pete Seeger, with Randy Noojin followed by the folk music of Wild Thyme. August brings The Gin Game, a staged reading of the Pulitzer winning play, a Caribbean Fiesta for Kids, and a concert of Bach to Brazil. Two Open Mic Music Jams are back again. And we continue exhibiting artwork of local visual artists.
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OPERA ARIA & SONG SHOWCASE
Saturday MAY 28, 2016-7:00 p.m.
Sunday MAY 29, 2016 – 2:00 p.m
$15 at door, students FREE. Wheelchair-accessible, air-conditioned
The New York ensemble presents songs and opera arias by French composers with selections from Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet and Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann. (more…)
BERKSHIRE MOUNTAIN BOYS
Folk, Bluegrass, Gospel & Country
Sunday JUNE 12, 2016 – 2 p.m.
$10 at door; students FREE. Wheelchair-accessible, air-conditioned
Berkshire Mountain Boys will be bringing you bluegrass, traditional and contemporary folk, gospel and country music with autoharp, banjo, guitar and vocals.
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JAZZ DUO JERRY NOBLE & BOB SPARKMAN
Jazz and Swing
Sunday, JUNE 26, 2016- 2:00 p.m
$10 at door, students FREE. Wheelchair-accessible, air-conditioned
Jerry Noble on piano and Bob Sparkman on clarinet return in concert at the North Hall Arts Festival playing cool blues, jazz and swing.(www.bobandjerry.com) (more…)
OPEN MIC
MUSIC JAM
Friday JULY 1, 2016 – 7:00 p.m
FREE or donation at the door; Wheelchair-accessible, air-conditioned
Open MIC performances by musicians, instrumental and vocal. Performers to determine format. Musicians and public welcome. (more…)
CELEBRATE PETE SEEGER
Theater / folk music
Saturday. JULY 9, 2016 – 2:00 p.m. Sunday JULY 10, 2016 – 2:00 p.m
$15 at door; students free. Wheelchair-access, air-conditioned.
Celebrate Pete Seeger. Playwright, musician and actor Randy Noojin portrays the legendary Pete Seeger as he plays a benefit for U.S.-Cuban normalization in 1982. Come sing along with Pete as he uses some of his greatest songs to tell of his battles with the HUAC witch-hunt and the Blacklist during the Cold War. Culled from Seeger’s own word and testimony. (more…)
WILD THYME
Folk/Celtic music
Sunday. JULY 24, 2016 – 2:00 p.m.
$10 at door; students free. Wheelchair-access, air-conditioned.
WILD THYME: Traditional Irish and Scottish music and Celtic fare—fiddles, guitars, and more. The artists are Ray Lequin of Chesterfield on guitar, mandolin and tin whistle; Alexis Truslow of Northampton on fiddle and mandolin; Starr Adams and Justine McCarthy of Northampton on fiddle and Deborah Stevens of Shelburne Falls on guitar. (more…)
OPEN MIC
MUSIC JAM
Friday AUGUST 5 2016 – 7:00 p.m
FREE or donation at the door; Wheelchair-accessible, air-conditioned
Open MIC performances by musicians, instrumental and vocal. Performers to determine format. Musicians and public welcome. (more…)
THE GIN GAME
Play by D.L. Coburn
Sunday. AUGUST 7, 2016 – 2:00 p.m.
FREE. Wheelchair-accessible, air-conditioned
A staged reading of D.L. Coburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic comedy. Summer Afterparty follows, donations welcomed.
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