What I remember about FreshGrass festivals in the last 10 years or so is all over the map. It’s a mild fall day and I’m in the courtyard playing Farewell to Whiskey …
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International musicians enliven FreshGrass — #flashback
Yacouba Sissoko, one of the most sought-after kora musicians in the world, has joined a growing and global group of musicians who have come to the Berkshires for FreshGrass.
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Rana Santacruz brings Mexican folk to FreshGrass — #flashback
The tuning of a banjo blends into the tempo and strum of son jarocho, Mexican folk music from the Gulf coast, as Rana Santacruz sings his own original music.
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Studios open and kilns and conversations – #berkshiresweekend
In the next week we can make paper out of old jeans, or see a potter lift the top off a raku kiln while the bowls inside are glowing like molten glass … Artsweek Berkshires is coming back.
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‘Imprinted’ honors BIPOC artists and histories and futures
Imprinted at the Norman Rockwell Museum honors contemporary BIPOC artists and considers representations of Black, Indigenous, people of color in America across 400 years.
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How many native wildflowers bloom in the fall? – #berkshireweekend
Walking through wildflowers taller than I am makes me want to laugh and lie back and watch the sky … they give perspective.
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Global artists imagine Shaker sisters’ lives
Women worked here. Women lived here. When I walk through the Shaker kitchen, looking for Pinaree Sanpitak’s sculptures, I feel that in new ways.
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Organic forms carry art across generations
Horace Ballard has curated the first solo show of Mary Ann Unger’s work in more than 20 years, alongside works by her daughter — the artist Eve Biddle.
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Three days to chase the end of summer – #berkshireweekend
A long weekend of quiet days … what should we do? I may explore the Taconics, or the book festivals, or spiderwebs of art at PS21 and Hancock Shaker Village.
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Conrad Egyir celebrates community with MCLA
A man meets your eyes with confident humor, alive with his own thoughts. A woman near him is listening to music, as a father sings to his daughter — ‘If we lay a strong enough foundation, we’ll pass it on to you — we’ll give the world to you …’
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Nudel surprises and surpasses all expectations
Nudel surprised us with a playful place and an experimental and innovative menu — awardwinning chef Bjorn Somlo has run his highly seasonal farm-to-table restaurant in Lenox for 13 years.
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Catching the golden hours of summer – #Berkshireweekend
Sweet corn and peaches … the flavors mean late summer. We have a good month more of warm weather, but we feel the year begin to turn when the golden rod shows in the meadows.
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Kavakos plays Mendelssohn at Tanglewood
Greek violin virtuoso Leonidas Kavakos performs a modernist and French program infused with radical interpretative choices and the harmonic and compositional inventiveness of Debussy and Ravel.
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