Fiddler Matt Cranitch from County Cork, accordionist Dónal Murphy from Limerick and guitarist and vocalist Tommy O’Sullivan from County Kerry perform live as Sliabh Notes.
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Early spring explorations near Stockbridge
Mill Brook Sugarhouse is boiling sap in a spring day around the corner from the Roaring Brook Trail, and Irish musicians are tuning up as I explore the Southern Berkshires.
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Suzi Stern celebrates women’s voices in jazz
As a vocalist, Suzi Stern has a long inside view of a rich and intense jazz scene in Austin, Texas — and from her new home in Lenox she is planning to bring her music to the Berkshires.
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Sap and music rise on the edge of spring — #Berkshireweekend
By the scuffed ground around the bowl, I’m not the only small person who has found this magic circle. I’m out in the golden hour, walking on the lower loop through Hopkins Forest.
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Clay from an outdoor fire-pit carries ‘Volumes’
Wood-firing ceramics in an open-face pit is a volatile craft — Karlene Kantner can spend 12 hours and more stoking the fire when she makes the clay vessels she has shown at Berkshire Botanical Garden.
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Spontaneous dance will invoke Eight Elements in Eight Hours
How does a body dance oxygen? How does a body dance trees breathing out and people breathing in — the invisible balance that keeps us alive?
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Tibetan art and tacos in the snow — #Berkshireweekend
It must be March. One day I’m braving the wind on North Street for tacos from Placita Latina, and the next I’m walking across a hayfield in the snow …
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Contemporary Tibetan voices navigate ‘Across Shared Waters’
Marie-Dolma Chophel’s 'Inner Dialog' holds me still as I navigate the new show of contemporary and traditional Tibetan paintings, photographs, sculpture and collage at the Williams College Museum of Art.
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Lama Tashi Norbu imagines links in spacetime
Lama Tashi Norbu forms a contemporary collage of bright color in paint and wood, and in the petals he sees a gulf and a bridge between worlds.
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Sunny Banks Ranch keeps visions alive
Bill Robinson and his son, Steve, work a 200-acre ranch in Becket. Clad in thick rubber boots, jeans and a plaid shirt, Steve was outside working near the stables and looked every bit the part of a cowboy.
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