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The Berkshire View

august • vOL. 3 nO. 8
day+night Plan Your Month Pages 15-21
The berkshires’ alternative newspaper
JTF: adams-cheshire budget shortfall Page 6 • METRO: political shootout in pittsfield page 8 • music: rev tor rocks Page 22
BERKSHIRE
THEBERKSHIREView.COM
The Interlopers make it big while
driving home a positive message
July 29–August 22
The Fitzpatrick Main Stage
BTG’s Stockbridge Campus
83 East Main Street, Stockbridge
A play by Terrence McNally
directed by Karen Allen
WORLD PREMIERE
JULY 31–AUGUST 9
at The Garage
BTG’s Pittsfield Campus
111 South Street, Pittsfield
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“razor-sharp,
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Enter the bold, curious and
provocative world of a
private 20th century men’s
club–where gender roles
are reversed and nothing is
off limits.
THE UNICORN THEATRE
THE LARRY VABER STAGE
BTG’S STOCKBRIDGE CAMPUS 6 EAST STREET, STOCKBRIDGE
BTG’s 10th
Annual
Community
Theatre
Production
Berkshire Theatre Group
directed by Rocco Sisto
co-directed and choreographed by Barbara Allen
musical direction by Deb Lapidus
featuring Deborah Grausman, Kathy Jo Grover,
Annette Miller and Maureen O’Flynn
On The Stage Series:
Production of
Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s
Now
Is
Our
Time
The Pleasures and Perils of the Third Chapter
in Plays, Poems, Prose, and Song
A THEATRICAL COLLAGE
by Annette Miller
a musical based on the stories of
P.L. Travers and the Walt Disney Film
directed by
Travis G. Daly
music direction by
Mark Gionfriddo
August 13–23
The Colonial Theatre
BTG’s Pittsfield Campus • 111 South Street, Pittsfield
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with
Joy Franz, Annette Miller, Joan Coombs
and
Matti Kovler, Music Director
(5 mins from Williamstown, MA)
Annette Miller
Saturday, August 29th at 7pm
On Stage at The Colonial Theatre
www.BerkshireTheatreGroup.org
(413) 997-4444
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Still no medical
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Court Beat
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A rally and event is being held in the county
to discuss medical marijuana after the slow
progress.
By Kameron Spaulding
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Music
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Venues24
Local Bands25
Live Music26
Vibe
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Art 26
Van Gogh at the Clark
Theater
Metro
Crime becomes
political shootout
Line up: 11 AM • Step off: 12 NOON
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PAGE 6 Letters
Just The Facts
PAGE 8 Packer makes her return
First Draft
The race for the corner office in Pittsfield has
become very centered on crime ever since
the July 4 shooting that rocked the city.
Turbulence
PAGE 10
Division over Hinsdale
police chief position
Politics between Select board and
discontented residents has led to turnover
in highest office of police force
By eoin higgins
Film
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Ant-Man
Eat
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Picnics abound this summer
Enjoy the View
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Clasified Help Wanted
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Classified Real Estate
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`Letters
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No circus animals
It’s time for the annual display of
animal slavery and here are some facts.
Elephants in the wild can travel up
to 25 miles in a day. Circus elephants
spend 24/7 in chains when not performing or being led to water as a PR stunt
for media.
Elephants in the wild form tightly
knit families or herds which bond for
decades and mourn just like humans, for
their dead. A circus elephant lives life
as a lonely, solitary traveling elephant.
Baby elephants are torn from their
mothers as infants and are mentally and
physically broken by trainers. If there
is more than one elephant, they are
rarely allowed to touch one another even
though touch for them is a favored form
of communication.
Captive elephants have dark grooves
and marks on their faces and bodies.
Trainers repeatedly gouge elephants’
highly sensitive skin with bullhooks to
make them do tricks that are physically
unnatural.
Do you want to help elephants?
Don’t go to the circus.
Scott Plantier
Pittsfield
The reconstruction project on Main Street in Great
Barrington has been the best organized and most
efficiently executed road construction I have ever seen
Beryl Birch
Good work on Main
What an honor
The reconstruction project on Main
Street in Great Barrington has been the
best organized and most efficiently executed road construction project I have
ever seen anywhere.
I have lived in NYC, LA, Denver,
Houston, London, New Jersey, Long Island,
and lots of little towns in between, and have
never seen an endeavor this well handled.
I am on Main Street in Great Barrington almost daily and have been
constantly amazed, since the launch of the
project, at the high level of organization
and safety considerations in place and
the competency with which the work was
moved along.
Kudos and congratulations to all the
architects, engineers, town employees,
police officers, road workers, construction workers, safety officers, volunteers
and everyone else who worked on the
reconstruction of Main Street and who
are doing a really fine job in repairing
and beautifying our downtown!
Beryl Bender Birch
Great Barrington
I would like to thank the Pittsfield
Parade Committee for the honor they
bestowed on me.
To be chosen as part of Pittsfield
history as the Grand Marshal of the
Fourth of July Parade was an awesome
tribute.
It was an amazing experience. It
made me reflect on the importance of
this community effort and the hundreds
who work long and hard to make it
happen.
Rain could not diminish the celebration and spirit of the parade.
Attending the Pittsfield Fourth of
July Parade is like coming home to a
friend — to a long conversation that
never ends; it just gets richer and more
meaningful.
We must continue to preserve this
wonderful tradition by supporting the
Pittsfield Parade Committee and its
endeavors.
Thanks again to everyone involved
and all that were there.
Lillian Quinn
Pittsfield
Rumspringa in
Stockbridge
The Amish have a rite of passage
time where adolescence may deviate from
proper behavior before usually returning
to become part of the adult society.
We adults in Stockbridge have
reversed the process in the past year in our
community lives by leaving adulthood and
practicing our own form of adolescence
Rumspringa.
We are often guided in our community lives by rumors,conspiracy
theories,creating straw men,half
truths,mean remarks,putting any middlehigh school to shame. It is dividing our
town.
We need to leave this place, perhaps
not being able to return right away to being adults but a first step would be to take
a lesson from the movie “Inside/Out” and
see the world from the mind of an 11-yearold girl where joy and the right dose of
sadness overcome anger,disgust,and fear.
Then we might return to a Stockbridge
where Mary Flynn’s civility occurs,where
the greater good matters, and where
the actions of people, such as Arthur
Dutil,Tim Minkler,Dave Lanoue in restoring Gould Meadows are seen as the norm
of the town.
Jack Spencer
Stockbridge
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The Facts
Budget
shortfall still
an issue
By Eoin Higgins
T
he current Adams-Cheshire
School District budget shortfall
has its roots in a thirty-five year
old Massachusetts law.
The law, Proposition 2 ½, establishes
a ceiling on property taxes for towns and
cities in the state.
The ceiling is 2.5 percent. Property
taxes generally go towards funding education.
In order to increase the tax rate
beyond the ceiling, a 2 1/2 override vote
Medical weed
back on the
main burner
E
ven though medical marijuana
passed in 2012, little movement
has been made since then.
Now, Darling Event Design has
announced a Cannabis Research and Patient
Care Seminar to be held Saturday August
29, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in The Barn at
Race Brook Lodge in Sheffield.
The seminar is a full-day educational
event for medical cannabis patients, caregivers, health care providers and the general
public, featuring medical cannabis industry
professionals from across the region.
By popular referendum in 2012, Massachusetts residents legalized the humanitarian medical use of marijuana. Join Darling
to learn about the history of medical marijuana, current disease-state research and
patient care best practices, as well as patient
and caregiver rights in medical marijuanalegal states with a focus on Massachusetts
and New England states. Organizers told
The View that while most of the event is
suitable for all ages, some content may be
advanced for children.
The seminar will comprise a morning
and afternoon panel session, each followed by a question-and-answer session.
The panelists bring valuable and unique
expertise from myriad sectors of the medical cannabis industry. Speakers are Shaleen
Title, (THC Staffing, 4Front Advisors), Nial
DeMena (Manna Wellness, Manna Molecular Science), Dennis DePaolo (Maine
Organic Therapies, Cultivate), Courtney
David (VT/RI/CA dispensary operations),
Dr. Margrit Mikulis (Living Natural Inc.,
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needs to be taken. If the measure passes,
the tax rate can be increased. If the measure fails, at it did recently in Cheshire,
then the options for the town are limited.
Cheshire has chosen to take the first
step of holding another vote before resorting to more fiscally extreme motions.
The measure failed in Cheshire over
a matter of $90,000. That was the amount
of money that the
school budget
►► North
went over the 2.5
County
percent property
school in
flux from
tax ceiling.
budget issue Worked out
in real dollar terms,
the tax increase is approximately .30c per
$1,000 in home valuation.
This puts the town in the position of
having to find the money from elsewhere. The most onerous possibility- but
the last resort- is to take the money from
the town’s stabilization fund.
Taking the money from this fund
would set a precedent many in town
government see as dangerous.
The town must go through the motions either way, of course.
In order to override the budget,
another vote must be taken and passed.
In order to take the money to cover
the shortfall from the stabilization fund,
a special town meeting must be held to
approve such an action.
Objectively, the budget override is
the simplest solution to the school budget
shortfall.
In a total fiscal year 2016 school
budget of $19,416,521, Cheshire is
responsible for only $2,465,747, and
of that number, only $90,000 of it is in
dispute due to Proposition 2.5.
Most of the funding for the school
district comes from the Massachusetts
Department of Education’s Chapter 70
Program. Chapter 70 is the means by
which the state funds public education.
While the process is extremely complicated, it can be easily broken down like
this:
Temescal Wellness, Kripalu) and Jill
Hitchman-Osborn (Parents 4 Pot, pediatric
patient advocate).
Last year the elimination of nine of the
20 groups that won provisional approval for
medical marijuana facilities in Massachusetts left Berkshire County in a state of flux.
Proposals from a number of local
prospects were rejected by the state Department of Public Health on the grounds of
inadequate financial capital and improper
corporate structure, among others.
Nial DeMana, former director of operations
at the nonprofit RMD candidate Manna
Wellness Inc and a speaker at the event,
revealed in a statement that the Pittsfield
applicant had ended its bid for medical
marijuana licensure after receiving a notice
of final action from the DPH.
Manna Wellness was denied a firstround dispensary license last January but
appealed the decision after holding a meeting with the DPH to discuss scoring.
There are currently seven counties,
including Berkshire County, without an
approved dispensary project. While the
state has issued five invites for applicants to
reapply, that would still leave two counties
without a medical marijuana facility — a
result that DeMana calls “a stark contrast
to the referendum that passed stating there
would be one in every county.”
“I’m very concerned for how they’re
going to run the program,” he said. “This
is a developing industry and there are
breakthroughs to be had and we’re no
longer going to be able to participate in that
to benefit us in the long run. We lost a great
opportunity to build this industry out here
and do it in a way that we saw fit. Manna
reaffirmed my belief in humanity and this
process has very much sucked some of the
life out of me.”
For event and venue details and to
purchase tickets, visit cannabisseminar.
eventbrite.com or call 207.408.1748.
Even though the law passed three years ago, no medical marijuana dispensaries have
opened in the whole state.
• A “foundation budget,” or minimum
amount required to fund each district, is
calculated
• The amount to be provided by the
towns and cities in the district is calculated
• The discrepancy between the amount
to be provided by the local towns and the
budget is covered by Chapter 70
• After this process, the districts may
contribute more money
In the Adams- Cheshire School
District, Chapter 70 covers 52% of the
annual budget.
The Adams Assessment, or contribution, covers 30%, and the Cheshire
Assessment covers 14%. State Reimbursements and Excess and Deficiency
Reserves cover the remaining 4%.
With the amount of money required
to run the School District being almost
twenty million, a matter of $90,000
seems rather trivial.
But the people of Cheshire are free to
prioritize as they see fit.
`Court
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Beat
Once again drug
arrests, DUIs fill
court dockets
Arnas Burzas, 21, and Lukas
Jasmontas, 20, both of Church Street,
Lenox,were found responsible for disturbing the peace on July 18 in Lenox.
Police received a complaint close to 4
a.m. from a Lenox woman on Old Center
Street who said that two males had attempted to enter her apartment. She was
awakened by male voices at her front
door, and heard one of them say, “I can’t
get in.” The males then ran off toward
Housatonic Street. Police searched the
area and found two males near Walker
Street on the side of Morgan Manor.
When the two males saw the police
cruiser, one attempted to jump over a
fence and was ordered to stop. At first,
they told police they were out for a walk.
Police could detect a strong odor of alcohol on their breath, slurred speech and
an unsteady gait on both males. Jasmontas eventually admitted they had been
“fooling around at someone’s door”, but
Burzas continued to deny they had done
anything wrong. Burzas and Jasmontas
were both ordered to pay a $100 fine for
disturbing the peace.
Frank E. Keller, 41, of Mystic Isle
Way, Becket, pleaded guilty to two
counts of receiving stolen property in
Tyringham. On May 7, 2013, police
received a complaint from a Tyringham
man who said some of his mother’s
silverware was missing. The woman
confirmed that she had opened the
hutch drawer and noticed that the green
cloth covering complete sets of both
American Tiffany and English sterling
silver had been brushed to the side and
all silverware was missing. Both sets
were engraved with identifying initials.
State police had responded to a previous
breaking and entering on Webster Road
in Tyringham on May 1, where gold
jewelry had been stolen from a wooden
jewelry box along with a silver coffee
pot, sugar bowl, creamer and other items
that had been passed down in the family
for several generations and was valued at
more than $2,000. There was no forced
entry in the house, and the family said
that the thief was knowledgeable about
silver, because several silver plated items
were there as well, but none of them
were stolen.
The items were all recovered at
Berkshire Hills Coins and Estate Jewelry
in Pittsfield after police described them
to the store owner. He displayed all of
the items for them and said that a female
had brought them in. Police tracked
down the woman, who said that Frank
Keller, a casual acquaintance, had came
by her house one day and told her he had
cleaned out his parents attic and came
across silverware that they didn’t want.
He asked if she had an ID and if she
could sell them for him, since he did not
have a Massachusetts ID. She said she
thought nothing of it, and agreed to bring
the silverware to the shop for him. The
store wrote her a check for $1,086, which
she cashed at Greylock Federal Credit
Union then gave money to him. Keller
looked “kind of bummed” when she gave
him the cash, she said, saying he thought
(the amount) would be more.
When police asked her to come
down to the station to talk to them, she
called Keller, who told her “no way (the
silverware) could be stolen” because he
had gotten it from Connecticut where his
family lived. She asked him for a ride
to the station, but he told her he was on
North Street and was going to talk to his
lawyers. “I still didn’t understand why he
would need a lawyer if (the silverware)
wasn’t stolen,” she said in her statement
to police. After that, Keller never stopped
by her house again after appearing almost every day. “I now realize that I was
just used in one of his scams and he is
not the person he claims to be.”
Police entered Keller’s name in the
pawn shop database, which showed that
Keller had been pawning thousands of
dollars worth of merchandise a month on
almost a daily basis. Keller was contacted by police and told to bring any
items of silver he had pawned. Keller
came voluntarily to the police station
but exercised his right to remain silent.
Keller was sentenced to one year in the
Berkshire House of Correction for each
of the two counts, to be served concurrently, with credit for 67 days’ time
already served.
Shane M. Bailey, 26, of Park Avenue,
Dalton, admitted to sufficient facts of
negligent operation of a motor vehicle,
driving with a suspended license, operating an uninsured motor vehicle and committing a number plate violation on June
23 in West Stockbridge.
Police responded to a report of a
motor vehicle accident on Rte. 41 and
spoke to the driver, Bailey, who said
he had been working a lot of hours, fell
asleep and crossed the road, hitting the
telephone pole.
He told police he didn’t remember
anything else. Police checked his license,
and learned that it had been suspended
for nonpayment as well as his registration. Bailey had also switched the license
plate from his Jeep, which had an active
registration, to his Ford Focus, which he
was driving at the time of the accident.
Bailey said he had put the Jeep’s
plates on his Ford and was going to the
registry shortly to take care of the matter. Bailey was fined $50 and ordered to
pay a $400 probation fee. The case was
continued without a finding until Aug. 3,
2015.
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iolence in Pittsfield’s streets
have led to a full on war of
words in the campaign for
mayor.
The July 4 shooting that left one dead
and another wounded quickly turned
into a political shootout between two of
the front-runners for the corner office. A
few days after shooting Linda Tyer came
out swinging and attacked the current
Mayor Daniel Bianchi saying that he had
“failed” the city on crime.
“Sadly, Mayor Bianchi’s reaction and response to each episode of
violence in our city is reckless and
irresponsible,”Tyer said. “From dismissing the brutal death of a young man
as unpleasant and now encouraging
untrained citizens to
confront dangerous
►► Crime
has become
criminals he has not
major issue demonstrated compassion or leadership in this crisis.”
Tyer added that she would change the tide
and be a mayor that was strong on crime.
“As your next mayor I promise to
collaborate with our law-enforcement
professionals to implement new strategies for how we fight crime in Pittsfield
including increasing the number of police
officers patrolling our streets,” Tyer said,
adding: “And, I will begin a process of
continuous engagement with all of the
groups working in our community to
combat the underlying issues that lead to
crime and violence.”
Bianchi then quickly fired back, laying out the ways he said he has worked to
address crime in the city.
“During my time in office I have supported numerous public safety initiatives.
I have added resources to our Police
force including a crime analyst in 2013
and additional police officer positions in
2014 and 2015. I have also established
regular Public Safety Task Force meetings which include the Pittsfield Police
Chief, the Pittsfield Housing Authority,
the District Attorney and the Berkshire
County Sheriff’s Department. I have
worked to expand the Neighborhood
Crime Watch program, secured funding for the Shannon Grant, an anti-gang
violence grant focused on youth, and
established a Downtown Ambassador
program in partnership with Berkshire
Community College and Downtown
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Inc.,” Bianchi said.
That list sure didn’t go far enough for
Tyer, who then laid out a list of ways she
would address crime in a better manor
than she believes the current administration has.
“Pittsfield has many responsible
landlords who respect their neighbors and
provide good housing for their tenants.
Unfortunately, a few bad actors are disturbing the quality of life in some areas
of Pittsfield,” Tyer claimed.
She then proposed a Problem
Properties Task Force to hold landlords
accountable for the less-than-neighborly
activities of their tenants and for their
own misdeeds. Task Force members
would sift through citation data from
various city agencies and review incident
reports from the police.
“Once identified, property owners
will have the opportunity to work with
the task force before any consequences
are imposed. These unwelcome properties
disrupt the neighborhood,” Tyer said. “It
is imperative to take action.”
Bianchi responded by saying that
many of those ideas are already used by
the city.
“Two years ago I added a crime analyst to the Police Department to study the
crime statistics, patterns and “hot spots”
to better understand the best utilization
of police personnel and assets throughout
the city,” Bianchi said.
Tyer also recommended that the city
join the Cure Violence movement, which
currently has active programs in 25 cities
in eight countries and is endorsed by the
U.S. Conference of Mayors.
“Cure Violence begins with the
premise that violence is like a disease.
It spreads from one person to another.
To cure it, you need to interrupt it,” Tyer
said. “There are three essential elements
of the Cure Violence health model: to
detect and interrupt potentially violent
conflicts, to identify and treat the highest
risk, and to mobilize the community to
change norms.”
Bianchi went on the offensive when
he explained why he has not added Pittsfield to the Cure Violence movement.
“There is a reason why there are only
25 Cure Violence Programs operating in
eight countries including the US,” Bianchi said. “This program is 100-percent
funded at the community level. A Cure
Violence program requires a municipality to pay between $350,000 to $500,000
annually, not to mention an initial installment of $25,000 to determine the city’s
“hot spot.”
Bianchi added that the program is
mainly only found in large cities, not
ones the size of Pittsfield.
“Typically, the geographic area for
a Cure Violence Program only covers
two square miles. Additionally, these
programs require approximately 18-36
months of highly skilled training and
technical assistance from well-paid facilitators in the Cure Violence Program. It is
utilized in New York City, Chicago and
Baltimore, not in communities the size of
Pittsfield. In all three of these cities, the
program is funded through their Departments of Public Health. Pittsfield is not
in a position, regardless of who the next
mayor is, to appropriate $350,000 a year
or more to train community members to
combat crime,” Bianchi said.
Tyer has stuck to her guns and kept
firing at Bianchi over the crime issue.
“You cannot expect Mayor Bianchi
to help find creative solutions to these
challenges. He argued fiercely against
and voted against property maintenance
regulations and a property registration
program,” Tyer said. “He was a member
of the West Side Neighborhood Initiative.
For years, he heard pleas for help. Yet,
when in a position to take action, he has
failed to do so.”
In the end, Bianchi explained that
his administration is doing what it can
to fight crime, something Tyer still
strongly disagrees with, but he added that
many of these issues will take movement at the federal level to see any real
change.“Blaming the mayor or law
enforcement for this tragedy is not helpful and distracts from what is actually a
much bigger issue, Bianchi said. “Unfortunately, we live in a society where it is
all too easy for the wrong people to get
a gun and use it when the opportunity
arises. Until this national problem is
resolved, these kinds of tragedies will
continue to happen on the streets of every
city in the country.”
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`Turbulence
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Divisive
politics affect
Hinsdale
police force
By eoin higgins
T
he town of Hinsdale has lost
its third police chief in a year
and a half. Mark L. Smith,
who joined the force in July
of 2014, is leaving Hinsdale to become
the chief in the town of North Brookfield, MA.
Smith’s departure marks a continuation of divisiveness in the town
that has had the chief’s position at the
center of the controversy.
Watershed a
major concern
for possible
pipeline
By eoin higgins
T
he proposed Tennessee Gas Pipeline
extension, named Northeast Energy
Direct, that may run through Central
Berkshire County, has a safety record causing many to doubt the wisdom of its
proximity to watersheds and protected areas.
TGP’s safety record does not inspire
confidence about the company’s future in the
Berkshire Hills. Since August of 2012, when
TGP was acquired fully by Kinder Morgan, the company has reported 13 onshore
pipeline incidents totaling over $5 million in
property damage, both public and private.
Almost all of TGP’s incidents have been the
result of operational or equipment failure.
The company’s record on maintaining
and fixing its pipelines is spotty, at best. Before being completely taken over by KinderMorgan, TGP was known in the industry for
its constant safety violations and the aged,
unsafe pipes it used to transport natural gas
across the East Coast.
Information obtained by the View from
Kinder Morgan shows that the company
spent $400 million on pipeline maintenance
in 2014, but it is unclear on what exactly
this maintenance is and whether or not the
money is being spent on decaying pipelines
or simply going about the normal repairs for
their almost 14,000 miles of existing pipeline.
The environmental impact of a spill or
any incident in the region could be quite
serious. In June of 2015, the University of
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Hinsdale has been enduring a
stark political divide over the past few
years. On one side, Bonnie Conner and
Bill Goddard, Select Board members,
ostensibly were
elected to clean
►► politics,
up the town’s
discontent
many political
lead to
division over and economic
appointment
problems.
of police
On the other side,
chief
residents who
felt they were
underrepresented and ignored fought to
curtail the former’s political power.
Tensions rose between the two
sides and reached the boiling point
when the Select Board fired Chief
Nancy Daniels in 2014.
Daniels’ firing was the culmination
of a year of back-and-forth between
the board and the Chief over Daniels’
fitness for the position and her work
ethic.
Once Daniels was fired, the town’s
political divide was irreparable. Town
Massachusetts Center for Agriculture, Food
and the Environment released a report on the
Natural Resources in the path of the pipeline
in Massachusetts.
The report, prepared at the request of
State Senate President Stanley Rosenburg,
has no political agenda. Instead, according
to report author Associate Professor Scott
Jackson, the main author of the document,
“this is the kind of analysis to determine the
pipeline route is appropriate. And if there are
alternative routes, they should be analyzed
using the same kind of methodology.”
The report found that the pipeline’s
proposed route would intersect with a number of Berkshire County natural resources.
BioMap2 Core Habitat areas, developed in
2010 by the state to help protect endangered species and as important habitat
concerns, will be crossed over in Berkshire
County by over four miles of pipeline. An
additional 11.88 miles of pipeline will run
through critical natural landscape surrounding BioMap2.
Most importantly, the pipeline’s route
will take it right across the northern edge of
the Hinsdale Flats Watershed. The Watershed is designated by the Massachusetts
Secretary of Energy and Environmental
Affairs as an Area of Critical Environmental
Concern. The importance of the watershed
cannot be overstated and the pipeline crossing it “should absolutely not be allowed,”
according to Jane Winn.
The Hinsdale Flats Watershed flows
into the Housatonic River from the East in
Hinsdale. The Watershed is the main point
of intersection for a number of streams and
creeks that wend their way down the hills
to the Flats.
The concern expressed by many is that
with the pipeline so close to the Watershed,
the chances of contamination are high. Add in
the safety record and you have a real reason
for skepticism at the pipeline pathway.
meetings became so acrimonious that
Conner–rightly or wrongly–began
ejecting residents whose behavior
disrupted the conducting of town business. Tensions rose and the town voted
in a special session for the power to
recall members of the Select board.
Meanwhile, the board had appointed Pittsfield officer Charles Basset to
temporarily fill the chief’s position
while the town interviewed replacements. Basset’s tenure was by all accounts uneventful.
Smith was hired in July of 2014
after Select Chair Conner noticed that
during his public job interview, he
angled his chair away from the board
and towards the crowd.
Conner saw this attention to the
town’s citizenry as the defining moment for hiring Smith.
But although Smith’s hiring made
for some (temporary) stability in the
Police Department, the consequences
of Daniels’ firing were not going away
for the town government.
Voters in Hinsdale approved a
measure to vote on a recall of Select
Chair Bonnie Conners, who, along with
Nancy Daniels, was the center around
which the roiling waters of Hinsdale’s
discontent swirled.
The rest, of course, is history.
Conners has been recalled, the town’s
government is in the hands of her political enemies, and now Chief Smith is
leaving the Police Department.
Although by all accounts Chief
Smith’s departure is amicable, the instability of the Hinsdale Police Department over the past year and a half sums
up the town’s broader issues.
The oppositional sides in the town
government are perpetually at war with
one another, fighting on a battlefield of
legislation and government.
In the wake of the town-wide civil
war, the real losers–as in every war–
are the people of the community. In
Hinsdale, the symptom of the instability in this case is the insecurity of the
town’s police force.
Katie MaTthews
The Interlopers performing at The Big Up Festival in 2013 in Claverack, NY.
E
Eoin Higgins
The current proposed pipeline would go though many watershed areas like this one
in Berkshire County.
ver daydream about being a famous singer, rapper, or being in a
successful band? Singing on stage
in front of a crowd of screaming fans who all sing along to a song you
wrote? Looking to your left, and to your
right, and seeing your friends, looking at
each other with a knowing smile like, yeah,
this is pretty awesome? Picking up a magazine and seeing your face on the cover?
Well, I certainly have. Most of my
life has been spent listening to music,
day-dreaming about a life I don’t live.
I’m 26 years old, which according to my
daydream-life calendar, means I should be
the starting shortstop for the Yankees, rapping about my black-on-black Bentley and
arguing with my childhood crush, Jodie
Sweetin from Full House, about where to
make a dinner reservation. However, after
too many cigarettes and a serious Netflix
addiction, my baseball career is limited to
creating my own character on MLB the
Show ’14. My rap career ended when I
started doing yoga, wearing cloths that
actually fit, and bragging about how many
miles my Subaru gets on the highway.
And Jodie Sweetin is recovering from a
crystal meth addiction. The girl I sleep next
to every night I found in Dorchester on a
balcony after waking up in the trunk of my
friend’s car. She is missing part of her ear
and half of her fur. Her name is Kitty and
she is a cat. You grow up being told, “you
can be whatever you want to be when you
grow up,” until one day, no one tells you
that anymore. You graduate from college
and return home to the Berkshires to the
same crappy job you had in high school
and a good-for-you pat on the back.
And then I was introduced to The
ers, and their own individual passions and
ambition; they have evolved from performing at their Monument Mountain High
school talent show to playing festivals
such as Musik Fest in 2014 which included
acts such as Sheryl Crow, Steely Dan, and
The Interlopers make it big while
driving home a positive message
Interlopers. A band comprised of six
young talented musicians whose core three
members, Curtis Kelley, the drummer and
lead vocalist, Nicholas Veinoglou, the lead
guitarist and vocalist, and Ariel Shrum, the
trumpet player, grew up in the Berkshires,
but have now branched out gaining nationwide attention. With support from local
schools, the community and programs like
the Railroad Street Youth Project, healthy
influences from family, friends, and teach-
Jason Derulo. They recently opened for Jon
Baptiste who is now the new bandleader
of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,
and are recording their next album in an
Atlantic Records studio.
Despite the band’s rigorous touring
schedule, rehearsals, recording, and oh
yeah, college; they continue to return to
their roots, watering our community with
their music and energy that generates a zest
for life, that yes, you can grow up to be
whatever you want to be, and no, it’s never
too late.
This is the topic of their music video,
“Hold On.” Kelley explains, “we came up
with the idea of two old men at the end of
their lives, who go out and do all the things
they weren’t able to do because society
deemed that it was impossible. The message
is to find beautiful things in life and hold on
to them,” and the delivery of that message is
hilarious. “We picked lots of touristy spots
to do the filming, and got so many funny
looks, some concerned and some filled
with laughter,” Veinoglou recalls people’s
reactions to Shrum, and former sax player,
Diego Huaman, dressed up as old men. “I
put on a ton of make-up and looked like an
eighty-year-old man. Me and Diego just ran
around Boston hitting on girls, and living
life to the fullest,” which includes running
and falling in the Reflection Pool next to
the Prudential Center, which is not only
frowned upon, but illegal. All to the tune
of a very groovy, uplifting song, rich with
thoughtful lyrics, a pop sound and soulful
feel. Kelley sits on a corner of Newbury
Street, where during a summer day you
can find Mass Art students displaying their
artwork, and at night, you might find a
homeless guy, or five, selling artwork for a
peculiarly low price. Kelley is singing with
a smile while playing the air drums. “I have
heard it all before it takes more than words
to erase absurdity…”
Kelley explains his outlook on life and
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music, “my overall dream is to be an agent
of joy, and positivity, and change, and
to have a voice outside the system,” The
Interlopers have created that voice and now
have a platform to share it, and aside from
their own talent and work ethic this is the
product of positivity and help from within
the Berkshire community.
Scott Annand, vice-principal at Monument Mountain and former biology teacher,
who has a habit of knowing something
about every student, remembers The Interlopers before they were a band. “An amazing eclectic group of guys, very different,
too. Nick, who I taught in biology, and he
couldn’t stand it, but what an energy. And
to be able to say, “I’m not sure biology is
my bag.’ Curtis who just had this myopic
view of:this is what I’m going to do. To
see that kind of drive in a young person,
and the joy he has banging on those drums,
remarkable. And then you have Ariel, who
even when he first came here looked like
he was twelve years old, yet he still has
this presence and confidence about him to
perform. He would just stand up in front of
a crowd of people and out comes a magic
trick. Super. Spectacular positives, finding
the passion and then being undeterred to
Magic is what initially
brought these
three together.
Quite literally. “My
relationship with
Nick started in 9th
grade on a school
bus,” Shrum explains
keep going. As young people isn’t that the
mission?”
Shrum and Kelley both attended the
Rudolph Steiner in Great Barrington but it
wasn’t until high school that these unlikely
characters found a friendship through their
love for music, and magic. Kelley laughs,
as he talks about how he came to know
Nick. “I was going through a sort of gothyphase. I had long hair, wearing all dark
cloths, and Nick was wearing Abercrombie
for days. Ariel was a grade above me, so I
had known him as this goofy, strange man,
a constantly evolving character, and then at
Monument I actually got to know him. He
was very into magic. Just an enthusiastic,
happy, big-hearted person who is always
coming up with new ideas, making his way
into the songs by always being there with
an idea.”
Magic is what initially brought these
three together. Quite literally. “My relationship with Nick started in 9th grade on a
school bus,” Shrum explains, “he was
doing a magic trick, with color changing
scarfs. Then I showed the same group
of girls a card trick, and they thought it
was cooler, so we kind of had this rivalry
friendship, kind of for a while. And in
high school, I was showing (Kelley) some
magic tricks, and I didn’t even realize it
was the same guy from Steiner, because he
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Photos Contributed
The Interlopers music video “Hold On” stars Ariel Shrum and Diego Huaman as old
men who break out of a nursing home to raise hell in Boston.
was older and different. Different hair. He
was kind of goth, a little bit. Then we discovered this beautiful connection in Music
Theory class.”
Jeffrey Stevens has taught music in the
district for 33 years, teaching four bands,
grades 6-12, at Monument Mountain and
Monument Valley. He has been playing the
trumpet for close to 50 years, and his horn
has been heard for decades throughout the
Berkshires and beyond, performing with
John Williams, Kenny Rogers, Arlo Guthrie, Natalie Cole, Yusef Lateef, and many
more, including The Interlopers, but before
the band was a band, when they were his
students, Curtis, Nick, and Ariel. Three kids with a dream.
Shrum always wanted to play the trumpet, in which case, he landed at the right
school and in the right hands. “Honestly,”
Shrum says over the phone but I can hear
the smile on his face, “Mr. Stevens was
just super inspiring. He was the first person
I actually saw play jazz, well, or improv,
on the trumpet, to see that kind of trumpet
playing up close, and personal (Silence).
It’s weird to say I wanted to be like him,
but I wanted to be that guy, who could one
day play like that.”
e-mailed Mr. Stevens on a whim, it
being summer, and thinking he may
not be fond of me because I always
got kicked out of his class, probably
because I wasn’t in his class, to see if he’d
answer some questions about The Interlopers. He got back to me within hours start-
I
ing the interview with, “sorry, I have a lot
to say,” which as a journalist, is like sitting
on a corner, starving, and hearing the sound
of someone unload a pocket full of change
into my cup, no pennies, just silver.
Mr. Stevens emphasized Kelley’s “one
of a kind talent,” his excitement with the
arrival of Shrum, “a new trumpet player who
was very motivated and had tremendous
potential,” and Nick’s warm personality
and how “his guitar playing started to blow
(Stevens) away.” Mr. Stevens explains, “they
took direction very well. I have experience
both with students bands and as a professional musicians, and have way of doing things
and the students in my bands understand
that. For the most part students are happy
with direction and leadership. These guys
were no different, but again as they matured
and developed their skills I featured them
more and more. Curtis got the hard charts
and Ariel and Nick often had solos. I chose
pieces that would showcase those players
and give them the opportunity to stretch out.
In jazz, its all about the individual expression
and improvisation and I encouraged those
guys to stretch out, and, of course, they did.”
Working with Mr Stevens, and growing their talent, led to them stretching out
on their own.
“We were both very different,” Kelley
remembers the first time playing with
Veinoglou outside of band, “and I asked
him to jam one day, and we ended up
coming together. Two very unlikely people,
making music together, and it was a blast.
I never played with someone who was that
good who really made me want to play
better.” Veinoglou, whom I interviewed
separately, also remembers this connection.
“The first time I played with Curtis we
instantly clicked. It was like some mysterious musical connection that was so intense,
we could close our eyes and just flow with
whatever song we were playing or writing.
We must have wrote three songs every
time we played together. Music just poured
out!”
Their music has gone through many
different self-defined genres until they
reached “post-dad.” Kelley recalls, “After
years of saying, it’s like pop, rock, kind
of R&B, kind of soul, we call ourselves
post-dad. It’s like music of the 70s, which
was my favorite time. Dad music is my
favorite. Music that was sophisticated, and
beautiful, and had a lot of rich harmony in
it, horns, and strings, but was considered
popular at time, and it was politically
charged. It was conscious. Because dads
listen to great shit. Ode to the dads.”
The Interloper’s first performance
was the 2010 talent show at Monument
Mountain with former members Alexander
Pitman and Dylan Renner. They put together a couple of songs, and did one of the
scariest things as a teenager: went on stage
in front of their friends and family, and
said, “this is our band.” Kelley sits back in
his chair remembering, “It was amazing,
man. Honestly, one of the most prominent
musical memories, because my whole life
I’d been dreaming of putting together a
band and making a positive difference in
the world.”
That led to the Railroad Street Youth
Project performances and open mic
nights. “(The R.S.Y.P) were responsible
for creating performance opportunities
for The Interlopers in our early days,”
Kelley explains. “We were there for the
R.S.Y.P. 20th anniversary or something
like that. One of our first shows, and the
first show with a five-piece band. With
a horn section. It was a great thing, just
because it was our first outlet for getting
our peers to come see us play. They also
set up the Hancock Shaker Village show
first in 2009. They were responsible for
helping me get to Nepal in 2013, and I
think they’re an incredible organization.
They provided that opportunity and that’s
a beautiful thing, because a lot of different
places in the world, people don’t have that
outlet . Young people aren’t encouraged
to follow their dreams, and jump in the
system, and I love that they exist. They
are responsible for a lot of our opportunities. It’s so cool. I love R.S.Y.P. That’s a
beautiful thing. One of my favorite things
about the Berkshires; people are orientated to fueling young peoples’ inspirations and dreams and that doesn’t happen
enough in the world.” Kelley attributes his
trip to Nepal for igniting the travel bug in
him and widening his perspective of the
world, which contributes to The Interloper’s mission to spread positivity. But how
have people responded?
Erica Golaszewski
Ariel Shrum and Nick Veinoglou in the Loper Booth selling tickets and taking photos
with fans for their May 2 performance at Brighton Music Hall.
S
itting outside of Rubi’s Coffee
Shop one day, like most days,
I see a familiar face, turned acquaintance, and now, friend, Theo
Friedman, who I originally had only met
drunk and insisted on calling him Toby.
Sober, I apologize. And after repeating this
process a few times, he sees me once again
outside Rubi’s and asks me what I’m working on. I tell him, to which he replies,“Are
you serious? We’re like their biggest fans,”
his friend Grace confirms this, “we’ve seen
them like thirty or forty times.”
“For real?” I ask, eagerly.
“For real,” he says, I ask him if he’s
do me a favor and be interviewed and he
said it’d be his pleasure. “There’s no way
to express how The Interloper’s make me
feel besides it’s like the happiest I ever am.
There shows are like a drug to me every
time they announce a new show I’m just
itching for that day to come. I just kind
of need it to lift me up. It’s just a feeling
of pure bliss and joy and happiness and
that everything is going to be alright, and
perfect. That’s not even to mention the
musical talent. I can put them on my iPod
and throw on my headphones anywhere in
the world, and I close my eyes and it brings
me home. It’s such a comforting feeling
having that perfect little haven created
from their music. After every show I go
up to hang out with them, and they always
will say thank you to me, but to me it’s
silly I really feel like I should be thanking
them.” Friedman lived in Boston, attending Tufts University the same time Kelley,
Veinoglou, Shrum were at Berklee College
of Music.
“It was the best feeling of my life,”
Veinoglou recalls, about getting accepted to
Berklee in the winter of his senior year. “It
was my dream school and the only school
I applied to, for that matter. I knew what I
wanted out of Berklee and how to get it, so
I went for it!” Shrum had a similar experience, getting accepted a few months later,
“I went outside and screamed; I was so
happy,” Kelley got into Berklee the following year, reconnecting with The Interlopers who have now added Nick Frenay, a
Presidential trumpet player who was asked
to play bass, Myles Sweeney on the keys,
and Kyle Champeon on the saxophone.
If I were in a band on a path like The
Interlopers, a path where there is no end
in sight, only stars, I’d be calling home to
say, “sorry Mom, I’ll see you at Christmas, maybe. Love you. Kiss Cooper (my
cat) for me.”
Kelley relives the call that made his
dream, not just a word, or place in your
head, or some intangible thought that’s nice
to think about, but something real.“One
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spark from him, they all have that same elein the watershed of the Housatonic River.
ment. Nothing else matters at that moment,
(Great Barrington is) at the forefront of the
except that moment. Except that note that
big-chain-grocery-store-defying, eat-local
they’re playing.”
movement.”
And that statement holds true across all Not everybody in the Berkshires can
aspects of life.
afford to buy food at the Co-op or Guido’s.
That all we have is the moment we’re
Since we were little we’ve been told “don’t
in. Kelley came up with the name, The Inswim in the Housy!” because it’s contaminatterlopers, “it was just the vocal word of the
ed with PCB’s. And if Great Barrington is at
week in my 9th grade class, and I thought
the forefront of this big-chain-whatever, eatit was really cool because I wanted to write
local movement with a Big Y, Price Chopper,
music that was very inviting and positive.
and now a Petco. We’re all in trouble.
Interlopers means invaders, people that are
The era that Norman Rockwell depicted
unwanted,
is over. Alice’s
so I saw this
Restaurant is
kind of irony
gone. It’s time
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this QR code with your smart device. our own paintwith a darker
ings and our
name.”
own movies.
In the Berkshires, especially in
For those of us who grew up in the BerkStockbridge, I often feel like an interloper.
shires, the porch of the Red Lion Inn is a
We’ve grown up in a generation that
status symbol that seems unobtainable, yet
“missed out.”
that is where I interviewed Curtis Kelley
Oh, do you remember when Bob
in Stockbridge. The town we both grew up
Marley, Louie Armstrong, or Van Morrison
in. “I never sat out here before,” I say, a
played at the Music Inn in Stockbridge? Or
young writer whose dream is to write one
how wild Tanglewood used to be? Or how
good thing.
amazing the music was at Helsinki? Or
“Me either.” Kelley says, a young muhow fun BerkFest was in Great Barrington?
sician with his own dream, “and I worked
Younger people don’t remember any of
here for three years.” We both laugh
these things and can’t live in the moment
because we finally made it to the porch.
because growing up in the Berkshires is like We clink our glasses together, making eye
growing up in a museum. Statistically, less
contact, and helping each other take one
and less younger people live in the Berkmore step towards our dreams. One hand
shires. The cost of living is too high.
helping the other. Isn’t that what being a
community is about?
es, the Berkshires are beautiful
Stuff: The Interlopers are making the
and rich in history. Our county
most of the moment, and have numerous
prides itself in protecting, promoting, and projecting this ideal- original projects in the works including
Veinoglou’s brainchild “Red Light Sessions,”
ized vision of what the Berkshires were,
which involves rearranging a pop song’s
which are immortalized by Norman Rockchorus in their own style and performing the
well’s paintings, Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s
40-second cover in the middle of the street
Restaurant” (1967), or the Smithsonian’s
while traffic is stopped. Which as you can
2012 publication naming Great Barrington
imagine, creates temporary havoc and hilarnumber one on their list of “The 20 Best
ity. There’s already one out on youtube.com/
Small Towns in America of 2012.”
They describe Great Barrington and its theinterlopersmusic, and to see more music
videos or performances visit https://www.
inhabitants from an outsider’s eye, “others
youtube.com/user/theinterlopersmusic. You
carry yoga mats, bags of farmers market
can also follow these unique individuals on
produce, books, CDs, double espressos
twitter by visiting https://twitter.com/thelopand all the other stuff it’s hard to find in
ers, and to learn more about, download, or
surrounding Berkshire Mountain villages
listen their music visit theinterlopersmusic.
like Stockbridge and Lenox …honking
com, or the theinterlopers.bandcamp.com.
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The Interlopers
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The Interlopers in New York City on the roof of The Engine Room Recording Studio
in 2013. The band won recording time in a competition that year.
of the most important ones emotionally,
and historically was when we got a call
after touring in the summer of 2013. I got
the call. We were asked to play Summer Sound Live at Tanglewood. Me and
Nick obviously have dreamed of playing
Tanglewood since we were kids. There we
were. We played there for a couple hundred
people. That felt like we were really doing
it. And then last August I got called to do
this dream gig.” The Interlopers went on
to play Musik Fest in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania with 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. slots
on Saturday and Sunday, playing with
acts such as Sheryl Crow, Steely Dan, and
Jason Derulo.
These guys have torn through the
Berkshires, and ripped through some of
“Listening to them
and Jeff Stevens
play together, you
felt like you were in
a different world,
nothing else exists
except the note that
their playing right
at that time.”
Boston’s greatest venues such as the Sinclair
and Brighton Music Hall, but I know for
myself, after even just a three-hour car
ride with certain friends, I’m on the verge
of ending up on the police blotter section
of the paper. How do these guys manage
not only to live, sleep, eat, practice, and
perform together, but do so with positivity?
Kelley shares his secret, “a philosophy
that I’ve lived my life on, is that it’s all
about The Hang. Say in a given week you
play four hours worth of shows live and
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than you spend like a hundred hours in between, if The Hang’s not there, how are you
going to have a good show? The Hang, it’s
all about The Hang, really getting to know
each other, know each others visual cues.”
These young men have figured out not
only how to co-exist but thrive together,
recognizing and nurturing the most important aspect of their success-that it started
as a friendship through a shared passion
for music, and with pressures, promises,
and persuasions I can’t even imagine,
they’ve managed to not only remain
friends, but share their growing talent and
success with the people who were there
from the beginning.
Jeff Stevens has a pop concert each
spring usually featuring guest artists
including Rolf Smedvig, a former principal
trumpeter for the Boston Symphony, Livingston Taylor (yes, James Taylor’s brother
and a phenomenal singer/songwriter in his
own right), and Peter Serkin, a Grammy
Award winning pianist, whose son, Willie,
currently plays the trumpet at Monument,
so keep an eye, or ear rather, open for him.
Added to this list is The Interlopers
who were invited to play the 2015 Pop
Concert, which Mr. Stevens describes, “as
a moment I will never forget.”
Mike Powell has been a guidance counselor at Monument for ages, and even so,
every time I see him he looks younger than
me. Anyways, the former soccer and tennis
coach, and lifetime role model, describes
the last time he heard The Interlopers play
with Jeff Stevens, “Listening to them and
Jeff Stevens play together, you felt like you
were in a different world. The most striking
thing that is so obvious right away is that if
you watch Jeff Stevens, nothing else exists
except the note that he’s playing right at that
time. Each one of those kids are like little
disciples. Whether they had that before getting here and working with Jeff, or it was a
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by Barrington Stage Company. 36 Linden Street,
Pittsfield. 8 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
Theater
Talks, Classes & Workshops
Frankie & Johnny in the clair de lune,
Berkshire Theater Group presents. At the
Fitzpatrick Main Stage, 83 East Main Street,
Stockbridge. 2 and 8 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
“I Saw My Neighbor on the Train and I Didn’t
Even Smile”, presented by Berkshire Theater
Group at The Unicorn Theater, 6 East Street,
Hamlet, Shakespeare and Company presents.
At The Dell at the Mount, Edith Wharton’s
home. 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox. 11 a.m. (413)
637-1199.
“Lost in Yonkers”, presented by Barrington
Stage Company. At the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage, 30 Union Street, Pittsfield. 8 p.m. (413)
236-8888.
Moira Linehan discusses her new book of
poems, “Incarnate Grace”. At The Bookstore,
11 Housatonic Street, Lenox. 7 p.m. (413)
637-3390.
Tuesday, August 4
Theater
Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Frankie & Johnny in the clair de lune, Berkshire Theater Group presents. At the Fitzpatric
Main Stage, 83 East Main Street, Stockbridge.
7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
“The Club”, Berkshire Theater Group
presents. At The Garage, 111 South Street,
Pittsfield. 8 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Hamlet, Shakespeare and Company presents.
At The Dell at the Mount, Edith Wharton’s
home. 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox. 6 p.m. (413)
637-1199.
Music
Bang on a Can Marathon, at MASS MoCA.
1040 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams. 4 p.m.
(413) 662-2111.
Dvorak: Stabat mater. Presented by the
Berkshire Choral International. 245 North Undermountain Road, Sheffield. 7:30 p.m. (413)
229-1999.
Buckwheat Zydeco. Infinity Hall at 20 Greenwoods Road, Norfolk, CT. 8 p.m. (860) 542-5531.
Professor Louie & the Crowmatix. At the Guthrie
Center, 2 Van Deusenville Road, Great Barrington.
8 p.m. (413) 528-1955.
Comedy
Robert Klein, at The Colonial Theatre, 111
South St., Pittsfield. 8 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Special Events
Old Salt’s Day. At Herman Melville’s Arrowhead. 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield. 9 a.m.
(413) 442-1793.
BBQ Dinner. The First Congregational Church
of South Egremont will hold a barbeque ribs
dinner. Menu includes ribs, baked potato, corn
on the cob, cole slaw, corn bread, dessert,
and beverage. Take-out will be available. 34
Main Street, South Egremont. 5:30 p.m. (413)
528-2368 or (413) 528-4886.
Other
Family First Series: Terry a la Berry. At the
Spectrum Playhouse. 20 Franklin Street, Lee. 11
a.m. (413) 394-5023.
La Bête Humaine. Screening part of the Great
Rides Film Festival. At PS21: Performance
Spaces for the 21st Century, 2980 NY-66, Chatham, NY. 8:30 p.m. (518) 392-6121.
Family First Series: Terry a la Berry. At the
Spectrum Playhouse. 20 Franklin Street, Lee. 11
a.m. (413) 394-5023.
Mount Washington Annual Church Fair. With
new road show booth and silent auction. At
Church of Christ Mt. Washington, 116 East Street,
South Egremont. 10 a.m. (508) 875-5233.
Knit ‘n Spin. At the auditorium of town hall.
.
Parsons Dance, performs on August 28 and
29 as part of the Chatham Dance Festival’s
10th year anniversary
celebration.
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ZZ Top set to perform at Full Tilt Boogie in Pownal, VT on August 22. The line-up also
includes Gary Clark, Jr., Buddy Guy and more. For more information, see page 28.
4988 State Highway 22, Amenia, NY. 10 a.m.
(845) 373-8118.
Sunday, August 2
Theater
“The Unexpected Man”, presented by Shakespeare and Company. 70 Kemble Street, Lenox.
2 p.m. (413) 637-1199.
Music
Andris Nelsons conducts Haydn, featuring YoYo Ma. At Tanglewood. 297 West Street, Lenox.
2:30 p.m. (888) 266-1200.
Tower of Power. Infinity Hall at 20 Greenwoods
Road, Norfolk, CT. 5 and 8 p.m. (860) 542-5531.
Sally Wilfert: Fresh and Fancy Free. Presented
by Barrington Stage Company. 36 Linden Street,
Pittsfield. 8 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
Penderecki String Quartet, featuring guest
artist Matt Haimovitz. At Music Mountain, 225
Music Mountain Road, Falls Village, CT. 3 p.m.
(860) 824-7126.
GABI. Performing at Chesterfest at Chesterwood, 4 Williamsville Road, Stockbridge. 5:30
p.m. (413) 298-3579.
Reservations. Route 7, Great Barrington. 9 a.m.
(413) 442-1793.
Freedom Ride. American Legion Riders Post 155
host. Funds raised help support local veterans
and their families. Breakfast, raffle, and Chinese
auction. 258 North Street, Pittsfield. 9 a.m.
Other
Transsiberian. Screening part of the Great
Rides Film Festival. At PS21: Performance
Spaces for the 21st Century, 2980 NY-66, Chatham, NY. 8:30 p.m. (518) 392-6121.
Monday, August 3
Theater
Special Events
Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Frankie & Johnny in the clair de lune, Berkshire
Theater Group presents. At the Fitzpatrick
Main Stage, 83 East Main Street, Stockbridge.
7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Broadway in the Berkshires, Shakespeare &
Company benefit performance. At Mahaiwe
Performing Arts Center. 14 Castle Street, Great
Barrington. 6 p.m. (413) 528-0100.
Hike Monument Mountain with Melville and
Hawthorne. In partnership with the Trustees of
Sally Wilfert: Fresh and Fancy Free. Presented
Music
Talks, Classes, & Workshops
Life is a Picnic, part of Tea & Talk series. At
Ventfort Hall Mansion, 104 Walker Street,
Lenox.
Other
Texas Hold’em Night. At The Brickhouse,
425 Park Street, Housatonic. 7:30 p.m. (413)
274-0020.
Wednesday, August 5
Theater
Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Pittsfield. 8 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Music
Matthias Goerne, at Tanglewood. 297 West
Street, Lenox. 8 p.m. (888) 266-1200.
Dance
Malpaso Dance Company, at Jacobs Pillow
Dance Festival. 358 George Carter Road,
Becket. 8 p.m. (413) 243-9919.
StoryCorps Founder Dave Isay. At Mahaiwe
Performing Arts Center. 14 Castle Street,
Great Barrington. 7 p.m. (413) 528-0100.
Four Events That You Shouldn’t Miss Out On This Month
Graham Nash, on August 15, Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center will
host the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame inductee
for his finale 2015 tour
performance.
Dave Isay, the founder
of the oral history project, StoryCorps, will
be at the Mahaiwe
Performing Arts Center
on August 5.
Robert Klein, former member of
famed “Second
City” theatrical
troupe in Chicago,
brings his comedy to
the Colonial Theater
on August 1.
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Thursday, August 6
Theater
Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Theater Group presents. At the Fitzpatrick Main
Stage, 83 East Main Street, Stockbridge. 7 p.m.
(413) 997-4444.
“The Club”, Berkshire Theater Group presents.
At The Garage, 111 South Street, Pittsfield. 8
p.m. (413) 997-4444.
“His Girl Friday”, presented by Barrington Stage
Company. At the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage. 30
Union Street, Pittsfield. 8 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
Music
Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma.
At Tanglewood. 297 West Street, Lenox. 8 p.m.
(888) 266-1200.
(413) 528-1955.
Anthony Russell in “Convergence”, a concert blending Yiddish art songs and African
American spirituals. At the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House, 1089 Main Street,
Housatonic. (413) 274-1034.
Dance
Brian Sanders’ JUNK. Part of the Chatham
Dance Festival. At PS21: Performance Spaces
for the 21st Century, 2980 NY-66, Chatham, NY.
8 p.m. (518) 392-6121.
Dance Festival. 358 George Carter Road, Becket.
8 p.m. (413) 243-9919.
Sunday, august 9
Theater
Dance
Theater
Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Music
Elizabeth Stanley: I Get Carried Away.
Barrington Stage Company presents. At
Sydelle & Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center.
36 Linden Street, Pittsfield. 7:30 and 10 p.m.
(413) 236-8888.
Other
Sketchology: Wine, Cheese, and Art-making.
At Norman Rockwell Museum, 9 Route 183,
Stockbridge. 6 p.m. (413) 298-4100.
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Pittsfield. 8 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Charles Sutoit conducts Ravel, featuring Leonidas Kavakos. At Tanglewood. 297 West Street,
Lenox. 8 p.m. (888) 266-1200.
Vance Gilbert. At the Guthrie Center, 2 Van
Deusenville Road, Great Barrington. 8 p.m.
(413) 528-1955.
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Brian Sanders’ JUNK. Part of the Chatham
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Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Hamlet, Shakespeare and Company presents. At
The Dell at the Mount, Edith Wharton’s home. 2
Plunkett Street, Lenox. 11 a.m. (413) 637-1199.
“Mother of the Maid”, presented by Shakespeare and Company. 70 Kemble Street, Lenox.
3 p.m. (413) 637-1199.
Music
Don McLean, at Mahaiwe Performing Arts
Center. 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington. 8
p.m. (413) 528-0100.
Elizabeth Kasius and Heard. Part of Music After
Hours series at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s
House. 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox. 5 p.m. (413)
551-5111.
Adam Michael Rothberg. At the Guthrie Center,
2 Van Deusenville Road, Great Barrington. 8 p.m.
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Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
3 p.m. (413) 637-1199.
Dance
8 p.m. (413) 243-9919.
Other
Allied Individual Golf Tournament, at Egremont
County Club. 685 South Egremont Road, Great
Barrington. 11:30 a.m. (413) 528-4222.
Pittsfield Ethnic Fair. This free cultural
festival features ethnic cuisine, vendors, entertainment and more. Rain or shine. At the
Pittsfield Common on First Street. 11 a.m.
Tuesday, august 11
Theater
Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Talks, Classes, & Workshops
Discovering Brooklyn’s Gilded Age. Part of
Tea & Talk series. At Ventfort Hall Mansion, 104
Walker Street, Lenox. 4 p.m. (413) 637-3206.
Susan Snively reads from her new novel,
“The Heart Has Many Doors” about Emily
Dickinson’s little-known love affair. At The
Bookstore, 11 Housatonic Street, Lenox.
(413) 637-3390.
Wednesday, aug. 12
Theater
Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Music
Andy Kelly and the Jazz Ambassadors. At Lilac
Lake, Main Street, Lenox. 6:30 p.m..
Dance
The Sarasota Ballet. Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival
presents. At Ted Shawn Theatre, 358 George
Carter Road, Becket. 8 p.m. (413) 243-9919.
La Otra Orilla. Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival
presents. At Doris Duke Theatre, 358 George
Carter Road, Becket. 8:15 p.m. (413) 243-9919.
Other
North Adams’ Annual Downtown Celebration. Downtown North Adams. 5:30 p.m.
(413) 664-6180.
Thursday, August 13
Theater
Stockbridge. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Mary Poppins, Berkshire Theater Group presents. At The Colonial Theater, 111 South St.,
Pittsfield. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
“Engagements”. presented by Barrington Stage
Union Street, Pittsfield. 4 and 7:30 p.m. (413)
236-8888.
Dance
Other
India Clark: The Restorative Power of Art &
Yoga. At the Norman Rockwell Museum, 9 Route
183, Stockbridge. 5:30 p.m. (413) 298-4100.
Friday, August 14
Theater
Stockbridge. 8 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Union Street, Pittsfield. 7:30 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
Pittsfield. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
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John Gorka. At the Guthrie Center, 2 Van
(413) 528-1955.
Charlie Musselwhite. Infinity Hall at 20 Greenwoods Road, Norfolk, CT. 5 and 8 p.m. (860)
542-5531.
You’re Standing in My Way: A New Song
Cycle. Mr. Finn’s Cabaret presents. At Sydelle
and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center 36
Linden Street, Pittsfield. 9:30 p.m. (413)
236-8888.
Dance
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Gallim Dance: Pupil Suite and Spill. Part of the
Chatham Dance Festival. At PS21: Performance
Spaces for the 21st Century, 2980 NY-66, Chatham, NY. 8 p.m. (518) 392-6121.
Special Event
41st Annual Craft Fair. At Monument Mountain
High School, 600 Stockbridge Road, Great Barrington. 10 a.m. (413) 528-3346.
Sci-Fi Summer Nights Series. At Basilica Hudson,
110 South Front Street, Hudson, NY. 8 and 10
p.m. (518) 822-1050.
Tuesday, August 18
Sunday, August 16
Plunkett Street, Lenox. 6 p.m. (413) 637-1199.
Theater
Pittsfield. 2 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
2 p.m. (413) 637-1199.
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Music
Roomful of Teeth. MASS MoCA presents. 1040
MASS MoCA Way, North Adams. 8 p.m. (413)
662-2111.
Earth Angels golf tournament. Egremont
Country Club, 685 South Egremont Road, Great
Barrington. 12:30 p.m. (413) 528-4222.
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus. At Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great
Barrington. 10 a.m. (413) 528-0100.
Saturday, August 15
Other
“Dune Versus Dune”. Double screening of the
films directed by Frank Pavich, “Jodorowsky’s
Dune” and David Lynch, “Dune”. Part of the
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“Frankie & Johnny in the clair de lune”, Berkshire
Stage, 83 East Main Street, Stockbridge. 2 and
8 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
Pittsfield. 7 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
8 p.m. (413) 637-1199.
“Van Gogh’s Ear”. Ensemble for the Romantic Century presents. At The Clark Museum,
225 South Street, Williamstown. 8 p.m. (413)
458-0524.
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So You Think You Don’t Understand (Modern)
Dance? Part of the Chatham Dance Festival. At
PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century,
2980 NY-66, Chatham, NY. 2 p.m. (518) 392-6121.
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Sunday, August 23
Theater
Pittsfield. 2 p.m. (413) 997-4444.
2 p.m. (413) 637-1199.
Randy Graff: Made in Brooklyn, Bound for
Broadway. Barrington Stage Company presents.
At Sydelle & Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center, 36
Linden Street, Pittsfield. 8 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
236-8888.
458-0524.
Music
May 23 - September 7, 2015
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Kenny Aronoff. At Mahaiwe Performing Arts
Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington. 7
p.m. (413) 528-0100.
Monday, August 24
Theater
Randy Graff: Made in Brooklyn, Bound for
Broadway. Barrington Stage Company presents.
At Sydelle & Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center, 36
Linden Street, Pittsfield. 8 p.m. (413) 236-8888.
Tuesday, August 25
Theater
458-0524.
Curiosities Under Glass: A Victorian obsession.
Part of Tea & Talk series. Ventfort Hall Mansion,
104 Walker Street, Lenox. 7 p.m. (413) 637-3206.
Wednesday, Aug 26
Laughter in the face of...Well, you know.
Roz Chast presents. At the Norman Rockwell
Museum, 9 Route 183, Stockbridge. 5:30 p.m.
(413) 298-4100.
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“Wolfpack”, directed by Crystal Moselle.
At Basilica Hudson, 110 South Front Street,
Hudson, NY. 8 p.m. (518) 822-1050.
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8 p.m. (413) 637-1199.
458-0524.
Thursday, August 27
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Friday, August 28
Kathryn Anderson. At Lilac Lake, Main Street,
Lenox. 6:30 p.m.
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“Red Velvet”, presented by Shakespeare and
Company. 70 Kemble Street, Lenox. 7:30 p.m.
(413) 637-1199.
413-443-7500 • Mon-Sat 10-9, Sun 11-6
Berkshire Mall, 655 Cheshire Road, Lanesboro MA 01237
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Simon Fortin is Vincent Van Gogh in Ensemble for the Romantic Century’s new production, “Van Gogh’s Ear”.
236-8888.
Theater
Music
Wanda Houston Band. Part of Music After Hours
series. At the Mount, Edith Wharton’s home. 2
Plunkett Street, Lenox. 5 p.m. (413) 551-5111.
Harpeth Rising. At the Guthrie Center, 2 Van
(413) 528-1955.
Dance
Parsons Dance. Part of the Chatham Dance
(518) 392-6121.
Other
Free Fun Friday. Enjoy free admission to the
Clark Museum as part of the Highland Street
Foundation’s statewide cultural initiative. At
The Clark Museum, 225 South Street, Williamstown. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (413) 458-0524.
Starry Drawing Night. At The Clark Museum,
458-0410.
Saturday, August 29
Theater
8:30 p.m. (413) 637-1199.
236-8888.
“Van Gogh’s Ear”. Ensemble for the Romantic
Century presents. At The Clark Museum, 225
South Street, Williamstown. 2 and 8 p.m.
(413) 458-0524.
Company. 70 Kemble Street, Lenox. 7:30 p.m.
(413) 637-1199.
Music
Solomon Georgio. at MASS MoCA, 1040 Mass
MoCA Way, North Adams. 8 p.m. (413) 662-2111.
Bill Staines. At the Guthrie Center, 2 Van
(413) 528-1955.
Dance
Summerfest Performance, presented by Olga
Dunn Dance Company. 46 Castle Street, Great
Barrington. 7 p.m. (413) 528-9674.
Parsons Dance. Part of the Chatham Dance
(518) 392-6121.
Qigong and Healing with Thomas Garbarino. At Eastover Estate and Retreat Center,
430 East Street, Lenox. 7 and 9 p.m. (866)
264-5139.
Sunday, August 30
Theater
236-8888.
458-0524.
Company. 70 Kemble Street, Lenox. 2 p.m.
(413) 637-1199.
Music
David Lutken and Friends. Mr. Finn’s Cabaret
presents. At Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing
Arts Center 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield. 8 p.m.
(413) 236-8888.
Monday, August 31
Music
David Lutken and Friends. Mr. Finn’s Cabaret
presents. At Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing
Arts Center 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield. 8 p.m.
(413) 236-8888.
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`Music
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`Music
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Rev Tor: the
minister at the
church of funky
sounds
Livio Gravini
brings rock
n’ roll to the
Berkshires
By Nick Dayal
By Nick Dayal
W
T
he music was funky and energetic, igniting the band and
crowd into one fire, everyone
letting loose. My friends and I
were dancing alongside a big, older guy,
sweating through his shirt and getting
down on the floor like it was the only
night of the year his wife let him out. An
adorable, unforgettable couple,
►► Rev Tor
definitely somereleases new
CD, “Live at
body’s grandparthe unicorn”
ents, were cutting loose front
and center, showing me what it means to
“boogie.” Two twentyish-year-old girls
were loving the seniors’ repertoire of
dance moves, with infectious laughter
and dance moves of their own.
On July 11 at the Gypsy Joynt for
their CD release party of “Live at the
Unicorn,” Rev Tor managed to do what
many treaties, governments, and social/
political movements have failed to do…
unite people of all demographics for one
cause. In this case it was to have fun.
“How about a gypsy song since
we’re at the Gypsy Joynt,” “Rev” Tor
Krautter, the guitarist, namesake and lead
singer said to the mixed crowd of young,
old, and older people, most of whom,
were still sitting and eating when Rev
Tor took the stage.
Krautter is a big guy with an even
greater stage presence, lifting the crowd
out of their seats with his bouncy guitar
lines, and a soulful voice that tells a
story… “Lots of distractions in the city,
how about we take a ride somewhere, I
hear the Berkshires are looking pretty,
I’d like to take you both up there…”
“Man, that’s the million-dollar question, right?” Krautter said after I asked
him why he writes. “If there’s something
intense happening in your life,” he continued, “and you’re an artist, you need
to get it out, you express it in your art.”
Krautter married five years ago into what
he describes as an amazing family. “I
have grandkids, so the new album is sort
of about that, that’s where my soul is.”
“Amelia” is one of the songs on the
new album and it is about his granddaughter, Amelia, who is a huge fan of
singer, Mary Verdi, who is featured on
the song, and one other. “Mary does the
Christmas show at the Colonial Theatre
every year,” Krautter explained the story
behind the song, “and she asked me to
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jesse butkus
Rev Tor accompanied by singer Mary Verdi perform “Amelia” at The Gypsy Joynt on July 11 for the CD release party of “Live at
the Unicorn”. The song was written by lead singer ‘Rev’ Tor Krautter for his granddaughter Amelia.
be her special guest this year, which was
cool. So, when we were at the Christmas show, Amelia was at the show, and
she loved Mary. She was like “Mary is
everything.” So, I thought it’d be cool to
have Mary sing on the song “Amelia,”
which I was writing at the time, because
Amelia loves Mary so much, and vocally,
and musically. It was a good fit, and just
seemed to come together naturally.”
Krautter formed the band in western
Massachusetts in 1996, “Dan (Broad),
and I have been playing together, since
1986. Since we were kids we were in
bands together for many years. We were
in a band called the East Creek Band
for awhile, and we were doing all cover
songs, and I had all this original stuff
I wanted to do. We decided to record a
CD in ’96, so we recorded our first CD,
and then we needed a band to play that
material, so that’s how the band kind of
started.”
The band’s name started as a joke.
Literally. Krautter recalled the incident,
“you know the Church of Universal Life,
you used to be able to find it in the back
of magazines. Well, a friend of mine sent
them my information as a joke, so one
day I got this certificate in the mail saying, ‘you’re now a minister in the Church
of Universal Life. I went to La Cocina
in Pittsfield and was showing everybody
this, and it just stuck. Rev Tor. It’s just a
nickname, really.”
The songs are written by Krautter, but each member gives it their own
touch, Dan Broad, Rev Tor’s bass player
and vocalist, explained, “it’s just very
comfortable with all of us. Tor’s not very
vocal about what he wants, but he guides
the process. He writes the music, and
let’s the band do what they want to it.”
No one in the band is mute, each member
sings and takes solos, and it’s a joy to
watch five guys just having fun.
“The thing I love about playing
with these guys is the improv,” Krautter described the group’s chemistry on
stage, “we’re at the point now where
we can communicate musically without
even looking at each other. I know what
Dan’s about to do just hearing what he’s
playing. He’s going to take a left turn, so
I’m going to go left with him, and he can
do the same thing with me. I’ve always
said music is a conversation, so you try
to go into it very open-minded. If you go
into it with a certain agenda, or a certain
point of view, you’re going to get stuck
because you’re going to have nowhere
to go, but to your opinion or your point
of view. You can’t let that get in the way
of the music. When you’re playing with
other people you’re communicating with
them so you have to be open, your ears
have to be open to what the other people
are saying, so you can work off of that,
and they can work off of you. When you
got that going on anything can happen.”
And what happens is fun. Broad’s
funky bass had me undo a few buttons
on my shirt. Ben Kohn, keyboardist and
vocalist, moved effortlessly, his fingers
bouncing up and down on the keys like
a kid on a trampoline, with a smile to
match, and Andy Crawford, drummer
and vocalist, kept everyone’s feet moving, playing with vigor, and, of course, a
smile.
That seemed to be the most memorable aspect of their performance,
smiles all around, and that is the magic
of music, when you can bring people
together of all ages, and unite them in
a feeling of joy and freedom of expression. To download their new CD and to
see Rev Tor’s upcoming shows, including the next time Rev Tor performs their
rendition of the Band’s classic 1978
concert film, “The Last Waltz,” or if you
have any confessions you wish to make,
visit revtor.com.
hat are you doing Tuesday
nights? Probably nothing
special. Whatever TV show
you watch can be taped,
because you’re wasting your summer and
missing a rock star. Seriously, Livio Gravini is the real deal: head-to-toe, he looks
like he stepped off an 80s metal tour bus,
and he has a voice that sounds like rock n’
roll.
I went to Timothy’s Restaurant and
Pizzeria in Lee at the suggestion of a friend
to hear some music. Someone there said,
“come back Tuesday night, now that’s
something special.” He told me the guy’s
name is Livio Gravini and he used to sing
and play guitar with former members of
BOSTON, yeah, the band with songs like
“Smokin’,” “Don’t Look Back” (which hit
#4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1978), and
“More Than a Feeling,” (sing it aloud and
you’ll know who I’m talking about….. ‘I
closed my eyes and I slipped awayyy….
It’s more than a feeling (more than a feeling) when I hear that old song they used to
play (more than a feeling)…,’ so yeah, that
band.
I came back Tuesday night and a waitress pointed in Gravini’s general direction.
Scanning the room I saw a full head of
long, blonde hair, going straight down the
back of a man with a button-up shirt that
was buttoned down halfway, exposing part
of his chest, and some chains, with sleeves
rolled up to his biceps.
He was sitting with his fiancé and her
three children at the table in front of the
stage finishing dinner before his performance. “Best seafood gumbo I’ve ever
had,” he told me later.
He had stopped by Timothy’s two
years earlier on the way home from teaching at the summer program “Rock On” at
Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield,
a cool program who’s mission involves
providing special training for youth ages
8-21. It’s an intensive two-week program
with professionals who teach instrument
instruction, playing in bands, songwriting,
recording, and performing.
Essentially, the kids are placed in a
band and learn from established musicians
like Livio Grafini, and special visiting
musicians, such as rocker Barry Goudreau
of BOSTON, guitarist Matt Beck of Match
Box 20, and Afro-Cuban drumming expert,
Eddie Ade.
“I had a voice teacher for four years in
high school and he was amazing,” Gravini
said, recalling his years of what he called
true learning. “He helped me understand
my voice, which I didn’t understand until
years later, but it was his teaching that put
me in that place, so he paid it forward in
his life. I have students now and it’s all
about paying it forward in my life. I want
the legacy of what I’ve learned in my life
to go on long after I’m gone. That’s why I
try to teach as many children and youths as
possible.”
One of his students was sitting next to
me at a table. “Pretty cool teacher,” I said
to her on the way back to my glass of wine. “The coolest,” she exclaimed.
His first set was a stellar compilation
of covers, and not to say I had my doubts,
I was playing in Pittsfield with the former
members of BOSTON, Barry Goudreau
and Sib Hashian two years ago…” Returning a year later for the seafood gumbo,
Timothy’s owner, Tim Spence, was thrilled
to see Gravini again. Gravini’s fiancé and
manager, Lisa Marie G., explained the
story, “he took us all out to his truck and
turned it on, and there was Livio’s voice. ‘I
listen to this every day,’ Tim told us.’”
A friendship formed through seafood
gumbo and rock n’ roll. Now, Gravini
eats a hearty, Italian dinner at with his
family every Tuesday night at Timothy’s,
and then performs for a restaurant crowd,
some of whom aren’t expecting a rock star.
Within that group some are very pleasantly
Photo contributed
Livio Gravini helps young musicians find their voice at the summer program, “Rock On”
at Berkshire Community College.
but I did. He looked like a rock star, but
could he sing? Were his front-man good
looks, killer style that very few can pull
off, and overall kindness and gratitude a
façade for having an average voice?Not at
all. My doubts were erased with his first
cover “Someone Like You” by Van Morrison. He sings smoothly in a smoky voice
that sounds like the blues, rock n’ roll, and
metal wrapped into one razor-sharp voice
that screams powerhouse. Performing
alone, there were some moments where he
sang without his guitar, his voice carrying
the energy of an entire ensemble of instruments. It’s that tremendous.
I became a true fan when he took
Aretha Franklin’s “(You Make Me Feel)
Like a Natural Woman,” which takes
a real man to cover, and had the entire
room singing, smiling, laughing, or some
combination of the three. That’s when my
twenty-one-year-old cousin leaned over my
shoulder at the bar and said, “I just want to
touch his hair,” which is true of two things
in this world, super stars, and puppies. And
Livio Gravini is not a puppy.
“You want me to tell you how I got
here?” he began the conversation after his
first set, asking my question for me, “well,
surprised, and the others, tend to filter out
around 8:30-9:00, and that’s when Gravini
really unleashes his pipes.
However, Gravini’s story started decades ago, “when I was thirteen years old I
wanted to take this professionally. I knew I
wanted to do this for my life.”
He sang for local TV stations, pageants, and community events until he
changed his mind about the direction his
life was going in. “Right around 15 years
old I decided I wanted to be in a rock n’
roll band, and decided not to go that route,
that route was going towards Broadwayand I wasn’t going towards Broadway. I
was going towards Rock n’ Roll. So I did
that. The next umpteen years were all spent
working very diligently on writing my own
songs, and learning how to play the guitar,
and singing, singing, singing.”
All his dedication and practice paid
off and is very evident. His voice is
astounding with range like the Rocky
Mountains, singing Sheryl Crow to Elton
John to Rod Stewart to John Lennon, giving each song his own soul and touch that
makes them just as good as the originals.
I know, it sounds crazy, no one sounds
like Rod Stewart, well, no one sounds like
Livio Gravini.
Those artists are all incredible and their
voices are all unique, special, and timeless, and Gravini proved me wrong: that
someone could sing Otis Redding’s “Sittin’
on the Dock of the Bay” or Elton John’s
“Tiny Dancer,” and I could like it as much
as the original, or that someone could take
a Shania Twain song, and make me like it
all. Now, that’s saying something. He is
something rare to see and hear in our time.
Gravini explained how he came to
sing and play with former members of
BOSTON.“‘Rock On’” is put on by the
same people who do the Moscow Ballet,”
Gravini told me, “a really tremendous organization. I got lucky enough to be apart
of their teaching staff. The the first year I
was with them one of the musical guests
was Barry Goudreau, the lead guitar player
from BOSTON. He and I got together and
jammed, and performed for the students,
and in the middle of the performance I
whispered in his ear, and said, “I’m going
to be your next singer.” And I was. It took
a lot of work. For months, learning all the
BOSTON songs, and finally, rehearsing
and performing with them.”
After many brushes with stardom,
Gravini recalled a period of time in which
he quit pursuing his dream. Gravini’s record label wanted him to do a Texas blues
album where he was singing in a band with
Ian McLagan, who played in Rod Stewart
and the Faces and also collaborated with
the Rolling Stones. A drummer who played
with Stevie Ray Vaughan and Dilbert McClinton, and guitar player Jimi Bell, who
now plays in the House of Lords. The funding tanked and Gravini took
a ten-year hiatus. “During this time, my
parents passed, and I realized this is our
time, at least this is what we know, and I
wanted to finish my life with music. So, I
came back to music. I never really stopped
singing, but it wasn’t a major focus.
Everybody said, you’re crazy, you’re older
now, you’ve already done it. I just threw all
caution to the wind and here I am. Things
are starting to happen. I think my voice
is in a better place. The bad years have
really humbled me so that I’m appreciative
of everything in my life. This new CD is
called “No More Secrets.” It’s about leaving the past behind and there’s nothing left
to hide.”
During his first set he played an original song called “Look at Me Go,” where
he looked to the ceiling and said, “I wish
my mom was here to see this.” Gravini is
reaching new highs and sharing his gift
by teaching young people with similar
aspirations that it is possible to make those
dreams a reality.
You can see Gravini perform at Timothy’s restaurant in Lee on Tuesday nights
from 7-10 p.m. in August and September.
To learn more about Livio Gravini
and his nationally recognized tribute band,
American Zeppelin, or to hear his other
band, The Free Spirit Society, and their
new CD “No More Secrets,” visit www.
liviogravini.com.
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`Music
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venues
`local
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bands
stockbridge
lanesborough
The chalet
at Mass Moca
PortSmitt’s Restaurant
The Bradley Farm
The Bradley Farm announces a new Seeds
of Harmony Concert Series. The concerts
features nationally-recognized award winning
artists and farm fresh organic/local food and
refreshments. The farm provides a naturally
beautiful and intimate setting for both artists
and music lovers of all ages alike. This popular
series was created to celebrate the joys of
music and summer in the Berkshires.
545 North Main Street, Lanesborough
(413) 499-2723
bradleyfarm.neT
PortSmitt’s Restaurant has quickly become
a “Berkshire dining favorite” under the
guidance and expertise, of local chef Mike
Lewis. For years, Chef Lewis has served
Berkshire County residents and visitors
alike. In addition to being an outstanding
restaurant, PortSmitt’s Restaurant has also
begun hosting great local music from bands
in the Berkshires.
320 Peck Road, Pittsfield
(413) 236-5727
portssmittsrestaurant.com
housatonic
The Lion’s Den pub
Located downstairs at The Red Lion Inn,
the pub offers entertainment seven nights
a week, and never a cover charge. There’s
different entertainment each night, with
regular appearances by local performers
including David Grover, the Sun Mountain
Fiddler, and the Housatonic Philharmonic,
offering everything from acoustic folk to R&B,
and reggae to the blues.
30 Main Street, Stockbridge
(413) 298-5545
redlioninn.com
BECKET
Want to grab a beer? Stop by MASS MoCA’s
beer garden, which opens for the summer.
Enjoy balmy Berkshire nights with some
lively music, captivating conversation, and
delicious, refreshing brews. Drinks are
served from the Chalet, an interactive work
of art created by Dean Baldwin for 2012’s
internationally acclaimed Oh, Canada
exhibition. The Chalet will be open on
Thursdays through Saturdays this summer,
from 5pm to 11(ish)pm.
37 Marshall Street, North Adams
(413) 662-2111
massmoca.org
Patrick Gray Jr.
Acoustic Rock
Gray comes from a musical family; he grew up
listening to his father play folk music whether
around a camp fire or performing on stage to
large crowds. “By 16, I was playing in local
rock bands,” Gray said. “Shortly thereafter I
was bitten by the recording bug, after doing
a few backing tracks in a local studio.” He
owns Shire Sound, a cozy project/recording
studio nestled in the Berkshire Hills. His
performances, which have been likened to
everyone from John Mayer to Edwin McCain,
can be seen throughout northern Berkshire
County.
Website: reverbnation.com/patrickgray
hudson, ny
Jordan Weller & The
Feathers
Funk/Reggae
This high-energy band meshes the laid-back
grooves and rhythm of Bob Marley with the
fun and flare of James Brown. Front man
Jordan Weller on guitar and vocals leads
the group also comprised of guitarist Rob
Sanzone, Miles Lally on bass, drummer
Jason Schulteis and organist Joe Rose. Their
original as well their own spin on covers that
dip across the musical spectrum have vaulted
the band into regional favorites. You’re sure
to catch them at Weller’s home base, the
Gypsy Joynt, throughout the fall as well as
shows springing up across the county and
over the border in New York.
Website: jordanwellermusic.com
Phone: (413) 644-8811
Email: jordanwellermusic@gmail.com
Jackson whalan
Hip-Hop/Electronica
Coming up through Railroad Street Youth
Project, Whalan learned some of his skills
from local mentors in music. He seeks to
create a refreshing blend of hip-hop lyricism
with original music production, while
collaborating and engaging in frequent live
performances. You can find him working on
his solo project, Jackson Whalan, as well as
with his live band Technicolor Lenses.
Website: soundcloud.com/jackson-whalan
Email: jacksonwhalan@gmail.com
The lucky 5
DOTTIE’S COFFEE LOUNGE
The Brick House Pub
Located in the heart of Housatonic, this bar
has an impressive mixture of great beer, great
food, and great music to make it a can’t-miss
destination. The space is also home to a series
of local artists and performances from bands
from across the country.
425 Park Street, Housatonic
(413) 274-0020
brickhousema.com
pittsfield
Dottie’s is a coffee shop that loves people and
coffee. As of this past summer, Dottie’s has
made the transition to all organic produce.
Their passion is making beautifully presented
food that brings your body the highest
nutrition possible. Serving breakfast all day
Dottie’s is a comfortable place to see live music.
A very special feature of Dottie’s is their
Domingo Brunch series on the first Sunday
of every month.
444 North Street, Pittsfield
(413) 443-1792
DOTTIESCOFFEELOUNGE.COM
Whiskey City
The Dream Away Lodge
The Dream Away Lodge has been a Berkshire
legend for more than 90 years. Rumored to
have been a brothel and speakeasy during the
Great Depression, this two-hundred- year-old
farmhouseattheedgeofOctoberMountainState
Forest is a great place to eat a fantastic dinner,
enjoy a glass of wine of one of their specialty
cocktails. They have live music each week.
1342 County Road, Becket
(413) 623-8725
www.thedreamawaylodge.com
Helsinki Hudson
Get a taste of the Berkshires outside of
Massachusetts. Originally a mainstay in Great
Barrington, Helsinki crossed over to New
York and has thrived in the city of Hudson.
The venue offers both up-and- coming and
established bands as well as great dining
and drinks.
405 Columbia street, Hudson, NY
(518) 828-4800
helsinkihudson.com
Americana
This band has become a local favorite that can
fill any bar or concert with a packed crowd.
Led by front man Randy Cormier, joined by
band mates Frank Algerio, Beth Maturevich,
Dale Zavatter, Jason Webster and Tim Sears,
Whiskey City is a must see act in the county.
Cormier’s star quality, unique, tireless voice
and infamous audience rapport have made
him a crowd favorite.
Website: whiskeycityband.com
Email: rcormier@nucleabio.com
norfolk, ct
Greylock
Rock & Roll Cover Band
Made up of local musicians Kevin Doolan,
Dave Flynn, Bob Jones and Matt McKeever,
this band is known for great classic rock like
the Doobies, Steely Dan, Boz Scaggs, Chicago
and more. There classic rock vibe and smooth
sound has filled the Live on the Lake series and
built a large following at venues throughout
Berkshire County. You can find them playing
at Spice Dragon, the ITAM Lodge and may
other venues around Pittsfield all year long.
Phone: (413) 446-5125
Website: facebook.com/ Greylock-the-band
Email: greylockboys@gmail.com
NORTH ADAMS
Tony Lee Thomas
Colonial Theatre
Built in 1903, the theater was host to many
theater greats including George M. Cohan,
Sara Bernhardt, John Barrymore, and the
Ziegfeld Follies. Although the theater was
closed in 1951, its grandeur had been
protected through the years. The Colonial
Theater was named by Hillary Clinton as a
National Historic Treasure in 1998. Many
notable performers have since graced the
stage of this historic Berkshire landmark,
including James Taylor, the Lovin’ Spoonful,
and other musical and theater acts.
(413) 448-8084
berkshiretheatregroup.org
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Mission Bar + Tapas
For a relaxing intimate atmosphere to
take in a drink and hear some great music
Mission Bar and Tapas is at the top of the
list. The venue located in Pittsfield’s down
town, the bar and music hall offers food
throughout the day and a full bar as well
as a special brunch menu. The site is host
to several house bands performing weekly
as well as special performances and a host
of the areas top musicians. An open mic is
also offered every Tuesday to showcase
local undiscovered musicians.
438 North Street, Pittsfield
missionbarandtapas.com
infinity music hall
Open in 2012, picking up where the former Elf
Parlor left off, The Parlor Cafe offers North Adams
residents and visitors alike affordable light fare,
quality early morning coffee, great local beer
and wines and frequent musical and other night
time performances by a range of local artists.
Built in 1883 in picturesque Norfolk in
northwestern Connecticut, Infinity Hall is an
intimate music, dining and entertainment
destination. Newly renovated, the historic
building features its original proscenium
stage and wood, as well as many other
notable details. Whether it’s dinner and
a show, Infinity Music Hall & Bistro can
provide it.
303 Ashland Street, North Adams
(413) 346-4279
THEPARLORCAFE.COM
20 Greenwoods Road, Norfolk, CT
(860) 542-5531
infinityhall.com
The Parlor Cafe
Indie Rock
Imagine the energetic strumming of Richie
Havens and the intricate finger work of Bert
Jansch. Add a vocal style that summons
Stevie Wonder and Martin Sexton. Then
take a songwriting vocabulary as poignant as
Ani DiFranco, playful as John Prine, and add
commanding stage presence, then you have
Tony Lee Thomas. In central Berkshire County
Thomas has become a must-see performer,
who is now catching on throughout New
England performing both intimate and
poignant solo performances and full-blown
commanding vamps with his rock band, the
Tony Lee Thomas Band.
Website: tonyleethomas.com
Phone: (413) 218-8307
Booking information: shannon@
wickedcoolproductions.com
TBone Daddy Trio
Rock & Blues
Guitarist Tyler Fairbank, bassist Jeff Link and
drummer Lou Parreault form the high energy
blues, funk, reggae and rock trio that draws
from both old and new influences. Mixing
both original material and their own unique
spin on covers they have fast become a fan
favorite in the region. From contemporary
interpretations of iconic compilations to
original material, TBD pursues a tone that
is uniquely theirs. The group has produced
three albums and plays throughout the
northeast at clubs, festivals and theaters
Website: tbonedaddytrio.com
Swing & Jazz
The Lucky 5 is a hard-swinging jazz band
that blends swing and gypsy jazz to
create a unique, foot-stomping blend of
music. The Lucky 5 performs both original
compositions as well as putting a new spin
on old jazz standards. The band consists of
Jonathan Talbott on violin, Don Mikkelsen
on trombone, Kip Beacco on guitar, Matt
Downing on bass, and Brian Kantor on drums.
Website: theluckyfive.com
Email: info@theluckyfive.com
Ross jenssen
Heavy Future Groove
Ross Jenssen, brainchild of Berkshire natives
Brian Ross, Jules Jenssen, and Sam McGaritty,
creates heavy, futuristic, instrumental music
that intends to evoke imagery akin to a wild
journey through time and space, or the
cinematic score to a dream. Ross Jenssen
does this primarily through electric bass
and drums. Ross Jenssen is here to take you
there and back and everywhere in between.
Website: rossjenssen.com
the Berkshire bateria
Samba
The Bateria’s current roster of thirty talented
performers include drummers, dancers,
singers and melodic instrumentalists. The
group performs a wide variety of music
from Brazil, including hot samba rhythms
and cool bossa nova jazz. Their touring
program has brought them to stages at city
parks, universities, corporate and charity
events, arts festivals, nightclubs, theatres
and parades all over the Northeast.
Website: sambaland.com
Phone: (413) 528-6575
C-Bone and Breeze
Electro-Reggae Funk Hop
Duo Cam Black and Brian Eddy make music
consists of sounds from many different genres
including hip hop, funk, reggae, classic rock
and more. The two composed the album
through Abelton Live 9 with recordings of
bass by Cam Black, recordings of guitar by
Brian Eddy and the two combine together
to create drum loops on the software using
a drum machine and also all other sounds
which are recorded on a keyboard, all while
adding a little fun to it all with the numerous
audio effects Abelton offers.
Website: soundcloud.com/cbonemusic37
Email: camblack37@yahoo.com
Mamma’s Marmalade
Progressive Bluegrass
Mamma’s Marmalade is a five piece string
band featuring a lineup of banjo, mandolin,
fiddle, guitar, and upright bass. They fuse
bluegrass, rock, and jazz, striving to create
a truly unique sound guaranteed to get
you dancing. Formed in the fall of 2014,
each member brings different training
and musical styling to the music, creating
dynamic originals and fresh, reimagined
covers.
Website: mammasmarmalade.com
Ian Evans
Jazz
A Berkshire County native, Ian has been
playing piano since childhood. Just as
comfortable on a grand piano as with electric,
Ian has backed up artists such as Barrington
Levy, Half Pint, Collie Buddz, and many more.
Ian plays Friday and Saturday nights at the
Brick House Pub. He is set to release his debut
solo piano album this summer. Come watch
this exciting artist as he plays with an energy
that is unique and enjoyable.
Phone: (413) 854-5233
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`Live
`
Music
Infinity Music Hall. 20 Greenwoods Road,
Norfolk, CT. (860) 542-5531.
Saturday, August 1
9 p.m.
Gypsy Joynt. 93 Main Street, Great Barrington.
(413) 644-8811.
Jordan Weller & The Feathers
9 p.m.
(413) 644-8811.
Picky Bastards
8 p.m
Mission Bar and Tapas. 438 North Street,
Pittsfield.
Bruce Katz Band
9 p.m.
Helsinki Hudson. 405 Columbia Street,
Hudson, NY. (518) 828-4800.
Ray Mason
9:30 p.m.
The Brick House Pub. 425 Park Street,
Housatonic. (413) 274-0020.
Justin Hillman
8 p.m.
The Dream Away Lodge. 1342 Country Road,
Becket. (413) 623-8725.
8 p.m.
Becket. (413) 623-8725.
8 p.m.
Infinity Music Hall. 32 Front Street, Hartford,
CT. (860) 560-7757.
Housatonic. (413) 274-0020.
Saturday, august 8
The Nice Ones
9 p.m.
(413) 644-8811.
Winter Pills
9:30 p.m.
The Cannibal Ramblers
Bernice Lewis
Housatonic. (413) 274-0020.
Christopher Paul Stelling
8 p.m.
CT. (860) 560-7757.
Caravan of Thieves
8 p.m.
Norfolk, CT. (860) 542-5531.
8 p.m.
Hudson, NY. (518) 828-4800.
6:30 p.m.
Bradley Farm. 545 North Main Street,
Lanesboro. (413) 499-2723.
Wednesday, August 5
Open Mic Night
9 p.m.
(413) 644-8811.
Thursday, August 6
John Myers & Pete Toigo
9 p.m.
(413) 644-8811.
This Frontier Needs Heroes
8 p.m.
Becket. (413) 623-8725.
Friday, august 7
Rich Robinson
9 p.m.
Hudson, NY. (518) 828-4800.
Al Anderson & The
Original Wailers
8 p.m.
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8 p.m.
Becket. (413) 623-8725.
SimplySkilled
Productions wins
WBRK’s Battle of
the Bands
PITTSFIELD — Local hip-hop label
SimplySkilled Productions took the
stage at Bousquet’s Tamarack Lounge a
little before 2 p.m. on Sunday.
The crowd at WBRK 101.7’s Battle
of the Bands was likely at its lowest point, when the group began their
performance, the first of the day.
However, despite more and more
fans flowing in over the course of the
competition’s other three performances,
in the end it was SimplySkilled Productions who left with the fan-voted
victory.
Performing for the label was Robert “Info” Shove and Joe “Dirty J” , as
well as SSP founder Joshua “GenAral”
Johns.
The trio performed a nice mixture
of SSP’s tracklist, including “Pray for
Me”, “Monster”, “Over It”, “Change”
9:30 p.m.
Chesterfest 2015. 4 Williamsville Road,
Stockbridge. 5:30 p.m. (413) 298-3579.
Niall Connolly
Charlie Musselwhite
8 p.m.
Norfolk, CT. (860) 542-5531.
Saturday, August 15
By Mike Walsh
Brian Rapp
Sunday, August 2
8 p.m.
Becket. (413) 623-8725.
T HE B ERKSHIRES O WN
Rickie Lee Jones
8 p.m.
Becket. (413) 623-8725.
GABI and Elison Jackson
`Music
`
The B.T.U’s
Moonshine Holler
Friday, August 14
Little Texas
Lindsey Webster
9 p.m.
Hudson, NY. (518) 828-4800.
Jason Isbell
JAMES GRADY
SimplySkilled Productions took home
the title in WBRK’s Battle of the Bands.
and “Beginning to the End.”
SimplySkilled out-voted another
strong hip-hop group in Nostalgia, as
well as talented individual singer/songwriter Sarah Elizabeth Rayner. The
final performance of the day belonged
to band Dugway, who kept it light with
a great performance.
More info and music for SSP can
be found at www.simplyskilledproductions.com.
6:30 p.m.
Lanesboro. (413) 499-2723.
Latest CD
Departure
Lys Guillorn
Emily Mure
Listen at tbonedaddytrio.com
8 p.m.
Becket. (413) 623-8725.
Monday, august 10
Justin Townes Earle
8 p.m.
Hudson, NY. (518) 828-4800.
Thursday, August 13
Laney Jones & The Spirits
8 p.m.
Hudson, NY. (518) 828-4800.
Hayley Reardon
8 p.m.
Becket. (413) 623-8725.
9 p.m.
(413) 644-8811.
Footings & Pile (Solo)
8 p.m.
Becket. (413) 623-8725.
Atlanta Rythym Section
8 p.m.
CT. (860) 560-7757.
Sunday, August 16
Stockbridge. 5:30 p.m. (413) 298-3579.
Sunday, august 9
Stockbridge. 5:30 p.m. (413) 298-3579.
Cosmic Jibaros
Niall Connolly & The
Rambling Kind
Delbert McClinton
Stonefolk
The Beer Chalet at MASS MoCA. 37 Marshall
Street, North Adams. (413) 662-2111.
Available on itunes
and at Wood Bros. Music
5 Cheshire Rd., Pittsfield, MA
Joey Alexander Trio
8 p.m.
Hudson, NY. (518) 828-4800.
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Saturday, August 22
Full Tilt Boogie Music Festival
Green Mountain Live. 6178 U.S. Route 7,
Pownal, VT
Chops and Sauerkraut
9 p.m.
(413) 644-8811.
Death Vessel
8 p.m.
Becket. (413) 623-8725.
Berkstock
12 p.m.
Lanesboro. (413) 499-2723.
Sunday, August 23
Hack Monet and Sunlea
Stockbridge. 5:30 p.m. (413) 298-3579.
Caroline Cotter
8 p.m.
Becket. (413) 623-8725.
Thursday, August 27
Ian O’Neil of Deer Tick
8 p.m.
Becket. (413) 623-8725.
Friday, August 28
The Lucky 5
9 p.m.
(413) 644-8811.
Evan Corey Levine
Suzanne Vega
Emily Hearn
The BoDeans
8 p.m.
Becket. (413) 623-8725.
6:30 p.m.
Lanesboro. (413) 499-2723.
8 p.m.
Norfolk, CT. (860) 542-5531.
8 p.m.
CT. (860) 560-7757.
Thursday, August 20 Saturday, August 29
Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet
8 p.m.
Hudson, NY. (518) 828-4800.
Misty Blues Band
8 p.m.
Becket. (413) 623-8725.
Ian Hunter & The Rant Band
9 p.m.
Hudson, NY. (518) 828-4800.
Bobby Sweet
8 p.m.
Becket. (413) 623-8725.
Friday, August 21
Sunday, August 30
9 p.m.
(413) 644-8811.
Stockbridge. 5:30 p.m. (413) 298-3579.
Samantha Farrell
8 p.m.
Becket. (413) 623-8725.
The Berkshire Bateria
8 p.m.
Lexi Weege and Bernice Lewis
Jack Waldheim
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`vibe
`
Boogie, Southern Rock, Blue-eyed soul,
Rockabilly and The Blues.
“This year’s inaugural festival features
some incredible guitar-fueled artists,” says
promoter Tony Pallagrosi of UMT Presents, whose New Jersey concert company
is aligning with Green Mountai Live! and
TTM to produce the progressive, environment-friendly event. “It’s gonna be 11 hours
of some of the best hip shakIn’ music on the
planet!”
Guitar fans won’t be able to resist the
incendiary sounds and the serene surroundings that THE FULL TILT BOOGIE will
deliver to the Pownal Valley, one of the
most beautiful in all of Vermont. And in
another first, THE FULL TILT BOOGIE is
using electric power generated by renewable
resources. Hence the appropriately named
Green Stage, which will be home to revered
roots music troubadour Seth Walker; NJ
Americana rockers Stolen Rhodes; high
energy, “riffy” power trio Wild Adriatic; the
Tangier Blues Band, led by world renowned
rock photographer and music documentarian Danny Clinch; local favorites T Bone
Daddy, and — just added — hot new Berkshires band Matchstick Architects.
Nestled between the Green Mountains
of Vermont and the Taconic Mountains in
New York and five minutes from Williamstown, MA, the festival site is surrounded
by scenic farms and villages and the perfect
destination for weekend getaways. Situated quietly between Bennington, VT and
Williamstown, MA, the town of Pownal is
known as “The Gateway to Vermont,” with
a rich history that predates the Revolutionary War. THE FULL TILT BOOGIE
promises its own revolution, musically
speaking. It’s sparking a music festival revival at Green Mountain Racetrack, the first
of numerous music festivals being planned
for the site in the spring, summer, and fall of
2016 and beyond. THE FULL TILT BOOGIE music festival offers convenient and
spacious access with outstanding acoustics
in a breathtaking setting.
Green Mountain Live! is the home of
premier music festivals and special events
that will be offered throughout the summer and fall in this bucolic, rural Vermont
setting. The music venue has a vibrant
history as the home of the former Green
Mountain Racetrack. Known as “The Feel
Good Track,” families from around New
England would travel hundreds of miles to
enjoy horseracing in the midst of Vermont’s
incredible natural beauty.
After arriving through secure gates,
FULL TILT BOOGIE attendees can spread
out with plenty of room to see the stage,
hear the music, and enjoy the festival’s
wide array of top food truck vendors and
beverage distillers from around New
England. Green Mountain Racetrack offers
easy access from across New England and
the tri-state areas with a 45 minute drive
from Albany and less than three hours from
Boston, New York City, and Hartford. While
there is plenty of parking available on site,
attendees are encouraged to carpool, access
the area via Peter Pan Bus Lines, or use the
venue’s free bike storage. RYDE, a crowdsourcing transportation company, has partnered with Green Mountain Live! to provide
regional shuttle service to THE FULL TILT
BOOGIE, enabling upscale motor coaches
to shuttle fans to the festival grounds from
surrounding cities and states, and provide an
economical, environmentally-friendly, and
highly social alternative to single-car driving. Tickets for THE FULL TILT BOOGIE,
starring ZZ Top, Gary Clark Jr., Buddy Guy,
Blackberry Smoke, the Marshall Tucker
Band, Trigger Hippy, the Wood Brothers, Albert Lee & Cindy Cashdollar, Girls
Guns & Glory and many more, are on sale
NOW through Ticketmaster at $92.50. Free
parking is included. Gates open 10 a.m.
Complete information at www.greenmountainlive.com.
of nature in all its forms.
Van Gogh’s focus on nature was
rooted in his love of the art of his time,
both the landscapes created by Barbizon School artists and the highly-keyed,
quickly brushed paintings of the Impressionists, but he brought a personal passion
and subjective sensibility to his work that
continues to enthrall
art lovers to this
►► Exhibit
day. Much of the
looks at
Van Goghs
artist’s adult life was
love of
devoted to drawNature
ing and painting the
natural world, yet
this fundamental aspect of his work has
not previously been the focus of intense
study.
Presenting fifty works including
iconic paintings such as A Wheatfield,
with Cypresses (1889, National Gallery,
London), The Olive Trees (1889, The Museum of Modern Art, New York), and The
Sower (1888, Kröller-Müller Museum,
Otterlo), the exhibition focuses on Van
Gogh the serious artist, not on the mythic
“tortured painter” of film and fiction. Van
Gogh is presented as a thoughtful and
meticulous student of nature who found
solace and personal fulfillment in studying
and enjoying the natural world.
“We are delighted to have the opportunity to present this unique look at
Vincent van Gogh’s life and work. We believe Van Gogh and Nature will resonate
strongly with visitors, particularly within
the Clark’s transformed campus landscape
which is so deeply connected with the
beauty of our natural setting, and will
invite visitors to contemplate Van Gogh’s
experiences while enjoying the beauty of
the Berkshires,” said Michael Conforti,
the Felda and Dena Hardymon Director
of the Clark. “This incredible exhibition
is a testament to the power of thought and
deed. We are indebted to a brilliant curatorial team headed by our curator at large
Richard Kendall and the many lenders to
and supporters of the exhibition.”
Works included in the exhibition are
on loan from many of the most noted
collections of the artist’s works, including the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam;
the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo; the
Museé d’Orsay, Paris; the National Gallery, London; the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek,
Copenhagen; The Metropolitan Museum,
New York; and the Museum of Modern
Art, New York. In Van Gogh’s earliest
works he depicted Holland as a country
with distinctive topography, weather, and
flora and fauna. Well educated and with
some knowledge of botany and natural
history, the artist’s correspondence showed
a precocious awareness of bird, flower,
tree, and plant species from his immediate environment. The remarkable drawing
Marsh with Water Lillies (1881, Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond) reveals
that many of these preoccupations were
evident at an early stage. Van Gogh and
Nature also considers the artist’s fascination with nature in a broader perspective
by presenting pictures and objects from the
Clark’s permanent collection that evoke his
wider engagement with nature.
The Clark is located at 225 South
Street in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Galleries are open Tuesday through Sunday, 10 am to 5 pm. Admission is $20; free
year-round for Clark members, children 18
and younger, and students with valid ID.
For more information, visit clarkart.edu or
call 413 458 2303.
ZZ Top, Gary Clark
Jr. co-headline
Full Tilt Boogie
Festival Aug. 22
By ALEX RAND
Special to the Berkshire View
F
or the first time since Lollapalooza
drew more than 30,000 music
lovers here almost two decades
ago, Green Mountain Racetrack
will once again be the site of a roarin’ rock
festival when the guitar-heavy THE FULL
TILT BOOGIE reverberates through the
green mountains of southern Vermont on
Saturday, Aug. 22.
Tickets are on sale now for THE FULL
TILT BOOGIE, an historic one-day, twostage guitar extravaganza, will welcome
guitar-fueled ZZ Top, Gary Clark Jr., Buddy
Guy, Blackberry Smoke, the Marshall
Tucker Band, Trigger Hippy (feat. Joan
Osborne), the Wood Brothers, Albert Lee
featuring Cindy Cashdollar, Girls Guns
& Glory and so much more to this picturesque setting for the newly revived festival
grounds. Clark, who’s co-headlining the
festival with ZZ Top, has been hailed as everything from “the new Hendrix” to a 21st
century savior of the blues, and in a new
Rolling Stone magazine article, was praised
as “an artist who can play almost anything
he picks up.”
All of which bodes perfectly for the
THE FULL TILT BOOGIE as a unique new
festival gathering of artists whose music
meets at ‘the crossroads’ of Roadhouse
àrt
`
Van Gogh exhibit
a major sign
of the summer
at the Clark in
Williamstown
F
or Vincent Van Gogh, nature was
the defining subject of his art.
Over the course of his short but
intense working life, Van Gogh
studied and depicted nature in all its forms
— from the minutia of insects and birds’
nests to the most sweeping of panoramic
landscapes —creating a body of work that
revolutionized the representation of the
natural world at the end of the nineteenth
century. Opening on June 14 and shown
exclusively at the Clark Art Institute, Van
Gogh and Nature is the first exhibition
devoted to the artist’s abiding exploration
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photo contributed
Gary Clark, Jr. will co-headline Full Tilt Boogie at Green Mountain Live this year along
with many other award-winning artists.
`Theater
`
Packer makes
her return to the
main stage at
Shakespeare
By Catherine Twing
I
n a time where new plays are rarely
chosen for full-scale productions
and female playwrights are often
discounted, Shakespeare and Company is breaking the mold.
Telling the story of Joan of Arc
through the eyes of her mother Isabelle,
“Mother of the Maid,” written by Jane
Anderson and directed by Matthew
Penn, is both a new creation and written
by a woman.
“It’s a miracle when a recent play
gets a production because it’s timing,
and budget, and
the right actors,
►► Mother
and risk taking,”
of the Maid
Anderson said. Last
to play all
of August
summer the play
was chosen as the
opener for the 2014 season at Berkshire
Playwright’s Lab in Great Barrington,
where a group of actors had three days
to rehearse and do a full reading of the
script.
The Lab is a big supporter of new
productions, often giving playwrights
that first reading, necessary to see how
audiences and actors will react to the
work.
According to a release by BPL, the
Lab is “the area’s only theater dedicated
exclusively to encouraging, developing and presenting new plays. The Lab
provides emerging and established
writers with a professional and creative
environment, while offering audiences
the engaging and provocative opportunity to share in the dramatic evolution
of premiere works.”
“It’s really about getting the big
broad strokes and conveying the essence,” Penn said of the Playwright’s
Lab. “You’re really giving the playwright a chance to see what works and
see what they want to work on and walk
out with a beneficial experience.”
Anderson had a chance to make a
few changes to the script following the
reading last year, making it ready for
Shakespeare and Company.
Although she helped out during the
first week of rehearsals and is on hand
if needed for clarification, she made
it clear that a good playwright lets the
director do the work.
“Any smart playwright will get the
hell out of everybody’s way,” Anderson
joked. “It’s time for Matt and the actors
to experiment.”
During a short rehearsal before the
Enrico spada
Tina Packer as Isabelle Arc, Nigel Gore as Jacques Arc, Nathaniel Kent as Pierre, and Anne Troup as Joan rehearsing for a new
production at Shakespeare in Company entitled “Mother of the Maid”. The play runs through September 6.
July 11 interview, it was easy to forget
the actors were in a rehearsal room and
not the real performance.
Although opening night is still
a few weeks away, the show is very
impressive and sure to be a powerful
experience.
“Mother of the Maid,” will open for
the first preview performance July 30,
starring Tina Packer, founding artistic
director of Shakespeare and Company,
as Isabelle.
The play focuses on strong female
characters so it wouldn’t be right to not
mention the influential women at play
off the stage.
“This is a huge year for women
directors and playwrights at Shakespeare & Company,” said Elizabeth
Aspenlieder, communications director
and artistic associate at the Company.
“Five out of the eight plays we’re doing
this season are directed and/or written
by women.”
Berkshire Playwright’s Lab also
supports female playwrights as three
out of the five plays in their 2008 inaugural season were by female writers.
“Women driven projects do not
get a lot of commercial productions,”
Anderson said. “We’re in a new era
for women. In Hollywood there has
been a big controversy about how there
are very few women directors, but
you can’t force equality on an artistic
community or in a business that’s very
subjective.”
Although she has been fortunate
to have many of her works produced,
including televised series which have
earned Anderson Emmy nominations,
she explained the inequality female
writers and directors face.
“Producers have assumed that if
a play is exclusively from a women’s
point of view, then the husbands and
the boyfriends aren’t going to go. Just
because you are a female playwright or
director, doesn’t mean your sensibility
is exclusively on the side of women,”
she said.
After citing a few examples from
throughout history, Packer concluded
that women have never been equal with
men in the theater.
“Even though at least 51 percent of
the audience are women and it’s usually
the women who love the theater and
drag their men along, they are watching
more male dominated stories,” she said.
Packer suggested a few ways in
which women will be able to fight this
discrepancy.
Companies like Shakespeare and
Company sometimes “gender bend”
making some male characters female or
having females play males to compensate for the lack of female roles.
Although women play indispensable parts in many of Shakespeare’s
plays, in most shows there are only two
or three female roles to every ten or
twenty male, Packer noted.
“Women have always been very
prominent in male playwrights’ minds
because women have such power over
men’s minds; they just don’t have the
economic power that men do,” she said.
As more women take administrative roles in theaters, more plays with
female characters and by female playwrights will be chosen.
“Women are good artistic directors.
Women are very good at running the
theaters because you have to multitask
all the time and women are good at
multitasking,” Packer said. “I think it
is changing for women and it will continue to change as you get more women
artistic directors and women investors.”
“Mother of the Maid” runs July 30
through Sep. 6. For more information
visit Shakespeare.org.
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`First
`
draft
Grapefruit shines
in a new IPA
By Jesse watkins
W
elcome to the first of
many beer reviews
by yours finest, Jesse
Watkins.
I am a local beer enthusiast/
brewer that has embraced the craft
that is Zymurgy. This is the study or
practice of fermentation in brewing,
winemaking, or distilling.
My focus at the moment is
brewing beer. I will taste beers
from across the globe and give you
insight, history, and what they are
all about in this column.
The lucky beer this month will
be from Ballast Point Brewing
Company in San Diego, CA, and is
their Grapefruit Sculpin IPA.
This IPA is an American-style
IPA. For those who don’t know,
IPA stands for India Pale Ale and
stylistically has more hops and alcohol
than your average pale ale. Historically,
this allowed it to travel long distances and
to be enjoyed by the masses. Well, enough
with history, on to the beer!
Upon opening my can of Grapefruit
Sculpin and pouring it into a glass, I got a
nice foamy head with some lacy remnants
after it subsided.
My nose was instantly hit with scents
of bright citrus peel oils, juicy peaches
and almost a light tropical note.
After taking a couple sips, my palate melded with bitter citrus pith,
grapefruit juice, apricot and a touch
of caramelized malt. The sweetness
of the malt was well balanced with
the bitterness of the hops. In my
opinion this is key to a proper IPA,
not overly sweet and not too bitter.
Carbonation wise, it’s on the
lighter side and not overbearing.
It’s just enough to carry the appropriate flavors to the palate and
nose.
Grapefruit IPAs are in right
now, as many of you beer enthusiasts know, and Ballast Point
does one of the best, in my opinion. The balance is there in all
aspects. It’s refreshing, flavorful
and coming in around 7% ABV
you can enjoy a couple and not be
obliterated.
Ballast Point Brewing yet again
brews another beer for the books.
Thank you for joining me in this flavor adventure and we shall see you next
month for another delectable beer!
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Ant-Man:
Small hero
comes to the
big screen
`Must
`
See
Marvel’s latest is
‘mediocre’ at best
Straight Outta
Compton
The rise of one of the
most influential rap
groups of all time,
NWA, is followed in
this film directed by F.
Gary Gary (The Italian
Job).
By eoin higgins
24 R
U
O
H
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`Film
`
I
n the newest Marvel property,
Ant-Man, we watch as a slightly
crooked but lovable thief Scott
Lang, played by a mostly game Paul
Rudd, becomes a hero thanks to a suit
that shrinks him down to the size of,
well, an ant. The suit- the invention of
cranky inventor Hank Pym, played by a
totally committed Michael Douglas- is
the McGuffin of the movie, both the
center of the action and the driver of it.
The story isn’t
►► Sequel fails too complito capture
cated.
magic of
Thief with
Spielberg’s
heart of gold
original
who loves
his daughter
becomes unwitting then willing accomplice to seemingly inane heist that
actually can save the world from utter
destruction.
It’s actually a testament to the quality of contemporary superhero films
that I was expecting something... more.
And it’s not like the movie is bad.
It’s not! There are a number of enjoyable set pieces and some genuine
moments of comedy. The cheesiness of
the family moments, while increasingly
grating as the film continues, doesn’t
really take away from the film. Lang’s
rag tag gang of fellow thieves is entertaining. There’s just something missing.
It’s not the acting.
Paul Rudd is, as I mentioned,
mostly game for the role of a man who
shrinks down to the size of an insect
and controls ants with his… ears? This
is actually never clearly explained.
Michael Douglas is fantastic. It’s a
testament to his acting ability that for
the length of the movie I forgot about
all his comments recently on a lot of
topics not suited for a family paper.
Evangeline Lily, despite being
relegated to the back burner for much
of the film, gives a fairly non-Kate
performance as Hope Van Dyne, Hank
Pym’s daughter.
Corey Stoll, who I have always had
a lot of sympathy for given our similarity in hairstyles (when he’s not Straining to carry off a toupee), also puts in a
photo courtesy of walt disney pictures
Paul Rudd as Scott Lang, a little skeptical about the Ant-Man suit.
totally serviceable performance as the
villain Darren Cross.
Is it the story then? No, the
story’s… fine.
So here’s the real problem. The
movie’s fine. It’s not great. Not awful.
Just okay. Forgettable, really, if we
don’t acknowledge the interaction with
the broader Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Because that is really the only part of
the film which has any comic book
level gravitas.
There’s an argument to be made
that not all Marvel films need to be
“events.” Sure, whatever. I wouldn’t
consider a single Thor movie to be an
“event,” they’re all ridiculous with no
real bearing on the rest of the MCU.
But that doesn’t mean that all of the
rest of the elements that make Marvel
films great have to be disregarded- like
the film having heart, soul, and con-
sequences if the hero’s mission is not
successful.
It’s the unrelenting mediocrity of
Ant-Man that sets it apart from the rest
of the Marvel films. You have moments of brilliance, such as Guardians
of the Galaxy and Captain America:
Winter Soldier, come out of the studio.
And you have monumental failures of
storytelling like the Iron Man sequels.
But you haven’t had anything yet so
pedestrian as Ant-Man.
Superheroes are the new standard
for action movies. There have been
great and terrible interpretations of the
genre over the past decade. But what
there haven’t been a lot of have been
boring, middling movies that are so formulaic and uninspired that they serve
simply to follow the numbers.
I fear Ant Man is only the precursor
to a trend.
Fantastic Four
(August 7)
The latest film adaptation of Marvel’s “First
Family” stars Michael
B. Jordan (Fruitvale
Station) and Kate Mara
(House of Cards).
The Man From
U.N.C.L.E (July 31)
Guy Ritchie’s (Snatch)
take on the classic
tv show stars Henry
Cavill (Man of Steel)
and Alicia Vikander (Ex
Machina).
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decades of
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T
he Tanglewood Picnic: Music
and Outdoor Feasts in the Berkshires by Gina Hyams celebrates
the eight-decade tradition of picnicking on the lawn at Boston Symphony
Orchestra’s summer home in Lenox.
The gift book includes 150 photos of
Tanglewood picnickers from the 1940s
through the present from the Boston
Symphony Orchestra Archives and audience members’ family scrapbooks; a
dozen classic picnic recipes (summer corn
pudding, lobster sliders, brownies…); the
ultimate Tanglewood picnic checklist; and
foreword by best-selling cookbook author
Alana Chernila.
When you ask people to describe
Tanglewood picnics, more often than not,
the first word they say is “magic.” The experience of picnicking on the lawn clearly
adds up to something that’s greater than
the sum of its parts.
To picnic at Tanglewood is to participate in a grand tradition. Since 1937,
music lovers have there to picnic during
concerts. The 526-acre campus is a
picnicker’s paradise of sweeping lawns,
woods, and a formal garden.
Both the Koussevitzky Music Shed
(a.k.a. “the Shed”) and Seiji Ozawa Hall
are open sided, designed so that the music
pours out of the concert halls to be shared
with patrons sitting in the cheap seats on
the grass.
The place is imbued with a brilliant
sense of artistic history and, for many, a
poignant feeling of personal legacy.
The tradition of picnicking at Tanglewood is passed down through generations
like a beloved family heirloom.
There’s a profound sense of tranquility on the Tanglewood lawn. You might
battle a little traffic to get there, but once
you get situated on your picnic blanket,
everything seems right with the world.
You slow down and connect with your
companions or, as the case may be, with
the New York Times crossword puzzle,
surrounded by the bucolic Berkshire landscape and breathing in the fresh country
air.
Tanglewood picnics celebrate artistry
both on stage and off. The joyful spectacle
of picnics scattered across the lawn is daz-
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SEAFOOD
Served with Rice, your choice of Black Beans & Salad
Panchos Mariscada........................18.95
Mixed seafood cooked with vegetables
served over rice with a garden salad.
Sopa de Mariscos...........................16.95
Mixed Seafood Vegetable Soup served with
rice & salad.
Camarones Rancheros.. . . . . . . . .15.95
Shrimp cooked in our delicious Ranchera salsa.
Camarones a la Diabla...................15.95
Shrimp with homemade spicy sauce.
Berkshire author Gina Hyams packs nostalgia, classic recipes
in ‘The Tanglewood
Picnic’
Camarones
al Mojo........................15.95
Pescado al Mojo.............................15.95
Fish fillet with garlic & tequila sauce.
Photo Contributed
Stories of picnics
past in Lenox
Camarones a la Veracruzana........15.95
Side dishes
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Jello.....................................4.95
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mended as seating is limited. Her presenlunch
specials
Berkshire Summer Classic with chevre,
tation will be followed by a Victorian tea.
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
FRIDAY
hummous, roasted salmon,THURSDAY
eggplant and
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Chile
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grape
leaves;
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Spread
Tamal Plate
‘Taco Day’
Panchos
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Poblano Pepper
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Pork Torta (Mexior Tossed
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760 crema,
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can cream,
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queso fresco,
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a one-stop shop for all the ingredients
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you could possibly need to create a
grilled foccacia are always on the menu,
memorable picnic feast. Offerings include
as are great salads. Prepared picnics for
premium sliced meats, gourmet cheeses,
four are also available. Wine and beer
baked goods and all manner of delectable
from France and Italy are available for
prepared foods. Be sure to not miss their
adult picnic parties. Also, don’t leave
delicious daily diverse hot soups as well.
without some cheese fondue to go.
Pack your own
A U T H E N T I C
Weekend Breakfast Specials!
NOTHING MORE CONTEMPORARY
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Breakfast Served All Day
Daily Specials
Try our Corned Beef Hash
Pescado a la Mexicana.................15.95
Fish cooked in Mexican spicy sauce.
Shrimp sautéed with garlic tequila sauce.
zling. The grounds hum with the creative
energy of audience members drawing and
painting, knitting, reading, and playing all
sorts of games.
Tanglewood picnickers have a certain
joie de vivre about the weather, too —
be it basking in sunshine or huddling
together under tarps to picnic in the rain. And, well, there’s a lot of sleeping.
What could be more relaxing than napping outdoors while the world’s greatest
musicians serenade your dreams?
“The Tanglewood Picnic: Music and
Outdoor Feasts in the Berkshires” is a collective love letter to a beloved tradition. It
serves as both a tribute to past picnics and
as inspiration for future ones.
Gina Hyams is a Berkshire-based
writer and editor who specializes in food,
travel, and the arts. She has published 12
other books.
Published by Muddy Puppy Media,
the 112-page hardcover gift book retails
for $19.95.
Food historian Francine Segan will
present “Life Is a Picnic!” at Venefort Hall
Mansion and the Guilded Age Museum’s
Tea & Talk series on August 4.
According to Segan, since the Renaissance when Good Queen Bess of England
ordered picnics as part of the hunt scene,
outdoor dining has taken on a bucolic
Call
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Chips & Salsa.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2.50
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Salsa or Jalapeños.. . . . . . . . . . . . .0.95
Sour Cream.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.95
Pico de Gallo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.50
Rice or Beans.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2.00
Fried Plantain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.00
Tortil as.. . . 1.50 Mole Sauce.. . .1.95
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Cocktail de Camaron....................10.95
Shimp Cocktail Mexican Style w/ cilantro,
onions, special tomato sauce & avocado.
Quesadilla.................................7.95
Chicken, Steak, Veggie or Cactus.
APPETIZERS
Rebosos con Mole..........................6.50
2 corn tortillas filled w/plantain, topped
w/Mole Poblano & Sesame seeds w/cheese.
Empanadas.......................................5.95
3 puffed corn masa patties filled with seasoned ground beef and potato.
Flautas..............................................7.95
5 crispy taquitos filled w/meat, topped
w/guacamole, crema, lettuce, green sauce
& cotija cheese.
Tostadas (chicken or steak)..........7.95
2 crispy corn tortilla topped w/refried
beans, lettuce, tomato, salsa, Mexican
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Cocktail de Camaron.. . . . . . . . . .10.95 Quesadil a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7.95
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Jalapeño Poppers..4.95
Fr. Fries..4.50
Mozzarella Sticks..............................4.95
Nachos w/Steak, Chicken, Chili or
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Caesar Salad or Tossed Salad........5.95
Taco Salad (Chicken, Steak or Chorizo) 9.95
Lettuce, tomato, cheese, pico de gallo, guacamole, sour cream, salsa, beans served in
a tortilla shell.
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(413) 447-9375
Mon-Fri:
5am-2pm
Mon-Fri:
5am-2pm
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445-5300
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Panchos Sampler............................30.00
3 empanadas, 2 tamal, 1 fried plantain, 3
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Acapulco Salad...................................8.95
Lettuce, tomato, pico de gallo, avocado,
cheese & chips.
Mexican Salad....................................8.95
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Panchos Burger Guacamole, Mexican cream,
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