Introduction to Drawing - Session 3 of 3
2026-07-11 10:00 - 23:30 (America/New_York)
Third session of this three-session class series. Sign up before the first class – for tickets see Introduction to Drawing – Session 1 of 3
Sessions in this 3-session series on 6/20, 6/27, 7/11. $75 fee covers the 3-series class.

Chris Brubeck's Triple Play
2026-07-25 19:00 - 21:00
Chris Brubeck’s Triple Play featuring Joel Brown on Guitar, Peter Madcat Ruth on harmonica is (to quote the Los Angeles Times ) ”rollicking fun, led by bassist, trombonist and pianist Chris Brubeck the vocal trio stole the show with their flair and virtuosity!” The group met decades ago when they all recorded and performed with the unique banjo player and singer Bill Crofut. The Seattle Times wrote “Triple Play is what jazz always was and always should be about, good times, unbridled joy and the sweet release of the blues.”

Get your tickets early for this season highlight!

A limited number of community tickets are available at a reduced price.

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Sandisfield Cultural Council and the Otis Cultural Council, local agencies which are supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

To buy tickets, press the + for the number you want – then Get Tickets will work (as long as tickets are available).

The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
2026-08-22 10:00 - 12:00
Book talk with celebrated historian and Harvard University professor Naomi Oreskes examining the enduring myth advanced by business elites and media allies to promote hostility to “big government” and faith in unfettered markets.
Naomi Oreskes
Naomi Oreskes is Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science, Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard. A world-renowned earth scientist, historian and public speaker, she is the author of the best-selling book, Merchants of Doubt (2010) and a leading voice on the role of science in society, the reality of anthropogenic climate change, and the role of disinformation in blocking climate action.
She’ll be speaking on her latest book, with Erik Conway, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loath Government and Love the Free Market.
“[A] scorching indictment of free market fundamentalism . . . and how we can change, before it’s too late.”-Esquire
“The bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt offer a profound, startling history of one of America’s most tenacious-and destructive-false ideas: the myth of the “free market.”
Oreskes is author or co-author of 7 other books, and over 150 articles, essays and opinion pieces, including Merchants of Doubt (Bloomsbury, 2010), The Collapse of Western Civilization (Columbia University Press, 2014), Discerning Experts (University Chicago Press, 2019), Why Trust Science? (Princeton University Press, 2019), and Science on a Mission: American Oceanography from the Cold War to Climate Change, (University of Chicago Press, 2021). Merchants of Doubt, co-authored with Erik Conway, was the subject of a documentary film of the same name produced by participant Media and distributed by SONY Pictures Classics, and has been translated into nine languages. A new edition of Merchants of Doubt, with an introduction by Al Gore, was published in 2020.

A Sparkling Evening Gala
2026-09-26 18:00 - 21:00
Celebrate life and all that the new Sandisfield Arts Center has to offer.
Enjoy a delicious meal prepared by chef Adam Manacher in our new kitchen.
Wine and dessert included, entertainment guaranteed to sparkle.

Nazi Town, USA. A Chilling Documentary Film by Peter Yost
2026-10-03 19:00 - 21:00
This film traces the rise and fall of the German American Bund, exposing the fascist threat in 1930s America. Nominated for an Emmy and a Columbia-Dupont Award.
We are thrilled to have Director/Producer Peter Yost here to lead a discussion afterward.
More about the film:
In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “Pro-American Rally.” Images of George Washington hung next to swastikas and speakers railed against the “Jewish controlled media” and called for a return to a racially “pure” America. The keynote speaker was Fritz Kuhn, head of the German American Bund. Nazi Town, USA tells the largely unknown story of the Bund, which had scores of chapters in suburbs and big cities across the country and represented what many believe was a real threat of fascist subversion in the United States. The Bund held joint rallies with the Ku Klux Klan and ran dozens of summer camps for children centered around Nazi ideology and imagery. Its melding of patriotic values with virulent anti-Semitism raised thorny issues that we continue to wrestle with today.
A limited number of reduced price community tickets are available.

The Thistles Quartet
2026-10-04 15:00 - 17:00
Pictured: Jaye Alison Moscariello, Bill Taylor, Lesley Rosenthal, Terry Keevil
The Thistles quartet is Terry Keevil oboe and duduk (Armenian oboe), Lesley Rosenthal electric violin, Jaye Alison Moscariello vocals, and Bill Taylor piano. Their sound blends classical, jazz and show tune influences in a unique and often unexpected way that is inspiring and a joy to hear. In addition to many of Bill Taylor’s works, they play works by Paul McCandless, Terry Keevil, and other composers and songwriters.
While the musicians have each performed for decades, this ensemble got together in 2024 and Rosenthal joined in 2025. Taylor’s music is inspired by classical greats like Schumann, Debussy and the “3 B’s”, and by his exposure to jazz, show tunes, and other music of our times. Keevil has several albums including one for the Duduk (Armenian oboe) which appears in Thistle concerts. Rosenthal is a poet as well as musician, and directs The Julliard School. Our name comes from the energizing, liver-supporting thistle drink Jaye makes and which some of us drink before performances and all of us at other times. With thistle, lemon and apple, it alkalinizes the body.
Terry Keevil (oboe, duduk) has been a member of the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra and Choir of Sacred Music, and performed with Lazar Gosman’s Tchaikovsky Orchestra as well as the Bach Aria Group. For over thirty years he was a member of the chamber group, North Shore Pro Musica. Terry was also part of the Constellation Trio with Linda Wetherill, flute and Steve Salerno, guitar. Terry has performed and recorded with cellist David Darling and released a CD of original duduk music titled “Duduk Creations”. He received a DMA in oboe performance from SUNY/Stony Brook where he studied with Steve Taylor, and an MM from SUNYSB where he studied with Ronald Roseman. As an undergraduate, he attended Amherst College for two years and received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, where he studied with Ronald Roseman. Terry and his wife, Sarah, moved to West Stockbridge from Long Island in the Summer of 2023. Terry performs regularly in a variety of ensembles and solo appearances.
Jaye Alison Moscariello (vocals) is a visual artist and singer who recorded on both of Bill’s albums, trained with Rosa D’Acri and performed at Durham (CT) Grange and with Anderson Valley Chorus, led Laura Nyro tributes, and numerous concerts with Bill. She has been a professional painter in a variety of media since 1973, shows internationally as well as locally, directed several short films including From the Ashes about fire recovery in California. She’s a volunteer on the Gallery committee of the Sandisfield Arts Center (organizer of their International Film Festival and Art Show) and New Marlborough Meeting House Gallery.
Lesley Rosenthal plays in several groups and is an accomplished electric violinist based in New York and Otis MA. She is Chief Operating Officer and Corporate Secretary of The Juilliard School. Previously she served as EVP, General Counsel & Secretary of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York. Rosenthal graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School, served a six-year term on the Harvard University Board of Overseers and chaired its Arts & Humanities committee. She is the author of the bestselling book, Good Counsel: Meeting the Legal Needs of Nonprofits (John Wiley & Sons 2012) and co-librettist of the jazz opera, Dear Erich. As immediate past President of the NY Bar Foundation, she led the organization through a 3-year strategic plan period with the Rule of Law as its central theme. Together with the Nigerian actress Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, she co-presented a panel on arts and the rule of law at the 2017 World Justice Forum. Rosenthal is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the founding board chair of Friends of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, which in 2021 galvanized international support for the rescue of all 273 members of the Afghan music school from peril at the hands of the Taliban.
Bill Taylor (Piano) is a composer, pianist, and market gardener/farmer and radio show cohost with Jaye, living in Sandisfield MA. Members of the Ukiah Symphony, with Bill on piano, performed several of his works in March 2019. He played in the Soul Purpose Band from 2012 to 2020, was church pianist and organist from 2004 to 2020 in northern California and from 2022 to present in West Stockbridge, MA. While in California he performed and recorded with wind player Paul McCandless and jazz flautist George Husaruk. His farming and environmental awareness and involvement inform his compositions. He studied composition at Cornish School and with composer Ken Benshoof, piano with his father Arnold Taylor, Harriet Shirvan in Boston, and jazz pianist Jerry Gray in Seattle. His music was featured in several films produced by Jaye Alison Moscariello. In June 2023 and again in 2024 he was a composer at the Mostly Modern Festival (MMF) where his chamber pieces Regenerate, Heal, Cool, Normalizing Evil and others were performed. He attended the Screen Music Program in Pavia, Italy in August 2025, an introduction to writing for film and video games.
Limited number of reduced price community tickets @ $10.

Noah Bearman and Henry Lugo in Concert
2026-10-18 15:00 - 17:00
Jazz pianist, composer, educator, and activist Noah Baerman’s tenacity and his cutting edge yet soulful music have made him an inspiring figure to a growing legion of admirers. Baerman is a jazz pianist, composer, educator, and activist who has released sixteen acclaimed albums as a leader and several more with ensembles including Trio 149 and Envisage Collective.
Ten albums feature bassist Henry Lugo, his longtime collaborator performing with him today.
“With its heady mix of transcendence, activism, deep lyrical expression and soulful sense of swing, pianist/composer Noah Baerman’s triumphant new CD, Ripples, is one of the best and the brightest releases to grace our region in quite some time.” – Owen McNally, WNPR Jazz Corridor
About Community tickets: We make available a limited number of Community tickets @ $10. (on a first come, first served basis) to make our events affordable for more members of the community. Honor system, no proof required.

An Evening of New England Contra Dance
2026-11-14 19:00 - 21:00
Our inaugurtal Contra dance event! Calling the dances, the popular Jon Greene with fiddle music by Eric Martin.
No experience needed–just come for a new adventure with friends guided by friends with feet-on knolwedge of such things.

Sandisfield Players Present "A Christmas Carol" A Radio Drama
2026-12-05 19:00 - 2027-12-05 21:00
Join us for this holiday classic as you’ve never seen it before!
Performed as a semi-staged radio play with sound effects, you’ll be transported to Dickens’ England to experience the ruthlessness, repentance, and redemption of the human spirit.
Performed by the Sandisfield Players.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Sandisfield Cultural Council and the Otis Cultural Council, local agencies which are supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
