Join Us in Celebrating Our 30th Anniversary in 2025

Blackstone Valley String Quartet

Sandisfield Arts Center 5 Hammertown Road, Sandisfield, MA, United States

The Blackstone Valley String Quartet gets its name from the quaint small-town area of Central Massachusetts where owner and founder Sylvia DiCrescentis has lived and worked for most of her life.  For fifteen years, the members of the BVQ have played together in various orchestras and small groups honing their skills and developing a unique bond as professional performing musicians. Today’s [...]

$15.00

Frederick Moyer Piano Recital

Sandisfield Arts Center 5 Hammertown Road, Sandisfield, MA, United States

We are thrilled to bring back Frederick Moyer after his wonderful recital (and the debut of our Stainway) last year. Moyer is equally at home with Bach, Rachmaninoff, and Schoenberg as well as Ellington and Peterson. His recitals are engaging and generally include time-honored favorites. His MoyerCam is a projection system that allows the audience [...]

$20.00

Berkshire Opera Festival

Sandisfield Arts Center 5 Hammertown Road, Sandisfield, MA, United States

Have you ever wondered how a fully-staged opera is brought to life? Have you wondered if opera was something you'd enjoy? Berkshire Opera Festival co-founders Brian Garman and Jonathon Loy will answer all your questions through an interactive presentation on their summer 2019 production of the comic opera Don Pasquale, which will be performed at [...]

$5.00 – $10.00

Bill Cohn on “Combating the Enemy Within”

Sandisfield Arts Center 5 Hammertown Road, Sandisfield, MA, United States

Early in the Depression, on February 2, 1931, Silas H. Strawn, Chairman of the United States Chamber of Commerce, warned,  “in a condition of this kind, the thing to be feared most is fear itself.” In March 1933 President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt echoed this same sentiment in his inaugural address when he told the American [...]

$10.00

Fascism and Racial Laws in Mussolini’s Italy

Sandisfield Arts Center 5 Hammertown Road, Sandisfield, MA, United States

In his talk and slide presentation, historian and part-time Sandisfield resident Dr. Robert A. Maryks will tell a story of the impact of the racial laws on the Jews (and those who were considered Jews) under the Mussolini regime. This story is based on 139 letters that were exchanged between the victims of those laws [...]

$10.00

Wanda Houston Band: ’40’s, ’50’s, & ’60’s R&B and Jazz

Sandisfield Arts Center 5 Hammertown Road, Sandisfield, MA, United States

The Wanda Houston Band features the incomparable vocalist Wanda Houston accompanied by three virtuoso and diverse musicians specializing in unique interpretations of American Music. The band’s repertoire includes selections from the great American Songbook, Jazz, Motown, R&B, and Pop from the early 20th century to modern. It’s all crystallized through a unique instrumental and vocal [...]

$20.00

Today’s Poets in Conversation with the Masters

Sandisfield Arts Center 5 Hammertown Road, Sandisfield, MA, United States

"A large number of the poems I most admire and which seem to be most original are talking back to other poets of other ages." —Richard Wilbur Join us for this unique poetry program with poems of masters such as Frost, Auden, Wilbur, Plath, Owen, Boland, Kumin, Bynner, and Yeats performed by Ben Luxon and [...]

$5.00 – $10.00

Ed Arron and Jeewon Park, cello and piano

Sandisfield Arts Center 5 Hammertown Road, Sandisfield, MA, United States

The 2018-19 season marks Mr. Arron’s tenth anniversary season as the artistic director and host of the acclaimed Musical Masterworks concert series in Old Lyme, Connecticut. He is also the artistic director of the Festival Series in Beaufort, South Carolina, and is the co-artistic director with his wife, pianist Jeewon Park, of the Performing Artists in Residence series at the Clark [...]

$20.00

Val Coleman on “The Constitution Alive”

Sandisfield Arts Center 5 Hammertown Road, Sandisfield, MA, United States

Val Coleman will argue that the American constitution is alive and well, despite the assaults on its tenets throughout the history of this country.  Val Coleman, known as the poet laureate of Sandisfield, is also a citizen-scholar. His previous presentations on the history of poetry, the rise and persistence of fascism in the 20th century, [...]

$10.00

Hard Cider Tasting conducted by Tom Christopher with Steve Adams of The Tangled Party performing

Sandisfield Arts Center 5 Hammertown Road, Sandisfield, MA, United States

Join us for an introduction to the flavors and history of New England’s traditional beverage:  hard cider. Long-time cider maker and enthusiast Tom Christopher will speak about the history of cider making in our region, and then invite the audience to taste a flight of ciders from a variety of makers, both amateur and professional. [...]

$20.00