Join Us in Celebrating Our 30th Anniversary in 2025
Chris Merenda Vocals and banjo, Ryan Hommel, Benny Kohn, vocals and piano, Andy Wrba, bass and Bill Chapman on drums This group features some of the region’s finest musicians collaborating to perform a combination of original music and their favorite bluegrass, folk, and traditional songs. Chris Merenda is a multi-instrumentalist who has been a lead [...]
On NOT Becoming an Artist: A Retro-Spective Opening Reception : 10th Jul 2015 08:00 PM Date of Show : 10th Jul 2015 - 30th Nov -0001 Levin's work as a photographer has been featured in her books Hopper's Places and Marsden Hartley in Bavaria, published in magazines and newspapers and exhibited in museums and galleries. She first exhibited [...]
GAIL LEVIN is a scholar, curator and artist whose work on twentieth century and contemporary art has won her international acclaim. Her writings have been published in more than fifteen countries and her exhibitions have been shown throughout Europe, Australia, and Japan. The author of many books and numerous articles, she is the acknowledged authority on the [...]
A marvelous evening of Grand Opera featuring selections from some of the greatest operas ever written performed by four wonderful musicians from the New York City area. You’ll hear Soprano Patricia Vital, Tenor Jose Heredia, Baritone Charles Coleman, and Pianist Kelly Horsted. A light supper and the performance will be in the Royal Ballroom (the [...]
An intimate story of the American civil rights movement from the point of view of one of its early activists. Val Coleman will try to bring some balance to the Sixties era that has been both celebrated and savaged by history. Beginning with Coleman’s stumbling start on the staff of the Congress of Racial Equality [...]
Our Berkshire wildflowers are as beautiful around the home as in the woods and meadows and provide many benefits to pollinators and wildlife as well. Thomas Christopher and Ruth Clausen, co-authors of Essential Perennials, will introduce a selection of New England’s very best native perennials, along with all the information you will need to make them [...]
Robin Tost: “Not Your Grandmother’s Quilt—Fabrications in Metal” Opening Reception : 8th Aug 2015 02:00 PM Date of Show : 8th Aug 2015 - 30th Nov -0001 Using shapes of automotive scrap, advertising remnants and other junk metals, cut by hand and sewn with wire, Robin fabricates the waste materials of our fading New England [...]
Bill Cohn, Trinity College Visiting Professor of History and American Studies, will mark the 100th anniversary of The Great War 1914-1918 (World War I) and the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II (1945) with a discussion of the propaganda techniques used in each war that regimented the public mind. During World War [...]
The Easy Ridin' Papas are a duo made up of Will Conklin on trumpet/cornet, vocals, and whistling, as well as a really loud kazoo, and Adam Brown on parlor, archtop, and resonator guitars and vocals. They play a mix of 20's, 30's, and 40's country blues, jazz and country standards, western swing, southern gospel, and [...]
With pickling, canning, and other traditional techniques enjoying a surge of popularity, Barrow, a D.C.-based food writer who chronicles her kitchen adventures in a popular blog, offers a guide to all kinds of food preservation in her new book Mrs. Wheelbarrow’s Practical Pantry (WW Norton & Company). Canning, smoking, brining, and curing are among the [...]
