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Song Swap at the Store at Five Corners

The Store at Five Corners 4 New Ashford Rd, Willliamstown, MA, United States

Join us the second Thursday of each month at 7PM for our 'Song Swap' This event occurs every 2nd Thursday of the month and is a gathering for music enthusiasts of all skill levels. Whether you're a songwriter sharing your own compositions or a music lover bringing your favorite tunes, we welcome your contributions. If you prefer to simply enjoy the music, that's great too! Come and be part of our supportive and creative community. Pro tip - Come early and hang out and enjoy some delicious food from the Store.  

Free

CONCERT | The Klezmatics

Yiddish Book Center 1021 West St., Amherst, MA, United States

Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music returns to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA! Join us on Thursday, July 11 at 7:30 p.m. ET for our opening concert, The Klezmatics, the internationally acclaimed, Grammy Award-winning modern klezmer outfit. Blending instrumental and vocal virtuosity and experimentation with theatricality firmly rooted in klezmer and Yiddish tradition, The Klezmatics brought the revival of klezmer into the rock era. The Klezmatics are Lorin Sklamberg, vocals, piano, and guitar; Matt Darriau, clarinet, saxophone, and recorders; Lisa Gutkin, violin; Paul Morrisett, bass and tsimbl; and Richie Barshay, drums. The Ruth Woolfe Memorial Concert About Yidstock: Now in its twelfth year,

$60

CONCERT | Judy Bressler and Hankus Netsky

Yiddish Book Center 1021 West St., Amherst, MA, United States

Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music returns to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA! Join us on Friday, July 12 at 2:00 p.m. ET for a performance by vocalist Judy Bressler, one of the most renowned interpreters of Yiddish song in our time, and pianist Hankus Netsky, founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band. Helen and Irving Sunshine Memorial Concert About Yidstock: Now in its twelfth year, Yidstock brings the best in klezmer and new Yiddish music to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. From July 11 to 14, this four-day festival will include musicians and performers at

$44

CONCERT | Levyosn

Yiddish Book Center 1021 West St., Amherst, MA, United States

Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music is returns to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA! Join us on Friday, July 12 at 5:00 p.m. for a performance by Levyosn, a new quartet specializing in Yiddish song and klezmer. Founded in 2021, the band takes its name from the Ashkenazi Hebrew word for the leviathan, a mythical sea creature traveling the world’s oceans collecting songs, krill, and dreams. Levyosn’s repertoire includes traditional music and original songs presented in intricate arrangements with rich vocal harmonies, as featured on their debut album, Levoysns Lullaby (Borscht Beat, 2023). Levyosn is vocalist/guitarist Adah Hetko, violinist/vocalist Lysander Jaffe,

$44

CONCERT | Socalled’s Gephilte

Yiddish Book Center 1021 West St., Amherst, MA, United States

Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music returns to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA! Join us on Saturday, July 13 at 8:00 p.m. for a performance by Gephilte, a jam-band experiment in Yiddish funk, the latest boundary-busting project from renowned Canadian Yiddish hip-hop provocateur Josh Dolgin aka Socalled. Taking cues from his funk/klezmer supergroup Abraham Inc, Socalled has brought together an ensemble of fellow Canadian virtuosos to explore Yiddish repertoire in a freewheeling, borderless style, using the incredible Yiddish repertoire to groove out and make audiences move. The Joan A. Backman Memorial Concert About Yidstock: Now in its twelfth

$68

CONCERT | Daniel Kahn & Jake Shulman-Ment featuring Richie Barshay

Yiddish Book Center 1021 West St., Amherst, MA, United States

Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music returns to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA! Join us on Sunday, July 14 at 12:00 p.m. for a performance by Yiddish duo Daniel Kahn & Jake Shulman-Ment, featuring Richie Barshay. Drawing on Daniel and Jake’s acclaimed 2023 duo album The Building & Other Songs, as well as their work together in both The Painted Bird and Brothers Nazaroff, this program ranges from original polyglot ballads, radical treatments of modern Yiddish songs from Gebirtig to Schaechter-Gottesman to new Yiddish translations of lyricists such as Dylan, Cohen, Brecht, Springsteen, Guthrie, Waits, and more. The

$44

CONCERT | Basya Schechter and Avi Fox-Rosen [Present Itsik Manger’s Khumesh Lider]

Yiddish Book Center 1021 West St., Amherst, MA, United States

Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music returns to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA! Join us on Sunday, July 14 at 3:00 p.m. for a performance by Basya Schechter and Avi Fox-Rosen as they present an original composition for 20th-century Eastern European Yiddish poet Itsik Manger’s collection of Khumesh Lider (Bible stories). Characters we know and love like Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah are plucked out of Canaan and set in interwar Eastern Europe. Hasidim, Turks, Egyptians, and Canaanites collide in the mythical geography Manger creates. The music weaves together a singer-songwriter aesthetic with theater, pop, and world music influences,

$44

CONCERT | Eleanor Reissa and the Klezmer Brass Allstars

Yiddish Book Center 1021 West St., Amherst, MA, United States

Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music returns to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA! Join us on Sunday, July 14 at 7:30 p.m. for a performance by Eleanor Reissa and the Klezmer Brass Allstars. The soulful and inimitable Yiddish vocalist Eleanor Reissa and the great Klezmer Brass Allstars will explore the world of Yiddish song from the obscure to the chestnuts, from the sacred to the profane, fueled by the best brass band in the land. The Sarah Rose Lazarus Family Concert About Yidstock: Now in its twelfth year, Yidstock brings the best in klezmer and new Yiddish music to the

$60

Live Free Music -2 Performances at “Sundays in the Park 2024” at the Lee Town Park

Lee Town Park Lee, MA 01238, Lee, MA, United States

Sherry Steiner will performance from 12:30 - 1:20 pm Ambient Improvisational piano and double-necked ukulele instrumentals Daryl Brooke will be performing 1:30 - 2:30 pm Daryl Brooke is a faculty artist for CATA and the steel guitar player for the Firetown Road Band. Daryl is a seasoned musician and steel guitar player, who enjoys performing solo throughout the Berkshires with a repertoire that crosses all music genres best described as tropical roots Americana. More information here: https://darylbrooke.com/

Free