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Stand-up comedy returns with headliner Matt Vita, feature act Bri Morrison, and host Charlie Nadler! Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/comedy-on-tap-at-bright-ideas-brewing-in-north-adams-ma-tickets-823695885567
Join acclaimed Jewish Latin American authors and longtime friends Marjorie Agosin and Ruth Behar as they talk about their explorations of the voyages of memory in their fiction and other writing. Ruth will speak about her new middle grade novel, Across So Many Seas, a sweeping historical saga focused on the gripping stories of four girls from many generations of a Sephardic family. Marjorie will speak about her memoir, A Cross and a Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile, which tells the story of her mother’s memory growing up in the south of Chile with pro-Nazi German settlers, as
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.
Jack Swindlehurst and The Old Fashioneds: Jack grew up listening to music borrowed from the local library in Middletown, CT; The Kingston Trio, the Chad Mitchell Trio, Beethoven, The Smothers Brothers and the Beatles. They all influenced Jack's early creative drive to write songs of love and life. Some forty years and seventy songs later, Jack still performs a few of those early original works. Later influences were Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, Rolling Stones, The Band, Leon Redbone, and many more including just plain muse. Jack is still writing songs and the subject matter is still Love and
For just a $10 DONATION you can get a 4″x6″ framed keepsake photo of your pet! Each month is a different theme ……Beach Party, Patriotic, Back to School, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and so many more! Since TASP is run completely by volunteers, 100% of your donation goes directly to pets in need. So, c’mon out and enjoy the fun and save animals at the same time. It’s a win: win!
Join us for a mind-blowing night of music as BAAMS presents MINO CINELU and the BAAMS' Faculty Band live at Studio 9Whether playing percussion, drums, guitar, keyboards, or singing, Mino brings his infectious personality full of warmth and joie de vivre, coupled with decades of intense study in a wide variety of international styles — from the streets of Paris to Dakar, the Mississippi Delta to Japan, and from the Caribbean to the Middle East. He’s equally comfortable being the consummate accompanist as he is being the center of attention, and can command an extensive ensemble as well as perform
Join us at Methuselah Bar and Lounge for an evening of live music with local americana trio, Moon Hollow. Based in western mass, Moon Hollow is a high energy acoustic trio that performs original and traditional tunes inspired by folk, alt-country, bluegrass & early jazz music. Tight three part harmonies and catchy original tunes, come hang from 7-10pm! https://www.facebook.com/events/751936696536511/
Bring your acoustic instruments and join in, or just bring your ears. Traditional tunes jam including Jigs, Reels, Waltzes, Rags and more ! All skill levels welcome. Fiddles, Mandolins, Bodhrans, Guitars, Banjos, Ukuleles, Harmonicas, whistles and any other instruments ARE welcome.
Come join us for our newest music event at The Store at Five Corners on the 1st Thursday of every month from 7 - 8:30PM, it’s the “OK Chorale”, come sing along with others, no charge, no auditions, no performances, no experience necessary, just come sing along and have fun. Come early and grab a dinner at the Store and hang out. Hope to see (and hear) you there.
The annual Melinda Rosenblatt Lecture will be delivered by Samuel Kassow in conjunction with the publication of his translation of Rohkl Auerbach’s Warsaw Testament (White Goat Press). Auerbach was a journalist, literary critic, and one of only three surviving members of the Oyneg Shabes, historian Emanuel Ringelbum’s top-secret group of archivists in the Warsaw Ghetto. Upon immigrating to Israel in 1950 she founded the witness testimony division Yad Vashem and played a foundational role in the development of Holocaust memory. Warsaw Testament, a memoir based on her wartime writings both in the ghetto and on the Aryan side of the occupied city,
