Egremont Barn presents The National Reserve South Egremont— On Saturday, August 24th from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.
m., the Egremont Barn presents The National Reserve. For nearly half a decade, The National Reserve has spent its Friday nights lighting it up at a Brooklyn bar, winning over boozers and barflies with epic sets and a remarkable breadth of songcraft and showmanship.
Now, with their stunning new Ramseur Records debut album, “Motel La Grange,” the band has captured every bit of that energy, emotion, and entertainment for all to hear. Founded and fronted by singer-guitarist Sean Walsh, The National Reserve mine an archetypal musical seam, marrying gutbucket R&B, Laurel Canyon lyricism, New Orleans funk workouts, late night soul, and bluesy, boozy rock ‘n’ roll to create their own timeless brand of American music. The concert is on Saturday, August 24th from 7:30 p.
m. to 10:30 p.m.
at the Egremont Barn at 17 Main Street in South Egremont. Tickets and more information can be found online . *** Ventfort Hall Gilded Age Mansion & Museum presents ‘Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-suffrage Satire,’ a one-woman political satire Lenox— On Saturday, August 24th at 4 p.
m. , Ventfort Hall Gilded Age Mansion & Museum, in partnership with the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum, presents “Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-suffrage Satire,” a one-woman political satire portrayed by professional actress Michèle LaRue.
Written in 1912, by Marie Jenney Howe, a prominent pro-Suffragist and Unitarian minister, Howe satirizes arguments seen as accurate in their day, though absurd in ours. This fictional “Anti” sincerely believes being a “womanly woman” will keep the home intact and save the nation from anarchy. American women won the vote in 1920, following a 72-year battle against—not only male—but female Anti-suffragists.
As this year’s key Election Day approaches, take a break to discover that history—and to savor some laughs. The performance is on Saturday, August 24th at 4 p.m.
at Ventfort Hall Gilded Age Mansion & Museum at 104 Walker Street in Lenox. A tea will be served after the performance. Tickets and more information can be found online .
*** American Mural Project’s second annual ‘Brews & Views’ Winsted, Conn— On Saturday, August 24th from 4 p.m. to 8 p.
m. , American Mural Project’s (AMP) second annual “Brews & Views” beer-tasting. The event will feature craft beers by four of the Northwest Connecticut region’s top micro-breweries, Brewery Legitimus, Great Falls Brewing Company, Little Red Barn Brewers, and Norbrook Farm Brewery.
There will be a debut of new craft beers, brewer talks, and an acoustic music set by Ruby Leftstep. Beer enthusiasts can try great craft beers of the Northwest Corner while viewing AMP’s grand-scale indoor mural. Nibbles n’ Noms food truck will be on site.
The event is on Saturday, August 24th from 4 p.m. to 8 p.
m. at American Mural Project at 90 Whiting Street in Winsted, Conn. Tickets and more information can be found online .
*** TurnPark Art annual summer festival West Stockbridge— On Saturday, August 24th from 3 p.m. to 10 p.
m. , TurnPark Art Space presents its annual summer festival. Under the theme “Together,” this year’s day-long celebration of art and nature will feature live performances of music, dance, and theater, as well as immersive installations, wearable sculptures, meditation, rituals, and a community art project from more than two dozen artists from around the world.
Festival highlights include an interactive contemporary dance performance with unusual props by Olga Rabetskaya’s OR Contemporary Dance Company; a modern water puppet show in the quarry by Vietnamese American puppeteer Tommy Nguyen; reinvented ancestor traditions and queer utopia from frequent TurnPark collaborator Uta Bekaia; an interactive, multi-faceted experience with Natasha Mirny performed throughout the event; a new sound experience from Dima Klim and Sasha Drey who form the KlimToT & Drey project duo; and a virtuoso performance against a natural quarry setting from longtime Boston Symphony Orchestra member Victor Romanul, returning to the Park to explore works of Saint-Saëns, Wieniawski, and others on the electric violin. Volga Bo will oversee the Festival’s “Soul Dance Station.” Several installations are also planned, Ute Bekaia’s “Journey Without Goals,” Luna Go and Maidibor’s interactive “FATAL THINGS: characters” (as well as Go’s Dolls “might bite”), Inna Zhukovsky-Zilber’s “Echo of the Lost and Found,” Brantner DeAtley’s “Bear and Bird,” and Tom Stevens’s “Facing Each Other, Sitting in Colour” will be on view.
Additionally, Inna Zhukovsky-Zilber’s “Lost and Found” in the Garage Gallery and Roberley Bell’s “Finding Form” in the Gate House Gallery both continue. This year’s community art project, “The Tapestry of Intention,” will be led by Siberia-born Lidia Mikhaylova and Yulia Dumova. As part of the project, visitors will be given instructions to weave a few rows of their own tapestry at a weaving station comprising vertical ropes stretched between two trees.
These individual pieces will then be woven into a larger tapestry to be unveiled at the Festival’s conclusion. The festival is on Saturday, August 24th from 3 p.m.
to 10 p.m. , at TurnPark Art Space at 2 Moscow Road in West Stockbridge.
Food and beverages will be available for purchase. Tickets and more information can be found online . *** Berkshire Community Radio Alliance presents ‘Sound/Art,’ WBCR-lp first annual Experimental Music Festival Great Barrington— On Saturday, August 24th from noon to midnight , Berkshire Community Radio Alliance is excited to announce Sound/Art, the first annual WBCR-lp Experimental Music Festival.
Artists featured include Sisterhood of Sleep, Free Agent, Melting Regular, Spreaders, Michael Slyne, Alice Hixon Kirk, Eli Mattern, Moon Pox, Matt Luczak, Chris Bassett, Hurry Scurry, and Laughter Has Long Legs. They will be performing a variety of experimental music genres including electronica, noise, ambient, drone, live coding, and more. The Festival is being produced by Berkshire Community Radio programmers Jason Palmieri and John Prusinski with volunteer assistance from other WBCR-lp members.
The festival is on Saturday, August 24th from noon to midnight in the WBCR-lp studio at 320 Main Street in Great Barrington. Admission is free. It will be simultaneously broadcast at 97.
7FM and streamed at www.berskhireradio.org.
More information can be found online . *** Laurel Hill Association presents Laurel Hill Day 2024 ‘Art in the Woods’ Stockbridge— On Saturday, August 24th at 1 p.m.
, Laurel Hill Association presents Laurel Hill Day 2024 “Art in the Woods,” a celebration of creativity, community, art, and nature. In 1853, Mary Hopkins Goodrich rode around Stockbridge on horseback and shuddered at what she saw. The main street was filled with livestock, ordure, and disorder, while the cemetery was choked with weeds.
Determined to improve the town she loved, she decided to engage her fellow citizens in a collective effort. On a hot August day, she called Stockbridge residents together and shared her vision of a clean, beautiful town. Together, they discussed how they could enhance the streets, walks, public grounds, burial grounds, and Laurel Hill.
Thus began the tradition of Laurel Hill Day. There will be a land acknowledgment, a traditional ceremony, musical performances, special presentations, a community sing-along, an essay reading, and more. Following the program, everyone is invited to enjoy refreshments and mingle with fellow attendees.
The event is on Saturday, August 24th at 1 p.m. at Laurel Hill Park at 50 Main Street in Stockbridge.
More information can be found online ..
