Close Encounters With Music: Classical Roots, Latin Soul– The Dalí String Quartet

Mahaiwe 14 Castle St, Great Barrington, MA, United States

Alongside Beethoven’s Quartet No. 1 Op. 18 and Mendelssohn’s Op. 80 Quartet, this program is infused with striking Latin repertoire: Sonia Morales-Matos’ Divertimento Caribeño No. 3 (dance suites of Caribbean merengue sandwiched around a Cuban bolero) and Astor Piazzolla’s Tango Ballet, a work that paints pictures through rhythms and melodies. The Dalí Quartet is Chamber […]

$28 – $52

Ani DiFranco

MASS MoCA 1040 Mass MoCA Way, North Adams, MA

Feminist icon, Grammy winner, Broadway star, best-selling memoirist, and children’s book author Ani DiFranco is the mother of the DIY movement, being one of the first artists to create her own label in 1990 (the aptly named Righteous Babe Records). While she has been known as the “Little Folksinger,” her music has embraced punk, funk, […]

$49 – $79

Jazz Nights – Combos

Williams College 54 Chapin Hall Dr, Williamstown, MA

Jazz Nights – Combos presents talented student groups. Outstanding musicians showcase their interpretations of standards alongside premieres of original works. The first evening of a two part event, don’t miss the next night of jazz with the Williams Jazz Orchestra. In Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall.

Free

TLI Presents: Isaiah J. Thompson – Modern Jazz Ministry

Tanglewood 297 West Street, Lenox, MA

Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning Isaiah J. Thompson is the winner of the 2023 American Pianists Awards and the Cole Porter Fellowship in Jazz of the American Pianists Association. Originally from West Orange, New Jersey, the pianist, bandleader, and composer began studying at the Calderone School of Music from an early age. […]

$35

Jazz Nights – Williams Jazz Orchestra

Williams College 54 Chapin Hall Dr, Williamstown, MA

Jazz Nights – Williams Jazz Orchestra offers a performance that mixes superb modern interpretations of old big band favorites along with new works, all featuring talented student jazz improvisors. Incredibly, the whole band manages to bunch itself onto the modestly proportioned stage of Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, recalling the days of a more intimate big band […]

Free

Brass Enemble

Williams College 54 Chapin Hall Dr, Williamstown, MA

Williams Brass Ensemble, led by Travis Dobson and Steve Felix, features soloists and brass groups presenting the best in chamber brass music. The directors are also the principle arrangers for the group. The flexibility their arranging offers a huge range of possibilities, far beyond the limited stock material available to brass groups. In Chapin Hall.

Free

Concert Choir & Chamber Choir

Williams College 54 Chapin Hall Dr, Williamstown, MA

Williams Concert Choir and the Williams Chamber Choir conducted by Anna Lenti present a spring concert. This event is free and open to the public. In Chapin Hall.

Free

TLI Presents: Claire Chase, flute

Tanglewood 297 West Street, Lenox, MA

Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning Recently described by the New York Times as “the North Star of her instrument’s ever-expanding universe,” musician, interdisciplinary artist, and educator Claire Chase presents a concert of works from her 24-year commissioning initiative, Density 2036, part of the Density Arts family of programs. Performing selections of new […]

$35

Madeleine Peyroux & Bettye LaVette: Let’s Walk Tour 2025

Mahaiwe 14 Castle St, Great Barrington, MA, United States

Madeleine Peyroux is an American jazz singer and songwriter who began her career as a teenager on the streets of Paris. “Let us advance our mortal bodies up / Where hearts and minds will go / Let’s walk, let’s roll.” So sings Madeleine Peyroux on the upbeat title track of her captivating ninth album, Let’s […]

$55 – $85

Jazz & Classics for Change: Anat Cohen & Marcello Gonçalves

St. James Place 352 Main St, Great Barrington, MA

Jazz & Classics for Change present Anat Cohen, clarinet & Marcello Gonçalves, seven-string guitar, on Saturday, May 17 at 5:00pm. “This will be our reply to violence: To make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” Leonard Bernstein Learn more at jazzandclassicsforchange.com.

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Close Encounters With Music: A Tale of Two Salons – Winnaretta Singer and Marcel Proust

Mahaiwe 14 Castle St, Great Barrington, MA, United States

The daughter of sewing machine industrialist Isaac Merritt Singer, Winnaretta Singer-Polignac was a force of nature, hosting everyone from Leon Bakst to Jean Cocteau and Jean Giraudoux to Prokofiev, Madame Jean Lanvin, Siegfried Wagner, Arthur Rubinstein, Arnold Schoenberg, and Edith Wharton in her Paris salon. More importantly, she was responsible for developing a new genre: […]

$28 – $52

Domingo Brunch featuring K&R

Dottie's and Dorothy's 444 North St, Pittsfield, MA

Every Sunday Dottie’s serves up Domingo Brunch; a mix of delicious food, live music and extraordinary drinks.. This Sunday, returning to Dottie’s, K&R K&R are a New York based duo from Long Island and specialize in jazz standards and their own catchy swing arrangements of top 40 songs. This is their third summer playing all […]

Free

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