Dream Away Lodge, nestled in the hill town of Becket, re-opened under new ownership this March after being closed for several years due to COVID. Dream Away has a storied music history in The Berkshires, having hosted the likes of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Arlo Guthrie. Dream Away is still ramping up its operation, but offer live music typically Thursday – Sunday. Come for dinner and a drink and stay to watch the performance in the music room, or from one of the cozy tables just outside the music room on the porch. The don’t have a cover charge, but you can count on being asked to contribute to the tip jar that helps support the musicians.
For Camp Saint Helene, the concept of otherworldliness is neither strange nor complex, but alluring and holy. Created by Elizabeth Celeste Ibarra, Dylan Nowik, Wesley Harper and Alex P. Wernquest, they approach their craft akin to a ritual, leaning into the notion that art and expression are sacred experiences on an overstimulated planet. Often informed […]
Dubbed, “Among the best folk-rock artists in the US” by the Tucson Weekly, singer/songwriter Namoli Brennet has been touring the US and Europe for 12+ years. A 4-time Outmusic award nominee who was featured in the inaugural Trans 100 list, Brennet has self-released an astonishing 13 albums since her debut in 2002. Her music has […]
Based in Western Mass, Moon Hollow is a high energy band that performs original and traditional tunes inspired by folk, americana, bluegrass, alt-country & early jazz music. Catchy originals and tight three part harmonies! They have shared the stage with Ryan Montbleau, Bella's Bartok, Mamma's Marmalade, DiTrani Brothers, Jake Slater, Matt Heckler, Fancy Trash, Folkfaces, […]
Stella Kola is the collaboration of Beverly Ketch, a poet and vocalist who’s performed in folk-psych bands such as Bunwinkies and Viewer, and guitarist Rob Thomas, a longtime member of fearless experimental ramblers Sunburned Hand of the Man. They’d been writing dark acoustic songs together for some time before deciding on a name. Ketch originally […]
Dan just came out with a hardcover book of his original hand drawn rock posters and there is a chapter dedicated to Dream Away Lodge. He will have books on hand to purchase. With a suitcase of songs, Maine folk troubadour Dan Blakeslee ventured into the smoke laden subways of Boston in 1995 to practice […]
Glenn Jones began playing guitar when he was 14 (after discovering Jimi Hendrix’s Axis: Bold as Love) and is today one the leading proponents of American Primitive Guitar, a style invented in the late 1950s by his friend and mentor, John Fahey. Glenn turned away from the guitar’s standard E A D G B E […]
Rounders Revival invites you to share in an evening of light-hearted and uplifting acoustic music steeped deeply in the folk-americana traditions of universal story telling and soulful harmonies. Join in for the Rounders renditions of singer-songwriter favorites and inspired originals. Instagram: @roundersrevival
Formed in the fog of the timeline around the fall of the Twin Towers, the death of Elliott Smith, the peak influence of Pitchfork and the dawn of the iPod, the members of Winterpills met and began making music in the old-fashioned winter of 2003 in the heady Northampton, MA music scene. At first 4 […]
Chandler Travis has had a long and checkered career in the world of show biz, beginning in the seventies when he and Steve Shook joined up as Travis Shook and the Club Wow. Besides achieving much popularity on the east coast, the duo brought their peculiar blend of comedy and music all over the U.S. […]
Nick Schillace’s third album of acoustic solo guitar is a phenomenal record of all original works, recorded live without overdubs. On tracks like “Soft as a Flame” and “Exponential Love,” strands of melody unravel themselves and wrap around competing strains like proteins in an RNA chain—all in an effort to give nothing so much as […]
Jude Roberts writes and performs evocative folk songs with authenticity and grace. His music is a melodically rich tapestry of woven language. Jude's song, "Suzanne", written for Holocaust Survivor Tommy Wald, was featured in the 2022 PBS documentary "We Remember: Songs of Survivors"; as was an earlier composition entitled "I Don't Need To Tell You". […]
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