SHEEP SHOW..DOG TRIALS...SHEEP SHEARING DEMOS..and yarn, fleeces, roving, spinning workshops..food & family fun all day Sat, May 25 & Sun, May 26 at the Cummington Fairgrounds in Cummington, MA.
Northern Berkshire Community Coalition's Tim Shiebler and Amanda Chilson are joined by O+ North Adams Festival Director Jess Sweeney and featured musician and North Adams native Nick Stanley. O+ is an innovative music and arts festival in which uninsured artists create and perform in exchange for a variety of services donated by doctors, dentists, and complementary care providers. O+ calls this exchange the art of medicine for the medicine of art.
“Swing Your Partner”-- an evening of contra & square dancing to live music-- on Sat, May 11, 7:30pm at the Old Methodist Church, Wtown. Come with or without partners, all dances are taught. The event is produced by North Berkshire Community Dance. Meet the organizers on this edition of Community Connections.
On February 22, 2019, And The Kids release When This Life Is Over, their highly anticipated third album for Signature Sounds. Praised by NPR for "striking vocals [that] rival the vibrato and boldness of Siouxsie Sioux...and music that's both fearless and entertaining," And The Kids return with a bold continuation of their chunky indie rock meets blissful new wave sound.
Berkshire favorites The Whiskey Treaty Roadshow is a collaborative band that brings together five Massachusetts singer-songwriters in the vein of Americana, rock and roots-folk music: Tory Hanna, Billy Keane, David Tanklefsky, Greg Smith and Chris Merenda.
