CiderDays
This weekend venues across Franklin County will be celebrating apple cider with tastings, demos, and workshops. With more than 50 events — most of which are free — it’s enough to keep you busy. Some of the schedule’s highlights are: an orchard ride at Pine Hill Orchards in Colrain (winners of the Valley Advocate’s cider Taste-Off!), the Amateur Cidermaker Competition, cheese tastings, savory apple recipes with Yankee Magazine editor and author Amy Traverso; and lots of cider and hard cider tastings. On Saturday night, Berkshire East is hosting two cider salons ($25) and a CiderDays supper ($45).
CiderDays, Nov. 7-8, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Free and ticketed. Various locations in Franklin County, (413) 773-5463.
Cop show theme songs and Romanian surf
Ilene Stahl’s Klezperanto is coming to The Arts Block with her clarinet to rock with original arrangements of ’70s TV cop show funk, cumbias from the golden age of Colombia’s big band era, Romanian brass band inspired surf music, swing-era mash-ups with Eastern European wedding tunes, and gut-bucket Macedonian blues. She’s been called the Jimi Hendrix of traditional eastern European Jewish clarinet music.
Ilene Stahl’s Klezperanto: Cop Shows, Cumbias, and Romanian Surf Guitar, Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m. $10. The Arts Block, 289 Main St., Greenfield.
Laugh lots
Beth Stelling was ranked #2 on LA Weekly’s list of “12 L.A. Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013,” she was a New Face of Comedy at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, and Huffington Post recently named her one of “The Top 18 Women You Should Be Following On Twitter.” We researched that Twitter bit. Pinned to the top of her feed is this wry observation, “I’ve been called a ‘female comic’ so many times, I’ll probably only be able to answer to ‘girl daddy’ when I have children.”
Beth Stelling, Nov. 7, 8 p.m. $20. MASS MoCA, 87 Marshall St., North Adams, (413) 662-2111.
Quantum art
L oopy, swirly, cosmic delight abounds in the artwork of Alicia Hunsicker and Sandi Ritchie Miller. The artists will have their paintings — which meditate on inner space, metaphors, outer space, and quantum energy — on display at Gallery in the Woods through the end of the year.
Art Looks at Science. Through Dec. 31, Gallery in the Woods, 145 Main St., Brattleboro, (802) 257-4777.
