by Kristin Palpini | Nov 3, 2015 | Arts, News
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...
by Jennifer Levesque | Oct 26, 2015 | Arts, News, Uncategorized
This Halloween, get your costumes ready and head over to the Iron Horse for the Annual Halloween Bones Shakedown with DJs LeFox (Sugar Biscuit) & Hip Sockit (Pollinate). It’s a dance party with prizes, so to win, you gotta DANCE! A night of costumed attendees and...
by Advocate Staff | Oct 26, 2015 | Arts, Music, News, Uncategorized
On Friday, UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center welcomes five-time Grammy winner Dianne Reeves. The jazz singer, accompanied by an award-winning quintet, is on tour performing work from her first new album in five years, “Life is Beautiful,” including covers of Bob Marley,...
by Kristin Palpini | Oct 19, 2015 | Arts, News
This weekend is the fifth annual Made in the Berkshires Festival. Featuring Berkshire County artists, the three-day event will entertain people with short films, poetry, ballet, musicians, local food, plays, and artists’ panels. The show is curated by Hilary Somers...
by Kristin Palpini | Oct 19, 2015 | Arts, News, Uncategorized
In Western Mass, we like our Irish music year-round and the Big Bad Bollocks brings it. Screenwriter William Monahan describes the group succinctly as the “Pogues fused with the Sex Pistols.” Big Bad Bollocks: Friday, 7 p.m. to midnight, VFW Florence, 18 Meadow St.,...
