THE CALENDAR • CALENDAR DIRECTORY • EXHIBITIONS
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Caffè Lena • First Night Saratoga: Bob Malone and Prof. Louie & The Crowmatix. Entrance requires 1st Night button • 6 pm • www.caffelena.org
Helsinki Hudson • Glen David Andrews — With his group’s jazzy, horn-laced New Orleans funk and soul, this singer-trombonist-bandleader always turns Club Helsinki Hudson into Mardi Gras • 9 pm (doors 6 pm) • info and tickets ($35-$65) at helsinkihudson.com
COMEDY
Berkshire Theatre Group • “First Night of Funny” —”hilarious night of laughter that everyone will enjoy, but that won’t break the bank!” THREE headlining comedians! • 8 pm • info and link to tickets at www.berkshiretheatregroup.org
Paramount • “First Night of Funny” — FOUR professional comedians with four unique and hilarious perspectives on the world • today’s time, 7 pm • info and tickets at www.paramountvt.org or 802-775-0903
MISC.
Christopher Pierce Art • exhibit “New Paintings and More” • 11 am-5 pm • at his studio, 909 County Route 61, Shushan, NY • 518 854-3159 • www.christopherpiercestudio.com
First Night Saratoga, the largest New Year’s Eve event in New York outside of NYC and one of the oldest First Night celebrations in the country. The event is an affordable, accessible, family-friendly, safe and exciting way to spend New Year’s Eve. Join over 15,000 revelers as Saratoga Arts hosts over seventy regional and touring performing groups in thirty venues throughout Historic Downtown Saratoga Springs. Starting with the 5k roadrace at Skidmore College at 5:30pm, culminating with the fireworks in Congress Park at midnight and packed full of live music, dance, comedy and magic in between, this event will be a highlight of your outgoing year • A First Night button ($20) gives you access to all the venues and performers all night long as well as free CDTA bus service downtown • For the complete list of performances and places to buy a button, see www.saratoga-arts.org/firstnight
Kinderhook library • New Year’s Eve at Noon! The Library is closed this day, but Miss Beth and Ichabod Crow areto help ring in the New Year! The fun starts at 11 am, with stories, crafts, and refreshments and then the balloons drop at noon! • 18 Hudson Street, Kinderhook, NY
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JANUARY 2017
MUSIC
JANUARY 1
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JANUARY 12
Williams (‘62 Center) • I/O Fest – Guest Ensemble Held each January in $the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance, the annual I/O Festival of New Music immerses audiences in the full spectrum of today’s most vital compositional trends • 8 pm • CenterStage • free • 62center.williams.edu
JANUARY 19
Helsinki Hudson •Rachael Price and Vilray — With simple arrangements and only a guitar for accompaniment, they perform original works and revive forgotten gems of the jazz big bands and western swing ensembles • 8 pm (doors 6 pm) • info and tickets ($20/$25) at helsinkihudson.com Williams (‘62 Center) • All-Night Marathon of Voices • 5:30 pm • Thompson Memorial Chapel • free
Paramount • Actor’s Rep Theatre presents two short plays by Steve Martin, “Zig-Zag Woman” and “The Wasp” (runs Jan. 18-20) • 7:30 pm • info and tickets ($20) at www.paramountvt.org or 802-775-0903 Paramount • Maine-born comedian Bob Marley • 8 pm • info and tickets ($25-$40) at www.paramountvt.org or 802-775-0903
JANUARY 26
Helsinki Hudson • The DuPont Brothers; The Sea The Sea • 9 pm (doors 6 pm) • info and tickets ($15) at helsinkihudson.com |
JANUARY 6
Old Chatham Quaker Meeting • “Health Care: Where do we go from here” presented by Michael Kaplan, MD and Charles Wohl, MD. Both Berkshire physicians have been advocates of a single-payer – an improved Medicare-for-all – healthcare system for the United States, and are members of Physicians for a National Health Program, the leading national organization of healthcare professionals in the single-payer movement • 7 pm (preceded by a potluck at 6) • Old Chatham Quaker Meetinghouse 539 County Route 13, Old Chatham, NY, across from Pitt Hall Road and Powell House • free • more info at 518-766-2992. Directions: www.oldchathamquakers.org
JANUARY 13
Paramount • Recycled Percussion — junk rock music that was a national phenomenon week after week • 7:30 pm • info and tickets ($25-$40) at www.paramountvt.org or 802-775-0903
Williams (‘62 Center) • I/O Fest – IOTA Ensemble • Held each January in the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance, the annual I/O Festival of New Music immerses audiences in the full spectrum of today’s most vital compositional trends • 8 pm • CenterStage • free • 62center.williams.edu
Berkshire Grown MLK, Jr. Day Weekend Winter Farmers Market featuring locally grown and produced foods
JANUARY 20
Battenkill Chorale with Janet McGhee, Artistic Director, presents Verdi “Requiem” with soloists Sylvia Stoner, Sahoko Sato Timpone and Keith Kibler, and 48-piece orchestra (also on 1/21) • 3 pm • Skldmore College’s Zankel Music Center, Saratoga Springs, NY • Purchase tickets in advance ($20) by calling 518-692-7458 or emailing battenkilltickets@gmail.com
Berkshire Music School • Open House — Meet Berkshire Music School faculty, try out a musical instrument, check out a music class for kids • 10 am-noon • Taft Recital Hall, 30 Wendell Avenue, Pittsfield. 413-442-1411 • Refreshments. Free and open to the public
Helsinki Hudson • Hudson’s own Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, a variety of circus, theater, comedy and musical entertainers • 9 pm (doors 6 pm) • info and tickets ($25/$30) at helsinkihudson.com
The DREAD RESISTORS will be playing Afro-Caribbean dance music starting at 8 pm at Harvest Brewing, 201 South Street, Bennington Paramount • Actor’s Rep Theatre presents two short plays by Steve Martin, “Zig-Zag Woman” and “The Wasp” (runs Jan. 18-20) • 7:30 pm • info and tickets ($20) at www.paramountvt.org or 802-775-0903
Mahaiwe • film “The Opera House” by filmmaker Susan Froemke, which surveys a remarkable period of the Metropolitan Opera’s rich history and a time of great change for New York. • 1 pm • $17 or $10 for everyone 21 and under • www.mahaiwe.org
JANUARY 27
Mahaiwe • Met Opera Live in HD: Puccini’s “Tosca” • 1 pm • $25 or $10 for age 21 and under • www.mahaiwe.org Paramount • Met Opera Live in HD: Puccini’s “Tosca” • 12:55 pm • info and tickets ($23 or $10 for students) at www.paramountvt.org or 802-775-0903
Berkshire Music School • Ensemble Day at Berkshire Music School. For students of all ages and instruments; come and play duets or in small ensembles. • 2 pm • Taft Recital Hall, 30 Wendell Avenue, Pittsfield. 413-442-1411 • Free and open to the public
Merck Forest •5 Tracking Workshop. Find out who’s out and about in the winter landscape • 10 am-noon • Merck Forest & Farmland Center, 3270 Route , (Rupert Mountain Road) • more info at 802-394-7836 or merckforest.org
Paramount • Rutland’s “Newly” Wed Game. Local couples test their knowledge of one another & help raise monies to support the Rutland Community Cupboard, BROC Community Food Shelf and The Salvation Army • 7:30 pm • info and tickets ($30-$35) at www.paramountvt.org or 802-775-0903
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