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THE CALENDAR  • CALENDAR DIRECTORYEXHIBITIONS

December 10-16December 17-23December 24-30 • December 31-January

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MUSIC


Berkshire Bach Society • Bach at New Year’s with Eugene Drucker, Director and the Berkshire Bach Ensemble • 6 pm • Mahaiwe • www.mahaiwe.org

 

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


JANUARY 2017

 

MUSIC

 

JANUARY 1


Berkshire Bach Society • Bach at New Year’s with Eugene Drucker, Director and the Berkshire Bach Ensemble • 6 pm • Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy, NY




 

Tuesday

 

MUSIC

 

JANUARY 23


Williams • Williams Opera Workshop • 7 pm • Chapin • free • music.williams.edu

 

 




 

Thursday

 

JANUARY 11

 

Williams (‘62 Center) • I/O Fest – I/O Ensemble. Held each January in the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance, the annual I/O Festival of New Music i/mmerses audiences in the full spectrum of today’s most vital compositional trends • 7:30 pm • CenterStage • free • 62center.williams.edu


Williams (‘62 Center) • I/O Fest – After Hours • 10 pm • ‘62 Center • free • 62center.williams.edu

 

JANUARY 18


Crandall Library • Winter Bluegrass Jam with Alan Epstein (also February 15) • 6:30 pm • Community Room • free • more info at 518-792-6508 x237 or www.crandalllibrary.org


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


 

JANUARY 12


Helsinki Hudson • Capital District-based Mark Gamsjager and The Lustre Kings, who have been keeping the sound of early rockabilly alive • 9 pm (doors 6 pm) • info and tickets ($20/$25) at helsinkihudson.com

 

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


Paramount • National Theatre in HD: Bernard Shaw’s classic play “Saint Joan” about Joan of Arc • 2 pm • info and tickets ($20) at www.paramountvt.org or 802-775-0903

 

 

JANUARY 27


Mahaiwe • Opera expert Scott Eyerly gives an introductory talk about aboutPuccini’s Tosca” — one of a series of talks by Eyerly about each Met opera before its broadcast. Everyone is welcome, whether attending the 1 p.m broadcast or not (see below) • 11 am • $10 • www.mahaiwe.org

 

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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