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Rogovoy Report For February 26, 2016

  Legendary English New Wave artist Wreckless Eric, best known for his 1977 hit, “Whole Wide World,” performs an intimate show at Spotty Dog Books & Ale in Hudson tonight at 8pm. Eric is a contemporary of Ian Dury, Elvis Costello, and Nick Lowe, all of whom recorded for Stiff Records, as did Eric, in the 1970s.  As Eric sings on his terrific new album, “America,” “I was nearly someone back in the day, I was in the lower reaches of the hit parade.” Wreckless Eric now lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife, fellow rock singer-songwriter Amy Rigby, and the two often perform together.

Boston-based twang-rocker Sarah Borges launches her new album, “Good and Dirty,” at Club Helsinki Hudson tonight at 9pm. Borges brings a full band with her – including producer Eric “Roscoe” Ambel - to introduce her audience to her new music as well as old favorites. Borges mines early rock ‘n’ roll styles as well as their roots and tributaries, including country, blues, R&B, and country-punk, on her way toward making new indie-rock with the immediacy and passion of 1950s and early-1960s music.

Paintings by Mark Beard, David Dew Bruner, Joseph Maresca, Harry Orlyk, and Lionel Gilbert are featured in the Winter Exhibit at Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, on view now through Sunday, April 3. There will be a reception for the artists on Sunday from 2 to 4pm. Each work in the exhibition is a careful study of the land, the human body, or the work of their predecessors before them. All of the artists in the exhibition boast Hudson Valley ties, which are reflected one way or the other in their work.

“Aging Magician,” a multimedia music-theater collaboration among avant-garde theater-maker Rinde Eckert, composer Paola Prestini, director Julian Crouch, and instrument-maker Mark Stewart, gets a work-in-progress showing in the Hunter Center at MASS MoCAin North Adams on Sunday at 2pm. “Aging Magician” is a haunting, genre-defying adventure that combines theater, music, puppetry, one-of-a-kind instruments, scenic design, and film. The creative team of Prestini, Eckert, Crouch, Stewart, and Morrison constitute an all-star team of avant-garde theater today.

The fifth annual 10X10 New Play Festival at Barrington Stage Company completes its three-week run this weekend through Sunday as part of the 10X10Upstreet Arts Festival in Pittsfield. The critically acclaimed new play festival features ten, new 10-minute plays, so if you’re not enjoying one, just wait a few minutes, and it will be over, and a new one will begin shortly.

Seth Rogovoy is editor of Berkishire Daily and the Rogovoy Report, available online at rogovoyreport.com

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