Community Calendar

Smith College Vocal Performance students present classic songs from the Golden Age of Broadway. From Tin Pan Alley to the first American musicals, enjoy the songs of legendary composers like Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and more.

Close Encounters With Music presents On the Wings of Song, a program that brings together two distinct expressions of Romanticism in a single, compelling arc.

Schumann’s Dichterliebe is anything but a conventional love story. Fragmented, introspective, and emotionally elusive, it unfolds in fleeting moments that resist easy resolution. As pianist Adam Golka describes it, “the cycle feels like an entire lifetime… the ultimate illusion of the perception of time.” Each song offers a different emotional world, leaving the listener to piece together what remains unsaid.

Set alongside it, Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio in D minor offers a striking shift in perspective. Lyrical, urgent, and deeply expressive, the trio channels both refinement and intensity. Violinist Miranda Cuckson notes that beneath its polished surface lies “hot-blooded passion… gutsiness and dark storms,” plunging the listener into a world of momentum and release from the very first notes.

Together, these works create a rare listening experience—one that moves from inward reflection to expansive expression without sacrificing intimacy.

Performed by an extraordinary ensemble: Tyler Duncan, baritone; Adam Golka, piano; Miranda Cuckson, violin; and Yehuda Hanani, cello.

Sunday, April 19, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington

The revered British singer has had a long, respected career as an art song specialist, but it was his performance at King Charles III’s coronation that brought him worldwide fame. Closing our season, he performs Schubert’s seminal song cycle about love and despair.

Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795

Next Stage Arts and Twilight Music present an evening of contemporary folk “in the round” with singer-songwriters Alice Howe, Freebo, Sam Robbins, and Halley Neal. In this intimate, collaborative format, each artist performs solo and joins the others onstage, creating a dynamic, one-of-a-kind shared concert experience.

Freebo, a folk, rock, and blues icon best known for his decade as bassist with Bonnie Raitt, is joined by award-winning vocalist Alice Howe, modern troubadour Sam Robbins, and Boston-based songwriter Halley Neal. Together, they bring rich harmonies, compelling songwriting, and a spirit of musical collaboration to the stage.

This Luminous Earth features Albany Pro Musica and Orchestra Pro Musica in a program of introspection, grief, hope, and redemption. The performance will include Jake Runestad’s EMMY®-Award winning Earth Symphony, a ground-breaking choral symphony that imagines Earth’s hope for humanity, her discovery of its power, her ruination at its hands, her lament at its loss, and her recovery. APM will also present Lux Aeterna, Morten Lauridsen’s sublime, light-filled requiem, as we close this momentous season.

The Glove Theatre is proud to welcome THE JONI PROJECT -- CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF JONI MITCHELL featuring Katie Pearlman and her band!

The Joni Project is thrilled to be making their Gloversville debut!

The Joni Project formed as a tribute in sound and spirit to Joni Mitchell, one of music’s greatest and most innovative artists. The band is fronted by New York's remarkable multi-instrumentalist and singer Katie Pearlman, who impressively plays Joni's songs in their original open guitar tunings; and includes jazz and jam band mainstays Dave Berg (guitar), Dan Ehrlich (bass), Alan Lerner (drums), Mark Mancini (keyboards), and Premik Russell Tubbs (saxophone and flute).

Collectively, they’ve performed with members of the Grateful Dead, The Band, The Doors, the Neville Brothers, and so many others. Premik Russell Tubbs alone has played with Carlos Santana, Whitney Houston, Sting, James Taylor, Lady Gaga, Herbie Hancock, and more. Together, they bring fresh interpretation to Joni’s legendary tunes from their many eras and genres – particularly from the time of her stunning and dynamic collaboration with Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny and Michael Brecker. But The Joni Project celebrates it all! - from Both Sides Now, Big Yellow Taxi, Chelsea Morning and Help Me, to Raised on Robbery and Free Man in Paris.

If you're a fan of Joni Mitchell, or if you just enjoy a brilliant jazz/jam inspired band, this is a show you won't want to miss! "The Joni Project is quite simply the finest and most musically sophisticated tribute to Joni on the scene today!" - Jim Faith - New York concert promoter and producer of The Great South Bay Music Festival.

All ages welcome! 21+ to drink/purchase adult beverages.

The Hotchkiss Chorus presents American Dreams: 200 Years of American Choral Music on Sunday, May 10 at 7:00 p.m. in the Hotchkiss Chapel, Lakeville. Celebrating America’s 250th, the student ensemble performs a cappella works by composers including Alice Parker, Moses Hogan, Susan LaBarr, and Morten Lauridsen. Free and open to the public.

This unique and entertaining music and multimedia event chronicles the extraordinary career of Simon & Garfunkel. The music speaks for itself, performed by Aztec Two-Step 2.0 (anchored by Rex Fowler, co-founder of the renowned folk-rock duo Aztec Two-Step, and his wife, Dodie Pettit, an original cast member of Broadway’s The Phantom of The Opera). The show’s storyline was originally created by Pete Fornatale, the late great pioneer of progressive FM radio and author of Simon & Garfunkel’s Bookends biography. Now telling the stories, emceeing and directing the engaging and amusing multimedia show is Fornatale’s dear friend and protégé, Tony Traguardo, WCWP-FM radio host, noted rock music historian, podcaster and founding board member of the Long Island Music Hall of Fame. Nostalgia and laughter abound, and a sing along is always in the mix!

Putman Porch Music 2026!
We welcome musicians and listeners to Yankee Hill Lock for this canawler experience!
An Americana Folk and Roots Music style jam session on the porch of the old Putman Canal Store happens each Thursday in June. Come play some fiddle, guitar, banjo, sing, or whatever instrument you may bring, to this lively time along the historic Erie Canal!
Event is cancelled for heavy rain. Moderate rain we may move inside the ol'Canal store. Spectating? Bring along a lawn chair, bug spray, maybe a picnic dinner and beverages to enjoy as you sing along.

Join Mostly Modern’s kickoff concert at Saratoga Springs historic and iconic Caffè Lena. Tonight features tapas, a tasting and variety of what Mostly Modern is all about. Sold out for 3 years in a row ~ secure your seats!