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Rogovoy Report 10/18/19

The highlights of the cultural weekend in our region include jazz, choral music, avant-garde, symphonic, folk, cabaret, a film festival … plus a whole lot more.

Cutting-edge percussion trio Tigue brings its innovative blend of improvisation and multi-media with an environmental sensibility to the Daniel Arts Center at Simon's Rock College in Great Barrington on Saturday at 8 p.m. The Brooklyn-based group conjures a space between avant-garde classical, free jazz, and art rock in the service of creating its own "sculptural sound objects."

Philly-based singer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Tiffany Majette brings Orion Sun to Club B10 at MASS MoCA in North Adams on Saturday at 8 p.m. Think Frank Ocean crossed with Lauryn Hill; Douglass Truth brings his one-man show “True Dreams” to Lauren Clark Fine Art in GB tonight at 7:30.

The Cantilena Chamber Choir sings nature-inspired music from the Renaissance to today at two 90th anniversary benefit concerts in the barn at Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary in Lenox on Saturday and Sunday at 3 p.m. The concerts will feature music by Janequin, Josquin, Mendelssohn and Samuel Barber, with special presentations of new works by composers Gregory Brown and James Kallembach on texts by John James Audubon.

Mother-daughter vocalists Stephanie Nakasian and Veronica Swift headline the 15th Annual Pittsfield CityJazz Festival at the Colonial in Pittsfield on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. At just 25 years old, Berkshire native Veronica Swift has toured as a featured vocalist with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Chris Botti; was a guest collaborator with Michael Feinstein; performed engagements at venerable jazz clubs including Birdland, Jazz Standard, and Dizzy’s Club; and headlined at top festivals including Monterey, Montreal and Telluride.

The Berkshire Symphony features works by four American composers -- Barber, Hanson, Harbison, and Copland -- in a free concert at Chapin Hall on the Williams College campus tonight at 7:30. Pink Martini, featuring lead singer China Forbes, brings its blend of Latin music, jazz, cabaret, and cinema scores to the Mahaiwe, with special guest Meow Meow, tonight at 8. FilmColumbia opens this weekend with a tribute to James Schamus in Chatham, N.Y., and runs through Oct. 27. Singer-songwriter Jean Rohe brings her band and her funky blend of folk, jazz, world, and chamber music to the United Methodist Church in Phoenicia, NY, as part of the Flying Cat Music series, on Sunday at 3 p.m. Frank D. Gilroy’s heartwarming 1965 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “The Subject Was Roses” gets a staging at Bridge St. Theatre in Catskill, NY this weekend and next.

The Orchestra Now performs works by Sibelius & Shostakovich in the Fisher Center at Bard College on Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Los Lobos shares the stage with the David Bromberg Big Band on Sunday at 7 p.m. at UPAC in Kingston. Los Lobos really is one of America’s all-time greatest rock bands; if you have never seen them live, please do yourself a favor and check them out.

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