Berkshire Theatre Group Pronounces BOBBIE’S FALL SERIES Exterior Below a Tent at The Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge

Following the success of Bobbie’s Summer season Collection, Berkshire Theatre Group has introduced Bobbie’s Fall Collection, introducing out of doors afternoon leisure on weekends, together with jazz Sundays, in September and October. A fall impressed menu by KJ Nosh can be out there for advance buy and on website. Cider and donuts from Hilltop Orchards can be additionally out there for buy on website.

BTG can be following all state and municipal security tips in impact. Seating can be underneath a tent outside, simply outdoors the gorgeous Unicorn Theatre patio. Patrons ought to carry a garden chair or blanket to be used on the grass, as seating can be socially distanced on the garden.

Maguire says, “We’re transferring into the autumn with extra leisure on our stunning grounds in Stockbridge. We’re thrilled to have been with you for Godspell, our drive in collection and for enjoyable and fantastic summer time evenings by the Unicorn with thrilling performers. Be a part of us for extra.”

Tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for youngsters 16 and underneath. Meals by KJ Nosh is an extra $15 per individual and can be out there for buy prematurely and on website. Tickets for all entrance line employees are 50% off.

Tickets could also be bought in individual on the Colonial Ticket Workplace at 111 South Avenue, Pittsfield, on-line at www.BerkshireTheatreGroup.org, by calling (413) 997-4444, or on any efficiency day from 10am till curtain. The ticket workplace is open Monday-Saturday from 10am-2pm. All performs, schedules, casting and costs are topic to vary.

BOBBIE’S FALL SERIES SCHEDULE (IN DATE ORDER)

Danielia Cotton

at Bobbie’s Fall Collection

Saturday, September 19 at 2pm

Tickets: $15 Kids 16 and underneath • $25 Adults

Meals offered by KJ Nosh for extra $15

Danielia Cotton is a New York Metropolis primarily based singer/songwriter initially from Hopewell, NJ

whose model is rooted in gospel with an emphasis on jazz, soul and rock.

In 2010 Danielia was named Lilith Honest’s Ourstage Native Expertise Winner for NYC. Since then she has shared the stage with the likes of Robert Cray, Bon Jovi, and Gregg Allman.

“She’s a belter who can maintain again or work her manner as much as a gospelly blues-rock shout, and within the songs she writes along with her band’s brawny guitar riffs, she grapples with the street, salvation, holding on and letting go.” -The New York Occasions

Danielia Cotton attracts on a variety of influences, from Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones to Mavis Staples and Etta James. -WXPN

“Danielia Cotton has not had it straightforward. However fortunate for us, she channels her ache and struggling into kick-ass musical creations we are able to all take pleasure in. -Guitar World

Samirah Evans with Franz W. Robert

at Bobbie’s Fall Collection

Sunday Jazz, September 20 at 2pm

Tickets: $15 Kids 16 and underneath • $25 Adults

Meals offered by KJ Nosh for extra $15

About Samirah Evans

Samirah Evans is understood for her dynamic, soulful strategy to jazz and blues, amongst different genres. Her model is closely influenced by the New Orleans sound the place she was one of many metropolis’s most in-demand singers.

Her 1990 debut on the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Competition started a stint of 15 consecutive years performing there as a frontrunner or featured vocalist, and he or she was a fixture in each golf equipment and live performance venues all through the Crescent Metropolis, together with Comfortable Harbor, Tipitina’s and the Home of Blues. Throughout her profession, she has toured North and South America, Europe and Asia, sharing levels with a mess of New Orleans notables and legendary artists, together with James Brown, B.B. King, Dr. John, Levon Helm, Aaron Neville, Charles Neville, Terence Blanchard, Donald Harrison, Jr., Poncho Sanchez, Bob Dorough, Irma Thomas, Kermit Ruffins, Trombone Shorty and Sam Kininger and Sheila Jordan.

Hurricane Katrina brought about Samirah to relocate to her husband’s hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont. She assembled a band referred to as Samirah Evans and Her Good-looking Devils and developed notoriety all through New England touring their 2009 CD launch Scorching Membership: Reside on the Vermont Jazz Heart.

Evans dedicates time to perpetuating indigenous American music. In New Orleans, she participated within the Blues Schoolhouse sponsored by the Home of Blues Basis and hosted a present for the N.O. Jazz & Heritage Basis radio station, WWOZ. She based the “Women in Jazz” collection to spotlight collaborations between feminine singers and musicians, and the “Sam’s Sunday Set and Shed” musical mentoring program to highlight artist-protege relationships within the area. She is at the moment an Artist Affiliate in Jazz Voice at Williams Faculty and provides voice instruction in her house studio.

“As a result of she is aware of the way to let the nice occasions roll, the sassy, soulful entertainer/diva has, in ten years as a Brattleboro transplant, gained the hearts and minds of New Englanders grateful to have a lot bona fide Crescent Metropolis joie de vivre and savoir faire available at native venues and festivals from Vermont to Western Massachusetts and past.” -Owen McNally, WNPR Jazz Hall

About Franz W. Robert

Franz W. Robert began in his early teenagers as a church organist and pianist. He grew to become enamored with the huge world of jazz and improvisation, composing and arranging the entire music for his debut album, On Putney Mountain on the age of 17. A devotee of Bach and Haydn, Robert continues to check and carry out each classical music and jazz. The potential of Robert’s musical talents and creativeness are limitless. He’s at the moment engaged on a jazz methodology guide, a solo recording of his personal compositions, a fusion album and impartial recording tasks with Charlie Schneeweis and David Lyons.

Hannah Lynn Cohen and Jeremiah Blacklow: The Evolution of The Violin Duo

at Bobbie’s Summer season Collection

Saturday, September 26 at 2pm

Tickets: $20 Kids 16 and underneath • $30 Adults

Meals offered by KJ Nosh for extra $20

Hannah Lynn Cohen and Jeremiah Blacklow’s efficiency will discover the evolution of The Violin Duo. The set will embrace alternatives from the baroque period as much as up to date 20th century duets.

About Hannah Lynn Cohen

Hannah Lynn Cohen has been collaborating with and finding out underneath grasp academics on a nationwide and world scale for over fifteen years. Cohen just lately graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Violin Efficiency from Boston College College of Music. There, Cohen was a pupil of Peter Zazofsky. She started her violin research on the age of 4 and her earlier academics embrace: Jan Repko, Wendy Sharp and Betty Jean Hagen. She made her orchestral debut with the Holyoke Civic Symphony Orchestra because the winner of their concerto competitors in Might of 2015. She has attended quite a few festivals, together with: Nationwide Music Competition, Inexperienced Mountain Chamber Music Competition and MusicAlp Worldwide Academy of Music. Moreover, she has carried out in masterclasses led by Daniel Philips, Irina Muresanu, Robin Sharp, Klaudia Szlachta and Bayla Keyes. Cohen at the moment resides in New York Metropolis the place she is pursuing a Grasp of Music in Violin Efficiency at New York College Steinhardt College with Kurt Nikkanen and Cyrus Beroukhim, whereas concurrently holding the place of Adjunct Instructor of Violin Research for non music majors at NYU.

About Jeremiah Blacklow

Jeremiah Blacklow grew up in Boston, the place he started finding out violin at age three. He was a pupil of Catherine Cho and Joel Smirnoff on the Juilliard College and has additionally studied with Itzhak Perlman, Don Weilerstein and Li Lin. Not too long ago, Blacklow carried out Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with the Bach Society Orchestra, and up to now, he has appeared as a visitor soloist with the Boston Civic Symphony and Harmony Orchestra. His solo recitals embrace performances at Carnegie Corridor, Neue Galerie and the Juilliard College. As a chamber musician, Jeremiah has labored with members of the Brentano, Shanghai and Cleveland Quartets. He has participated in summer time and winter festivals on the Perlman Music Program, Taos College of Music, and Aspen Music Competition and College. At present, he’s pursuing a Grasp of Music in Violin Efficiency on the Juilliard College with Catherine Cho and Sylvia Rosenberg.

Benny Kohn Trio

at Bobbie’s Fall Collection

Sunday Jazz, September 27 at 2pm

Tickets: $15 Kids 16 and underneath • $25 Adults

Meals offered by KJ Nosh for extra $15

Benny Kohn is a Berkshire primarily based pianist, singer and songwriter. He performs piano/keyboards in a broad vary of musical settings. He commonly collaborates with Misty Blues-an electrical blues band that has performed numerous venues, festivals and occasions everywhere in the Northeast and Canada, in addition to many Southern States (blues nation) like Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee. Benny’s piano work will be heard on a number of Misty Blues albums. He additionally works with Berkshire Jazz Collective-a Berkshire primarily based collective of musicians based by Andy Wrba, taking part in a singular vary of jazz primarily based requirements, authentic compositions and new preparations of fashionable songs; and O-tones-a nicely established dance band primarily based out of Northampton MA, taking part in a mixture of R&B, jazz and authentic songs. Benny has produced one album of all authentic songs entitled Fingers First. He additionally leads his personal teams in many alternative settings across the larger Berkshire space and past.

Bernice Lewis

at Bobbie’s Fall Collection

Saturday, October three at 2pm

Tickets: $15 Kids 16 and underneath • $25 Adults

Meals offered by KJ Nosh for extra $15

With nearly 4 a long time of performing festivals, live performance halls, coffeehouses, schools, and home concert events, together with a half dozen acclaimed CDs, Bernice Lewis has constructed an in depth nationwide fan base. She can also be a printed poet, producer, and an educator extraordinaire. Lewis-who studied vocal improvisation with Bobby McFerrin, guitar method with Alex DeGrassi and Man van Duser, and songwriting with Rosanne Money and Cris Williamson-has been a featured performer on NPR’s Mountain Stage program, in addition to on the Kennedy Heart. In 2008, she was awarded an Artist in Residence place by the Nationwide Park Service. In 1987, she was a finalist within the prestigious New Folks Songwriting Contest on the Texas Kerrville Folks Competition, the place she continues to be a predominant stage favourite. Her ballad, “Bridges That Maintain,” was included in Peter, Paul and Mary’s Lifelines video (PBS). She was featured in Yoga Journal for her work with sound and yoga, and has shared the stage with many famend artists, together with: Dar Williams, Dixie Chicks, Patty Griffin, Pete Seeger, Ellis Paul, Rory Block, Livingston Taylor, Odetta, Christine Lavin, Marty Sexton, Patty Larkin, Catie Curtis, Mary Gauthier and plenty of extra. She has a forty-year previous day by day yoga observe, loves good espresso, and her faith is the Grand Canyon.

db trio

at Bobbie’s Fall Collection

Sunday Jazz, October four at 2pm

Tickets: $15 Kids 16 and underneath • $25 Adults

Meals offered by KJ Nosh for extra $15

The db trio consists of Daniel Broad (bass), David Bartley (piano) and Jeff McRae (drums). The db trio has been entertaining audiences all through Western Massachusetts and Vermont for over 20 years. They’re devoted to preserving reside and improvised music, and their distinctive mix of traditional jazz and blues is bound to thrill any music lover. Their critically acclaimed CD Reside In Vermont was launched in 2018.

Berkshire Trio

at Bobbie’s Fall Collection

Saturday, October 10 at 2pm

Tickets: $15 Kids 16 and underneath • $25 Adults

Meals offered by KJ Nosh for extra $15

Bing Liu (Viola, Violin, Suzuki Violin)

A graduate of the Boston Conservatory of Music, Bing Liu started her musical profession in China, successful prestigious string competitions on the age of 14. She has a Grasp’s Diploma in Viola Efficiency from Boston College, Boston Conservatory’s Orchestra Efficiency Diploma Program. She carried out with the primary China Youth Symphony Orchestra, which visited over thirty European cities on tour within the 1980s. Bing is a frequent freelance performer, and he or she can also be the co-founder of the Berkshire Trio.

Eileen Markland (Violin/Fiddle, Suzuki Violin, Viola)

Eileen studied violin efficiency on the Crane College of Music and the Ithaca Faculty College of Music. At present, Eileen is a frequent freelance performer. She teaches on the Berkshire Music College, and was appointed to the workers in 1999. Eileen has composed, carried out, and recorded violin music. In 2001, she carried out in France and West Africa. In October 2002, she carried out on the United Nations’ Peace Summit in Switzerland.

Jay Shulman (Cellist)

Cellist Jay Shulman was born to a musical household in New York. After early research with Anthony Sophos, Lilian Rehberg Goodman and Harvey Shapiro. Jay attended Syracuse College the place he studied with Federick Miller, and in addition attended Colby Faculty, the place he studied with the Hungarian String Quartet. Jay was additionally a co-founder of the Rochambeau Trio, and with pianist Fredrica Wyman, the River Duo. A member of the Lengthy Island Philharmonic, Jay is the cellist of the River Ensemble, and teaches and performs all through the Hudson Valley. He has recorded with the Bronx Artwork Ensemble and is heard on the soundtrack of Sedat Pakay’s PBS documentary Josef and Anni Albers. He has produced CD reissues of the Stuyvesant String Quartet for Parnassus and Bridge Data, and of the music of his father, Alan Shulman, for Bridge and Assist Data.

Wanda Houston with Rob Kelly: Celebrating The Variety of Ladies of Jazz

at Bobbie’s Summer season Collection

Sunday Jazz, October 11 at 2pm

Tickets: $15 Kids 16 and underneath • $25 Adults

Meals offered by KJ Nosh for extra $15

Wanda L. Houston has lived and carried out professionally all through the U.S., Europe and Australia. She has carried out on Broadway levels, in movies, recordings and tv. Residing on the East Coast, in New York and New England, has returned her to the roots of her profession, and linked her with musicians who share her pleasure and perception within the energy of music within the hearts of people that take the time to pay attention. She has labored in various capacities with Michael Jackson, Barbara Streisand, John Tuturro, Eddie Izzard, Natalie Cole, Eartha Kitt, Patti LaBelle and Sam Harris on the levels of Pasadena Playhouse, Common Studios, Radio Metropolis Music Corridor, Madison Sq. Backyard and Carnegie Corridor.

SAFETY MEASURES

BTG has outlined procedures and protocols in a way that’s in step with state and native mandated well being and security tips. Temperature scans can be carried out for patrons at their level of entry. No-contact scanning stations for tickets can be positioned at level of entry, spaced no less than 6 ft from the temperature scan. Free-standing hand sanitizer stations can be positioned at numerous places all through the house. Patrons can be required to put on masks. A method site visitors patterns can be enforced. Further safeguards can even be in place.

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