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The Berkshire Eagle (Newspaper) - March 08, 2012, Pittsfield, MassachusettsNight life music ii local dibs this Calendar runs every thursday in the eaglet print edition and every Day at . To get your event listed email by noon tuesdays for our print edition and at any time for our digital editions. Thursday in the berkshires do. Rip to . 935 South main St., great Barrington. 413 528-5959. Ctn Toon do Alan wrench 8 . $8. 1350 East St. Pittsfield. 413 499-2582. The garage the citizens celebrate Jack Kerouac. 9 . Colonial theatre lobby. South Street Pittsfield 413 997-4444. Hatpin grub and grog Karaoke 9 . 490 Pittsfield Road Lenox. 413 499-1101. Key West lounge open Mic hosted by Tom Corrigan 8 . 159 state St., North Adams. 413 663-5055. Uon s Den Dana welts folk9 . Red lion inn 30 main St., Stockbridge. 413 2985545. My town tavern Quarter life crisis 9 . 16 depot St., Dalton. 413 6840900. Under wound pub do Bruno 7 . Crowne Plaza. I West St., Pittsfield. 413 4982000. Beyond Berkshire Iron horse music Hall Teada with Maeve Gilchrist 7 ., 20 Center St., Northampton. 413 586-8686. Paradise Rock Chib Atlas sound. 9 ., 967 Commonwealth ave., Boston 617 562-8800. Scullers club amp double tree Ramsey Lewis 8 and to ., 400 soldiers Field Road Boston 617 562-4111. In the berkshires Back n9ne bar amp Grill do grape Plushie to . Crane Avenue. Pittsfield. 413 443-5746. Castle Street cafe the Lucky five string band 7 45 ., to Castle St., great Barrington 413 5285244. Chameleon s Metal night and do fusion. Dream away Lodge the Sweetack Sisters 8 . County Road. Becket. 413 623-8725. Flavours Jungle work 8 30 ., 75 North St., Pittsfield 413 4483188. Hatpin s grub and grog shut up and dance. 9 . 490 Pittsfield Road Lenox. Lions Den Justin Allen Trio. 9 . Mui town tavern live entertainment 9 . 16 depot St., Dalton. 413 6840900. Williams inn Howie Levitz piano 8 . Williamstown. 413 4589371. Under wound pub do Bruno. 7 . Crowne Plaza i West St Pittsfield. 413 4982000. Beyond Berkshire club Helsinki Bindl stiff family cirkus Winter cabaret 9 . House of blues the saw doctors 7 . Iron horse Bill Kitchen and too much Funn with Rocky Roberts and friends 7 . The raft with brotherhood of thieves to . Northern lamp its mindless self indulgence. 8 . Clifton Park n.y., 518 371-0012. Paradise Rock club Todd Snider 9 . Scullers club amp double tree Ramsey Lewis 8 and to . In Tho berkshires Castle Street cafe Charlie Tokarz Trio 7 45 . Chameleon s do Bruno dance your a off top 40 party 8 . Dream away Lodge Orion Rigel Dommisse 8 . County Road. Becket 413 6238725. Flavours Longview gunslingers 8 30 . Hatpin grub and grog Brian Benlien 3 to 6 . Also live wire 9 . Mill town tavern live music 9 . Underground pub Karaoke 7 . Lion Den the True tones 9 . Beyond Berkshire Backwater bar amp Grille Karaoke. 9 . Club Helsinki Royal Southern brotherhood 9 . House of blues epic saturdays 10 30 pm. Iron horse music Hall James Montgomery band with David Hull 7 . Mousy with Reese Mary to . Paradise Rock club in association with Clandestine los Amigos invisible 9 . In the berkshires lion Den rakish Paddy irish9 . Grumpy s tavern Christopher John 7 . Beyond Berkshire House of blues Brit Royd 7 . Bon horse music hat 811 Char tap Trio 7 . Northern lights iced Earth and symphony x in the berkshires Mission bar amp tapas Andy Wrba 8 . 438 North St., Pittsfield. 413 442-1827. Beyond Berkshire club Helsinki the Trapps 8 . Royale the wonder years with Polar Bear club transit the Story so far 8 ., 279 Tremont St., Boston 617 33i87699. In the berkshires Chameleon Karaoke and dance 8 . Mission bar amp tapas open Mic with Justin Allen 8 . Lion s Den Tom Carroll folk9 . Hatpin grub and grog open Mic with Jim from Static 9 . Under wound pub Malibu Brothers 7 . Beyond Berkshire Iron horse latin night to . Wednesday in the berkshires lion Den Tom Gizzi 9 . Hatpin grub and grog game show 8 . The Gypsy Joynt open Mic 7 30 . Underground pub open Mic with Malibu Brothers 7 . Beyond Berkshire House of blues Dropkick Murphys 6 . Iron horse music Hall Katie Herzig with Andy Davis 7 . The perfect wife Kelly Ravin 9 . Scullers Steve tired 8 and to . Berkshires week online Here Are some of our suggestions v visit the site at , updated several times a week v follow berkshires week on twitter v Check berkshires week on Facebook for regular updates on the Berkshire cultural scene. V Tell us about Community events at . Bytheway by Kate Abbotts woman on her own stands tall in Yasmine Ranay so blood sky a a teenager leaving her Rural town with a Man she hardly knows tells him a i love he questions her you hardly know me. Why would you say that the answer seems Clear to me. She said it because wanted to hear someone say it Back to her. She said it because she was scared. Ranas play opens at new stage performing arts Center on Friday and right now i have Only caught a glimpse of the words in passing in a looking Forward to Jeff Borak a preview Story in fridays Eagle. Nicki Wilson at new stage tells me it is a play about a woman in the Bayou confronting sexual abuse in her past. After each sunday matinee the play runs through May 25the writer and director and a speaker from the Elizabeth Freeman Center will have a conversation about this kind of pain. This is a very Tough subject. I know that i cannot imagine first hand the tearing terror a woman feels when she is raped or abused. I have held people who can. So Rana who has created a new work from this Story and director Mari Andrejco and Wilson a thank you. These stories matter. A my tuesday column at www. began with Spectra a writer and activist who blogs at Spectra Speaks and who will come to Williams to give a talk on wednesday at 7 . By the Way continued on d8 Courtesy photo by Ken Thomas female downy Woodpecker take me outside by Ruth Smith downy hairy or pleated the weather has been fickle this Winter but one thing i could count on was visits by downy woodpeckers to my suet feeder. Downies like most of the woodpeckers in this area Are present year round so its easy to take them for granted. They Arentt colourful like a Cardinal. They done to have a Beautiful song like a Thrush. Yet like a steady Friend they have Many endearing qualities and some Woodpecker continued on d8 dulcimer and zither mingle berkshires thursday March 8, 2012 a d4 comics to celebrities70 years of wristlets artwork by Peter Mclaughlin special to the Eagle Stockbridge a ifs a big leap from High school dropout and comic Book artist to Painter of official portraits of presidents. But that a what Everett Raymond Kinstler accomplished in his 70-year career a which is the subject a pulps to portraits a an exhibit opening saturday at the Norman Rockwell museum. As a youth Kinstler Drew the adventures of such heroes As a the Shadow and a he painted rugged cowboys hard boiled private eyes gangsters sexy ladies and action heroes for comic books and the covers of pulp fiction books drawing in a style the artists called a cowboys and by the Early 1960s, though he had changed his specially to portrait work and found himself chatting with presidents of the United states As they posed in front of his easel. He has painted seven presidents and More than 1,200 other political academic and business leaders As Well As hundreds of celebrities in music entertainment and literature. His portrait of president Ronald Reagan on display at the exhibition is the Only official presidential portrait done outdoors. The president is shown sitting on the Truman Balcony with the Washington Monument in the background. A i painted president Reagan a Kinstler said a just the Way he appeared to me a a confident Man with a ready smile and Good humor. He seemed perfectly comfortable with who he for a painting of Bill Clinton Kinstler chose to show the presidents image four times on one Canvas As a Way to reveal four different moods of As Kinstler described him a a Bright Kinstler continued on d8music from China comes to Williams by Sharon Smullen special to the Eagle Williamstown a the strains of age old chinese instruments will Echo through the Valley tonight when new York based music from China returns to Williamstown for a concert in Brooks Rogers recital Hall at 8 . The five musicians will play the two stringed Rhu Pipa Lute Yang in hammered dulcimer Man Moon guitar and Zheng zither in a program that pairs traditional tunes with Modem music. At 4 15 . This afternoon they will Lead an interactive master class to introduce the instruments and musical styles. Both the concert and the demonstration Are free. Director Susan Cheng had spent a decade playing Man with a chinese orchestra in new York City when she founded the chamber ensemble music from China in 1984, she explained by phone from new York. She founded the group to play traditional repertoire and also to work with composers of contemporary chinese music. A we Are very interested in the creative process a she said. They keep the dual repertoire she added a because new music is not something that is acceptable to All they perform up to 150 concerts and arts education programs each year across Courtesy of Williams College music department music from China will perform at Williams tonight. The United states and As far As Italy and England. Artistic director and Rhu master Wang Guowei who leads the group is a sought after soloist who plays with acclaimed orchestras and ensembles such As the Shanghai quartet. He also conducts the groups 35-member Chi Nese american youth orchestra which performs at venues from Carnegie Hall to Washington . And Shanghai China. Cheng said the ensembles new music initiative playing and commissioning new works was inspired by renowned composer and former music director Zhou Long a a recent pulitzer prize Winner for his opera a Madame White Snake a a and his wife Chen i both Strong supporters of the group since its inception. Recent collaborations have led to premieres by internationally recognized composers such As Bright Sheng and a Well received concert tour with the prism saxophone quartet. The few non chinese composers they work with a have a different perspective in their writing a Cheng said citing the klezmer and american jazz influences of a new piece by clarinet St Derek Bermel which will Premier at an upcoming appearance with the music from Copeland House ensemble. Music from China comes to Williams on the invitation of visiting assistant professor Jeff Roberts a composer Electroacoustics improviser and Ful Bright fellow who studied the ancient chinese Guin zither for four years in Beijing. He will perform a new work with the group As part of tonight a concert. In China the Guin is a Solo instrument tradition originally played by confucian scholars Roberts explained by phone As he had just returned from premiering a work in Germany. Playing with other instruments is highly unusual he said As Guin music is typically very slow and reflective while the traditional ensemble repertoire can be More Lively and rhythmically energized. An interesting dynamic to explore he said is not just to synthesize the two traditions but to try to get a flow Back China continued on d5 photos Courtesy of Everett Raymond Kinstler Everett Raymond Kinstler painted Christopher Plummer dressed for his role As Prospero in Shakespeare a the Kinstler is on the left above the painting in the Center and or. Plummer on the right. Below ism Wolfe strikes a Jaunty pose for his portrait. R

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