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DPAM teacher Jamie Choquette shows a student how to work the sound board.
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Some DPAM students preparing for Saturday night's show.

Chris Trapper to Perform at Drury High School

By Jack GuerinoiBerkshires Staff
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Boston-based singer-songwriter Chris Trapper will appear at Drury this Saturday.

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Drury Performing Arts Management class will bring singer-songwriter Chris Trapper to the Drury auditorium this Saturday.

Boston-based Trapper is former front man for the late-'90s alternative rock band The Push Stars and his music has been featured on televisions shows and movies including "Malcolm in the Middle" and "There’s Something About Mary."

He will play at the Drury After Dark concert series this weekend.

"He is really great and he has some really great music, and I think it is going to appeal to a lot of the community and school community as well," DPAM student and senior Alex Bernard said.

Bernard said the DPAM After Dark concert series is much more intimate than some of class's bigger shows. The curtains are closed on the stage and the audience gathers on the stage around the artist.

Bernard said DPAM members, which are producing the show completely on their own, have been setting up for this performance all year.

"We have been planning and working on this since the year started," she said. "We have had set up marketing teams to get the word out, we have reached out to local businesses and we have ... been planning our staging and lighting and learning how to use our light boards and sound system."

Drury sophomore Connor Kelly will open with an acoustic set for Trapper.

The show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are available online, at the Berkshire Emporium or at the door. Student tickets are $5 and general tickets are $10.

"I think it is going to be a very entertaining evening, and there is going to be a lot of great music," Bernard said. "It is really cool to have a Drury sophomore opening for a pretty well-known act, and I think it is going to be a great show."  


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BAAMS' Monthly Studio 9 Series Features Mino Cinelu

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — On April 20, Berkshires' Academy of Advanced Musical Studies (BAAMS) will host its fourth in a series of live music concerts at Studio 9.
 
Saturday's performance will feature drummer, guitarist, keyboardist and singer Mino Cinelu.
 
Cinelu has worked with Miles Davis, Sting, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock, Tracy Chapman, Peter Gabriel, Stevie Wonder, Lou Reed, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Vicente Amigo, Dizzy Gillespie, Pat Metheny, Branford Marsalis, Pino Daniele, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Salif Keita.
 
Cinelu will be joined by Richard Boulger on trumpet and flugelhorn, Dario Boente on piano and keyboards, and Tony Lewis on drums and percussion.
 
Doors open: 6:30pm. Tickets can be purchased here.
 
All proceeds will help support music education at BAAMS, which provides after-school and Saturday music study, as well as a summer jazz-band day camp for students ages 10-18, of all experience levels.
 
Also Saturday, the BAAMS faculty presents master-class workshops for all ages, featuring Cinelu, Boulger, Boente, Lewis and bassist Nathan Peck.
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