MCLA Bands, Vocalists Present Free Concerts

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NORTH ADAMS – Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts  will present two concerts this weekend, on Friday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, April 26, at 3 p.m.

Both concerts are free and open to the public.

On Friday, the MCLA jazz and community concert bands will present a joint performance in Venable Theater.The jazz band is under the direction of Jamie Choquette and the concert band is led by Jack Brown. It will include a wide range of music, from jazz standards to the music of Ravel, Beethoven and themes from "Star Wars."

The choir and women's chorus will perform in Church Street Center on Saturday. The chorus will perform a range of popular standards from the 1960s and '70s, while the choir will sing American choral masterpieces from the 20th century. Featured works will include those by faculty member and composer David Denhard.

The choirs are directed by Jack Brown and accompanied by Scott Bailey. Also, on Saturday, May 3, the choir and the Bard College at Simon's Rock chorus will perform together for an American choral music concert in Pittsfield at 7:30 p.m. at First Church of Christ on Park Square.

For more information, go to www.mcla.edu
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Sanford, Maine, Edges SteepleCats in Season Opener

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires.com Sports
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – The SteepleCats Sunday started their 2026 season the way they ended their 2025 campaign: with a narrow loss to the Sanford Mainers.
 
Sanford, which won a best-of-three playoff series against North Adams last August, scored four runs on 14 hits to earn a 4-2 win at Joe Wolfe Field.
 
The Mainers broke a 1-1 tie with a two-run rally in the third inning, and four Sanford pitchers combined to collect 11 strikeouts as the visitors improved to 2-1 this summer.
 
North Adams, which saw its planned road opener rained out on Saturday, got to open the season in front of its home fans.
 
And those fans saw a strong performance from the North Adams pitching staff, which, despite allowing 14 hits, including five doubles, gave up just three earned runs.
 
“I like the grit,” SteepleCats coach Mike Gladu said of his team’s Game 1 performance. “I thought the pitchers performed pretty well. We had a couple of situations where we definitely should have gotten some runs in and didn’t get that hit.
 
“And there were a couple of plays with a little rust. Certainly, the ball that was hit over [Evan] Meier’s in left field, he just mistracked that one. And the extra run they scored in the eighth, the kid wasn’t going to go [from third on a fly ball], we made a throw and nobody could stop it.
 
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