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High School Football
Hoosac Valley beats Drury in Saturday action. More photos on Monday |
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Boys' Soccer: State Vocational Championship Game
McCann Tech 3, Keefe Tech 2
Girls' Soccer: State Vocational Championship Game
Blackstone Valley 8, McCann Tech 0 |
What's Playing
Milla Jovovich vs. alien abduction in "The Fourth Kind." What more do you need to know?
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Daily Digest
This is Jake
He's been lost in Pittsfield for weeks but frequently sited. He was last seen heading toward the fire station on Peck's Road. He's tired, dirty and needs seizure medication. He's chipped. If you see him, call Julie at 413-537-5616, the vet 24/7 at 413-499-2820 or animal control at 413-448-9700. |
Election
Trying to remember who won what and why? All the information is right here. |
ObituariesSales FliersBazaarsNov. 14
Berkshire Community Church, Richmond
10-4; Crafters, bake sale. Contact Evelyn Goggia at 413-445-5747
Lanesborough Elementary School annual Fall Craft Fair from 10 to 4. Free admission, huge variety of arts and crafts, raffles, food and more. Proceeds go to sixth-grade trip to Cape Cod.
Vendors can contact Deb at 413-738-5349 or debhutton@aol.com or Lori at 413-499-0065 or lorittod@yahoo.com to secure a spot.
Dec. 12-13
North Adams Country Club, crafts 9-4; food from That's a Wrap from 11-2. Contact Sheryl Morehouse at 413-822-3329.
Planning a bazaar this season? Submit information to info@iberkshires.com to have it listed here. |
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The Colonial Theatre presents Dark Star Orchestra09:19AM / Thursday, July 02, 2009
PITTSFIELD, Mass. - The Colonial will present Dark Star Orchestra on Wednesday, July 22nd at 7:30PM. Tickets for the performance are $45 and $35 and can be purchased in person at the Colonial Ticket Office at 111 South Street Monday-Friday 10AM-5PM, performance Saturdays 10AM-2PM, by calling (413) 997-4444 or online at www.TheColonialTheatre.org.
Using the same methods as orchestras interpreting the music of classical composers, Dark Star Orchestra recreates song for song Grateful Dead performances with, “fanatical attention to detail,” according to Rolling Stone Magazine.
It's really about the sound that’s created. It's about a sense of familiarity. It's about a feeling that grabs listeners and takes over. It's about a contagious energy: it's about the experience.
Dark Star Orchestra has been delivering this experience to old and new Grateful Dead fans for 10 years, after guitarist John Kadlecik contacted keyboardist Scott Larned with a concept—performing complete Grateful Dead shows out of history. When Scott mentioned having the same idea, John knew they were on to something.
Dark Star secured four Tuesday night gigs at Martyrs' in Chicago. The first night, November 11, 1997, saw only 78 people, but by the fourth week they had sold out the room. By spring, they had toured Colorado and had steady Tuesday and Wednesday night gigs in Chicago.
"For us it's a chance to recreate some of the magic that was created for us over the years," John Kadlecik explains. "We offer a sort of a historical perspective at what it might have been like to go to a show in 1985, 1978 or whenever. Even for Deadheads who can say they've been to a hundred shows in the ‘90s we offer something they never got to see live."
On lead guitar and vocals, John Kadlecik sings with an uncanny resemblance to Jerry Garcia, using amp rigs and equipment to suit the near-exact, Garcia guitar tone from the show being recreated. Playing a full Hammond B3 and on vocals, Rob Barraco provides incredible vocal and keyboard replications of the show renditions of the sound of the three Grateful Dead keyboardists from 1972-1995. When the show is from the ‘70s, vocalist Lisa Mackey provides the female harmonies, performing the Donna Godchaux parts in perfect key.
Dino English combines his training in percussion and jazz and his experience in Dead-oriented groups to deliver the rhythmic drumming sounds of Bill Kreutzmann. On the other drum set, Rob Koritz, a classical and jazz influenced musician gets into the soul and spirit of the music while filling the Mickey Hart role. Like Phil Lesh, Kevin Rosen provides a very distinctive, fluid style of bass playing and a devotion to the music of the Dead. On rhythm guitar and vocals, Rob Eaton provides an extension of the incredible feeling, instrumentation and tone created by Bob Weir.
In November of 1998, on the eve of their first anniversary, Mike Gordon and Jon Fishman of Phish joined Dark Star at Martyrs' after their own show. Fishman sat in for the majority of the evening, which included a rollicking drum section with four percussionists. The ensuing buzz caused national interest in the band. That winter, their Colorado tour sold out almost every stop, their MP3 web site was getting millions of hits and everyone wanted to know how they got their sound so precise. Soon after, the Washington Post declared them “the hottest Grateful Dead tribute act going;” USA Today claimed DSO was “channeling the Dead,” but what they do is not just a tribute to the Grateful Dead but a testament to the enormous number of unique set lists they performed in their long career.
Continuing the growth, the band performs up to 250 dates in a year. They have grown continually, playing at larger venues and theaters, collaborating with guests including Grateful Dead alumni Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Donna Jean Godchaux-Mackay, Vince Welnick, and Tom Constanten.
In 2006, Dark Star Orchestra performed 168 shows throughout the U.S to over 120,000 Deadheads and music fans. Tragically, during the band’s 2005 spring tour, co-founder Scott Larned died of a heart attack; the band has recently filled the keyboardist seat permanently with Rob Barraco, a veteran musician who has toured with The Dead and Phil Lesh & Friends among scores of others. Due to their explosive growth, the band has begun playing two and three night stands in towns where the audiences are growing and coming out to enjoy the experience of a DSO show. |
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