Music & More Opens 2009 Season With Berkshire Writers’ Free For All
A Lively Afternoon With Local Writers Hosted By Jon SwanNEW MARLBOROUGH, Mass. - The 2009 Music & More season opens with a free program on Sunday, August 16 at 4:30 pm in the newly renovated performance space of the New Marlborough Meeting House. The work of this year’s participants ranges from the perfect recipe for venison goulash to vignettes chronicling the Malaysian transition to statehood. Local writers Peter Kane Dufault, John Manikowski, Charlie Parton, Helen Klein Ross, Martha Saxton, Sanjiban Sellew, Catherine Twing and Samantha Twing will present poetry and prose at this popular annual event of lively readings and discussion. Jon Swan will host the event.
Featured among this year’s writers is Peter Kane Dufault, - a politically engaged, banjo-playing poet whose distinguished body of work is matched only by his fascinating personal history. Mr. Dufault, who has published in The New Yorker, Harper’s and The New Republic over his sixty-year career, has been referred to as “…a nature poet for grownups.” Mr. Dufault lives and writes in a cabin he built in Hillsdale, NY.
Shoppers at the Sheffield Farmers Market will recognize John Manikowski for his hand finished, one of kind knives. A true jack-of-all-trades, Mr. Manikowski is also an accomplished artist and chef and the author of the Wild Fish & Game Cookbook and Fish Grilled and Smoked.
Also joining the group is Martha Saxton, a professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies at Amherst College who has written published extensively on early American women’s history including a biography of Louis Mae Alcott and the forthcoming The Widow Washington.
As a Clayton resident and the afternoon’s host, Jon Swan boasts a distinguished resume with stints at both The New Yorker and The New York Times. He is a published poet, playwright and librettist who was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981.
All are invited to attend a reception with the writers in the Meeting House Gallery following the event. Admission is free.
Music & More is in its seventeenth year of bringing music, film, authors and art to New Marlborough and beyond. All events are held in the newly renovated performance space in the splendid 1839 Greek revival Meeting House on the town green and are followed by a reception in the Meeting House art gallery where attendees can enjoy a glass of wine and meet the featured performers.
Tickets to Music & More events are available in advance or at the door on the day of the event (subject to availability). Please call (413) 229-2785 or visit www.newmarlborough.org for further information. The New Malborough Meeting House and Gallery are located on Route 57 on the village green in the center of New Marlborough.
Enjoy a 10% discount at the Old Inn On The Green following each event. Advance reservations are required. Call (413) 229-7924.
MUSIC & MORE 2009 UPCOMING EVENTS
AUGUST 22 WILD MAN BLUES – A DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT WOODY ALLEN
This 1997 documentary offers a rare glimpse of filmmaker and actor Woody Allen as jazz clarinetist touring Europe with his New Orleans band. The exhilarating scenery and jubilant music provide a rich backdrop in this unexpected and delightful documentary.
7:30pm
Tickets are $20 each ($15 for members of the New Marlborough Village Association)
AUGUST 29 – TRIO SOLISTI
Recently called “the most exciting piano trio in America” by The New Yorker magazine, critically acclaimed Trio Solisti will perform music by Turina, Schoenfeld, Piazzolla and Mussorgsky.
4:30pm
Tickets are $25 each ($20 for members of the New Marlborough Village Association)
