BAAMS Faculty Band to Perform Benefit Concert

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Richard Boulger, founder of BAAMS and a North Adams native, established the academy.

ADAMS, Mass. — The Berkshires' Academy for Advanced Musical Studies (BAAMS) Faculty Band is scheduled to perform a benefit concert on Wednesday, July 16, at Studio 9, located at The Porches' Inn.

The concert aims to help offset the costs associated with the week-long Summer Jazz Band Day Camp.

The performance also marks the five-year anniversary of BAAMS, a nonprofit organization.

The concert is set to begin at 7 p.m. The faculty band, led by trumpeter Richard Boulger, will feature saxophonist Ron Blake, guitarist Rodney Jones, bassist Alex Blake, pianist Dario Boente, percussionist Mino Cinelu, and drummer Kenwood Dennard.

Additional information regarding the musicians is also available online.

The band's repertoire will include jazz, world, blues, and funk music.

Richard Boulger, founder of BAAMS and a North Adams native, established the academy, which receives support in part from the Cultural Council of Northern Berkshire. The 7th Berkshires' Summer Jazz Band Day Camp is scheduled to take place from July 14-18 at the BAAMS' academy building in Heritage Park, North Adams.

Tickets for the concert can be purchased through this link

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Candidates Sought for Vacant North Adams School Committee Seat

By Tammy Daniels iBerkshires Staff
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The School Committee is seeking candidates to fill a vacancy on the committee. 
 
Letters of interest should be submitted to Bobbi Tassone, administrative assistant to the superintendent, at btassone@napsk12.org by 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 6. 
 
The School Committee and City Council will hear from candidates and vote for the new committee member at the council's regular meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 13.
 
The schedule presented by Mayor Jennifer Macksey was approved at the School Committee's meeting on Tuesday. 
 
The successful candidate will fill the four-year seat won by Chelsey Lyn Ciolkowski in the Nov. 4 election. Ciolkowski withdrew from consideration but not before her name was printed on the ballot, and she earned enough votes for third place in the four-way race for three seats. 
 
School Committee member Richard Alcombright questioned the timing of the process as there is not a vacancy until Jan. 1, and that, technically, Ciolkowski has not resigned.
 
Alcombright is not returning to the committee; his colleagues Emily Daunis and David Sookey both won re-election.
 
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