Festival programming also includes FreshScores, a silent film with original live music FreshGrass commissions and world premieres instrument and industry workshops pop-up performances and retail and local Berkshire food and spirits vendors.įreshGrass 2021 is sponsored by No Depression, Folk Alley, The Porches Inn at MASS MoCA, Compass Records, the American Roots Music Program at Berklee College of Music, Circle Strings, EASTMAN, Deering Banjo Company, Girardi Distributors, Berkshire Gas, and AccessPlus Communications. Old glass ripples in the windows.FreshGrass, MASS MoCA’s annual three-day festival of bluegrass and progressive roots music, announces the lineup for its 10th anniversary, featuring: Dispatch (acoustic), Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Béla Fleck My Bluegrass Heart (featuring Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz, and Bryan Sutton), Watchhouse (formerly Mandolin Orange), Sam Bush, Steep Canyon Rangers (FreshGrass Artist-in-Residence), Sarah Jarosz, Aiofe O’Donovan, Watkins Family Hour, Noam Pikelny, Bonny Light Horseman, Alison Brown, Amythyst Kiah, Darol Anger, Hawktail, Dedicated Men of Zion, A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe featuring Felicia Collins, Willi Carlisle, CJ Field, and more.įreshGrass features bluegrass traditionalists and innovators on four stages and platforms throughout the museum’s 16-acre campus. Paint rubbed into the brick shows the ghosts of vanished rooms. Bridges join brick courtyards like a medieval stronghold. The old factory has opened into wide halls full of light. You walk in past upside-down trees - and a silver Airstream has crash-landed on the roof like a visitor from 1960s science fiction.Īnd the buildings themselves are beautiful. It’s a cosmopolitan center in he smallest city in the state, with the open ridge lines of the mountains on all sides. Mass MoCA has always been known for contrasts that come together naturally. A horned motorcycle trailed the Fibbonacci sequence, metal floor tiles reflected colored light, and Robert Rauschenberg prints and collages filled a room as a long as football field. In the summer of 1999, the galleries opened for their first summer season. In their wake, a group of North Adams and Williamstown innovators started talking. North Adams was at a low point - Sprague Electric, the city’s major employer for generations, was closing down, and the town was losing jobs at other mills as well. Set against the foothills of the beautiful Berkshire mountains FreshGrass North Adams is a family-friendly festival with the best in bluegrass and roots music filling the fields, courtyards, and galleries of MASS MoCAthe largest contemporary art museum in the country (gallery admission included with all tickets). Mass MoCA has always been an unpredictable creative space - the kind of place where a piano tuner tests the arcitecture for balance. If you’re local, pick up a museum pass at the libraryand come explore the whole place. Many of them are free - summer Chalet concerts on Thursday nights, open studios with artists in residence, Kidspace family activities. In What Way Wham? (White Noise and Other Works, 1996-2023) explores music, sound, color and conversation.įollowing the thread of human connection, a sculptor and a photographer will bring their own visions - Malaysian artist Anne Samat explores Love (opening June 24) and Bronx-born Puerto Rican photographer Elle Pérez honors Intimacies (opening July 22).Īround them the museum theaters, and often the galleries, will fill with performances, ranging just as far in genre and geography. Massachusetts native Joseph Grigely dives into sound and silence and his lived experiences with language and communication - he has been deaf since age 10. You’ll find artists from across the country and around the world - this summer The 150-year-old mill at the fork of the Hoosic River is now the largest contemporary art museum in the country, and one of the largest on the planet. Grab a micro-brew or a local taco and listen to live music in the courtyard.
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