Fall Season Events 07
September 26, 2007 | 1 Comment
Fall Season Events 07
3rd.Thursdays is this week! 5-8pm & beyond
September’s 3rd.Thursdays is filled with live music from jazz to Brazilian to flamenco and more, arts and arts activities galore, family activities, and much more, stretching from Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream on South Street all the way to Carr Hardware on North Street. There’s a free trolley to whisk you back and forth so you can enjoy as much as possible! A flyer featuring a map and a full listing of performances and special events will be available throughout downtown Pittsfield on 3rd.Thursdays, and is also available online. A collaboration between the City of Pittsfield’s Office of Cultural Development and over forty downtown restaurants, shops, cultural hotspots and businesses, 3rd.Thursdays has brought thousands of people downtown every month since it began in June.
3rd.Thursdays | Thursday, September 20 | 5pm-8pm | Downtown Pittsfield | FREE
Click here to download your own copy of the 3rd.Thursdays flyer!
A big downtown welcome to Dottie’s Coffee Lounge!
3rd.Thursdays is excited to welcome its latest partner, Dottie’s Coffee Lounge, formerly Bellissimo Dolce café at 444 North Street. New owner Jessica Rufo will be hosting their Grand Opening Ragtime Celebration on the September 20th 3rd.Thursdays, featuring music, dancing, hors d’oeuvres, champagne, and many surprises!
Dottie’s Coffee Lounge | 444 North Street | 5-8pm and beyond!
Jazzing it up on South Street!
3rd.Thursdays’ main outdoor stage is on South Street in front of Crowne Plaza’s capacious sidewalk patio, featuring the Pittsfield Sister City Jazz Ambassadors. Crowne Plaza will be serving a jazzy New Orleans-themed spread of food and drink for sale, including one pound-plus lobsters for $10 each, oysters on the half shell, alligator tail kabobs, and jambalaya, as well as beer, wine and more And members of the Pittsfield CityJazz Festicval committee will be on hand selling tix for this year’s Pittsfield CityJazz Festival on Columbus Day weekend (that’s Grace Kelly, who will be performing at the Festival, on your left)!
Live jazz & New Orleans food & drink | Crowne Plaza | South Street at West Street
Click here to check out the lineup for the 3rd annual Pittsfield CityJazz Festival.
Look for video art all around downtown
Storefront Artist Project sponsors an outdoor video projection of the luminous underwater work of video artist Laurie McLeod, who has exhibited at New York’s Lincoln Center, MASS MoCA, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and on PBS. The video installation will located directly across from City Hall on Allen Street at the corner of Fenn. And look for video art projections by artists David Lachman, Derek Zeitel, and Doug Truth out on the streets as well! Gallery Boreas, returns to its perch at 397 North Street for 3rd.Thursdays to screen another in its series of video art. CPR, a continuous video loop by artist Emmy Mikelson, is a feminine poetic examination of decay, demise, renewal, and revitalization.
Laurie McLeod video installation | Allen Street @ Fenn | 6-8pm | FREE
Gallery Boreas | 397 North Street | 5pm-8pm | FREE
Click here to read more about the fabulous Berkshire video artist Laurie McLeod
Spicing it up on North Street!
Spice Restaurant & Lounge’s outdoor stage features a sneak preview of upcoming songs from Barrington Stage Company’s October production of the World Goes ‘Round at 5pm; Cabaret-to-Go returns with local singers from 5:30-6:30, followed by gong master Ed Mann, who played with Frank Zappa for many years. Berkshire Brazilian rhythm masters, the Berkshire Bateria and Bossa Triba, take over the stage at 8pm, performing until 11pm for your dancing pleasure.
Live music | Spice | 297 North Street | FREE
Art shows from Century 21 to Ferrin Gallery
The Storefront Artist Project’s Mainspace at 124 Fenn Street features work from MCLA’s Gallery 51 in North Adams. The Kinderhook Group at 137 North Street hosts an abstract art show featuring work by Pittsfield artists Morris Bennett and Bob Stone. Century 21 Real Estate on South Street will be showing a different side of Morris Bennett, his painterly Berkshire landscapes, alongside work by Anne Roland. The Ferrin Gallery at 433 North Street features Raymon Aloyzua and Warner Friedman. And it’s the last week for the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts’ retrospective of paintings by Julio Granda. You’ll be serenaded in the gallery by Spanish native Manolo Caballos playing flamenco and Spanish songs on acoustic guitar from 5pm to 8pm at the Licht. ALL FREE!
Gallery 51 Show | Storefront Artist Project | 124 Fenn Street
Morris Bennett & Bob Stone | Kinderhook Group | 137 North Street
Morris Bennett & Anne Roland | Century 21 Real Estate | South Street
Raymon Aloyzua & Werner Friedman | Ferrin Gallery | 433 North Street
Julio Granda+flamenco guitarist Manolo Caballos | Lichtenstein Center for the Arts | 28 Renne Ave
More live music throughout downtown!
Pittsfield Brew Works features singer-songwriter Jack Waldheim, who has one of the deepest songbooks in the county, and a great throaty blues voice. And check out their new Bier Hall, featuring free pool from 4-6pm. Pittsfield’s own Eagles Stage Band will perform on the lawn of St. Joseph’s Church from 6pm to 7pm on North Street. Enjoy orchestral and pops favorites, and bring a lawn chair! And oldies favorite Memory Lane will be performing from 6pm to 8pm at Palace Park on North Street between Fenn and Depot Streets. Plus more surprises up and down the street!
Jack Waldheim | Pittsfield Brew Works | Depot Street | FREE
Eagles Stage Band | St. Joseph’s Lawn | 414 North Street | 6pm-7pm | FREE
Memory Lane oldies band | Palace Park | North Street | 6pm-8pm | FREE
Click here to listen to Jack Waldheim online.
Drum, eat, & enjoy at the Berkshire Museum + behind-the-scenes at the Colonial!
The Berkshire Museum stays open late until 8pm with FREE admission for all Berkshire County residents. Don’t miss their new Native American show! Colombian restaurant, La Fogata, will be offering delicious food and drink for purchase in their front garden. Also out in the garden, join a free guided community drumming circle hosted by professional drummer and drum group facilitator Otha Day from 6pm to 7pm. Chuck the giant tortoise will be checking out 3rd.Thursdays in the front garden from 5pm to 6pm. And the Colonial Theatre will be offering two FREE behind-the-scenes tours at 6pm and 7pm.
Berkshire Museum | 39 South Street | 5pm-8pm galleries open late/5-6pm Chuck the tortoise/6-7pm drum circle | FREE
Colonial Theatre | 11 South Street | 6pm & 7pm | FREE behind-the-scenes tours
Click here to find out more about Otha Day and the drum circles he leads.
Family-friendly activities up and down the street!
10th Annual Country Fair
September 29&30, 10am-5pm - The Country Fair is fun for the whole family – a Kid’s Tent, a scavenger hunt, wagon rides, and farm activities throughout the Village. Shop i n the Farmer’s Market or the Craft Areas filled with local artisans of traditional crafts and trades. Try your hand as a Shaker baker and enter our 2nd Annual Pie Contest!
Sponsored by Country Curtains, Price Chopper, Sweatland Oil & media sponsor Yankee Magazine.
Join HSV and enjoy the Country Fair for FREE!
Farm & Forest Trail Breakfast and Ribbon Cutting Celebration
Saturday, September 29th - Join us as we begin the Country Fair with a Breakfast and Ribbon Cutting, with Congressman John Olver officiating the opening of our Farm and Forest Trail. Tickets include breakfast, ceremony, and admission to the Country Fair.
HSV Member: $35/non-Member: $40/Children: $15
Call (413) 443-0188 x201 to reserve your ticket.
Revels “Harvest Home” performances at Hancock Shaker Village
Saturday, October 13th - The Revels utilize music, dance & drama at two concerts presented at 1pm and 3pm. “Harvest Home”celebrates the harvest cycle of sowing and reaping and the community that working together creates. Enjoy the Revels as a family!
Members: $20/non-Members: $25/Under 18: $10
Call (413) 443-0188 x201 to reserve your tickets.
Preservation and planning grants received
Hancock Shaker Village is pleased to announce two recent grants that will further bring the Shaker story to life: The 1772 Foundation has awarded the Village $100,000 for repairs to the roof of the famous Round Stone Barn. Hancock Shaker Village also received $37,500 from the Massachusetts Cultural Council for the next phase of our Master Plan project, a fundraising and development planning study leading into our 50th Anniversary in 2010.
Hot Harry’s Burritos features Roger the Jester performing free from 5:30pm to 6:30pm. IS183 Art School brings artist Nancy Magnussen to Palace Park to help you create clay medallion necklaces. First Church of Christ hosts a family square dancing demonstration with renowned square dance caller and instructor Cliff Brodeur from 6:30pm-7:30pm, as well as a chance to ring their church bell up in the historic belfry, for a donation of only $1. Carr Hardware will have a FREE Giraffe themed Bounce Station out front and FREE cotton candy and balloons for the kids, plus great fall specials throughout the store. Crispina Design Workshop sponsors a FREE workshop to learn how to make giant – and we mean REALLY big – fabric flowers with visiting artist Shari Trnka.
Roger the Jester | Hot Harry’s Burritos | 37 North Street |5:30-6:30pm | FREE
Ceramic medallion workshop | Palace Park | North Street | FREE
Square Dance Lessons | First Church Congregational | 28 East Street | 6:30-7:30pm |FREE
Giraffe Bounce Station | Carr Hardware | 537 North Street | FREE
Giant Flower Making | Crispina Design Workshop | 40 Melville St | FREE
Click herer to find out more about the inimitable Roger the Jester!
Get ready for next month with HayMan! scarecrows and Halloween outfits!
Sign up for the very fun (and FREE) HayMan! scarecrow project at 3rd.Thursdays. HayMan! organizers will have a table at Palace Park with information on how you and your friends, family, business or civic group can make your own scarecrow for the downtown display next month. And over at Berkshire Masquerade, they are throwing a Halloween Fashion Show from 5pm to 8pm with cider and snacks, as well as offering 20% off all Halloween costume sales that evening. It’s never too early to dream up your yearly disguise!
HayMan! Signup & Info Table | Palace Park | North Street | 5pm-8pm | FREE
Halloween Fashion Show | Berkshire Masquerade | 431 North Street | 5pm-8pm | FREE
Winter is Here !
September 26, 2007 | Comments Off
Winter around the corner ! Time to get out the wool and polar tech, all those chic and expensive clothes from Patagonia and North Face. Get the ski equipment out of the basement and take them to have the bindings checked, chase out the little animals who have taken up residence in those ski boots. At Jericho Valley Inn we have several local shops where you can get your equipment checked and adjusted, and buy some new skis for the kids, cause, my how they have grown.
Whether you are going to ski 5 minutes down the road from us at Jiminy Peak, further south at Butternut or Catamount, or if you need a place to crash on the long drive from New York City to the mountains of Southern Vermont, Jericho Valley Inn is here for you.
Winter is Here !
Berkshire Concierge
September 26, 2007 | 1 Comment
This is the first of what we hope will be a continuing feature here at our new Jericho Valley website: Berkshire Concierge - a guide to enjoying the Berkshires.
We have been fortunate to have spent more than twenty years in the Berkshire Hospitality business. Our experience has benefited thousands of guests who visit year round.
Each season has it’s own unique appeal. In the days to come we will update this site with new ideas, reviews and recommendations. As an introduction, the following are some tips that we hope will be useful to you whenever you decide to travel … and especially if and when you come to visit us.
* If you’re coming to the Berkshires and plan to stay/eat at places you have enjoyed before, make sure the previous owner/chef is still there. Properties are often sold and chef’s do change jobs. You don’t want to be disappointed.
* Many guests have specific dates when they return to the Berkshires each year. You should consider making a reservation for the coming year before you leave … why not guarantee your accommodations and possibly avoid a rate increase.
*If this is your first visit do some homework to the Berkshires … check out the rest of our website. We have extensive information about cultural attractions, outdoor activities for all seasons, and things to do for the entire family. Take some time to ask your friends who may have travelled here; make calls to some of the possible places you’re interesting in visiting or dining at. If the person you call is rude, or abrupt, or doesn’t understand what you’re looking for or need, why not look elsewhere.
* Try to plan your visit well in advance. Get your tickets and make dinner reservations as early as you can. If you plan to arrive after 9pm, know there that we live the country life in the Berkshires and there are very few restaurants that serve that late. You might consider eating on the way. And on some Mondays or holidays, you could starve to death before you find an open restaurant!
* Remember that if you are attending a performance, everyone else attending will probably also want reservations for dinner at six or six thirty … service will be often poor and your meal will not be enjoyable at some of the better known restaurants. Be flexible. Plan to eat earlier … 5pm perhaps or find a restaurant that serves late; and make sure the restaurant you select is close enough to the venue you are attending so you don’t have to drive too far.
We are sure that that you will have a more enjoyable visit if you follow these simple and time-tested tips.
Limited time only !
September 14, 2007 | Comments Off
” Limited time only ! Up to 50% off published rates for rooms, suites and cottages. No minimum stay required. Limited availability.
Must call the Inn directly to book reservation: 800-537-4246
