Community Calendar

Returning to MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts for 2022, the FreshGrass Festival features bluegrass traditionalists and innovators on four stages and platforms throughout the museum’s 16-acre campus. Festival programming also includes FreshScores, a silent film with original live music; FreshGround, a tent-camping field within easy walking distance to the festival; FreshGrass commissions and world premieres; instrument and industry workshops; pop-up performances and retail; and local Berkshire food and spirits vendors.

This years lineup features, Gary Clark Jr., Old Crow Medicine Show, Trampled by Turtles, Yola, The Jerry Douglas Band, Aoife O’Donovan, and many more talented bluegrass musicians!

Tickets and information available on the FreshGrass and MASS MoCA websites.

Songwriter Ryan Spilken will perform songs from his solo albums and former band, The North Decade, in a mix of acoustic and electric styles.

Ryan's solo albums:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6oaSHlJfpgPyJaw6Fna2L6
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/ryan-spilken/1066065480

The North Decade:
https://thenorthdecade.bandcamp.com

An evening of exquisite songcraft with veteran artist Ryan Spilken, performing songs from his solo albums and more.

Returning to MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts for 2022, the FreshGrass Festival features bluegrass traditionalists and innovators on four stages and platforms throughout the museum’s 16-acre campus. Festival programming also includes FreshScores, a silent film with original live music; FreshGround, a tent-camping field within easy walking distance to the festival; FreshGrass commissions and world premieres; instrument and industry workshops; pop-up performances and retail; and local Berkshire food and spirits vendors.

This years lineup features, Gary Clark Jr., Old Crow Medicine Show, Trampled by Turtles, Yola, The Jerry Douglas Band, Aoife O’Donovan, and many more talented bluegrass musicians!

Tickets and information available on the FreshGrass and MASS MoCA websites.

Capital District singer/songwriter Alan Dunham will be performing at Caffe Lena in Saratoga Springs on Thursday, September 29th at 7 PM. In 2021 he was signed by the Numero Group, a reissue label located in Chicago, who re-released his private press album, Flying Alone from 1980 that became a collector’s item . This year two covers of his songs have been released by the Melbourne, Australia band, Good Morning. He has written music that has been aired on national television as well. Dunham will be accompanied by violinist Tania Susi and vocalist Elizabeth Winge.

Tickets are available online!