Drummer Kenny Wollesen and his band Himalayas have been at MASS MoCA since Tuesday making instruments out of discarded objects, parading through the community, and sharing their music with anyone and everyone. Here are a few photos from the past two days.

You can still join in on the fun! Wollesen and crew will offer one more workshop on Friday, April 25, at 11 AM, and a blow-out jamboree will take place in the Hunter Center on Saturday at 4 PM! For more information call the MASS MoCA Box Office 413-662-2111.

  

 For more photos of the Kenny Wollesen workshops visit the MASS MoCA Flickr group. Also check out the MASS MoCA You Tube page to hear and see the workshop bands in action.  

Jeremy Goodwin proffers his thoughts on Friday’s show in the Berkshire Eagle. Thanks for the shout out to our future potentially legendary shows.  We aim to please!

We could not be more delighted at the news that our dear friend David Lang, one of the co-founders of Bang on a Can who spends every summer right here in North Adams at the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA is this year’s recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for music. He’s pictured above in the center of this photo by Peter Serling with Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe. A bouquet of roses (from Quadland’s) for you David!

Ian Nelson from Daily Collegian weighs in on Malkmus, the Jicks, and John Vanderslice.
What did you think?

They’ll be here tomorrow night. Show is not sold out yet, but it will be so get your tickets today (plus they’ll cost more day of show!) If you’re on the fence, here’s an interview on Fair Game.

Look for Stephen’s shout out to hard-working museum guards everywhere.We’re wondering why North Adams isn’t included on the list of tour stops that flashes on screen. Conspiracy a foot? Or is it because they figured no one in this blue quadrant of this blue state actually watches Fox News?

There are still some tickets left, but they’re going fast.  Don’t be disappointed.  Buy in advance.

Great review of new album from Steven Malkmus & the Jicks in today’s NYT.

Playing here April 4 with John Vanderslice opening. If you haven’t already bought tix, they are selling fast.

Lots of people you’ve met at MASS MoCA in the press. Tell everyone you knew them when….

Deb Solomon’s interview with Stew (who played in an Alt Cab here on August 14, 2004)

Fritz Haeg profiled in Sunday Styles (who was part of The Believers exhibition in 2007)

Cai Guo Qiang in NY Times and New Yorker (Cai’s Inopportune was originally commissioned by MASS MoCA for Building 5 in 2004.)

We were proud to see this excellent Times review for Slug Bearers. Ben Katchor and Mark Mulchahy created it in residency at MASS MoCA a few years back.

If you missed the latest DJ Rekha’s Boston Globe recomnended event in Cambridge, don’t fret. Put on your dancing shoes and head on over to the Bollywood Dance Party on February 9 at 8 PM for another chance to hear this great DJ spin a combination of music with an intense beat: hip hop, rap, reggae, ragga, rock, soul and global dance hits.