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I love live music. Even the most terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day can look bright if live music is somewhere in my near future. I grew up with basement shows and tiny venues filled with emo and punk where I honed and cultivated this love, but by no means did that make me a music snob. Any kind of live music — whether it be a folk group , experimental electronica or a full orchestra — anything and everything gets my blood racing and my foot tapping. Hi my name is Brittany and I am addicted to live music.
 What started all of this ranting about my unquenchchable love of music in the live form, was my sudden realization that the Yo La Tengo concert we have coming up is only days away. That means that you only have three days to buy your tickets to the show, three days to anticipate the wonder of Yo La Tengo playing live in the Berkshires, and only three days to let it sink in that not only are you going to see Yo La Tengo play a live concert at MASS MoCA but you will be seeing them play Unplugged!
I also want to make all of you aware that we only have a limited number of tickets still  avalible for the show at this point. If you are looking forward to this show, please buy now and don’t be dissapointed, we don’t want to have to deny anyone the YLT experience.
Cheers,
Brittany
Posted November 7, 2007 by Brittany Bishop
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We have a new feature available to you thanks to the wonders of Google and Yahoo. If you have a personal e-mail or calendar account with either of these search engines you can now add MASS MoCA events to your own calendar. The steps are simple, log on to your account then search for MASS MoCA in the public calendars window. Subscribe to the MASS MoCA Google Calendar and it will automatically add all of our events to your calendar. In Yahoo visit the MASS MoCA Calendar and choose which events you would like to add. Each event has as ‘add this to my calendar button.’Â Quick, simple, easy and it’s definitely worth your time to set up.
Also be on the lookout for our Winter/Spring Calendar to be delivered in mid-November.
For those of you looking forward to seeing Yo La Tengo at MASS MoCA in November make sure to buy your tickets in advance! This is a very popular show and will sell out. Don’t be disappointed, buy your tickets NOW.
Dance by Emio Greco, music by Bang on a Can co-founder Michael Gordon. While we don’t have a date for when the finished piece might be performed here, if you have a chance to see this elsewhere, don’t miss it. It is astonishing.
There are a good number of things I am looking forward to experiencing this fall, my first in North Adams.
1. I cannot wait to see the changing colors of the leaves and have the grand experience of driving through the Berkshires and seeing the stunning fall foliage.
2. I am a sucker for fall weather. Cooling temperatures and rain showers make me a very happy girl.
3. The Teenage Prayers are coming to play at MASS MoCA’s Alt Cabaret series in October!
4. I hear the North Adams Fall Foliage parade on Sunday, September 30 is not to be missed.
5. The Teenage Prayers are coming!
6. Did I mention The Teenage Prayers are coming??? Seriously, I am so excited for this band to play at the museum. I listened to the Prayer’s CD and unreleased cuts of their new album from their myspace page non-stop while I was writing the press release for the event. Now, days later, I am still waking up in the middle of the night with their songs stuck in my head (A good sign that I am addicted.) My favorite review of the Prayers comes from Good Times Magazine who describes the band as, “An evangelization baptized in the fires of rock and soul… The stuff rock and roll legends are made of.”
So friends since school has started I feel inclined to give you a bit of homework. Start by visiting The Teenage Prayers myspace page. Next listen to their music non-stop from now until October 20th. Finally buy your tickets to The Teenage Prayers Alt Cab show NOW and prepare yourself for an unforgettable performance!
We are delighted to welcome our good friends from Marafanyi Percussion to the African Dance party on Sunday, September 2 as dance instructors. The founders of this pioneering group, Lara Gonzalez & Yael Shacham, are exceptionally gifted and fun teachers and were the star attraction at our booth at North Adams Downtown Celebration last Thursday.
On June 15, we opened NL: A Season of Dutch Arts in the Berkshires with a party under Dre Wapenaar’s Pavilion in Courtyard C. Will shot this video of the opening. Dre isn’t only a sculptor and designer, but also a talented pianist as you can hear.
These Bang on a Can fellows started their recital playing in Spencer Finch’s bank of fans [Two Hours, Two Minutes, Two Seconds(Wind at Walden Pond, March 12, 2007)] and moved across the room to Sunlight in an Empty Room (Passing Cloud for Emily Dickinson, Amherst, MA August 28, 2004). It was a wonderful use of the gallery space and the art.
