Friday Night, June 10th: 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Featuring the guitar stylings of Jeffrey Kirn and multi-instrumentalist Mike Pagnani.
Benjamin Levy
Location: TP Saddleblanket
Benjamin Levy is delighted to be performing on the street once again; some of his first performances were several decades(!) ago outside the Crafts Fair at Monument. Since then, he’s appeared everywhere from the Rainbow Room to the White House. But even the most established performers need to break in different material: Come see what's new!
Mike Pagnani
Location: Gorham & Norton
Mike Pagnani is a multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter working out of New York's Hudson Valley. He is a singer, songwriter/composer, producer, song leader, multi-instrumentalist, educator, and scholar and curator of traditional music who has been performing and teaching traditional music for over a decade.
Jeffrey Kirn
Location: Berkshire Money Management
Jeffrey Kirn is an ambient guitarist, electronic composer and film musician from the Mid-Hudson Valley, NY. Find his music as Isotherme on Spotify, iTunes and Amazon Music.
David Reed
Location: Lower RailRoad St
Americana Groove Music from the Caribbean to the Mississippi Delta!
The GypZbilly
Location: Carr Hardware
Influences from Django Reinhardt to Leon Redbone to Ry Cooder to Taj Mahal to Louis Jordan, Kevin Smith lays down an eclectic funky mix of finger style guitar and vocal. All performed on instruments of his own design and construction. Various guests will be joining on different dates.
Saturday Afternoon, June 11th: 2:30 - 4:30 PM
Don't miss first-time Berkshire Buskers Daring Coyotes at Berkshire Mountain Distillers!
Zane Sylvester
Location: Robin's Candy
I play traditional fiddle music; Irish, Scottish, etc. I have been playing for about 9 years. Have performed frequently at Berkshire and Columbia county farmers market, cafes, etc.
Rick and Marilyn
Location: SoCo Creamery
'Rick and Marilyn' is a folk/rock duo focusing on 'Guitar and Song'. We play Marilyn's original tunes and a carefully chosen mix of favorite classic folk and rock covers, as well as hidden gems, making for an enjoyable, high-energy show. Our sound is defined by Rick's expertly played, tasteful, interesting guitar solos over Marilyn's driving rhythm guitar and gutsy strong vocals.
Burrie
Location: Berkshire Food Co-Op Courtyard
A. B. Jenkins or "Burrie" as known to those who do , a Songwriter / Guitarist out of the Northampton area ... playing from Bach to Blues and Raga to Ragtime.
Warren Sieme
Location: Triplex/Barrington Courtyard
A James Taylor-esque singer/songwriter, Warren Sieme returns to Berkshire Busk this season. From New York's Capital Region, Warren performs throughout the Adirondacks, Massachusetts and Upstate New York.
Daring Coyotes
Location: Berkshire Mountain Distillers
David Clark Carroll grew up outside Boston playing clarinet and going to punk rock shows. He first discovered bluegrass in college at the Philadelphia Folk Festival where he saw pioneering flat picker Doc Watson and newgrass legends Sam Bush and David Bromberg. He spent the over decade in Northern California playing bluegrass music all around the Sacramento Valley and the Sierra Foothills before returning home to New England. Daring Coyotes is built around original material by David and live is an improvisational experience, going deep on original and traditional tunes with a modern flair.
Kristoffer Andrew Ross
Location: Calyx Berkshire
A folk singer and instrumentalist, Kristoffer Andrew Ross performs with a love of regional tradition, relating songs with context of their historical origins as labor chants, records of forgotten crafts, and tales of love or sorrow.
Saturday Night, June 11th: 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Come check out the talented young Irish dancers of Scoil Rince Breifne O Ruairc!
Michael Junkins
Location: Berkshire Money Management
Michael Junkins is a Jazz guitarist living in the Berkshires. He discovered a love for his instrument at an early age and has been dedicated to the pursuit of improvisational music and jazz as an art form. Over the past twenty years, he has had the opportunity to perform and study with many well-known and talented musicians throughout the Northeast and in Philadelphia.
Scoil Rince Breifne O Ruairc
Location: Lower Railroad St
Scoil Rince Bréifne Ó Ruairc is an Irish dance school in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Our mission is to inspire the love of Irish dance in everyone we meet.
Latin Roots
Location: Rubiner's Alley
Latin Roots started through the project Yo Soy Arte, which launched Laura Cabrera as Vocalist voicing traditional and cumbia Mexican songs. Latin Roots is a band composed by Berkshires latin musicians that voice latin musical cultures.After Latin Roots lunching in a show at MASS MOCA we realize our role as immigrants in the Berkshires and in the USA. Our mission is to bring Latin and South American culture and music to this new place we call home. Our role as artists and immigrants is to bring diversity to the Berkshires.
Daring Coyotes
Location: Robin's Candy
David Clark Carroll grew up outside Boston playing clarinet and going to punk rock shows. He first discovered bluegrass in college at the Philadelphia Folk Festival where he saw pioneering flat picker Doc Watson and newgrass legends Sam Bush and David Bromberg. He spent the over decade in Northern California playing bluegrass music all around the Sacramento Valley and the Sierra Foothills before returning home to New England. Daring Coyotes is built around original material by David and live is an improvisational experience, going deep on original and traditional tunes with a modern flair.