Berkshire Mobile Farmers Market Unveils Solar-Powered Vehicle at Pittsfield Farmers Market

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — On Saturday, Sept. 9 at 10:00 am at the Pittsfield Farmers Market, 100 First Street, the Berkshire Mobile Farmers Market (BMFM) will unveil the new mobile farmers market van. 
 
Roots Rising, the nonprofit whose teen program runs the Pittsfield Farmers Market, received funding in 2022 to purchase an electric, solar-powered vehicle for their programming. In the spirit of community partnership, they are leasing the brand-new vehicle to the BMFM partnership for the fall pilot program of the Berkshire Mobile Farmers Market.
 
Beginning Wednesday, Sept. 13, the Berkshire Mobile Farmers Market will make three stops each week: Tuesday mornings at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams; Wednesday afternoons at 18 Degrees Family Services on West Street in Pittsfield; and Thursday mornings at the Becket Town Hall.
 
Funded by a three-year grant from the USDA to the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission, 5 partners including Berkshire Bounty, Berkshire Grown, CHP Berkshires, Southern Berkshire Rural Health Network, and the Berkshire United Way are collaborating to bring locally-grown food to areas in the Berkshires with low access to fresh food. Shoppers at the BMFM will find a variety of locally-sourced products, including seasonal produce, eggs, meat, dairy products, bread, maple syrup and honey. The BMFM offers a FairShare payment system where shoppers will pay what feels right, based on their unique life situation based on factors such as household size and income level, including distributions of food at no cost to shoppers facing food insecurity.
 
Find the market schedule, project partners, pricing details on the website berkshiremobilefarmersmarket.org
 
Berkshire Grown supports and promotes local agriculture as a vital part of the Berkshire community, economy and landscape. The organization's farm-to-food access programs, the winter farmers markets, technical assistance and workshops for farmers, work to create a resilient local food system and promote local agriculture.
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Classical Beat: Enjoy Great Music at Tanglewood, Sevenars Festivals

By Stephen DanknerSpecial to iBerkshires

As Tanglewood enters its fourth week, stellar performances will take center stage in Ozawa Hall and in the Koussevitsky Shed.

Why go? To experience world-class instrumental soloists, such as the stellar piano virtuoso Yuja Wang. Also not to be missed are the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, as well as visiting guest ensembles and BSO and TMC soloists as they perform chamber and orchestral masterworks by iconic composers Purcell, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Wagner, Prokofiev, Richard Strauss, Vaughan Williams and Ives.

In addition to Tanglewood, there are also outstanding performances to be enjoyed at the Sevenars Music Festival in South Worthington. Both venues present great music performed in acoustically resonant venues by marvelous performers.

Read below for the details for concerts from Wednesday, July 17-Tuesday, July 22.

Tanglewood

• Wednesday, July 17, 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall • Recital Series: The phenomenal world-class piano virtuoso Yuja Wang presents a piano recital in Ozawa Hall.

• Thursday July 18, 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall • Recital SeriesLes Arts Florissants, William Christie, Director and Mourad Merzouki, Choreographer presents a performance of Henry Purcell's ‘semi-opera'/Restoration Drama "The Fairy Queen."

• Friday, July 19, 8 p.m. in the Shed: Maestro Dima Slobodeniouk leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a program of Leonard Bernstein (the deeply moving, jazz-tinged Symphony No. 2 ("Age of Anxiety") and Brahms' glorious Symphony No. 3.

• Saturday, July 20, 8 p.m. in the Shed: BSO Maestro Andris Nelsons leads the Orchestra in a concert version of Richard Wagner's thrilling concluding music drama from his "Ring" cycle-tetralogy, "Götterdämmerung." The stellar vocal soloists include sopranos Christine Goerke and Amanda Majeske, tenor Michael Weinius, baritone James Rutherford, bass Morris Robinson and Rhine maidens Diana Newman, Renée Tatum and Annie Rosen.

• Sunday, July 21, 2:30 p.m. in the Shed: Maestro Nelsons leads the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra (TMCO) in a program of Ives (the amazingly evocative "Three Places in New England"), Beethoven (the powerful Piano Concerto No. 3 with soloist Emanuel Ax) and Richard Strauss ("Also sprach Zarathustra" — you'll recognize its iconic "sunrise" opening).

• Tuesday, July 22, 7:00 p.m. in the Shed • Popular Artist Series: Beck, with the Boston Pops, Edwin Outwater, conductor.

For tickets to all Tanglewood events, call 888-266-1200, or go to tanglewood.org.

Sevenars Music Festival

Founded in 1968, Sevenars Concerts, Inc., presents its 56th anniversary season of six summer concerts, held at the Academy in South Worthington, located at 15 Ireland St., just off Route 112.

• Sunday, July 21, at 4 p.m.: Sevenars is delighted to present violist Ron Gorevic, returning to Sevenars after his stunning Bach recital in 2023. This year, Gorevic will offer a groundbreaking program including music of Kenji Bunch, Sal Macchia, Larry Wallach, and Tasia Wu, the latter three composing especially for him. In addition, he'll offer Bach's magnificent Chaconne in D minor and Max Reger's 3rd Suite.

Hailed by The New York Times, Gorevic continues a long and distinguished career as a performer on both violin and viola. Along with solo recitals, he has toured the United States, Germany, Japan, Korea, and Australia, performing most of the quartet repertoire. In London, he gave the British premieres of pieces by Donald Erb and Ned Rorem. He has recorded for Centaur Records as soloist and member of the Prometheus Piano Quartet, and for Koch Records as a member of the Chester String Quartet.

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