Arrive early for couches, armchairs, and to browse the books.
Shows begin around 8pm and are generally $5-10
(unless otherwise noted)

Food, beer, wine and love available at
THE LADY KILLIGREW
(413) 367-9666

 

 

DECEMBER EVENTS

 

Friday  Dec. 5:  Bob Flaherty

It's another  Writers' Night Out sponsored by the New England Writers Union.

Bob Flaherty was born and raised in Boston, squandering every minute of his formative years. After a rocky career in both radio & cartooning, he turned to writing. His semi-autobiographical novel Puff, set in the aftermath of the Blizzard of '78, was published by HarperCollins in 2005 and has been optioned as a movie. He is halfway through his memoir, Ass Backwards. Flaherty will read from his new work.  He will also talk about novelistic approaches to news stories and about his one man show, "Bob Flaherty in Effigy," and the tightrope dance of performing comedic yet politically-provoking monologues while maintaining impartiality as a newpaper reporter. He is on the staff of The Daily Hampshire Gazette and lives in South Hadley with his wife Annemarie.

VERY SPECIAL EVENT!:

Saturday, Dec. 6:  CHIARA QUARTET, 8PM, $12

NO HOLDS BARRED! Chamber music in ANY chamber... The Chiara Quartet is forging a new path for the string quartet. From the concert hall to the clubs.

"The presentation catered to the expectations of a pop-music audience; individual movements were offered piecemeal, the exception being the whole of Shostakovich's devastating Eighth String Quartet, played here with endearing intensity. Condescension was not on the program, which mixed and matched hard-driving pieces by Jefferson Friedman and Pierre Jalbert with Mozart, Haydn, Brahms and lighthearted Latin American music by Gabriela Lena Frank."

-- Bernard Holland, New York Times

The Chiara Quartet (Rebecca Fischer, Julie Yoon violin; Jonah Sirota, viola; Gregory Beaver, cello) has forged a new path for the string quartet medium. In the concert hall and in intimate galleries and clubs, the Chiara embraces a "no-holds-barred" approach (The Strad). The group presents exhilarating contemporary works-through their club tours and New Voice Singles recordings-to a growing circle of newcomers and committed chamber music fans alike, while exploring more established repertoire with fresh ears. The Chiara Quartet has been praised for a range that encompasses "glowing warmth to hard-edged acerbity" (The New York Times), and for possessing a "potent collective force" (Strings Magazine).

"With performers such as these, you are happy for any reason to keep them playing."
The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Achieving an unforced power through purity of tone and deft articulations seems to be as natural as breathing or opening a book to this young ensemble. Other musicians would kill for such shapely phrasing, the ends of which are nothing short of exquisite."
National Public Radio

www.chiaraquartet.net


Tickets available in advance, by phone or at the Bookmill.

 

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