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[PRESS RELEASE] Festival celebrates town's heritage
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[MUSIC REVIEW] Kronos Quartet at Tanglewood
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[THEATER REVIEW] Private Lives at Barrington Stage Company
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[DANCE REVIEW] Aspen Santa Fe Ballet at Jacob's Pillow
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[MUSIC REVIEW] Wilco at Tanglewood
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[FILM REVIEW] THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
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[MUSIC REVIEW] Weill's Mahagonny at Tanglewood
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What's New at Kripalu subject of free public forum
[PRESS RELEASE] Sunday, Aug. 17, 11 a.m., at Triplex in Great Barrington, Mass.
8.8.08
What's New at Kripalu subject of free public forum
[PRESS RELEASE] Sunday, Aug. 17, 11 a.m., at Triplex in Great Barrington, Mass.
8.7.08
[DANCE REVIEW] STOCKHOLM 59 DEGREES NORTH AT JACOB'S PILLOW
review by SETH ROGOVOY, Berkshire Living Magazine
8.4.08
[THEATER REVIEW] WAITING FOR GODOT at BTF
review by SETH ROGOVOY, Berkshire Living Magazine
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[THEATER REVIEW] WAITING FOR GODOT at BTF
review by SETH ROGOVOY, Berkshire Living Magazine
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[MUSIC REVIEW] Jen Chapin at Club Helsinki
6.16.08
JEN CHAPIN and the ROSETTA TRIO
Club Helsinki
June 15, 2006
Review and photo by Seth Rogovoy
(Great Barrington, Mass., June 16, 2008) -- Jen Chapin pulled off the seemingly impossible, by outperforming herself last night in what must have been her half-dozenth or so appearance at Club Helsinki. Accompanied by husband Stephan Crump on acoustic bass, electric guitarist Jamie Fox, and acoustic guitarist Liberty Ellman, Chapin touched on all bases of her career and styles, from her quiet, urban-folk beginnings to her jazzier side to her unique brand of chamber rock, in which her guitar-centric trio rearranges well-worn hits by the likes of Van Morrison, Stevie Wonder and Radiohead into platforms for Chapin to express her individuality through her idiosyncratic delivery and personality.
A political and social conscience has always simmered beneath much of Chapin's work -- both her original and her choice of covers, which are now collected on the terrific new CD, Light of Mine -- and in this election season the bubbled to the surface several times during Chapin's show, without ever becoming preachy or overbearing -- not an easy task.
But as much as it's Crump's boyish enthusiasm, Fox's panoply of sounds and effects, and Ellman's dazzling fretwork that power the arrangements, the focus is always and fully on Chapin, her voice, and her dazzling persona. How apt it was that when someone shouted out in between songs, "You're a goddess," Chapin replied without skipping a beat, "Tell the world."
World, are you listening?
Seth Rogovoy is Berkshire Living's editor-in-chief and award-winning music critic.
6/23/2008
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