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Just when you think you’ve got her pegged as another romantic piano girl, folk/pop pianist and singer-songwriter Anna Dagmar hits you with a collage of noise, a lament for fallen soldiers, or an apocalyptic vision.

Dagmar appears at The Berkshire Fringe in duo with versatile woodwindist, improviser and Bennington faculty member Bruce Williamson (Art Lande, Bobby McFerrin, NY City Opera).

www.annadagmar.com

Also on August 7:

1:30 – Workshop w/ cast of Give Us Bread FREE
4:00 – Viva La Evolucion
7:00 – Give Us Bread
9:00 – It or Her

More 30 Live Free Music:

7/28 – The Opposite of a Train
7/31 – Dither

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http://www.myspace.com/cabinetsmaker

Stephen Griesgraber’s (Slow Six and formerly of Antony and the Johnsons) Redhooker invites us to bask in the combined warmth of three violins (Andie Springer, Maxim Moston, Ben LIvely), a bass clarinet (Peter Hess), and an electric guitar (Griesgraber himself), dancing at the juncture of Renaissance and Baroque polyphony, experimental minimalism, and improvisation.

Griesgraber combines composed counterpoint with live improvisation using a foot-operated Max/MSP application, which plays randomized snippets of sound from the performance that is currently unfolding. Whether we hear them live or on record, the ensemble takes the experience of spontaneous interactive music-making and folds it back onto itself: what we hear is not only the sound of the players responding to one another in real-time, responding to the recording, but also responding to their own responses earlier on in the performance.

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http://www.myspace.com/redhooker

Dither, a New York based electric guitar quartet, experiments with an eclectic mix of composed music, improvisation, and electronic manipulation. With sounds ranging from clean pop textures to heavily processed noise, from tight rhythmic unity to cacophonous sound mass, all of Dither’s music wholeheartedly embraces the beautiful, engulfing, and often gloriously loud sound of electric guitars.

The quartet has performed in the United States and abroad. The quartet’s members are Taylor Levine, David Linaburg, Joshua Lopes, and James Moore. Dither’s recent collaborators include bagpiper Matthew Welch, composers Eve Beglarian and David Lang, and guitarist/composers Bryce Dessner, Nick Didkovsky, Marco Cappelli, Elliott Sharp, and Mark Stewart.

Dither’s debut album will be released Henceforth Records in June 2010.

www.ditherquartet.com

The members of this trio–Bill Carson (guitars, banjo, bicycle), Nathan Koci (accordion, brass, keyboards, metronome), and Ron Wiltrout (marimba, drum set, crash cymbals)–have played together for years in diverse settings: chamber ensembles, jazz groups, theater projects and a traditional Cuban/noise rock band.

Expect to hear touches of Italian film score, melodic post-rock, experimental chamber folk, and Salvation Army band chorales, all held together by the glue of their own light-hearted performance style.

In the spirit of television variety shows from the 70s, Melly & Mafoo play covers and medleys of “popular music” that depart radically from the originals.

Check out some of their youtube videos to get a taste of what they do!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7jf3t23zBU

Created & Choreographed by
Rebecca Pappas

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At once beautiful and grotesque, awkward and delicate, Rebecca Pappas’ Monster immerses you unapologetically into a world that questions identity and shame, and what it means to be a victim and victimizer, where the fine line between human and monster grows increasingly thin.

Using four highly skilled dancers, haunting narration and an original score, Monster’s other-worldly nervous-tick creatures, high-energy choreography, and pseudo-folk dances collide to form a compelling portrait of the Jewish body.

Hailed as “compelling” and “mesmerizing” by the Los Angeles Times.

Visit their website: http://www.pappasanddancers.com

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Written by Tadd Gero

Sunday, August 1 at 1pm

A special staged reading event to benefit the Tadd Gero Fund for Emerging  Writers

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Bird of Paradise is a full-length play written by Berkshire native Tadd Gero shortly before his death in August of 2009. A small ensemble of his collaborators and friends from across the United States will gather to bring his work to the stage for the first time. All proceeds benefit the Tadd Gero Fund for Emerging writers, a scholarship established by Tadd’s family and The Berkshire Fringe, dedicated to nurturing the talents of emerging playwrights in the Berkshire region.

Reading and Discussion begins at 1pm
Sliding scale admission. $10-$100.

The Daniel Arts Center, Simon’s Rock, 84 Alford Rd, Great Barrington. For more information, call (413) 320-4175

This celebration is made possible through the generous support and creativity of the Gero Family, Addie Ulry, Chloe Demrovsky
and State of Play Theater

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At The Daniel Arts Center

Created & Performed by
Jo Firestone & Dylan Marron

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Ridgefield Middle School Talent Nite offers a comedic tribute of pre-pubescent proportions to the time-honored tradition of intolerable amateur talent presentations. In these hilariously sketched talent ‘acts’, 17 brave Ridgefield citizens (all played by Firestone and Marron) emerge from awkward obscurity to find their rightful place in the spotlight.

Anyone who has ever been a middle-schooler is sure to recognize their best friends and worst enemies in this wild cast of brashly rendered characters trying to make their lifelong dreams come true!

Check out Talent Nite’s blog.