Marathon Review from Berkshire Eagle posted…

Hey all, a review of our beloved Marathon has been posted at the Berksire Eagle…

(sorry folks,  Berkshire Eagle ‘archived’ their link, so you have to pay for it… we’re working on an acceptable solution…)

 

Bang On A Can Summer Festival begins July 10th, 2007

They’re baaaack…

Yep, it’s started. Looks like a great group of folks, certainly good eaters… A great BBQ chicken meal to start, and we’re off and running. Welcome to all you fellows, and to all the faculty! So listen, last year I started this little blog to just, well, write a little bit, bring some attention to some things I thought it might be fun to bring attention to, and to organize some of the events and music which comes out of the festival. I’m looking for writers and ideamongers who might want to collaborate with me in making this here thing useful... for everyone.

So please don’t hesitate if you’re interested. Restaurant reviews, hiking accounts, thoughts on museum exhibits… let it be a sounding board, a message board, whatever you’d like to make it. All posts have their comment fields open, so leave a comment or start a thread. I’m happy to make a page for whatever subjects you think are interesting. Have at it. It’s the second year, so you can look back a year and listen to some music from last year’s festival as well.

Also, check out the blogroll to the right. some interesting things there, including faculty sites.

And subscribe to the rss feed so you can automatically be kept up on new entries. Don’t know how? Ask me. I’ll show ya.

Welcome, we’re really happy to have you here!

 

EVERYTHING BELOW THIS POST IS FROM BANG 06

NUFF SAID

 

Welcome to Todd’s Bang Blog, and welcome to Bang On A Can’s Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA! (affectionately, but never officially, known as….. ‘Banglewood’)

A HUGE welcome to all you folks joining us at Bang On A Can’s Music Festival at MASSMoCA (Massachussetts’ Museum of Contemporary Art). If you’re joining us for the first time, or rejoining us for the second or third, we’re very happy you’re here. I’m Todd Reynolds, or Odd Todd, or Hot Toddy, whatever you wanna call me, no worries. This is our 5th year of the institute, and every year has been ‘better’ than the last. (like these things can actually be better or worse,they’ve all been fantastic.) It just seems that every year we’re here, we’re even more happy i guess. I personally have grown so attached to this place that i spent the last year writing, recording and basically taking a creative sabbatical up here, an idea which was always a dream of mine, now one year’s worth of a reality. It changed my outlook on things.

Anyway, i’ll be blogging here to post everything from places and things i find interesting here in town, to favorite haunts, restaurant reviews, ultimate electronic and computer music resources, improvisational resources and links which make me smile or think. Commenting is open, please feel free to participate as much or as little as you like. Use this, and me, as a resource at whatever level is useful to you.

I wish you such a great time while you’re here. It’s a team effort, a joint partnership between Bang On A Can and Mass MOCA Staff and Crew and you, our esteemed fellowes. We on staff value these three weeks so highly. This is our time to learn with you, learn from you, and share with you our experience and ways of working, all at the same time. And all in the midst of one of the best art institutions in the country, Mass MOCA. It’s the definition of an interdisciplinary experience. You’ll have unlimited access to view the exhibits and a good deal of access to performing in the galleries.

We’ve called it The Summer Institute, now we call it The Summer Music Festival, you’ll see it referred to as ‘Banglewood’ in the press, an entirely unofficial but respectful reference, and mostly we call it Good Clean Fun, what we hope is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to commune with Other Like Minds.

Speaking of Like Minds… soon we’ll get composer’s and performers from past years to post in a special section called Vett…

looking forward to meeting each of you…

todd@toddreynolds.com

 

Festival Article in Berkshire Living Magazine

Berkshire Living is THE magazine for the Berkshire area. Started by Seth Rogovoy, editor-in-chief, whose features on WAMC and writings about the arts, Klezmer and Bob Dylan are widely respected, the July issue features the Music Festival and because I was doing my ‘creative sabbatical’ up here, it sort of uses my own personal experience as an anchor. it might be TMHT (translation: too much hot toddy). It’s a great article, though. You can buy a copy of the magazine at Papyri on Main Street, or if you’d like a quick look at the article, click here
(republished with permission from Berkshire Living Magazine)

http://berkshirelivingmag.com/