Arlo Guthrie Washington, MA Arlo Guthrie’s larger-than-life 1967 song “Alice’s Restaurant” was based on a friend’s diner in the Berkshires. The folk singer opened the nonprofit Guthrie Center in Great…

Marco Benevento Saugerties, NY Keyboardist Marco Benevento moved just outside of Woodstock from Brooklyn in 2011. He spends much of the year touring with jam bands including Joe Russo’s Almost…

The simple fact about this region is: the more you look, the more you find. Like its bountiful nature and cultural history, the music of the mountains is diverse, expansive…

With nature in full bloom and the live music ecosystem finally returning to something like normal, there are more concerts and festivals happening than ever before. Here are our picks…

Photography by Fletcher Moore You know what you should do?” he texted. It was the spring of 2019. Winter was just fading. “Come out here to Vegas!” He was my…

When I was growing up in Mississippi, mountain music had a bluegrass twang to it that made my bare feet rhythmically twitch when I’d watch a summer rerun of The…

Photography by Isaac Jeffreys I don’t know about you, but my early 20s were spent watching MTV and shopping at the mall, among other low-brow pursuits.  Unlike Isaac Jeffreys, an…

Growing up in Miami Beach during the 1960s & ’70s, my best friend Susan Whitebrook spent three to four weeks every summer at the tony Concord in the Catskills, where…

Last summer, I went camping in Phoenicia with my six-year-old daughter Penelope and her mother.  We’d migrated here from Lake Tahoe after getting divorced and priced out of our housing…