Music & More
Meeting House
Route 57
New Marlborough, Mass.
413.229.2785

Bob Dylan Celebration

Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday will be celebrated in words, music, and pictures with a talk and performance by Dylan author Seth Rogovoy and an exhibition of rarely seen photographs by Ken Regan, one of very few photographers given behind-the-scenes access to Dylan since 1966, as part of the Music & More Series at the Meeting House in New Marlborough on Saturday, September 24, at 4:30 p.m.

Club Helsinki Hudson
405 Columbia St.
Hudson, N.Y.
518.828.4800
The Kabbalah of Bob Dylan
Multimedia performance with live music and booksigning

Through spoken word, digital imagery, recorded music, live music, and rare video footage, Seth Rogovoy — author of “Bob Dylan: Prophet Mystic Poet” – will explore the Jewish Prophetic roots of and influences upon Bob Dylan’s life and music.

Immediately following the presentation, Seth Rogovoy and band will perform a 70th birthday tribute concert to Bob Dylan. Following the concert, there will be a booksigning courtesy of Spotty Dog Books & Ale of Hudson, N.Y.

This event is part of Club Helsinki Hudson‘s multi-evening celebration of Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday, which continues on the actual birthdate, Tues, May 24, at 7, with “Forever Young: A 70th Birthday Tribute to Bob Dylan,” in which Seth Rogovoy will also perform.

POST NEW YEAR’S EVE/POST-LIMMUD CONCERT

A New Years Night concert and gathering to revive and inspire you forwards into 2011, featuring Roi Levi, founder-singer-songwriter of legendary Israeli band Shotei Hanevua!

When Shabbat goes out on New Years Day we’ll get going with an interactive multimedia talk and performance from Seth Rogovoy, revealing the prophetic roots of and influence on the music of Bob Dylan.

Then Roi will take to the stage with Danny Raphael, playing music from their collaborative project Eser, as well as hits from Shotei Hanevua.

Warning: this event will leave you feeling far too good for a New Years Day and is likely to end in a glorious, smile-inducing jam session!

Recommended donation, towards artists’ fees: £5+

Please also bring food and drink to share as we see out Shabbat
Moishe House
Willesden Green
London, UK

BOB DYLAN TRIBUTE CONCERT
Featuring Seth Rogovoy

Singer-guitarist Seth Rogovoy, best known as the editor-in-chief of Berkshire Living magazine and the author of two books about music, is a longtime music critic, having contributed columns and reviews to the Berkshire Eagle for 16 years and as a four-time honoree for music criticism for his Berkshire Living column, “The Beat Goes On,” by the National City and Regional Magazine Association.

But outside of a few rare appearances in Bob Dylan tribute concerts, Rogovoy isn’t known as a performer. In fact, before he was a music critic, Rogovoy spent a number of years as a coffeehouse singer in places much like the Lion’s Den, throughout high school, college, in New York City, and in Jerusalem.

“Once I began reviewing music professionally as my main work activity, I thought it best to put aside my career – such as it was – as a performer,” says Rogovoy, who lives in Great Barrington, Mass. “It’s been great fun getting back in touch with that side of me. I hope it’s almost as much fun for the audience.”

To keep it in the spirit of fun, Rogovoy plans a program of well-known favorites he terms “The Great Anglo-American Songbook 2.0” by classic rock songwriters including George Harrison, Warren Zevon, Bruce Springsteen, Cat Stevens, Robbie Robertson, David Byrne, and, of course, Bob Dylan.

Accompanying Rogovoy will be singer/multi-instrumentalist Rob Sanzone, a frequent Lion’s Den performer, and Willie Watkins, a senior at Monument Mountain Regional High School, on drums. In real life, Watkins is Rogovoy’s son.

Lion’s Den Manager Debby Totillo is delighted to put Rogovoy in the spotlight for a change. “Many of us look to Seth for his thoughtful commentary on music. It will be a treat for us to see and hear, firsthand, what inspires him.”

The Lion’s Den pub, located downstairs at The Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, offers entertainment seven nights a week; there is never a cover charge.

Offering everything from acoustic folk to R&B, and reggae to the blues, the Lion’s Den features regular appearances by local longtimes performers, including David Grover, the Sun Mountain Fiddler, and the Housatonic Philharmonic, along with up-and-coming talent.

Some nationally recognized performers have been known to grace the humble pub’s stage from time to time – James Taylor, Lauren Ambrose and Roger Salloom among them.

The Lion’s Den pub is open nightly with entertainment from 9 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday and entertainment from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday.

The concert takes place just three days after Dylan’s 69th birthday, picking up on a tradition of Dylan’s of visiting Israel on his birthday begun in the early 1970s.

The concert will mark Dylan’s first in the Jewish state since he performed three shows in 1993 in Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Beersheba.

Dylan’s first concerts in Israel took place in 1987 in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.