New dates for 2022!
Looking forward to the SWEET WEEKEND on July 9th! This will be the opening of an exhibit about my great grandfather “Pop” Sweet- famed fiddler and square dance caller. The BSweet Band will be there to kick off the opening. See details below on that date.
We’re so excited to return to Devonfield Inn in Lee, MA for their 2022 outdoor music series! Bring a chair and enjoy free music on the inn’s gorgeous grounds. LIMITED SEATING. Reservations required. Please call (413) 243-3298 or email innkeeper@devonfield.com. Address: 85 Stockbridge Rd, Lee, MA https://www.devonfield.com/ (See dates below)
Friday, May 20th.Chester Common Table. 6:00pm. With Lara Tupper. 30 Main Street, Chester, MA. Venue Website
Sunday, June 12, 3:40 -5:00 PM. Devonfield Inn. With Lara Tupper. 85 Stockbridge Road, Lee, MA. Venue Website
Saturday, June 25th, 5:00 PM. The Becket Arts Center. With the BSweet Band. 7 Brooker Hill Road, Becket, MA. Venue Website
Sunday, July 3rd, 3:40 -5:00 PM. Devonfield Inn. With Lara Tupper. 85 Stockbridge Road, Lee, MA. Venue Website
Saturday, July 9th, 2:00PM (rain date July 16th). A SWEET WEEKEND. With the BSweet Band. Celebrating it’s 50th anniversary, the Spencertown Academy will be opening a new exhibit on “POP” SWEET, the famed Fiddler of Fog Hill. In conjunction with the opening the BSweet Band will play a show at Spencertown Park, Spencertown, NY. “Pop”, my great grandfather won the nation-wide square dance calling contest in 1943 in Philadelphia and had an illustrious career as a fiddler/square dance caller and teller of tall tales. The exhibit will display news coverage, photos and field recordings of Pop’s fiddling and calling. Also on display will be an original oil painting and a his fiddle, for which he traded a pickerel in 1942. He was a legendary woodsman, hunter and trapper and the exhibit will explore this along with legends of Fog Hill. Note: the exhibit will be housed in the Austerlitz History Center at 812 Route 203, Spencertown, NY. Academy Website
Friday, July 15th. Chester Common Table. 6:00PM. With Lara Tupper. 30 Main Street, Chester, MA. Venue Website
Saturday, July 23rd, 3:40 -5:00 PM. Devonfield Inn. With Lara Tupper. 85 Stockbridge Road, Lee, MA. Venue Website
Sunday, July 24th, 1:00PM. New Lebanon Music in the Park. With Lara Tupper. Free event featuring three groups at the pavilion in Shatford Park, Rout 22 to Old Post Road, New Lebanon, NY.
Saturday, August 6th, 3:40 -5:00 PM. Devonfield Inn. With Lara Tupper. 85 Stockbridge Road, Lee, MA. Venue Website
Saturday, August 13th, 3:40 -5:00 PM. Devonfield Inn. With Lara Tupper. 85 Stockbridge Road, Lee, MA. Venue Website
Saturday, August 14th, (time tba) Washington Town Park Concert Series. With the BSweet Band. Route 8 Washington, MA. Venue Website
Friday, September 2nd, 5:30-7:00 PM. Great Barrington Gazebo Summer Concert Series. With the BSweet Band featuring Pete Adams, Abe Guthrie and Lara Tupper. Outdoors on the lawn. Located behind Town Hall at 334 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA. Venue Website
Saturday, September 10th 3:00 PM. Dalton CRA Music Series. With Lara Tupper. Outdoors on the lawn. 400 Main Street, Dalton, MA. Venue Website
Saturday, September 17th, 3:40 -5:00 PM. Devonfield Inn. With Lara Tupper. 85 Stockbridge Road, Lee, MA. Venue Website
Saturday, September 24th, 3:40 -5:00 PM. Devonfield Inn. With Lara Tupper. 85 Stockbridge Road, Lee, MA. Venue Website
Saturday, January 28th, 7:00 PM. The Lion’s Den. With Lara Tupper. 30 Main Street, Stockbridge, MA. Venue Website