Secret Planet x Race Brook Lodge's ALMOST SPRING WEEKENDER kicks off on Friday night with a special West Coast treat — African psych rock collective Orchestra Gold lands in Sheffield on their first time through Western Mass. The swinging five-piece soaks up vast Malian influences, from Afro Funk to traditional Bambara ritual song, and delivers them with A-grade aplomb and a clear devotion to fuzz, reverb and musical healing. The night ends with an intimate DJ set in the Down County Social Club with Nat Rahav aka Busquelo sharing his deep love for global dance-forward tracks.
AN ALMOST SPRING WEEKENDER is a secret planet x race brook lodge joint. weekend passes are now sold out, but you can still purchase tickets to the other individual events: Garth Stevenson on Saturday afternoon and Nickodemus/BIGYUKI/Deejay Theory on Saturday night.
SCHEDULE
Fri, March 8
8PM-11PM. Two sets of Orchestra Gold in the BarnSpace
11PM-1AM. DJ Busquelo in the Down County Social Club
Sat, March 9
1PM-3PM. Garth Stevenson Hike + Concert (meet in the Barnspace)
8PM-9:20PM. BIGYUKI trio in the Barnspace
9:30PM-11:00PM. Nickodemus in the Barnspace
11:00PM-1:00AM. Deejay Theory in the Down County Social Club
DINNER RESERVATIONS AT THE STAGECOACH TAVERN
Friday, March 8
In the Barnspace at Race Brook Lodge
864 South Undermountain road ( AKA Rt 41 ) Sheffield, MA
Ticket Prices: $20
THE LINEUP
Orchestra Gold
A decade-long collaboration between Mariam Diakite and Erich Huffaker has yielded something golden: an African psychedelic rock ensemble based in California with raw, hypnotic vocals and a groove that simply cooks. Orchestra Gold. The swinging six-piece soaks up vast Malian influences, from Afro Funk to traditional Bambara ritual song, and delivers them with A-grade aplomb and a clear devotion to fuzz, reverb and musical healing. The brass horn lines and hypnotic guitar riffs trace their sound back to the great African Orchestres of the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Their latest album, "Medicine", produced by Chico Mann (Antibalas), is an absolute earworm and highly worth digging into. Says Chico: “They are grounded in tradition and moving the conversation of African diasporic music forward." Orchestra Gold plays Friday night in the BarnSpace at 8PM.
Busquelo
Nat Rahav aka Busquelo selects deep, sublime, and multicultural sounds for discerning dancefloors. Using folkloric and the futuristic as skipping stones, his music invokes ancestral rhythms as the blueprint for excursions into international dance music culture.
A longtime member of the Turntables on the Hudson crew, he has been DJing in the NYC scene for two decades. In the 90's he founded and ran the record label RhythmLove with partner Nickodemus. He was a resident DJ at Bembe in Brooklyn for many years in the 00's. He also hosted a salsa radio show on WKCR called The Mambo Machine. He is also the founder of a music festival called Present Present which showcases emerging artists, many of whom have been awarded or nominated for Grammys.
Busquelo spins the late night set on Friday night in the Down County Social Club, starting around 11PM.
Race Brook Lodge is a hidden gem in The Berkshires, at the foot of Mt. Race and a short hike from the Appalachian trail. The yoga & event barn at Race Brook is simultaneously rustic and sublime, steeped in hundreds of years of New England history. The Stagecoach Tavern is unpretentious fine dining, exquisite farm-to-table cuisine in a relaxed atmosphere. Much of the food is sourced from Race Farm, right on the property!
Come join us for the first four Wednesdays in May, 3-8pm, to experience the magic of Race Brook Lodge. Each session, led by Melanie “Poppins”, will be themed around incorporating elements of nature into our weekly theme craft, and will include programming with music, movement, and storytelling.