Ida Mae joins Yo-Yo Ma at Tanglewood for 5 Concerts:
AUGUST 1st
4:45am Sunrise Gathering on Bousquet Mountain
https://www.bso.org/events/tli-bousquet-mountain?performance=2026-08-01-04:45
6:30pm Gathering at Berkshire Busk, Triplex Cinema, Great Barrington
AUGUST 2nd
10:30am ‘Listening to the Land, and original children’s concert by Chris Newell and Ida Mae Specker, with Miller Nuttle, Linde Center, Studio E.
https://www.bso.org/events/tli-for-families-aug-2?performance=2026-08-02-10:30
1:30pm 200th Birthday of the Round Stone Barn at Hancock Shaker Village, with The Speckers
AUGUST 4th
Square Dance & Concert with the Ida Mae Specker Band, Sarah Gibson calling
6:45pm-7:45pm
https://www.bso.org/events/tanglewood-on-parade-2026?performance=2026-08-04-14:00
I also want to draw your attention to another event that I will be in the audience for - a conversation and performance called ‘Humanity in Practice’ that includes my friends from “We Are Water”- Roger Paul, Lauren Stevens, and Chris Newell, with Yo-Yo Ma, Jennifer Kreisberg and others.
“This gathering of musicians, storytellers, and historians asks how indigenous understandings of ecology, past, and present can help to situate the last 250 years in the context of the last 25,000 — and to reimagine the next 250. How does our perspective on the land and one another change when we center time differently? How can we put our humanity into practice to deepen our knowledge of our shared history and to understand ourselves as part of a much larger tapestry of meaning?”
https://www.bso.org/events/tli-presents-a-perspective-from-the-humanities?performance=2026-08-05-18:00