Article updated July 19, 2019 by Dave Read We got lucky with the end-of-show crowd surge at James Taylor’s July 4, 2014 Tanglewood concert, recording five minutes of fairly steady video to afford a good look at how much fun he is having. Of course, the audio ain’t so hot, but still worth it to […]
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JT and Yo-Yo on the porch
Article updated July 15, 2019 by Dave Read This video of James Taylor being accompanied by Yo-Yo Ma on Sweet Baby James, recorded Sept. 15, 2008 on the porch of the Red Lion Inn at Stockbridge, is blowing up the Internet – at least my little piece of it! Hotels in the Berkshires Find hotels […]
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Article updated July 6, 2018 by Dave Read Something about James Taylor’s Fourth of July concert at Tanglewood felt low-key, but that’s in reference to a dozen or so such, which always rank among the most exciting shows of the year. Our expectations may have been out of whack because his July 4, 2008 show […]
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July 4, 2016 Tanglewood concert review by Dave Read James Taylor, whose public attachment to such establishment organizations as the Boston Red Sox and Boston Symphony Orchestra make him seem like the Hilary Clinton of singer-songwriters, had a Bernie Sanders moment during his Fourth of July concert at Tanglewood. Over the years, whenever he introduced […]
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July 6, 2015 Article by Dave Read James Taylor’s concert at Tanglewood July 4, 2015 attracted another sell-out audience that packed the Koussevitsky Music Shed and temporarily converted the sweeping lawn area into the 2nd most populated town in the Berkshires! The Washington, MA resident, frequently misidentified as living in Lenox, was accompanied by the […]
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James Taylor at Tanglewood July 4, 2014 Article by Dave Read As if the ghost of Paul Revere had gotten loose, with a mind to make mischief in the Berkshires, in the days and hours leading up to James Taylor’s 4th of July concert at Tanglewood, a quiet rumor rose to a dull roar that […]
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James Taylor at Tanglewood July 2 – 4, 2012 by Dave Read. The Koussevitsky Music Shed at Tanglewood is a holy place in the minds of legions of classical music lovers, sort of a chapel to the cathedral – Symphony Hall in Boston. Over the past decade or so, the BSO has instituted a way […]
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Review of July 2011 concerts by James Taylor, and guests Amy Grant and Vince Gill at Tanglewood.
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James Taylor with the Boston Pops and John Williams at Tanglewood July 1, 2011 concert reviewed by Dave Read. The Boston Pops tuned up for their annual 4th of July concert for hundreds of thousands on the Esplanade in Boston by sharing the bill at Tanglewood on July 1 with James Taylor for a relatively […]
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James Taylor and friends at Tanglewood Ozawa Hall June 30, 2011 performance; by Dave Read James Taylor and Friends was the billing for the first of the four James Taylor concerts at Tanglewood during the 2011 season. It attracted a capacity crowd to Seiji Ozawa Hall, where the audience spilled over the rise leaving some […]
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