CHARLEMONT — The community is invited for an afternoon of music and a celebration marking the end of the Mohawk Trail Concerts summer season on Sunday, Aug. 31.
“We’ve gotten into this tradition to put on this end-of-summer concert, really just for the heck of it, to thank our audience for coming to shows throughout the season and supporting the Mohawk Trail Concerts,” organizer Mark Fraser said. “We just hope people come.”
The concert will begin at 3 p.m. at the Charlemont Federated Church on the Mohawk Trail. The event is free to attend, and will include performances by Masako Yanagita, Estela Olevsky, Jerry Noble, Tinky Weisblat and Mark Fraser.
Fraser said last summer the concert series had an end-of-August event to celebrate the life of local musician Alice Parker, who died in late 2023, and the year before that, a concluding concert celebrated the anniversary of the birth of one of the Mohawk Trail Concerts’ founders. This year, there have been no deaths or anniversaries, but the Mohawk Trail Concerts board of directors still wanted to hold a free event to celebrate the end of the 2025 season and thank its audience members for their continued support.
“It’s gone wonderfully. Musically, it was perfect,” Fraser said of this year’s season.
Fraser said two of his favorite things to hear audiences say after a concert ends are that they hope the artist can return to play next year as well, and that this season was “the best season yet.” He said he’s heard both from audiences this year.
Fraser said the show will be about 50 minutes to an hour long, and each performer will play a couple songs. There will also be a reading of works from a local poet.
“It’ll be a wide variety of music, all loosely based on fall,” Fraser said.
For more information, visit mohawktrailconcerts.org.