Music Inn

01/09/2025

David Rothstein and Bonnie Raitt did a little reminiscing at her performance at Tanglewood Music Festival!! 8/31/25
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01/09/2025

Bonnie Raitt’s first performance in the Berkshires was in August 1973 (she was 23 years old) with John Prine at the Music Inn in Lenox, which was her main gig in Western Massachusetts for many years. The next year, she played with Mose Allison, in 1975 with Steve Goodman, in 1977 with John Lee Ho**er, and solo for the first time there in 1978. Her first time performing at Tanglewood was in 1976. This incredible artist returns on Sunday, August 31, at 7 p.m. for the historic venue’s last concert of the season—and we couldn’t be more thrilled. Bonnie appeared on the cover of our summer preview issue (May/June 2025), where we featured an article and also intereviewed her old friend James Taylor in a companion piece in the same issue. (We will post something on that later today.) In the interview with editor-in-chief Anastasia Stanmeyer, Bonnie talked about growing up around music, and how that influenced her greatly.

“I grew up with my dad, John Raitt, basically rotating summer stock, every summer. He played in the show Carousel, where he was the original leading man, and Oklahoma!, and also he was the originator of Sid Sorokin in Pajama Game. He later went on to do Music Man and On a Clear Day and Shenandoah and Zorba and a lot of different other shows, but he made every night opening night. And I mean that sincerely. I watched him imbue those songs and the production as if he’d never played them before. Every night now, I get really deep inside, especially the ballads, because if I ever start phoning it in, I’ll hang up my spurs. Every night is a different opening night. Some of those people are seeing me for the first time, and some of them have seen you many times, and you want to show that you still have the emotional connection with them for those songs that mean as much to me as they do to them.”

Go to https://www.berkshiremag.com/post/bonnie-raitt-returns to read the full interview, and see you Sunday at Tanglewood, which looks to be a gorgeous day for this gorgeous human being to take the stage! (Image: Ken Friedman)

31/07/2025

Music Inn Meetup!! Thursday 7/31 -5 to 8 pm at Race Brook Lodge
David Rothstein has gathered memories and memorabilia in this incredible display that will bring you back!

29/07/2025

July 28: 70 years ago: Count Basie practically blew the overcast sky away at the Music Inn with his 15-piece band.

Thanks for the reminder, Onstage Albany ✌🏼

27/07/2025

"As the coach pulls into Lenox, they pass the famed Tanglewood... No, the Wailers will not be playing the famed Tanglewood today. They are booked at David Rothstein’s Music Inn, an estate turned hippie-hangout that once housed the famed Lenox School of Jazz. A place dedicated to the “presentation and perpetuation of the American, particularly African-American, musical tradition.” ~ Legendary Reggae Blog Post, 2011

Listen to the LIVE RECORDING at: https://on.soundcloud.com/7iSqKLiUO2gn7YrQTH

Read in full at:

This blog entry finds Bob Marley and the Wailers wrapping up the northeastern leg of the North American Kaya tour in 1978. They are driving into Lenox, MA from New York City where they played …

26/06/2025

Yes, it's true...

There are a lot of things we could say here, but we will keep it brief (better to rip off the band-aid, right?): this is our last Summer & Fall season at Race Brook Lodge. We are planning to close at the end of November and put the property up for sale. It’s time for a new chapter, and we will do ...

28/03/2024

In 2015, David Rothstein’s son Casey Mead Rothstein-Fitzpatrick, who grew up immersed in both the eclectic counterculture of the legendary Music Inn and the classical auspices of iconic Red Lion Inn hospitality (the Fitzpatrick family owns the inn), would take the reins at Race Brook. With his own artistic background in filmmaking and global music, this “confluence of influences,” as Casey puts it, has shaped the lodge’s eclectic spirit. Reflecting on its origin, he explains, “Race Brook Lodge is named after a brook that’s named after a Dutch guy who came over the mountain because he was running from the tax collectors in the Hudson Valley.” Along with a targeted upgrade to a handful of the property’s 31 rooms, Casey is intent on weaving the antiquity and the family’s 30-year history here into a new cohesive brand. Read “Race Brook Lodge,” a confluence of influences in the backwoods of Sheffield, in the Spring issue of Berkshire Magazine. Story by Taylor Staubach, photos by Gregory Cherin.

12/03/2024

March 24th at the Park Theater in Hudson, NY - FB Message me for TICKETS!
Listen: https://youtu.be/57nH8wzTnyA?si=h2ckC1hPYpDOjXzm

27/02/2024

Hope you can make it to the Meetup - In-person or via Zoom - See invite for more info! https://fb.me/e/8JM1MwaJE