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By CAROLYN BROWN

After 65 years playing and directing church music, 17 of those as First Church Amherst minister of music, Dick Matteson is ready to celebrate his legacy with the Pioneer Valley. He plans to retire next month, and a farewell concert will be held this Saturday, May 17, at 2 p.m.

By CAROLYN BROWN

Holy Smokes Theatre, which used to be based in southern New Hampshire, now has a home in the Pioneer Valley — and they’re debuting a new show here this weekend.

By CAROLYN BROWN

“Tell Her This,” a podcast sharing women’s stories, will have a live show at Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity in Florence on Friday, May 23, at 7 p.m., preceded by a show featuring live stories told by local women at 7 p.m. the day before.

By CAROLYN BROWN

Legendary Afrofuturist bandleader, composer, and musician Sun Ra had an eye on the cosmos. Though he passed away in 1993, the members of his 13-person musical ensemble, the Sun Ra Arkestra, have since kept his legacy alive through shows around the world – and one of their next ones will be in the Pioneer Valley. Sun Ra Arkestra will play the Academy of Music on Sunday, May 18, at 8 p.m, in a concert co-presented by the Northampton Jazz Festival and Signature Sounds.

By CAROLYN BROWN

The shows “Broad City” and “Hacks” take place largely in New York City and Las Vegas, respectively, but they have a local connection: each show’s executive production team includes Lucia Aniello, a producer, writer, director, and showrunner who grew up in Hadley.

By CAROLYN BROWN

AMHERST — On the eve of the 139th anniversary of the death of acclaimed poet Emily Dickinson — arguably the town’s most famous resident — the museum named in her honor marked a significant milestone of its own on Tuesday.

By CAROLYN BROWN

Moroccan abstract artist Younes Rahmoun has shown work in more than 100 exhibition spaces internationally, but his first ever North American exhibition is on display right here in the Pioneer Valley.

By CAROLYN BROWN

NORTHAMPTON — In the face of an incurable and progressive illness, what would your next step be?

By CAROLYN BROWN

Hands Across the Valley Quilt Guild, an Amherst-based quilting group, will have its biennial show on Saturday, May 3, and Sunday, May 4, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Hampshire College’s Robert Crown Center Gymnasium. The show will feature more than 200 quilts by local quilters.

By CAROLYN BROWN

EASTHAMPTON — The city will bid farewell to its outgoing poet laureate, Carolyn Cushing, and welcome its new poet laureate, Carolyn Zaikowski, this weekend.

By CAROLYN BROWN

One of this year’s biggest Hampshire Pride sponsors is a local company that’s giving the festival plenty of dough – in more ways than one.

By CAROLYN BROWN

Western Massachusetts has a new lesbian bar and performance venue.

By CAROLYN BROWN

Northampton choral group Pioneer Valley Cappella’s next show, “Last Words,” will call attention to the deaths of unarmed Black men through its central work, Joel Thompson’s “Seven Last Words of the Unarmed.”

By CAROLYN BROWN

Easthampton Film Festival will return for its fourth year from Thursday, May 1, through Sunday, May 4, bringing with it a slate of movies that were created, in large part, by local filmmakers.

By CAROLYN BROWN

A recording artist is connecting her family’s western Massachusetts roots to her new album.

By CAROLYN BROWN

An Amherst festival dedicated to a famous Baroque composer is coming … Bach.

By CAROLYN BROWN

Legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot died in 2023, but his longtime band members, who now tour as The Lightfoot Band, will share his music and legacy in Northampton at the Iron Horse on Thursday, April 24, at 7 p.m.

By CAROLYN BROWN

A new festival for young people and the arts is coming to Northampton.

By CAROLYN BROWN

A new group of “queerleaders” in Northampton wants to lift up the LGBTQ community — in more ways than one.

By CAROLYN BROWN

Two events this month aim to raise funds for 33 Hawley in Northampton for two different reasons – namely, to support programming in its Barn Door Gallery and to add risers and 175 chairs for shows in its Workroom.

By CAROLYN BROWN

It’s not uncommon for a small nonprofit not to have a physical space. It is, however, ironic when that nonprofit itself is called Human Scale Art Space.