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Tuned in

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Northampton writer/musician Ella Longpre celebrates the release of her first-ever chapbook, “The Odor of the Hoax Was Gone,” with a show at Flying Object in Hadley Thursday at 8 p.m. Longpre can quiet a bustling room with her hushed songs, sometimes even with her back to the crowd (as she did one night, playing the Basement’s awkwardly situated upright piano). … 0

PHOTO COURTES OF PIONEER VALLEY SYMPHONY Paul Phillips conducts the Pioneer Valley Symphony.

Pioneer Valley Symphony performs Saturday in Greenfield

Thursday, May 16, 2013

The curtain is about to close on Pioneer Valley Symphony’s star-studded season, PVS at the Movies. Thankfully, the symphony’s final visit to movie music is one where fiery crashes, bloody chases, or floor-rocking explosions have neither pride nor place. There is room for a subwoofer, however. The occasion is Gustav Mahler’s glorious and … 0

Big Sandy

Clubland: Big Sandy and his boys fly right at Iron Horse

Friday, May 17, 2013

Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys is a band out of time. It speaks my grandfather’s vocabulary of pre-Beatles pop music, of songs aimed at the dance floor, guitar-driven tunes that kick it up on the common ground between country, jazz, blues, lounge, rockabilly, Western swing, Latin and early rock ‘n’ roll. The … 1

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Northampton High School junior Anna Moore, left, runs Saturday in the 4x800 meter relay event during the Western Massachusetts Division I Track Championship at Holyoke High School. Northampton High School freshman Sierra Loomis runs of the track after passing the baton, at right. SARAH CROSBY Northampton wins girls track title; Amherst rallies to second
Taj-Amir Torres of Amherst Regional High School, left, leads Saturday during the 100 meter dash event at the Western Massachusetts Division I Track Championship at Holyoke High School. Oushane Lewis of Central High School, center, and John Ferrera of Ludlow follow behind. SARAH CROSBY Chicopee Comp overtakes Amherst to win boys track title
Hampshire College student Esther Dane celebrates during the graduation ceremony Saturday in Amherst. Dane's Division III, Portraits of Wellness, combines art with science research. SARAH CROSBY Hampshire’s 300 graduates urged to confront challenges
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Advance bookings

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Advance bookings Pitbull — Fri., May 24, 8 p.m., MassMutual Center, Springfield. $72.50-$122.50. massmutualcenter.com Aretha Franklin — Sun., May 26, 7 p.m., Foxwoods. $40-$65. foxwoods.com Seth Meyers — Thurs., June 20, 8 p.m., Calvin Theatre, Northampton. $35. 586-8686, … 0

Patty Griffin

Track Record

Thursday, May 16, 2013

American Kid Patty Griffin New West; $10 Patty Griffin bookends her seventh album “American Kid” with two songs about the death of her father, opening with the wistful, spiritually open-hearted “Go Wherever You Wanna Go.” The song features … 0

Weekend planner — music

Friday, May 17, 2013

An annual ratification of the arrival of spring since 1995, the Northampton Community Music Center’s Springfest finds hundreds of NCMC students and faculty taking to the streets of downtown Northampton for a day of public performances and festivities. … 0

Weekend planner — club

Friday, May 17, 2013

Sometimes called “The James Taylor of Scotland,” Dougie MacLean is known for his rich imagery, lyrical melodies and a folk style deeply rooted in his native heritage. “Caledonia,” his stirring ballad about the yearning evoked by separation from … 0

Dave Brubeck’s life, music celebrated

Monday, May 13, 2013

NEW YORK — A celebration of Dave Brubeck’s life and music turned into an ode to joy as family, friends and fans paid tribute to the groundbreaking pianist and composer who became the best known ambassador of jazz to the world. Brubeck died Dec. 5, a day before … 0

Lilly Lombard, of Northampton, rehearses with the Amandla Chorus April 23 at Temple Israel in Greenfield. JERREY ROBERTS

Amandla Chorus marks 25 years of singing for peace, justice, humanity

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

It’s not every chorus that has Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu joining them in song. But if you spend two and a half decades singing about peace, justice, freedom and the ties that bind us, chances are … 0

PHOTO COURTESY OF IHEG Bid Sandy

Tuned In

Thursday, May 9, 2013

When guitarist/vocalist Tom Pappalardo and drummer/vocalist Sturgis Cunningham join forces, they become The Demographic. Priding themselves on bull-free rock songs, the twosome can pummel their instruments with blunt force ... but even when they go “unplugged” and replace … 0

PHOTO BY JODY NICHOLAS Dan Richardson, center, on bass, performs with AstroBeast

Clubland: AstroBeast brings ‘music for dancing’ to The Elevens in Northampton

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Dan Richardson mans the mixing board with a huge grin, fine-tuning with faders and knobs while bopping around in the back of the room to the live music happening on stage. That sentence was accurate in 1994, the … 0

Advance bookings

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Advance bookings Penn & Teller — Sat., May 18, 8 p.m., Foxwoods. $20-$40. foxwoods.com Motley Crue — Sat., May 18, 8 p.m., Mohegan Sun. $59, $79. 888-777-7922, mohegansun.com Pitbull — Fri., May 24, 8 p.m., MassMutual Center, Springfield. … 0

Track record

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Mother Natalie Maines Columbia, $10.99 Natalie Maines’ first solo album continues her movement into a deeply considered, provocative form of polished adult rock heard on her last recording, the Dixie Chicks’ 2006 award-winning “Take the Long Way Home.” … 0

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