Music

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The Diamond Collection

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

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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

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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