Laura Wetzler has made her living for years as a musician: a singer-songwriter who performs both her own songs and a wide range of other music...
As his first marriage was failing, Bruce Springsteen released his 1987 album “Tunnel of Love,” a record full of introspective, mostly self-produced...
About five years ago, Carrie Ferguson took a batch of new songs to a studio in Amherst to begin the process of recording her next album. The...
A good number of musicians, hunkered down at home for much of the past year during the pandemic, have used that enforced isolation to write and...
AMHERST — Arden Lloyd first starting taking piano lessons when she was 8 at the behest of her parents. It wasn’t something she particularly...
Pamela Means has long made her name as a songwriter and song interpreter, a powerful singer and an evocative guitarist, whether performing jazz...
As a teenager growing up in Northampton, Stefan Alexander started an unusual collection: 78 RPM records, the old-fashioned, grooved discs on which...
Singer-songwriter Kimaya Diggs of Easthampton released her first album, “Breastfed,” last year, a disc that features dreamy folk- and jazz-flavored...
Like other artists who have been drawn to the Valley’s pastoral landscapes, Izzy Heltai finds musical inspiration in the hills, forests and fields...
Singer-songwriters don’t have the easiest gig. Every night they have to get up in front of an audience and entertain with music and conversation...
Singer-songwriter Lucy Kaplansky has released nine solo albums since her first record of the early 1990s. But on her first album in six years...