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By ROSEMARY CAINE

The 2019 Green River Festival had Rhiannon Giddens as the headliner on the last Sunday afternoon.I was intrigued by her background: a banjo player, violinist and singer, an ethnomusicologist trained in opera at Oberlin College, a charming beauty and...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

HOLYOKE — Hundreds of thousands of people descended on Holyoke on a sunny but wind-chilled Sunday to either view or take part in the annual St. Patrick’s Parade, which began in 1952. The parade is one of the largest of its kind held in the...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

HOLYOKE — It’s that time of year again to get your Irish on for the annual Holyoke St. Patrick’s Day parade and road race this weekend.The celebrations on Saturday and Sunday are expected to draw thousands of people to the Paper City, first to run and...

By ROSEMARY CAINE

Naturally, things have changed a lot on St. Patrick’s Day since I landed here in 1972 with my trio, The Burren Flora. We were unprepared, entering into the fray of green employment, singing and performing the songs of our recently abdicated...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Tony Ryan has been many things over the past 50 years — a special education teacher, a youth soccer coach, a beekeeper, a marathon runner and a teacher of transcendental meditation.Now Ryan can add one more thing to his resume: parade...