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By STEVE PFARRER

As John Montanari sees it, the classical music field these days is awash with talent, full of artists who “are so smart, flexible and just damned good that they can pull off virtually anything,” as he noted in a recent email.Montanari, the artistic...

By STEVE PFARRER

In late 2020, Valley music fans were disheartened to hear that Gateway City Arts, the multi-arts venue in Holyoke, was shutting it doors because of lost business during the first year of the pandemic.But the outlook brightened in April 2021, when...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — The Cottage Street Cultural District was awarded a $15,000 investment grant through the Massachusetts Cultural Council, one of 50 state-designated cultural districts statewide to receive a total of $750,000 in grants. “A decade ago, our...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — After a little over a year in operation, a city arts nonprofit organization is expanding and relocating to a bigger space.Resilient Community Arts, which has made it its mission to sustain collective efforts for social progress and...

By Chad Cain

HOLYOKE — The ambitious, $61 million effort to reopen the Broadway-style Victory Theatre moved $2 million closer to becoming reality this week after the city made a significant commitment of American Rescue Plan Act money for the project in its...

By STEVE PFARRER

It might seem that every conceivable angle of studying Emily Dickinson has been covered, and in just about every format: biographies, academic studies, poetry analysis, novels, movies, even TV shows.Yet the famed Amherst poet always seems to inspire a...

By STEVE PFARRER

NORTHAMPTON — The Back Porch Festival, Signature Sounds’ late-winter showcase for American roots music, is poised to return in 2023 — in a much bigger format.Incorporating elements of First Night Northampton, the Back Porch Festival will expand to...

By STEVE PFARRER

In the early 1900s, few young American women were allowed to go about unchaperoned. Fewer still would likely have been permitted to attend college on their own, almost 500 miles from home, and at the tender age of 16.But the painter and printmaker...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

SOUTH HADLEY — The Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Public Charter School is looking for a new director after trustees voted Monday to fire head of school George Simpson. The board’s decision comes a month after Reading police arrested Simpson on...

By AMANDA DRANE

NORTHAMPTON — A perhaps unexpected byproduct of last week’s culinary training program for middle schoolers came when Chef Nelson Lacey realized how unanimously memorable cleaning the kitchen floor was for campers.“Out of everything we do, they like...

By JACK SUNTRUP

SOUTH HADLEY — After months of controversy surrounding its head of school, a South Hadley charter school welcomed a new leader earlier this month.George E. Simpson, 45, started July 3 as head of the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Public Charter...

By AMANDA DRANE

NORTHAMPTON — Artists of many kinds graduating from the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts charter school took a final bow as a student body on Thursday.From violin trios to knockout vocals, the 60 students graduating from the South Hadley high school...

The trustees of the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Public Charter School in South Hadley must act quickly to end the turmoil resulting from a controversy about the performance of school head Scott Goldman that erupted earlier this month.We hope that a...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

SOUTH HADLEY — Trustees for the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter School on Friday agreed to hire a law firm to investigate grievances filed against head of school Scott Goldman.The board also unanimously voted to keep Goldman on paid...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

SPRINGFIELD — A former conductor and music director of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra who lived for a time in Hampshire County died unexpectedly this week while conducting a tour in Moldova.Robert Gutter, 79, died while traveling and teaching...

By JACK SUNTRUP

HATFIELD — One of the producers of the Hatfield Public Schools’ production of the musical “Grease” promises an “electrifying” experience.“The kids are phenomenal. ‘Grease’ is just a fun show for kids to do,” Randi Poirier said. “It’s downright...

THIS CAUGHT MY EYE ... So. It’s winter. A time of howling winds and falling snow (and let’s face it, ice, sleet and freezing rain, because we ARE in New England). Yay? If you’re a winter-weather sissy like me, it’s a perfect time to head indoors to...

By LUIS FIELDMAN Eric Bennett’s friends called him “Noodles” when he was a kid, because he had long, curly hair. Now Bennett, a Northampton children’s book author, says he’s found a new use for that nickname — as the name for a character in two...

Let me guess: you are not a professional rapper. But do you wish you could jump onstage sometimes, and try to rhyme, just for fun? Maybe you once wrote some creative, heartfelt or totally silly lines on paper and then shrugged and shoved them into a...

At Hope & FeathersThe sixth annual “Small Works” show at Hope and Feathers Framing, 319 Main St. in Amherst, will be up through Jan. 14. The show features dozens of works by local artists in all mediums, including photography, paintings, illustration...