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1 week ago | 
amherstbulletin.com | Carolyn Brown
Linda Shear plays the piano at home in Easthampton. She will play a benefit show for Straw Dog Writers Guild on Saturday, May 31, at 4 p.m. at Northampton Center for the Arts. STAFF PHOTO / DANIEL JACOBI II— “There is something that happens in [a concert venue] that is like nothing else I ever experienced,” singer-songwriter Linda Shear says.
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3 weeks ago | 
gazettenet.com | Carolyn Brown
After 65 years playing and directing church music, 17 of those as First Church Amherst minister of music, Dick Matteson is ready to celebrate his legacy with the Pioneer Valley. He plans to retire next month, and a farewell concert will be held this Saturday, May 17, at 2 p.m. Matteson grew up in an Episcopalian church-going home in Cohasset; his mother played the piano and violin, and, as a young child, he liked to play his family’s piano.
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newjerseystage.com | Carolyn Brown
?> By Carolyn M. Brown, JerseyArts.com originally published: 05/15/2025Characterized as a trivial comedy for serious people, "The Importance of Being Earnest" kicks off the 2025 season of The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey at The F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre on the campus of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. The production runs from May 14 through June 1, 2025. Director Brian B.
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1 month ago | 
gazettenet.com | Carolyn Brown
Co-owners, from left, Sage Territo, Jackie Matellian and Asa Rosario at Last Ditch in Greenfield. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ Co-owners, from left, Jackie Matellian, Sage Territo and Asa Rosario at Last Ditch in Greenfield.
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1 month ago | 
amherstbulletin.com | Carolyn Brown
A recording artist is connecting her family’s western Massachusetts roots to her new album. Lady Pills, the solo indie pop/alt-rock project of multi-instrumentalist Ella Boissonnault, released the album “Renowned in the Roaring Twenties” on April 4.
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1 month ago | 
newjerseystage.com | Carolyn Brown
?> By Carolyn M. Brown, JerseyArts.com originally published: 04/10/2025The South Jersey Arts Fest is an annual celebration of the arts and local artists of South Jersey, featuring live music, craft vendors, food trucks, artmaking, culinary artists, and beer, wine, and spirits by local producers. People of all ages are welcome to attend this free event hosted by the Appel Farm Arts & Music Center on Saturday, April 26, from 11 AM to 3 PM, in Elmer, New Jersey.
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1 month ago | 
amherstbulletin.com | Carolyn Brown
Rick Colson, the founder of Human Scale Art Space, poses for a photo in Northampton. Human Scale Art Space is a relatively new nonprofit that aims to promote and provide education about the arts, especially the visual arts, in the Pioneer Valley.
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2 months ago | 
amherstbulletin.com | Carolyn Brown
Home News Opinion Sports Arts & Life Obituaries Classifieds Calendar The cast of Montague Shakespeare Festival’s “Macbeth” rehearsing in Turners Falls last week. The production will run the weekends of March 28-30 and April 4-6 at Shea Theater in Turners Falls.
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2 months ago | 
newjerseystage.com | Carolyn Brown
?> By Carolyn M. Brown, JerseyArts.com originally published: 03/27/2025The playful world of wizardry and witchcraft takes to the stage at Stockton University with a presentation of the play "Puffs, Or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years At A Certain School of Magic and Magic." Performances run April 3–5, 2025, at 7:30 PM and April 5–6 at 2 PM in the Experimental Theater below the Performing Arts Center.
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2 months ago | 
recorder.com | Carolyn Brown
Cast members in Montague Shakespeare Festival’s 2024 production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Shea Theater in Turners Falls. PHOTO BY KENNY BUTLER The cast of Montague Shakespeare Festival’s “Macbeth” rehearsing in Turners Falls last week. The production will run the weekends of March 28 to 30 and April 4 to 6 at Shea Theater in Turners Falls.
