The Campbell Brothers present Sacred Steel: African-American gospel music with electric steel guitar and vocal. As the music moves from sanctuary to concert hall, including the Hollywood Bowl, the Kennedy Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music and Symphony Space. With Gospel and Soul, enjoy a combined experience of inviting spirituality and electric expression. Suitable for all audiences, appreciate a performance both devoted and rocking.

Doors at 7:00pm, Music starts at 8pm.

Premier tickets are $30 in advance, $35 at the door.

General Admission tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door.

Find tickets HERE.

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The Black History Month series is sponsored by Ruthie Oland Real Estate, Davis Financial, and Living in the Light of Rare Diseases, and is co-presented with the David Ruggles Center.

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We are committed to keeping everyone safe and feeling comfortable. We will be following the latest local, state, and CDC guidelines. All attendees will be required to show proof of vaccination or negative covid test result within 72 hours of the performance and wear a face covering for the duration of the event. Please review our current covid policies before you arrive.

Big Lazy and Mamie Minch — two underground bands from the Brooklyn Barbés scene —  share a vibe if not a genre. Big Lazy is completely instrumental, self-described as “crime jazz & highway twang”, while Mamie is an acoustic blues crooner, singer-songwriter, and dogged feminist. But they’re both slightly punk, very DIY, and fiercely independent — the atmosphere is retro; a bit old-fashioned in a noble sort of way; the music has one foot in the present and the other in the past, sometime back before people sat around all day staring at smartphones. 

And the two bands are friends, which makes this double-bill a sweet and intimate occasion for them both to share some songs with you from their respective songbooks — music from across the American landscape of blues & jazz & twang, from inside the crowded bellies of cities and out on the loneliest of country roads. 

Each band will play a full set — their first times back in the Valley since their performances in the Grove Stage at Barbès in the Woods.

Doors at 6:00pm, Music starts at 7pm ET.

Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door.

Find tickets HERE.

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We are committed to keeping everyone safe and feeling comfortable. We will be following the latest local, state, and CDC guidelines. All attendees will be required to show proof of vaccination or negative COVID test result within 72 hours of the performance and wear a face covering for the duration of the event. Please review our current COVID policies before you arrive.

Magos Herrera and her jazz quartet – joined by a string quartet drawn from members of the orchestral collective The Knights – will present REMANSO, a musical scrapbook Herrera composed during COVID-19 isolation. “Remanso” can be translated in English to mean “backwater,” a remote or isolated place. The word can also describe the flow of a river that runs slowly or stops.

For the last two years, as a result of the global pandemic, humanity has experienced a pause - resulting in feelings of loss and grief. This cessation of activity has created a space to reflect on the unconscious inertia of daily life, mindsets of constant anticipation, and separation from what is essential to us as individuals and as societies.

For Herrera, this time was an opportunity to initiate a personal pilgrimage, to ground her voice where it belongs, to continue nurturing a musical path filled with purpose, and an invitation to create a conscious, truer connection with the world.

The program will include new arrangements commissioned by Americas Society, songs included in the 2020 album Con Alma, and new original music written by Herrera with support from a Chamber Music Americas New Jazz Works grant.

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New York-based Grammy-nominated Mexican singer and composer Magos Herrera is one of the most expressive, beautiful voices in the contemporary Latin American jazz scene. Herrera is best known for her eloquent vocal improvisation and her bold style, which fuses elements of contemporary jazz with Latin American melodies and rhythms. In her return to live performances she will be joined by her Trio composed of Vinícius Gomes on guitar, Sam Minaie on bass, and Alex Kautz on drums. Magos will also be joined on stage by a string quartet composed of members of The Knights (Alex Fortes and Yaira Matyakubova on violin, Mario Gotoh on viola, and Caitlin Sullivan on cello).

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Doors at 6:00pm, Music starts at 7pm.

Premier tickets are $30 in advance, $35 at the door.

General Admission tickets are $35 in advance, $40 at the door.

Find tickets HERE.

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We are committed to keeping everyone safe and feeling comfortable. We will be following the latest local, state, and CDC guidelines. All attendees will be required to show proof of vaccination or negative covid test result within 72 hours of the performance and wear a face covering for the duration of the event. Please review our current covid policies before you arrive.

Join us for a guided tour as we explore the rich activist history of Florence. Walk the African-American history trail and discover Sojourner Truth’s house, abolitionist landmarks, and the site of the 19th-century utopian community, the Northampton Association of Industry and Education. Our friends at the David Ruggles Center will explain what brought a progressive, innovative group of people to Florence in the 19th century and how they influenced the village’s development.

After the walk, we’ll come inside for hot cocoa and then award-winning pianist and composer Mark G. Meadows will screen his recent short documentary, But Don’t Believe Them. In this 23-minute docu-concert, Meadows, a black bi-cultural jazz musician, speaks about the Black Lives Matter movement, using interview footage and musical performance to awaken people to the need for equality for black people living in this country. The screening will be followed by a talkback session with Meadows, vocalist Rochelle Rice (Sweet Honey in the Rock), and local experts.

Timeline:

1:30PM - Doors open

2PM - David Ruggles Center Walking Tour

3PM - Hot chocolate and conversation

3:30PM - Film Screening: But Don't Believe Them

4-5PM - Conversation with Mark + Rochelle + panelists

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Tickets are FREE.

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The Black History Month series is sponsored by Ruthie Oland Real Estate, Davis Financial, and Living in the Light of Rare Diseases, and is co-presented with the David Ruggles Center.

This program is also supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

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We are committed to keeping everyone safe and feeling comfortable. We will be following the latest local, state, and CDC guidelines. All attendees will be required to show proof of vaccination or negative covid test result within 72 hours of the performance and wear a face covering for the duration of the event. Please review our current covid policies before you arrive.

Under the Pines: A Celebration of the Black Experience | Concert

Under the Pines: A Celebration of the Black Experience is a multi-day arts and culture festival led by Pianist and Broadway Music Director Mark G. Meadows showcasing black entertainers and thinkers. Under The Pines’ carefully curated programming will include the screening of Meadows’ recent documentary "But Don't Believe Them" followed by a Q&A session. This segment of Under the Pines will culminate in a special performance by Mark G. Meadows and Rochelle Rice.

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Doors at 7:00pm, Music starts at 8pm.

Premier tickets are $30 in advance, $35 at the door.

General Admission tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door.

Find tickets HERE.

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The Black History Month series is sponsored by Ruthie Oland Real Estate, Davis Financial, and Living in the Light of Rare Diseases, and is co-presented with the David Ruggles Center.

This program is also supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

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We are committed to keeping everyone safe and feeling comfortable. We will be following the latest local, state, and CDC guidelines. All attendees will be required to show proof of vaccination or negative covid test result within 72 hours of the performance and wear a face covering for the duration of the event. Please review our current covid policies before you arrive.

Described as “Simply Brilliant” by The Guardian Newspaper, join us for a rich and soulful evening with Dervish. Carrying their Irish history with them across every stage, Dervish is long-established as one of the biggest names in Irish music internationally. They’re renowned for live performances, which match dazzling sets of tunes with stunning interpretations of traditional songs.  Their studio and live albums – 13 to date – make up one of the outstanding catalogs in Irish music.

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Doors at 6:00pm, Music starts at 7pm.

Premier tickets are $30 in advance, $35 at the door.

General Admission tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door.

Find tickets HERE.

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We are committed to keeping everyone safe and feeling comfortable. We will be following the latest local, state, and CDC guidelines. All attendees will be required to show proof of vaccination or negative covid test result within 72 hours of the performance and wear a face covering for the duration of the event. Please review our current covid policies before you arrive.

Start the first month of the year with an evening of soaring melodies and dancing dulcimer trills, layered and lapping into each other like ocean waves, because you’re in the hands of master musicians. And BOMBYX is the perfect listening room for this broadly improvisational and uplifting music.

Lauded as the “Jimi Hendrix of Hammered Dulcimer” by NPR, Max ZT is an innovator of the instrument. Taking his roots from Irish folk music, Max has transplanted his compositional techniques to both Senegal, where he studied the Mandinko technique with the Cissoko griot family, and to India, where he received a grant to study under the santoor master Pandit Shivkumar Sharma. His fresh perspective and bold experimentalism have been the backbone to beautiful, complex, and genuine compositions, while his unorthodox playing style has been a pioneering force in revolutionizing dulcimer techniques.

When Max met Six-stringed bassist Moto Fukushima, House of Waters was born. The two musicians and their instruments in dialogue sound like two essential elements — earth and air — picking up some centuries-old conversation and swirling it around for us to hear.  Moto has performed with Joe Lovano, Mike Stern, and Dave Weckl and has a strong background in jazz improvisation, Western classical music and the African inspired music of South America.

Joining them on drums is Florence local Richie Barshay of the Klezmatics, who has notched sessions and recorded with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and Esperanza Spalding.

Doors at 7:00pm, Music starts at 8pm.

Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door.

Find tickets HERE.

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We are committed to keeping everyone safe and feeling comfortable. We will be following the latest local, state, and CDC guidelines. All attendees will be required to show proof of vaccination or negative covid test result within 72 hours of the performance and wear a face covering for the duration of the event. Please review our current covid policies before you arrive.

We're pleased to welcome Valley Classical Concerts to BOMBYX for a series of spring performances.

The Lysander Piano Trio has been praised by The Strad for its “incredible ensemble, passionate playing, articulate and imaginative ideas and wide palette of colors” and by The Washington Post for “an uncommon degree of heart-on-the-sleeve emotional frankness” and “vivid engagement carried by soaring, ripely Romantic playing.” Beyond these qualities, the group has developed a reputation for exciting programming, combining fresh interpretations of beloved master works from the canon with a passion for new music and discovering hidden gems of the repertoire. Let us take you on a journey of melodic creativity filled with an exhilarating exploration of music. An evening with the Lysander Piano Trio is one you won’t want to miss.

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Doors at 2:00pm, Music starts at 3pm.

Adult tickets are $35.

Student tickets (with valid ID) are $10.

Child (under 18) tickets are $10.

Find tickets HERE.

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We are committed to keeping everyone safe and feeling comfortable. We will be following the latest local, state, and CDC guidelines. All attendees will be required to show proof of vaccination or negative covid test result within 72 hours of the performance and wear a face covering for the duration of the event. Please review our current covid policies before you arrive.

Louisiana slide guitar icon Sonny Landreth latest album, Blacktop Run, follows his previous Grammy nominated album 'Recorded Live In Lafayette' (2017) and his back to back Blues Music Awards for Best Guitarist and Best Blues Album for 'Bound by the Blues' (2015).

His groundbreaking work has long mixed familiarity with experimentation, and his latest ten song collection stretches from hard edged electric instrumentals to wistful acoustic ballads. The project's range is the fruit of a renewed collaboration. Producer RS Field who helmed Landreth's trio of breakout albums joined the six stringer and co producer Tony Daigle to finish the record.

'His brilliance and creative energy recharged us,' Landreth said of reuniting with Field. Most of the tracks were recorded live at famed Dockside Studios on the Vermilion River south of Lafayette, LA. 'We came up with new and better ideas, and that's what you want,' he added. It couldn't have gone better.'

After two Grammy nominations, multiple appearances at Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival and wide ranging acclaim from fellow players and fans worldwide, Landreth is looking forward to playing the new material live. 'It's all about telling the story,' Landreth says, 'and as long as I can find my way up that path, I'm all in.' As the songwriter's narrator sings in the title number of Blacktop Run, 'A new day is dawning and I have never felt so alive.'

Doors at 7:00pm, Music starts at 8pm.

Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 at the door.

Find tickets HERE.

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We are committed to keeping everyone safe and feeling comfortable. We will be following the latest local, state, and CDC guidelines. All attendees will be required to show proof of vaccination or negative covid test result within 72 hours of the performance and wear a face covering for the duration of the event. Please review our current covid policies before you arrive.

Afro, Indigenous, Colombian, Canadian, punk, folklorist, traditionalist, transgressive, diva, angel.

There are so many layers to Canadian-Colombian singer Lido Pimienta’s identity that you might get lost in them. But if you did, you’d be missing the point. Her multi-textural, mind-bending voice and music project what Canada’s The Globe and Mail called her “bold, brash, polarizing” persona, which constantly confronts the powers that be. But it also reveals an embrace of the Afro- and Indigenous traditions that is at once defiant, delicate and sweetly nostalgic.

This rare double-bill also features COMBO CHIMBITA, whose front-woman Carolina Oliveras is a different kind of powerhouse entirely. The band’s tropical futurism embraces folkloric mystique, otherworldly psychedelia, and a dash of enigmatic punk, catapulting the audience into the sacred knowledge of our ancestors and into the future.

Carolina Oliveros’ presence dominates, with mesmeric contralto, illuminating storytelling and fierce guacharaca rhythms. And with Prince of Queens’ hypnotic synth stabs and grooving bass lines, Niño Lento’s imaginative guitar licks, and Dilemastronauta’s powerful drumming, the spell is complete. The experience is total, otherworldly, and transcendent.

It may well be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to catch all of this Afro-Colombian Futurist royalty sharing the stage in a single night. 

Doors at 7:00pm, Music starts at 8pm.

Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door.

Find tickets HERE.

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We are committed to keeping everyone safe and feeling comfortable. We will be following the latest local, state, and CDC guidelines. All attendees will be required to show proof of vaccination or negative covid test result within 72 hours of the performance and wear a face covering for the duration of the event. Please review our current covid policies before you arrive.

Club d’Elf is a jam/groove supergroup with wide-ranging styles and influences: Moroccan trance; electric-70s era Miles Davis; the prog-rock masterworks of Frank Zappa; hip-hop turntable jams a la DJ Logic; and global dub reminiscent of Bill Laswell’s work. Their live performances, led by bassist/sintir player Mike Rivard, are legendary improv sessions where anything can happen.

On this Spring run through Western Mass, Club d’Elf is joined by the one and only John Medeski (of Medeski, Martin & Wood) on grand piano and a range of vintage analog keyboards. Medeski, among other things, is a skilled bluesman and finds a perfect niche in the group as they explore the true roots of the blues in the psychedelic desert landscapes of North Africa.

Under the tutelage of member Brahim Fribgane, the band skillfully incorporates gnawa (Moroccan trance) to the mix. Audiences of all persuasions are drawn to Fribgane’s mesmerizing oud stylings and Rivard’s commanding playing of the Moroccan sintir, a 3 string bass lute used by the Gnawa people of Morocco. Derived from such ancient sources as these, trance forms the central core of the Club d’Elf aesthetic, unifying all of the various genres the band has absorbed.

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Doors at 7:00pm, Music starts at 8pm.

Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door.

Find tickets HERE.

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We are committed to keeping everyone safe and feeling comfortable. We will be following the latest local, state, and CDC guidelines. All attendees will be required to show proof of vaccination or negative covid test result within 72 hours of the performance and wear a face covering for the duration of the event. Please review our current covid policies before you arrive.

We're pleased to welcome Valley Classical Concerts to BOMBYX for a series of spring performances.

Reflecting the diversity of Apple Hill, many of the Apple Hill String Quartet’s concert programs include pieces amplifying new voices, views, and backgrounds in classical music and compositions from places representing the Quartet’s global travels and the summer workshop community. Join us for an incredible performance filled with music from the historic canon and new commissions. Joining the Apple Hill String Quartet for this performance is Judith Gordon.

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Doors at 2:00pm, Music starts at 3pm.

Adult tickets are $35.

Student tickets (with valid ID) are $10.

Child (under 18) tickets are $10.

Find tickets HERE.

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We are committed to keeping everyone safe and feeling comfortable. We will be following the latest local, state, and CDC guidelines. All attendees will be required to show proof of vaccination or negative covid test result within 72 hours of the performance and wear a face covering for the duration of the event. Please review our current covid policies before you arrive.