by Hunter Styles | Aug 29, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Newsletter
Food and Family, A Stone’s Throw Away Community is everything at the Stone Soul Festival in Springfield, a celebration that began in 1989 as a Mason Square neighborhood picnic. Since then, it’s evolved into a three-day event that its organizers claim is New England’s...
by Hunter Styles | Aug 29, 2016 | Articles, Newsletter
Pork it Over Don’t sit around and do nothing on Labor Day weekend — give your stomach (and heart, and arteries) some love to labor over. The Student Prince hosts a two-day pig roast and barbecue with pig-inspired food, bacon-infused drinks, games, and live...
by Hunter Styles | Aug 29, 2016 | Articles, Arts
Roots Reggae Returns Everton Blender was one of the most prominent reggae musicians and producers in Jamaica in the ’90s, and his smooth tenor, up-tempo arrangements, and spiritually uplifting themes still resonate in 2016 at the crossroads of roots reggae and...
by Hunter Styles | Aug 29, 2016 | Articles, Arts
Scratching the Surface Greenfield artist and educator Karen Gaudette was trained as a printmaker, but she has always loved to draw. Scratchboard, it turns out, provides the perfect meeting point. For 20 years now, Gaudette has used the technique to achieve fine-line...
by Hunter Styles | Aug 22, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Music, Newsletter
Out Standing in Their Fields For 26 years now, the Advocate has awarded high marks to all of those Valley musicians willing to pack their muscle, humor, skill, and silly costume pieces out into the beautiful, grassy Look Park every year for Transperformance, the...