Time to swing: Jazz drummer and South Hadley native Joe Farnsworth returns to the Valley for a concert honoring his idol, Max Roach
By STEVE PFARRER Staff Writer Joe Farnsworth was 10 or 11 when he got the chance to meet a drumming legend: Max Roach. It was at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in 1979, where Roach taught. Farnsworth, who grew up in South Hadley, remembers how one of his...
Educators rising to remote learning challenges
In the meantime, local educators in the Pioneer Valley are interacting remotely with students on a daily basis and are concerned about issues such as equitable access to technology for students and how the pandemic will impact their schools in the future.
We needed unemployment reform years ago, and there’s a crisis now
This is a crisis that our unemployment system is ill equipped to handle.
Fred Cracklin’s ‘Anxiety Kinship’ — A Mad Science Experiment Gone Right
Anxiety Kinship is a mad science experiment of an album that creates its Frankenstein’s monster with equal parts horror, humor, and humanity.
The V-Spot: Polyamorous During a Pandemic
Between clients and friends, this topic of the unique COVID-19 snafus for folks with multiple partners has been a common one.
Fire Letters on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
This week’s Advocate Sessions performance is by synth duo Fire Letters, which combines synth pop with alternative rock influences.
Stagestruck: Ghost Lights in the Darkness
The coronavirus pandemic has hit the performing arts harder than many sectors, since physical proximity is the very nature of live performance – audiences sharing a real-time experience, with the artists onstage and each other. Many organizations, though, are finding creative ways of dealing with this sudden change, experimenting with new media and web-based work-arounds that act not only as placeholders for their live work but extend it, perhaps beyond the current crisis.
Staff Picks: Still social distancing
Still not much going on these days in terms of live performances, but there are a few if you know where to look. Here is a hybrid staff picks from the Advocate with a livestream concert, a weird movie, and a couple of TV shows to enjoy
Valley Show Girl: Pamela Means is All That Jazz
A few weeks ago, before this whole quarantine thing happened, I ventured over to downtown Greenfield to catch what would be my last show for quite a bit. I parked my car just in time to see two people pass my parking spot with medical face masks on. If only I knew...
Seeking Asylum in Western Mass: Part 3 of 3 — Supporting trans asylum seekers in the Valley
Transgender women Natty and Eva came to the United States in search of asylum because their identities made them targets of violence from gangs, police, and their nations’ governments.
Giving Migrants A Chance To Live Their True Identities
In this installment, Feldman spoke with those that are arguably among the most vulnerable people seeking asylum — transgender individuals.
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Valley Advocate Staff Picks: Opal Canyon album release, experimental music, and the Radical Interconnectedness Festival
Valley supergroup Opal Canyon are releasing their debut album, “Beauty and Loss,” this Friday at The Parlor Room.
Couple Seeking Toyfriend
Hi Yana, Straight guy here in a monogamous relationship. We’re looking to add some toys to our routine and would love to hear your opinions and suggestions on items that we could use together. We’ve been eyeballing the Oden 2 from Lelo [a vibrating, rechargeable,...
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Stagestruck: Not Throwin’ Away My Shot at “Hamilton”
What is there to say that you don’t already know about Hamilton, the game-changing musical that costs a bank loan to see on Broadway and is now on tour, where this month it’s at the Bushnell in Hartford for only an ATM max-out?
