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The virtual parlor room: Live-streamed shows organized by Signature Sounds net musicians $37,000

The virtual parlor room: Live-streamed shows organized by Signature Sounds net musicians $37,000

by Steve Pfarrer | Apr 30, 2020 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Music, News

Kris Delmhorst, holding an acoustic guitar in her lap, wore a hopeful smile as she sat recently in a room in her Shelburne Falls home and stared into a video camera. “I’m here,” she said. “Are you here? I think we’re here together, people … thank you for coming.” Like...
Valley Show Girl: Eavesdrop folk pop trio open up about their personal musical inspirations

Valley Show Girl: Eavesdrop folk pop trio open up about their personal musical inspirations

by Jennifer Levesque | Apr 22, 2020 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Music, Valley Show Girl

Pioneer Valley natives Kara Rose Wolf, Kerrie T. Bowden and Laura Marie Picchi are soul sisters. Their trio, Eavesdrop is musical proof. They combine three-part vocals with percussion and acoustic guitar into their style. A mixture of Americana, folk, pop and soul,...
Valley Show Girl: The Valley Needs Doc Westchesterson 

Valley Show Girl: The Valley Needs Doc Westchesterson 

by Jennifer Levesque | Apr 8, 2020 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Valley Show Girl

One day late last week I scrolled through Facebook to find memes to laugh at and maybe some new music to check out. I came across a video that three or more of my friends shared. “Oh yeah!” I got excited when I saw the preview image of the YouTube video of Agawam...
JJ Slater on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage

JJ Slater on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage

by Advocate Staff | Apr 3, 2020 | Advocate Sessions, Articles, Featured, Music

This week’s Advocate Sessions performer is singer-songwriter JJ Slater, who writes original music that blends together folk-rock and psychedelic pop with jazzy chord progressions. Interview with JJ Slater:
Fred Cracklin’s ‘Anxiety Kinship’ — A Mad Science Experiment Gone Right 

Fred Cracklin’s ‘Anxiety Kinship’ — A Mad Science Experiment Gone Right 

by Chris Goudreau | Apr 1, 2020 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Music, The CDs You Gave Me

Western Mass-based experimental/math rock duo Fred Cracklin takes its name from a live action character played by Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore in the 1990s animated science fiction comedy “Space Ghost Coast to Coast.” The series is set up as a surreal...
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