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By STEVE PFARRER

It might seem that every conceivable angle of studying Emily Dickinson has been covered, and in just about every format: biographies, academic studies, poetry analysis, novels, movies, even TV shows.Yet the famed Amherst poet always seems to inspire a...

By STEVE PFARRER

NORTHAMPTON — In 2012, Signature Sounds, the acoustic music record label, set up shop in Northampton after Jim Olsen, the label’s president, had largely run the business from the basement of his home in Whately for 17 years.Taking over a former...

By BERA DUNAU

WILLIAMSBURG — Town residents will be able to get an update on the Mill River Greenway project and provide feedback on it and adjacent projects at a community forum on Sunday at the Town Offices in Haydenville.The event will take place from 2 to 4...

By RICHIE DAVIS

GREENFIELD — The Pioneer Valley Symphony has begun its search for a new music director and conductor to replace Paul Phillips, who has led the community symphony for 23 years. He has been named to a new position at Stanford University in...

By STEVE PFARRER

 Carol Neubert took piano lessons for several years when she was growing up, learned to read music and figured out how to play the instrument — to a degree.“My right hand can play the piano well, and my left hand plays well, but they do not play well...

By EMILY CUTTS

SOUTH HADLEY — Berkshire Hills Music Academy hosts 140 music lessons a week. That’s 28 a day, all done in four hours. That’s a lot for five practice rooms.With the ribbon-cutting of the new Bernon Music Center on the school’s campus Thursday...

“Give the gift of music” a popular ad campaign in the early 1980s suggested, but in the Valley, especially during this holiday season, music does its own giving, with local bands teaming up to raise money for those in need.Each year around this time...

Let me guess: you are not a professional rapper. But do you wish you could jump onstage sometimes, and try to rhyme, just for fun? Maybe you once wrote some creative, heartfelt or totally silly lines on paper and then shrugged and shoved them into a...

It began with three friends. Mild-mannered, maybe. Until the curly-haired one got behind the drums and let loose like a cross between Keith Moon and Ronnie Tutt. And the quiet tall one grabbed a bass and struck a tough, wry pose and kept the rhythm...

At Hope & FeathersThe sixth annual “Small Works” show at Hope and Feathers Framing, 319 Main St. in Amherst, will be up through Jan. 14. The show features dozens of works by local artists in all mediums, including photography, paintings, illustration...

By STEPHANIE MURRAY

NORTHAMPTON — Joel Turcotte of Holyoke has played the drums in the downtown area before, but Saturday was a first. He wore a mask of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.But don’t call Turcotte a Trump fan. At his feet was a sign that revealed...