The Fabulous 413

We head into the weekend with a little music, a little beverage, and some extra care for our community.  The Green River Festival begins in just 2 weeks bringing artists from all over the globe to Greenfield for three days of incredible sounds and community. Oh and we’ll be there too. We speak with John Sanders of DSP shows and organizer of the whole affair about some of the musicians headed to Fr...

Sadly, a wide array of local organizations and non-profits that provide an equally wide amount of services to the people of Western Mass and beyond have lost grants and programs just like we did, and this is our chance to help them like you our listeners have helped us. 413 Gives is a one day four county wide effort to help fill the gap made for many organizations by recissions in federal funding,...

This Sunday you’ve got an opportunity to see a new film by a Hampshire alum that explores a very American problem in a very unique way. Our Hero, Balthazar addresses issues of control, connection, class inequities and the endemic of school shootings through the eyes of two young men with very different backgrounds and takes on those issues and we’ll speak with screenwriter Ricky Camelleri about th...

The Tumble Science Podcast for Kids is hosting their Joke-Ha-Thon fundraiser after a difficult year facing the repercussions of federal funding rescissions. This year’s chuckle marathon competition will lead into a new pivot for Tumble’s creative team and we talk with Marshall Escamilla and Lindsay Patterson about this change and how well Monte will do against the other competitors It’s the nation...

We’re exploring some of the hidden aspects of our communities.  Novelist Tom Perrotta ’s latest book Ghost Town is a look at the summer in a New Jersey town where the family of one young resident is forever changed, and how those experiences shape his future. We get into the specters and suburban spectacle within these pages before you can meet the author himself at Odyssey Bookshop Tuesday Night,...

It's a house party this weekend, y'all.  For the house, we have a conversation with newly appointed leader of the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities , secretary Juana Matias in the midst of her whirlwind Western Mass Tour, and get to ask about the ways the Baystate is helping it’s westernmost parts to weather the storm of our current housing crisis while learning how the office pi...

It’s the last days of Foster Care Awareness Month and right at the base of Mt. Tom there’s an innovative model that’s introducing a neighborhood of care for folx of all ages. The Treehouse Foundation has built a community in Easthampton that seeks to blend the lives of seniors, children in foster care, and their families in one vision of support and growth. We head to their community center to tal...

This weekend is the 20th anniversary of the Berkshire International Film Festival, celebrating on screens across the southern Berkshires and bringing filmmakers of all ages and from all over the globe to present their work over 4 days of showings, meetups and conversations. We speak with festival ex. director Kelly Vickery about the festival’s origins, and how it’s blossomed into this year’s lineu...

Today has double book action to fill up your bookshelves. And with interesting connections.  Storytelling as Healing is a presentation at the Northampton Center for the Arts that seeks to  center the power of storytelling, connection, and community in the movement to end domestic violence and support survivors. Featuring authors and readers of work that examines these experiences and situations, t...

We're psyched about the long weekend, so we’re leaning into the celebration aspect of our extra day off. And on this show it means engaging with one of our favorite agricultural products wine! Kate Norris is one of the winemakers at Division Wines , carefully crafting the grapes of the Pacific Northwest into reflections of both the Willamette Valley and surrounding areas, as well as her early year...

This weekend the 6th Odenong Powwow returns to Amherst Regional High School gathering folx of all walks and honoring the indigenous traditions and culture of the many tribes in our corner of turtle island. We speak with founder Justin Beatty about the lessons learned in all of his years of producing the event, and about the foods, folx and community that grows through celebrations like this.  In A...

Today is accidentally a twofer, because when you have one of the nation’s most renowned ornithologists living in your purview, and the birds have just come back to the area because it’s spring, that’s just too much perfect kismet to not lean into So we’re headed out to the hills along the Connecticut river to go birding with author and illustrator David Sibley , as well as NEPM President Matt Abra...

Today the fabulous 413 is about friendship, and literature.  We head to CitySpace in Easthampton where a brand new theater company is kicking its first production out of the nest. Legoland is an amazing coming of age story about the impact of change and teenage fixation between two siblings who find themselves on an incredible journey to restore imbalance. We speak with the founders and actors of...

We’re breaking open the old ways to impart a bit of depth, while also honoring several upcoming ends.  In Amherst you have a chance to see a lost classic restored to the silver screen. Queen Kelly was a film plagued by problems and a hemorrhaging budget that was a death knell for silent movies. Tonight, Milestone Films will show their restored version of the film at Amherst Cinema . We talk with c...

Today we head back in time to before America was America. In fact in this year of the nation’s sesquicentennial, we head one hundred years before that to an incident without which, the nation may not have been founded.  In 1676, Capt. William Turner lead troops to massacre the indigenous people encamped on the banks of the Connecticut river. That single act would domino to retaliation, erasure, an...

We have several reads for you, especially for your littles of whatever size and age they come in.  The R.I.S.E. Festival is currently in its second year, bringing authors, artists, musicians and more to Northampton High School to celebrate the written and illustrated word, as well as promote the wellness that the arts can instill in all of us. We speak with organizer Jarrett J Krosoczka about all...

If you didn’t get enough beautiful bee content yesterday, today is gonna melt your wax.  Because we're going to one of only two state apiaries here in Massachusetts, nestled into the far reaches of the UMass Amherst Campus now in it's 10 year of collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR).  We talk with beekeepers and researchers Kim Skyrm and Jessica Glover, d...

We are full of fiery passion, and bees Yesterday's show might have sparked your yen for equity and justice. In which case interlink books might just have the kindling for your acts of protest. "Don't Be a F#$king Marshmallow: A Beginners Guide to Revolution" is a new graphic essay from author-illustrator Jesse Mechanic about which he'll be in conversation with Leyla Moushabeck of Interlink Books t...

Today is a bit of a bummer if equality is a thing that you’re into (and hopefully you are), but the recent decisions by the supreme court might have you questioning if equality is a thing that America is actually into.  So we talk with Haydenville’s proverbial canary in our democracy coalmine, author and former editor at Slate Magazine , David Daley, who has now written two books outlining the pos...

The unsavory necessities of today means that a city full of people are ostensibly also filling their bodies with food which eventually becomes… other things that fill up toilets and that we don’t want to keep in our houses. But if not there, where does that go?  There’s actually several answers, but one of them sometimes affects the Connecticut River and your ability to go out on it and enjoy the...

In Haydenville, a microfarm is bringing colorful blooms to events and homes all over the baystate by doubling down on locally grown flowers. Flora Farm began with a much wider perspective, but has been focused on making their quarter acre of blossoms key to the floral needs of Western Mass and beyond. We talk with farmer Aspen Bey about the farm’s history, some of the challenges for younger farmer...

We’ve got a super fun extra rare Live Music Wednesday in store with Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band before they take the stage at the Iron Horse in Northampton tonight, May 6th . They’ve been sterling examples of virtuosity in finger-picking , slide guitar, and washboard across their many albums and singles, and we’ll get a taste of their award nominated sound and heritage holding instruments right he...

Today is all connected to the Berkshires In a new novel from Longmeadow native Vincent Yu , a small town and the base of the westerly mountains is rocked by a sudden alert about their imminent demise. What follows is the subject of the novel Seek Immediate Shelter , which highlights several Asian-American citizens of the fictional town of "Beckitt" and their connections to this mistake. We speak w...

Red Shirt Farm is a prodigal agricultural endeavor, but is innovating with vigor. Not only are they using green methods to heat their greenhouses, but a brand new farmstore is helping them to provide fresh produce and local products to folx in the northern and central berkshires. We speak with Farmers Jim and Sarah with Berkshire Agricultural Venture’s Dan Carr about the story of the farm and more...

It’s Free Comic Book Day! Started 24 years ago, shops and libraries around the country have given away millions of issues in the ensuing years. We chat with Xtian Reader of Comics ‘N More in Easthampton about how they’re celebrating this year, and the community connections this day brings The Adams Theater will showcase the work of artists who are looking at grief and connection through the lens o...