The Fabulous 413

We're exploring the gift of generosity today.  It's in the well loved libretto and words re-imagined through a more American Lens. Electric Root's show "The Sound of (Black) Music" which takes the classic Rodgers & Hammerstein musical and gives it a pan-diasporic glow up, and it's latest tour brings the ensemble to Amherst on Dec. 8th, so we meet with Electric Root founder Jono Gasparro, music...

oh gosh we blinked and it's December! Some of us got snow over the past week and some of us were not so lucky  And some of us are not so lucky as to be able to heat our houses in the colder months we speak with Jess Thompson and Claire Higgins from Community Action Pioneer Valley about the Heat Up/Fuel Up campaign helping our neighbors to stay warm and more as the temperatures dip and the dark cre...

Tomorrow is a holiday for some, but for many in the indigenous and first nation communities across the commonwealth and the continent, it is instead The Day of Mourning.  So we are expanding our awareness of indigenous culture and history through art and Education. Boundless is a collection of indigenous work presented through the Mead Art Museum in four stages. The third of those, a k-12 digital...

The March for the food bank continues traversing 6 towns and 2 counties as Monte Belmonte leads a coterie from Northampton to Greenfield. A new costume awaits, and more places that feel the impact of all the food bank is able to provide to Western Massachusetts. We’ll hear from folx along the way from all walks and needs of life including State Representatives, city and county officials,  those on...

Today on the Fabulous 413, The March for the Food Bank 15 begins.  We’ll check in with Monte and the Marchers as they walk 17 miles from Mason Square in the heart of one of Springfield’s biggest food deserts through Hampden County to Northampton on the first leg of the effort. The event not only helps the only food bank west of Worcester to do what it does, but intends to raise more awareness abou...

We head to the Berkshires, where literal hundred of high school kids are immersing themselves in the bard. The Fall Festival of Shakespeare has just opened, and we’ll speak with some of the folx involved about the beginnings of the festival over 3 decades ago, the lessons that theater can teach, and more with Education Programs Manager Meg Marchione and Director of Education Kevin Coleman And we’l...

We’re addressing a couple of proverbial elephants in our democracy and bringing your kids with us so we can all learn together.  With season one of their podcast wrapped, opening a collaborative art exhibit at Mead Art Museum , and the impending repercussions of the recent election, the folx at EmbraceRace are having a busy year. We sit with organization founders, directors, and podcast hosts Meli...

Today is about copious amounts of art we can engage. We’ll head to the Hilltowns to an art enclave that’s been teaching craft for 3 decades. We’re smack dab in the middle of Snow Farm’s seconds sale and we’ll get a tour of their amazing grounds and anachronistically impeccable wares with Neal Bastek, Laura Stadtlander, and Keely Quirk and hear how you and maybe that art loving teen in your life ca...

We are re-arranging the way we look at the world: through the eyes of youth, the tales of history, and the roots that get put down.  We head to Smith College, where a class of 12 from all five of the colleges in the consortium have contributed to the exhibit Signs of solastalgia, which deals with each of the artist’s interaction with climate grief. We speak with a trio of the student contributors...

We are sorta playing 6 degrees of the Food Bank of Western Mass (although you’ll only need 2 for the furthest connection, honestly). So we head to the Easthampton Community Center to speak with the folx feeding "Whoville" at one of the largest and most expansive food pantries in the area. As they give out turkeys for this year's holidays, we get the full scope of the center’s operations by chattin...

Today we're making interesting brushes with history.  This Saturday at the Great Falls Discovery Center in Turners (Great) Falls, the Nolumbeka Project having a Beaver Moon gathering featuring author Angela Marcellino. Her book "The True Natives of Cape Cod and Their Foodways" explores her own history alongside that of the Mashpee Wanpanoag peoples who have resided in the area for millenia. We tal...

Today on the Fabulous 413, we’re speaking is a gaggle of folx who are actively being the change they’d like to see in the world.  Because book banning is hitting a little extra close to home this year, we’ll chat with writer and director John Tedeschi, whose short film “A Book By Their Cover" is getting a screening at the Triplex in Great Barrington tonight, Nov. 14th. The work’s core story is rip...

If you are still wondering how did we get here, we’re about to speak with a group of students that have been covering it for NEPM. We speak with the group that made up The Latino Election Project . High School students Evanni Santos, Halima Mohamed, and Ian Burger have been examining the national political landscape through a local lens this Autumn, guided by Julio Varelas of The Latino Newsletter...

Today we're seeking food for the body and soul as we head to where the internet fears to tread, and to where our region’s hunger needs are greatest In Ashfield, a project exploring the life of artist Leonora Carrington is shifting and expanding for a new location and audience. Double Edge Theater’s current production “Leonora: La Maga y la maestra” takes a look at the surrealist artist’s life thro...

Are we still reeling from last week? Yes Are we still looking for ways we can affect change here to bolster community for whatever may come? Also yes.  So we’re headed to Greenfield to take a tour of Stone Soup Cafe. The organization is multi-faceted in it’s approach to combating hunger and building community, so we’ll explore the kitchens and programs under the All Souls Church with director Kirs...

We’re bringing you lots of things that might make you feel a little better.  With the uplifting and resonant songs of Jake Klar for Live Music Friday, and we’ll learn about the movie he’s in and the famous gardener who once lived in his house before you can catch him this evening at the Dream Away Lodge in Beckett.  And a well loved work making its way to the stage in updated context. The Valley L...

Alright, we’ve had a day to process, Now it’s time to look at what the landscape is and see where the changes we need can be made, and get prepared to make them So today on the Fabulous 413, we’re speaking with the director of a new documentary that takes a very a la minute look at the issues concerning book bans, with a focus on three teens in South Carolina who approach the issue head on. We Cha...

Everyone is reeling a bit because, WHOA. So welcome to oasis part deux, so to speak. A tiny bubble outside of the goings on if it’s overwhelming for you because everything is a lot right now.  We'll go adjacent to the election with Julio Ricardo Varelas of the Latino Newsletter, who’s been working with the students in Media Lab to cover... that thing that happened yesterday, so we’ll hear about wh...

 Well, we are finally here. The day the nation has been gearing up for since basically January 1st. (may the votes be ever in your favor, and may you convince someone out there who hasn’t made a plan to vote to figure it out.)  We here at the Fabulous 413, have decided that we are gonna be an island of respite in this sea of overwhelming anxiety and information, because we all deserve a break.  Bu...

Today on the show, we take a look at what could come, and at ways to ease some of those anxieties you might have. The Toy Box in Amherst has a gaggle of games, , and much more and they too are sensing some tension in the air, so we chat with proprietor Liz Rosenberg about games to play to relax your mind,  light-hearted gifts to lift the spirit, and the return of their “So you think you’re too old...

 Hello November! Time to drive those spookies away with a little bit of laughter and a lot of looking at the way things are and wanting to change them.  So today on the Fabulous 413, humor hits the road with Laughter Unlimited. Comedian Tim Lovett takes us aboard the Chuckling Charlie, bringing folks, food and comedy together for an experience that traverses the county. We get a tour of the comedy...

On this last day of October, we delve headlong into horror, which is not a nice way to talk about politics, but it may be accurate for some. To make it a little less scary, we’ll continue our conversations with the candidates for the 2nd Congressional seat. Independent challenger Cornelius Shea as we explore one of his key issues: Immigration, plus his position on Social security regulations, his...

We’re looking at the legacies of people and of the land itself.  For people, it’s in the styles beats and compositions of Max Roach, who in addition to developing a well respected and still followed practice on the drums taught at UMass Amherst for a little over 2 decades, and helped to initiate the institution's Jazz program. The wealth of his compositions will be honored with a celebration for h...

 Today on the Fabulous 413, we’re speaking with folx forging a path for themselves and their future on Capitol Hill and in the hilltowns In Northampton a visual outline of the struggle for health care and equity is portrayed through the photos and drawings of Christos Palames. He’s got an exhibit currently up at the New England Visionary Artists Museum that looks at the course of his life and wher...

     Today we’re going out in the field with Lindsay Patterson and Marshall Escamilla of the Tumble Science Podcast for kids to take a look at one of the places in Western Mass that you can see dinosaur tracks. Because it turns out, there’s a bunch of spots that you can find them right here along the Connecticut River. So many in fact that they’ve created a whole map for NEPM that you can use with...