We speak with the people behind the Springfield Symphony Orchestra’s (SSO) upcoming program "Bugs Bunny at the Symphony" this weekend. We want to know more about how the event came to be, so we invite NEPM Classical’s John Nowacki, Emmy award-winning conductor Goerge Daugherty, and SSO President Paul Lambert to tell us more.
We hang out with rising folk phenom, Amythyst Kiah, who’ll be playing at the Parlor Room tonight. The self-taught breakthrough artist from Tennessee is also featured in PBS’s Express Way with Dulé Hill. We have the pleasure of hearing her perspective on being part of the next generation of Black folk singers, and hear some live music as a bonus.
Plus, Pride season’s first bloom is about to unleash all the glitter onto the meadows and streets of Northampton on May 4. We talk with two organizers of Hampshire Pride, Clay Pearson and Alden Peotter, about the local history of Pride and all the festivities we can look forward to this Saturday.
![The Fabulous 413 hosts Sally Loomis of Hilltown Land Trust [not pictured], Claire Higgins of Community Action Pioneer Valley, Jim Hicks of The Massachusetts Review, and Ilan Stavans of Restless Books [not pictured] for a roundtable chat to review how their and other organizations across the 4 counties of western Mass. are attempting to remediate in the fallout of these recissions.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/950f41b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1280x713+0+7/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F43%2Feb%2F8398023445f59c7700c87be1aafa%2Fscreenshot0.jpg)