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Aug. 9, 2024: Hapax Home Body and Chabichou

The Fabulous 413 is about to go on vacation, and it feels like we should start our pause with a bang.

So, for Live Music Friday we welcome the Greenfield-based synth-pop duo Home Body to the studio before their fifth iteration of the Home Body and Friends show at the Hatch Shell at Peskeomskut Park. They show us some of their wicked-neat musical toys they brought for a “stripped down” live set of songs and hear about the evolution of their sound and stage-showin’ their 13+ years.

Our resident wordster, Emily Brewster of Merriam-Webster, kindly digs into a request from Kaliis to explore the unicorn-like linguistic phenomena of hapax legomena.

Plus, the Tina Turner Memorial Wine Thunderdome returns to Provisions in Longmeadow where we pit two very different, very-chillable, naturally fermented, late-summer wines against each other and their fiercest competitor: cheese!

Live Music Friday: Home Body
Word Nerd: hapax legomena
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Wine Thunderdome: Provisions Longmeadow
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Christopher “Monte'' Belmonte is host and executive producer of NEPM's The Fabulous 413. He was born and raised in Massachusetts and has been a radio host in western Massachusetts for the last 20 years — the last 17 of them as host of Mornings with Monte on The River 93.9/WRSI.
Kaliis Smith is a radio host and producer for NEPM's The Fabulous 413. She was most recently host and producer at The River 93.9/WRSI where she appeared on Mornings with Monte for the Nerdwatch segment and hosted weekday evenings.