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Music with Max Wareham, Red Shirt Farm, Mr. Universe

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

We also have Live Music Monday from Max Wareham. The storied banjo player and historian has a brand new album due out in June and he takes stage at the Parlor Room May 8. We hear how recording this album by himself in the most bluegrass-y of locations has shifted his perspective on the music he makes.

And it’s Star Wars Day, and even though Mr. Universe, Salman Hameed of Kainaat Studios, is more of a Star Trek person, that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate by talking about super massive black holes, binary star systems and other things that pop up in the galaxy far, far away.

Kaliis Smith is a radio host and producer for NEPM's The Fabulous 413.
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.