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Music with Kimaya Diggs, Adams Theater, Rick's Place grief support

Today we are learning to process better, for everyone’s sake.

The Adams Theater has had a bustling summer full of interesting productions with more on the way. We speak with Artistic Director Yina Moore about the many shows finding a home in their corner of the northern Berkshires, their collaborations with Williams College, and the innovative, multigenerational shows happening this very weekend.

In Wilbraham, an important resource for our human journey has helped families navigate their grief for almost twenty years. Rick’s Place provides free resources to those facing the repercussions of loss intergenerationally in western Mass., and we speak with some of the folx who know their work intimately and hear about their upcoming golf tournament fundraiser and where you can help them to continue providing this important programming.

And for Live Music Friday, Kimaya Diggs is on the verge of releasing a new album in addition to performing at the Emily Dickinson Museum tonight. We hear songs new and old and learn how this new album and her songwriting have been shaped by her own grief and resilience.

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.