Spring brings warmer weather, thoughts of being outside, and the lilting tones and bopping beats of New England Public Media's Spring Music Series. During Morning Edition this spring, listen for interviews with New England musicians, or check them out right here.
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In downtown Springfield, Massachusetts, inside an atrium near the corner of Main and Harrison, is a public piano. Shamari Stampp comes to it at least once… -
This region is packed with great musicians. Our annual music series is a chance to highlight some of the amazing artists who live here, in southern… -
“The New Immigrant Experience” is the latest work by saxophonist Felipe Salles. It’s a multimedia project on a subject very much in the news.Funded by a… -
The Suitcase Junket is a one-man band that defies neat categorization.Part folk singer, part showman, part old-fashioned troubadour, western Massachusetts… -
The Massachusetts Chamber Players, based at UMass Amherst, has a new recording of wind music conducted by Matthew Westgate. Westgate said the idea for the… -
While members of the band Phat A$tronaut like to say they hail from the “funkier parts of Connecticut,” they clearly mean musically.Their upbeat and… -
About 70 singers greeted each other on a recent Monday night as they settled into their seats at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Pittsfield,… -
Protest rock was once fueled by the Vietnam War and civil rights. But every era has musicians who use their art to make a point — and these days, there… -
What do the musical acts The Pixies, Staind, and Taj Mahal have in common? They all had their start in western Massachusetts. Since at least the 1950s,… -
“Escape” is a word you hear a lot from Jae Matthews, singer and lyricist for the genre-defying duo Boy Harsher.“I’m the ultimate escapist. I don’t run…
