05.26.13
The Touches of Sweet Harmony: Benjamin Britten's Musical Roots
The Arts Block
Valley Classics concludes its 2013 Spring Series with a concert to commemorate the birth of 20th-century English composer Benjamin Britten. The program focuses on his predecessors and contemporaries.

05.26.13 - 11.03.13
Banish Misfortune
Northampton Brewery
Traditional Irish hornpipes, reels, jigs, waltzes, polkas and airs.

05.26.13
The Deadly Nightshade
Iron Horse Music Hall
Homegrown at Smith/Mt. Holyoke, the 1970s all-female electric rock/newgrass band, archived in the Country Music hall of Fame, returns with a new CD.

05.26.13
Dada Dino's Open Mic.
The Rendezvous
Sign-up starts at 7:30 p.m.

05.26.13
The Savoys
Red Lion Inn
Poppy, folk-rock music.

05.27.13
Dublin Porter
Red Lion Inn
Local folk perform lively Irish music.

05.27.13
Loren Benjamin
The Elevens
Twenty-three-year-old singer/songwriter from New York City.

05.28.13
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Loft Lounge at The Clarion

05.28.13
Old Crow Medicine Show
Mass MoCA
FreshGrass presents a preview of its upcoming bluegrass and roots music festival at MASS MoCa's Hunter Center for the Performing Arts.

05.28.13
Dan Stevens
Red Lion Inn
Dan Stevens, a.k.a Ramblin' Dan, plays country blues on a steel guitar.

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