Music! Music! Music!

6/18/26 (Host – Buz Eisenberg)

Dr. Kathy Bullock Singer & Professor Emerita of Music Berea College: Songs of Slavery and Emancipation Tour” a multi-state concert tour and musical pilgrimage retracing the paths of the Underground Railroad  At Bombyx Sun June 21 Concert: 4:00pm

Extra Extra with DHG & Gfld Recorder Executive Editor Dan Crowley: Neal cancels debate appearance, no to data centers in Holyoke, & man found not guilty after 28 years in prison.

Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter, and Rocker June Millington on her upcoming performance at The Green River Festival Friday at 545 & Saturday at 430

All That Jazz w/ Ruth Griggs, Pres of the Northampton Jazz Festival, & Jennifer Schantz, Exec Dir of The Eric Carle Museum Of Picture Book Art & Brian Pinkney, Illustrator of children’s books: Jerry Pinkney exhibit opening; Sunset Thursdays, and jazz and art collaboration at The Eric Carle Museum in Amherst.

Protesting, Haunting, Farming, & Voting

6/17/26 (Host Brian Adams)

Coen from Demilitarize Western Mass: L3Harris in Northampton, confronting the military industrial complex.

Pamela Petro: Guggenheim Foundation award winner & Smith College Professor: her future book Haunts & Haunting: ghosts on Cape Cod & beyond

Lexi Polokoff & Dan Ingram from Climate Action Now : Battling climate change by supporting local farmers

Larry Hott & Kathy Mellon from Movement Voter Project: shifting culture, winning power, & shaping policy

Flagging Land and Peace

6/16/26 (Host- Amilcar Shabazz)

Michael Lawrence-Riddell, Founder of Self-Evident Education, on their new film “Get a Mule, 40 Acres or So…” at the Northampton Center for the Arts this Saturday at 4:00.

Lily Sexton— performing LIVE in studio—brilliant and beautiful music—a preview of her Splendid Torch Band’s performance at the Green River Festival on Friday.

ReBelle’s Manou Africa & Kalpana Devi: previewing their Juneteenth performance Saturday at the Marigold Theater in Easthampton.

The Happier Valley Comedy Quiz w/ Maddy Banjamin, Scott Braidman & Allison Reding w/ Dr. Shabazz as scorekeeper—the topic –flags of the world.

Prof Michale Klare: War and Peace, Iran & Ukraine.

Unhushed

6/15/26: (Co-Host – Megan Zinn)

The River’s Steve Sanderson previews this coming weekend’s Green River Festival.

Megan and Bill Fishwrap the just-announced ceasefire with Iran.

Writers Block: Megan Zinn interviews Smith Prof Heather Able on her new novel  “The Emilies,” set in Northampton. The book launch tomorrow, presented by the Odyssey.

Mayors Monday: Easthampton Mayor Salem Derby on the Override, the possible recount, FIFA World Cup Watch Parties & interactions on Facebook.

Sex Matters: Jane Fleishman w/ Karen Rayne, co-authors of a new book about young people with problematic sexual behavior, published by Unhushed.

Performers & Politicians

6/12/26 (Host – Josh Silver)

MTA President Max Page w/ Congressional Candidate Mariah Lancaster: running for an open seat for the 6th Congressional District, Primary in September

Director Rose Schwietz Malla, Assistant Director Hia Ghosh, Actor Caleb Koval: Silverthorne Theater Company’s Sanctuary City by Martyna Majok, Performances now through June 21 at Hampshire College Theater (Emily Dickinson Hall).

Director Jen Polins: The School For Contemporary Dance & Thought presents Hatchery Dance Company’s Asteroid B-612: A Love Story inspired by The Little Prince at The Workroom Theater in Northampton. June 12 (sold out) & June 13 2 & 730 pm

Josh Silver: Easthampton Override & Easthampton’s World Cup Watch Parties

MTA President Max Page & Senator Ed Markey: Public Education, The Big Ugly Bill & Markey facing Seth Moulton for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in the September 1 primary. 

Live!

6/11/26 (Host – Bill Newman)

Amherst-Pelham School Superintendent Xiomara Herman: the accomplishments this year, the challenges and finances of the next.

Live in the studio — Django in June in Northampton: Musicians Sam Farthing, Giacomo Smith & Sami Arefin — their music is amazing — and Andrew Lawrence, founder and director.

Rabbi Riqi Kosovske: war & peace, scripture & poetry.

Ruth Griggs, Pres, Northampton Jazz Festival, on Eugene Uman’s Convergence Project @ the Vermont Jazz Center.

In Style

6/10/26: Host Brian Adams

Amherst Town Councilor Lynn Griesemer: Budget, Overrides, Potholes & what to do with Hampshire College

Cassandra Holden Founder & Executive Director of Bombyx in Florence: Arts, Equity, & Eclectic performances

Jenny Green, Authenticity Chair of the Green Valley Homestead: dressing for the revolution, celebrating the 250th anniversary in style

Cool Films w/ Larry Hott & Leslie Askew: In Search of Phyllis Wheatley, enslaved Genius Poet of the 18th century

The Presence of the Past

6/9/26: Co-Host Amilcar Shabazz

Rep. Pat Duffy remembers Barney Frank, the first out gay Congressman, who recently passed. She attended the celebration of his life yesterday.

UMass Prof Amilcar Shabazz on Juneteenth in Northampton.

Third Graders at Hadley Elementary on their lobbying efforts to make asparagus the official state vegetable—meeting the governor, their state senator and rep. Civic engagement at its best!

Pat Ononibaku, Pres of Black Business Assoc of Amherst: the upcoming 19th annual Juneteenth Jubilee & Black businesses in the Valley.

The IL (Injury List) grows. It includes baseball itself. Why don’t the owners care? We ask Duke Goldman, who also explains the masking tape over the NYY insignia on the Aaron Judge tee that Newman gave him.

This Show Is Intense

6/8/26 (Co-Host — Megan Rubiner Zinn)

Author Danielle Crittenden on “Dispatches from Grief: A Mother’s Journey Through the Unthinkable” – the death of a child.

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor — Smith History Professor, Richard Pryor’s daughter and author of  “Something We Said: Richard Pryor, A Notorious Word, and Me.”

The Easthampton Override — the stakes are huge — with teacher Kelley Brown, police lieutenant Andrew Beaulieu and firefighter and EMT Cody Potasky.

Yale Professor of Law and History Samuel Moyn on “Gerontocracy in America: How thew Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth and What to Do About it.”

The Beat Goes On

6/6/26, Co-Host Josh Silver

Political Gold with Josh Silver: the polls and the pols.

ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis, Madison Palffy & Rick Myers:  the new Caesura Unit Art Gallery in Easthampton and the exhibit “Bad Time.”

Community Action Pioneer Valley’s Lev Ben Ezra, Kara Peters, & Jodi McGahn: funding childcare, medical attention and wrap-around services for our children.

Astronomer Salman Hameed: the White House on aliens.

Max Page:  last night’s U.S. Senate’s all-nighter and why the MTA is endorsing Ed Markey for re-election.