Open to professional musicians, as well as amateur musicians with at least two years' experience on their instrument. Attendees should bring their instrument with them to the workshop and wear comfortable movement attire.

A free, family-friendly concert by Suzuki violin, cello, and piano students of the Northampton Community Music Center, followed by a candy toss! Come in costume and have some fun 🎃🎶

Part concert, part puppet show, part ghost story. This 50-minute multimedia performance reimagines classic literary monsters through queer, musical shadow theater and video. Join ensemble Shadow, Sound, Spectacle for a fresh perspective on the works of Edgar Allen Poe, Mary Shelley, Emily Dickinson, Anne Rice, and others, told through live music, shadow puppetry, video, and narrative. All are welcome, but recommended for adults and teens. Q&A to follow.

Join us for a powerful evening of story, sound, and place. Live music, poetry, and multimedia storytelling. Free event — All are welcome! Presented with support from the Williamsburg Cultural Council.

Part concert, part puppet show, part ghost story. This 50-minute multimedia performance reimagines classic literary monsters through queer, musical shadow theater and video. Join ensemble Shadow, Sound, Spectacle for a fresh perspective on the works of Edgar Allen Poe, Mary Shelley, Emily Dickinson, Anne Rice, and others, told through live music, shadow puppetry, video, and narrative. All are welcome, but recommended for adults and teens. Q&A to follow. This program is funded in part by a grant from the Springfield Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

Calling all nonbinary, trans, and women singer-songwriters! Our next Song Share Session happens the second Thursday of every month. We kick off at 7 PM with a community check-in and intention setting. Want to refine your performance? Get feedback on a new song? Connect with fellow artists? This space is for YOU. If you’d like feedback, bring copies of your lyrics!

Get ready for some twang with a twist! Honkytonk Queer Tones (Emmett Troxel, Kim Hoff, and Jess Martin) reimagine classic country hits through a queer and political lens—songs you’ll know, delivered with defiance, joy, and plenty of glitter at this year's Easthampton's Porchfest. Country music may have a history of shutting folks out, but we’re cracking the door wide open and dancing right through it. Proudly waving the queer flag in a space that isn’t always welcoming, Honkytonk Queer Tones turn familiar tunes into bold anthems of love, resistance, and fun. Come stomp, sing, and holler along—yee-haw and queer joy guaranteed!

Part concert, part puppet show, part ghost story. This 50-minute multimedia performance reimagines classic literary monsters through queer, musical shadow theater and features a world premiere video. Join ensemble Shadow, Sound, Spectacle for a fresh perspective on the works of Edgar Allen Poe, Mary Shelley, Emily Dickinson, Anne Rice, and others, told through live music, shadow puppetry, video, and narrative. All are welcome, but recommended for adults and teens. Q&A to follow. This program is funded in part by a grant from the Holyoke Local Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

Part concert, part puppet show, part ghost story. This 45-minute multimedia performance reimagines classic literary monsters through queer, musical shadow theater. Join ensemble Shadow, Sound, Spectacle for a fresh perspective on the works of Edgar Allen Poe, Mary Shelley, Emily Dickinson, Anne Rice, and others, told through live music, shadow puppetry, video, and narrative.

Calling all nonbinary, trans, and women singer-songwriters! Our next Song Share Session happens the second Thursday of every month. We kick off at 7 PM with a community check-in and intention setting. Want to refine your performance? Get feedback on a new song? Connect with fellow artists? This space is for YOU. If you’d like feedback, bring copies of your lyrics!

Join Northampton artists Jess Martin (singer-songwriter) and Kim Hoff (poet-naturalist) for a special Easthampton Art Walk performance blending music, poetry, and community voices.

The evening opens with Echoes of Nature: Hampshire County, an original multimedia performance inspired by reflective hikes through six local wild spaces. Through song and spoken word, Martin and Hoff explore the ways landscapes hold grief, resilience, memory, and hope.

Following a brief intermission, the program continues with Echoes in Community, a poetry reading featuring Easthampton’s current Poet Laureate Carolyn Zaikowski, former Poet Laureate Carolyn Cushing, and poets JuPong Lin, Isabella Gitana, and Kat Good-Schiff. Their work echoes shared themes of loss, solace, caregiving, and restoration.

The Queer Joy Collaborative is opening its doors—and its music—to anyone curious about joining their community choruses. On Monday, August 25, they’ll host free Open Rehearsals at the Hartsbrook School

Get ready for queer country with a twist! Jess Martin, Emmett Troxel, and Kim Hoff saddle up for a night of boot-stomping tunes, heartbreak harmonies, and just the right amount of political mischief. Classic sounds meet sharp turns as these three spin country music through a queer and subversive lens. If you don’t laugh, we’re doing it wrong.

Calling all nonbinary, trans, and women singer-songwriters! Our next Song Share Session happens the second Thursday of every month. We kick off at 7 PM with a community check-in and intention setting. Want to refine your performance? Get feedback on a new song? Connect with fellow artists? This space is for YOU. If you’d like feedback, bring copies of your lyrics!

Mirror, Mirror is a multidisciplinary art installation by Indë, a queer Black artivist born/raised/residing in Northampton, MA. The exhibit, on display from July 18th to August 8th, explores intersectional solidarity through immersive multimedia compositions and audience participation. In addition to presenting large figurative paintings, an original soundtrack, mirror/glass-based sculptures, and a new system of music notation, Indë will premiere the music video for “COME ON HOME,” featuring choir vocals by the Queer Joy Chorus, at the opening and closing receptions!

Experience a unique performance that blends poetry, song, and story inspired by the natural beauty of Hampshire County. Join artists Kim Hoff and Jess Martin for Echoes of Nature, a creative journey that celebrates our local landscapes and shared sense of place through moving words and melodies. All are welcome for this uplifting morning of nature-inspired reflection. This work is supported by the Amherst Local Cultural Council.

Mirror, Mirror is a multidisciplinary art installation by Indë, a queer Black artivist born/raised/residing in Northampton, MA. The exhibit, on display from July 18th to August 8th, explores intersectional solidarity through immersive multimedia compositions and audience participation. In addition to presenting large figurative paintings, an original soundtrack, mirror/glass-based sculptures, and a new system of music notation, Indë will premiere the music video for “COME ON HOME,” featuring choir vocals by the Queer Joy Chorus, at the opening and closing receptions!

Calling all nonbinary, trans, and women singer-songwriters! Our next Song Share Session happens the second Thursday of every month. We kick off at 7 PM with a community check-in and intention setting. Want to refine your performance? Get feedback on a new song? Connect with fellow artists? This space is for YOU. If you’d like feedback, bring copies of your lyrics!

Literary Monsters is a genre-defying mashup of crankies, overhead projectors, eerie live music, and haunting tales — featuring the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Anne Rice, and a delightfully motley crew of vampires, devils, and dinosaurs. Yes, really.

Literary Monsters is a genre-defying mashup of crankies, overhead projectors, eerie live music, and haunting tales — featuring the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Anne Rice, and a delightfully motley crew of vampires, devils, and dinosaurs. Yes, really.

Join artists Kim and Jess for a relaxed, inspiring walk to Lake Wallace designed for access and inspiration. Enjoy a morning of storytelling, reflection, and connection with nature. This is not the full Echoes of Nature performance—that takes place June 7 at the Clapp Library—but a peaceful, creative outing to spark your senses and imagination. Rain? No worries—we’ll bring the magic indoors!

Cultural Chaos is a much larger event, but happy to share that Jess will be playing a one hour set from 3 - 4 pm in Luthier's Coop at the heart of the action. Stop inside and listen to a song or four.

This year NCMC honors cellist Anne Werry (25 years at NCMC) and choir director Evelyn Harris (20 years)! Join them in celebrating this awesome dedication to NCMC's mission to provide high-quality, equitable music education and performances to our community.

Calling all nonbinary, trans, and women singer-songwriters! Our next Song Share Session happens the second Thursday of every month. We kick off at 7 PM with a community check-in and intention setting. Want to refine your performance? Get feedback on a new song? Connect with fellow artists? This space is for YOU. If you’d like feedback, bring copies of your lyrics!

Experience a unique performance that blends poetry, song, and story inspired by the natural beauty of Hampshire County. Join artists Kim Hoff and Jess Martin for Echoes of Nature, a creative journey that celebrates our local landscapes and shared sense of place through moving words and melodies. All are welcome for this uplifting morning of nature-inspired reflection. This work is supported by the Amherst Local Cultural Council.

A one-of-a-kind performance of original music, poetry, and movement rooted in the ecology of Hampshire County presented by Kim Hoff & Jess Martin. Hosted in the main reading room. Free and open to all. A nature-themed display of books and music curated by the library will accompany the event throughout the month.

Indë will be filming a music video for their queer anthem COME ON HOME on 4/20/25, and you're invited to be a part of the ensemble, alongside the Queer Joy Chorus! The song is a love letter to queer people whose families don't accept/support them.