African Community Festival 2026
2026-08-08 12:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Contact Name: Unity Hearts Foundation Contact Phone: 413-310-7057 Contact Email: unityheartsfoundation@gmail.coM

Venue Name: MARSHALL ROY PARK
Venue Address: 162 EL PASO STREET SPRINGFIELD MA 01104-3750

Event Details: Join us in celebrating the richness of Afro-Diaspora culture at this vibrant, family-friendly community event featuring music, food, art, and folk dance. Enjoy live band performances, cultural exhibits, global cuisine, and activities for all ages, including virtual reality rides and hands-on cultural activities.
What to expect:
• Vibrant marketplace
• Food vendors serving American & Diasporan food
• Live Congolese Band by Orchestre Moto
• Jollof Wars culinary showcase
• Cultural Fashion Show
• Senegalese folk dance
• Board games and interactive activities
• Virtual reality rides
• Free face painting and kids’ activities
• Free backpack giveaway (while supplies last)
All are welcome to join in a joyful, inclusive celebration of culture and community. Rain or shine — don’t miss it!

27th Annaul John Boyle O'Reilly Irish Music Festival
2026-08-08 13:00 - 2026-08-09 00:00
Contact Name: John Boyle O’Reilly Club contact: President Martin Curley Contact Phone: (413)237-9496 Contact Email: martincurley35@gmail.com

Venue Name: The John Boyle O’Reilly Club
Venue Address: 33 Progress Ave. Springfield MA 01104

Event Details: The 27th Annual Irish Music Festival featuring Irish bands from around Western Mass. along with special guests Brass Attack at 8:00 P.M. There will be great music all day and night as well as crafts, games, raffles and a Guinness strength competition and “Split the G competition” Music starts at 1:00 P.M. The Springfield Kiltie Band, 2:00 P.M. Deidre Reilly, 3:15 P.M. The Healys, 4:30 P.M. Jimmy Mc Ardle and Jerry Murphy, 6:00 P.M. Billy Eagan and The Rising, 8:00 P.M. to closing Brass Attack. Brendan Riley will be in the downstairs lounge at 9:00 P.M. Entrance $10 children under 12 are free.

Honkytonk QueerTones
2026-08-15 20:00 - 23:00
Contact Name: Jess Martin Contact Phone: 4135276627 Contact Email: jessrmartin13@gmail.com

Venue Name: Luthier’s Coop
Venue Address: 108 Cottage St. Easthampton MA 01027

Event Details: Honkytonk QueerTones makes its public debut as a quartet at Luthier’s Co-op in Easthampton with an evening of country classics, heartfelt harmonies, audience singalongs, and a few lovingly reimagined favorites. Featuring Jess Martin, Emmett Troxel, Kim Hoff, and Tammy Bringaze, the quartet celebrates the storytelling tradition of country music while creating a joyful, welcoming space for everyone. Come pull up a chair, sing along, and help launch a brand-new Western Massachusetts band.

Beginner wool spinning
2026-08-22 13:00 - 15:30
Contact Name: Beth Tiffany Contact Phone: 4133203124 Contact Email: bethtiffany7@gmail.com

Venue Name: Betty Allen Chapter DAR
Venue Address: 148 South Street Northampton MA 01060

Event Details: Jump into the world of spinning with this fun and welcoming beginner class—perfect for anyone curious about the craft! Sharon Parsons, a seasoned spinner with a lifetime of experience at Fairs and Wool craft Shows, will share her passion and expertise.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own functioning spinning wheel if they have one, though spinning wheels will also be available for those who need them. Cleaned wool, wool cards, and a limited supply of carded wool (roving) will be provided, so all you need to bring is your enthusiasm! Please note, we won’t be spinning in the grease (lanolin) this session—you’ll be working with fresh, easy-to-use wool. Best of all, you get to take home everything you spin and create during the workshop. Come ready to learn, make new friends, and leave with your own handmade yarn!
https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/beginner-wool-spinning-aug-22-100-pm-to-330-pm?

2026 Berkshire Mushroom Festival
2026-08-23 10:00 - 18:00
Contact Name: Tam Integration, Cassandra Contact Phone: 413-394-4218 Contact Email: Cassandra@sweetgrassbotanicalslee.com

Venue Name: Dewy Hall
Venue Address: 91 Main Street Sheffield MA 01257

Event Details: The Berkshire Mushroom Festival arrives at Sheffield’s historic Dewey Hall on August 22nd and 23rd for a vibrant two-day celebration of all things fungi. Perfect for seasoned mycophiles and curious families alike, this gathering offers guided foraging walks, artisan market vendors, and expert-led workshops covering everything from home cultivation and fungal natural dyeing to functional extractions and the therapeutic potential of psychedelics.

Broadway Comes to Temple Beth El
2026-08-23 16:30 - 19:00
Contact Name: Maxine Bernstein Contact Phone: 4135319480 Contact Email: mberns805@gmail.com

Venue Name: Temple Beth El Springfield
Venue Address: 979 Dickinson St Springfield Massachusetts 01108

Event Details: Temple Beth El Springfield is delighted to present a special one-night-only Cabaret show with Broadway star Julie Benko, followed by a VIP Meet-and-Greet Reception on Sunday, August 23 at 4:30 pm.
Julie is an actor, singer, and writer based in New York City. She most recently appeared on Broadway as Emma Goldman in the Tony Award-winning revival of Ragtime at Lincoln Center. Prior to her role in Ragtime, she was understudy for the lead in Funny Girl (which she performed over 100 times!), she had the lead role in Barry Manilow’s show Harmony and appeared in Fiddler on the Roof and Les Miserables. She has also released her own music, including her most recent album Euphonic Gumbo. Julie does her Cabaret presentations at clubs and venues all over the USA.
The family-friendly show’s opening act will feature some of the young stars of The Bushnell’s Broadway show, Matilda Jr.
Temple Beth El’s Cantor Morton Shames Sanctuary, where the concert is being held, was renovated in 2019, is ADA-compliant, and features superb acoustics along with an elegant, comfortable setting for an exceptional concert experience.
Ticket prices are $50 for General Admission seats, $75 for Orchestra seats, and $125 for Premier seats. Tickets for the VIP Meet-and-Greet Reception are $50 and can be added to any seat tickets.
To purchase tickets or for more information, please visit Temple Beth El’s Facebook page at facebook.com/tbespringfield or the temple’s website at www.tbespringfield.org.

Whisper in the Mid-Zone
2026-08-26 18:30 - 20:00
Contact Name: Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum Contact Phone: (413) 584-4699 Contact Email: pphmuseumassistant@gmail.com

Venue Name: Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum
Venue Address: 130 River Drive Hadley MA 01035

Event Details: Jim Matus, a Berklee-trained jazz musician, Bob Markey a classically trained sitar player and Michel Moushabeck, a master Lebanese percussionist, blend the sonic traditions from their diverse training to create a “musical-midzone.”

St. Mark Armenian Fest
2026-09-06 12:00 - 18:00
Contact Name: St. Mark Armenian Church Contact Phone: 4137835793 Contact Email: talenej@gmail.com

Venue Name: St. Mark Armenian Church
Venue Address: 2427 Wilbraham Road Springfield MA 01129

Event Details: Enjoy hot meals, delicious baked goods, music, and more. A true celebration of Armenian culture! Rain or shine. Free admission.

Dust Bowls and Jewish Souls: Another Side of Woody Guthrie
2026-09-06 14:00 - 17:00
Contact Name: Yiddish Book Center Contact Phone: 413-256-4900 Contact Email: programs@yiddishbookcenter.org

Venue Name: Yiddish Book Center
Venue Address: 1021 West Street Amherst MA 01002

Event Details: The name Woody Guthrie conjures images of Dust Bowl families from the 1930s fleeing their wind-ravaged farms, along with those famous lyrics “This land is your land, this land is my land / From California to the New York Island.”
Woody’s horizons extended far beyond the dusty Oklahoma hills of his youth. When his wanderings and ramblings brought him to New York City, in the 1940s, he was introduced—both personally and professionally—into a vibrant Jewish culture that he wholeheartedly embraced. That culture in turn deeply influenced his life and his music. Dust Bowls and Jewish Souls presents a whole new side of Woody Guthrie that will change your view of one of America’s most celebrated songwriters and cultural icons.
Following the screening, award-winning director and producer Steven Pressman will join us for a live Q&A to discuss the film, Guthrie’s enduring legacy, and the remarkable Jewish influences that shaped his work.
Run time: 89 mins., documentary. Directed and produced by Steven Pressman, written by Steven Pressman and Lisa Stark.
This screening is cosponsored by the Springfield JCC.
Use this link to learn more and register for this event: https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/events/upcoming-public-programs/film-qa-dust-bowls-and-jewish-souls-another-side-woody-guthrie?utm_source=calendar&utm_medium=remindnews&utm_campaign=dustbowlsjewishsouls

Enfield Elks #2222 Annual ENF Tag Sale
2026-09-12 07:00 - 14:00
Contact Name: Lori Percoski Contact Phone: 860-837-3881 Contact Email: lberozsky@hotmail.com

Venue Name: Enfield Elks Lodge #2222
Venue Address: 134 North Maple St UPSTAIRS HALL Enfield CT 06082

Event Details: Annual fundraiser tag sale for the Elks National Foundation. All proceeds beefit the Elks charitable efforts in our community.

ELPS Parent Groups Annual Ecycle Event
2026-09-12 09:00 - 12:00
Contact Name: Katie Reilly Contact Phone: 4132442653 Contact Email: katherine.reilly@eastlongmeadowma.gov

Venue Name: ELHS
Venue Address: 180 Maple St East Longmeadow MA 01028

Event Details: You can pull right up with your items. A volunteer will come to your car, accept payment, and let you know where to go next:
Paper: Volunteers can unload and bring to a shredding container. You can stay and watch shredding if you’d like. Or you can handle paper material yourself. $5/bag
Electronics: Volunteers will tally what you have brought and give you a ticket. You then can drive to the Gold Circuit truck where they will unload your items and collect tickets. Detailed price list available in flyer.
Profits benefit the 5 ELPS parent groups and the initiatives they support within each school

Shadow, Sound, Spectacle presents Literary Monsters
2026-09-12 19:30 - 23:00
Contact Name: Jess Martin Contact Phone: 4135881688 Contact Email: jessrmartin13@gmail.com

Venue Name: Easthampton Media
Venue Address: 116 Pleasant St (Eastworks) 102 Easthampton MA 01027

Event Details: Part concert. Part puppet show. Part ghost story. All Spectacle!
Join us for an evening of spooky, gothic fun at Easthampton Media (E-Media).
Hard to describe and impossible to forget, Literary Monsters by performance trio Shadow, Sound, Spectacle explores the classics of Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Washington Irving, Emily Dickinson, Bram Stoker, and others while asking a timeless question: What is a monster?
Featuring original live music, shadow puppetry, video, and narrative, this show is guaranteed to be full of whimsy and free of AI. After the performance, stay for a Q&A and an up-close look at the puppets!
Special guests Why’s It Gotta Be? Theater Group (WIGB) will open the evening with the world premiere of Dorian Gray Is a Sodomite, a 20-minute piece that follows five performers as they race to retell Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, each from a distinct perspective.
All are welcome. Recommended for adults and teens.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Easthampton Cultural Council, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

Thea Hopkins Concert
2026-09-13 15:00 - 17:00
Contact Name: The Porter-Phelps-Huntington-Museum Contact Phone: (413) 586-7870 Contact Email: pphmuseumassistant@gmail.com

Venue Name: The Porter-Phelps-Huntington-Museum
Venue Address: 130 River Dr Hadley MA 01035

Event Details: Thea Hopkins, acclaimed performing songwriter and member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag
Tribe of Martha’s Vineyard, calls her music Red Roots Americana. Her album, “Blossoms & Ghosts”, released in 2026, is both timely and timeless. “A standout writer”– WASHINGTON POST

Enfield Community Chorus Begin Rehearsals 9/14
2026-09-14 18:30 - 20:30
Contact Name: Emily Clifford Contact Phone: 8605809668 Contact Email: enfieldcommunitychorus@gmail.com

Venue Name: Enfield Annex (Formerly Fermi HS)
Venue Address: 124 North Maple St. Enfield CT 06082

Event Details: The Enfield Community Chorus will be starting its chorus season on September 14th! We rehearse Monday nights from 6:30pm-8:30pm until our Winter Holiday Concerts on Dec. 12th and Dec. 13th. Prospective members are invited to our Open House rehearsals on 9/14 and 9/21. We are a non-auditioning chorus but it’s recommended that members be able to read music and have previous experience singing in a group.
Cost: $55 (covers all music, dues, and practice tracks)
Where: Enfield Annex (formerly Fermi High School)
Room 303
124 North Maple St.
Enfield, CT 06082
www.EnfieldCommunityChorus.org

Valley Jazz Voices Open Rehearsal
2026-09-14 19:00 - 2026-09-21 19:00
Contact Name: Valley Jazz Voices Contact Phone: 937-409-1376 Contact Email: valleyjazzvoices@gmail.com

Venue Name: Rockridge Retirement Community
Venue Address: 25 Coles Meadow Road Northampton MA 01060

Event Details: Join Valley Jazz Voices for a new season! We begin with two free open rehearsals on Mon. Sept 14 and Mon. Sept 21 at 7pm at Rockridge Retirement Community (rehearsals are in the Community Room). Try us out with no obligation! Directed by Jeff Olmsted, Valley Jazz Voices is a community choir singing jazz in four-part harmony. We are a no audition choir and singers of all ages and levels are welcome. Can’t read music? No problem. Parts recordings are available for those who prefer to learn by listening and singing along. Season dues are on a sliding scale of $200-275; students are $50. We rehearse through January and will end our season with a concert at Bombyx. Will we see you there?
For more information find Valley Jazz Voices on Facebook or at valleyjazzvoices.org

Beginner Watercolor
2026-09-15 10:00 - 2026-10-20 12:30
Contact Name: Bonnie McLoud Bonzella Watercolor Studios Contact Phone: 4133879099 Contact Email: bonniejmcloud@gmail.com

Venue Name: Easthampton Congregational Church
Venue Address: 112 Main St Apt 102 Easthampton MA 01027

Event Details: Watercolor 101 Beginners Class Easthampton Congregational Church. Tuesdays, Sept. 15 to Oct. 20, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Have you always wanted to pick up a brush and learn Watercolor? Now is your opportunity. Registrations are open. Reserve your seat as class size is limited. Click the link to learn more.
https://bonzellacompany.wixsite.com/bonzellaco/calendar-of-events

Psalms, Strings, and Songs Music in the Porter-Phelps-Huntington family
2026-09-26 13:00 - 15:00
Contact Name: The Porter-Phelps-Huntington-Museum Contact Phone: (413) 586-7870 Contact Email: pphmuseumassistant@gmail.com

Venue Name: The Porter-Phelps-Huntington-Museum
Venue Address: 130 River Dr Hadley MA 01035

Event Details: This talk explores the region’s music history, unearthing sonic cultures of the Connecticut River Valley and New England through the material collections at PPH, as well as through popular secular and sacred tunes of the past and present. From the psalm tunes sung by Elizabeth Porter Phelps as a young woman and still sung today at local shape note sings, to the history of the “guitar” played by three generations and on view at Forty Acres today, music has played an integral role in everyday life in the region.
Poe M. Allphin is a Research Fellow at the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum, where he is working on a multigenerational history of music in the Porter-Phelps-Huntington family and at Forty Acres. He received his PhD in historical musicology from the CUNY Graduate Center. Allphin’s scholarship, which appears in Resonance and Contemporary Music Review, has previously been supported by the New England Research Fellowship Consortium and the Center for the Humanities at CUNY.

Tim Ericksen Concert
2026-09-27 15:00 - 17:00
Contact Name: The Porter-Phelps-Huntington-Museum Contact Phone: (413) 586-7870 Contact Email: pphmuseumassistant@gmail.com

Venue Name: The Porter-Phelps-Huntington-Museum
Venue Address: 130 River Dr Hadley MA 01035

Event Details: A leading voice in the “shapenote” tradition, experimentalist and ethnomusicologist performs traditional ballads from the Appalachians to the Pioneer Valley, and original pieces that have been described as “magical realism in song.” “…a storyteller at heart, with a distinctive, unvarnished voice.”– WASHINGTON POST

Jazz 101 listening course
2026-09-28 05:30 - 2026-11-23 07:30
Contact Name: Ben Young Contact Phone: 718 594 6670 Contact Email: thatlight19@gmail.com

Venue Name: Holyoke Public Library
Venue Address: 250 Chestnut Street Holyoke MA 01040

Event Details: Beginning on Monday evening September 28, Holyoke Library will host the Jazz listening history series Jazz 101. The course was developed at Jazz at Lincoln Center 25 years ago. Its eight weekly sessions embrace the breadth of how Jazz music works and where it came from—also how it fits into our culture as an art form and entertainment medium.
This will be the first offering of the course in Holyoke.
Although it’s a curated, organized listening-and-lecture course, the emphasis is on demystifying Jazz content for beginners. We introduce basic terms, fundamental concepts, and cornerstone figures in the music. And of course we listen closely to the swinging, essential masterpiece recordings of Jazz.
Are you curious, or even skeptical? Let’s face it: Jazz can be a little daunting, hard to grasp, or obscure. In Jazz 101 we don’t try to make you into a great Jazz musician, but into a great listener—who can understand and appreciate what you’re hearing.
The course is free to all. No registration necessary; just come on by.
There’s also no test, no homework, no entrance exam, no audition, no roll-call—no stress. Just great sounds and stories about the people involved.

Mind Magic: A Night of Laughter and Mental Mystery
2026-10-01 20:00 - 21:30
Contact Name: The Entertainment Solution Contact Phone: 8022363146 Contact Email: stevetaubman@gmail.com

Venue Name: Northampton Center for the Arts
Venue Address: 33 Hawley St Northampton MA 01060

Event Details: Join internationally acclaimed mentalist/humorist, Dr. Steve Taubman for a night of Mind Magic: world-class mentalism and comedy.
Mind Magic combines elements of comedy and mindreading with psychology and theater, drawing on Dr. Steve’s laser-sharp observational skills and refined sense of the absurd. All of these are on display in Mind Magic, which is carefully curated to make audiences laugh, gasp, think… and laugh some more!
Dr. Steve Taubman pulls back the curtain on the psychological mechanics of human behavior, leaving you astonished, entertained, and wanting more.
“Dr. Steve captivates imagination, casts a shadow of doubt on the limits of reality, and leaves an indelible impression on the soul.” –Naples Press
“Dr. Steve is hilarious and astonishing.” — John Cleese, Monty Python
“You don’t have to be THAT GOOD!!!” — Dick Cavett
Flex Theater, Northampton Ctr for the Arts, Thurs Oct 1 from 8pm to 9:30pm
$35 General Admission, $55 VIP Experience*
*The VIP Experience: Upgrade to enjoy premium, front-row seating and an exclusive, post-show ‘Behind the Curtain’ session. During this private debrief, you’ll have the opportunity to ask Dr. Steve about the psychological mechanics behind the performance and learn how to apply those principles of mental agility to your own personal and professional challenges. You’ll also receive full access to the UnHypnosis digital library—Dr. Steve’s signature mindfulness-based success system.

Annual Spaghetti Supper
2026-10-17 15:00 - 19:00
Contact Name: Sister Frances MacKay Contact Phone: 8602651872 Contact Email: enasstdevelopment@littlesistersofthepoor.org

Venue Name: Little Sisters of the Poor – St. Joseph’s Residence
Venue Address: 1365 Enfield Street Enfield CT 06082-4900

Event Details: Enfield, CT, October 17, 2026 The Little Sisters of the Poor – St. Joseph’s Residence will be having their annual Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser, to be held inside St. Joseph’s Residence 1365 Enfield Street, Enfield, CT 06082. You can purchase tickets online at https://LSPDinner26.givesmart.com or by calling 860-265-1872 to reserve your tickets. Dinner will be inside restaurant style setting. Serving Spaghetti, Meatballs, Sauce, Garlic bread, Salad, and Dessert. There will be an option for Mac & Cheese as well. Ticket prices are $20/Adult, $10/Kids (8 and up).
St. Joseph’s Residence provides care for 70 elderly poor residents. The Little Sisters of the Poor and the residents get very excited about this event. All proceeds will help to complete many of the ongoing building projects that need to be upgraded and/or replaced.
