December 11, 2024: Echoing Times

Today has a bit of history, a touch of the theatrical, notorious nominees, and a hat to boot. We’ll share a glimpse into the past interpreted through pedal steel with Myk Freedman. A memoir of one of his ancestors gives a unique glimpse of Jewish life for one woman in Eastern Europe in the early 20th century is being put on it’s feet and through musical lens at Bombyx on Dec. 12th, and we’ll hear about the process of bringing ones family to the stage in his show "About this: It Is Not Yet Written".Speaking of stages, folx are making them wherever they can, and that includes your local brewery. The Valley Players are staging a reading of Shakespeare’s “A Winter’s Tale” for their 2nd Bard in the Bar event on Friday, and we speak to president Matteo Pangallo, and company members Kiki Drzik and Tracy Grammer, about the 400 yr appeal of the work, and the community that can be built onstage. And Mr. Universe, Kainaat Studios and Hampshire College’s Salman Hameed, talks about the incoming president’s pick to lead NASA, and an adorable chapeau shaped galaxy giving us more information about stars.