March 5, 2024: Spring equals renewal

It’s an emotional rollercoaster, today’s show. First, the ups: The Back Porch Festival is headed back to Northampton next weekend, March 15-17. Last year the event expanded to include more music, more venues, and more genres than ever before and Signature Sounds is keeping that momentum up this year with the most content we’ve ever seen. Jim Olsen, joins us to talk about the good musical trouble the organization is getting up to with musicians from near and far this weekend. The downs are twin flames. Red Fire Farm suffered incredible losses due to a blazing inferno in the middle of February at their Granby location. Despite the destruction of their barn, farmstand, a greenhouse, and more from the blaze, their farming life continues, especially at this busy time of year for folx in agriculture. We take a visit to the site of the fire with proprietors Ryan and Sarah Voiland to talk about what happened, how they’re proceeding, and how the community and state can help them to endure. And one that straddles. Winners of NPR’s 2017 Tiny Desk Contest, Tank & The Bangas are currently on tour celebrating the 10th anniversary of their first album “Think Tank”. They’ve come a long long way from those open poetry mic nights and we talk with Tarriona “Tank” Ball about the journey that they’ve taken and what the future holds for their ever rising star.