September 6, 2024: Rivers to Falls

It's a double Live Music Friday kinda day! We’ll hear live music from  the Happy Valley Guitar Quartet: A small section of the large guitar ensemble performs for us before their fundraiser in Shelburne Falls this weekend. Orchestra members Emmett Troxel, Charlie Salzberg, Dave Fried, and Amy Lashley bring their 6-string and 4-strings  by for a performance, and maybe reveal the secrets and challenges of getting their extra big sound to fit on a small scale.  Plus Dar Williams pays a visit to the studios.  Dar has for the second year in a row helped to organize the River Roads Festival at Millside Park in Easthampton, which is a benefit for the Connecticut River Conservancy and their upcoming Source to Sea Cleanup. Dar will tells us about the partnership, perhaps wax poetic about her early music days in the valley, let us know what’s new at the festival and play us a couple of songs, some of which you might hear in her headlining set Sept 7th. Then we’ll Wine Thunderdome with our Franklin County Wine Friend Ken Washburn at the Leverett Village Co-op where we’ll taste California Cabernets, and leave our prejudices out of the glass. And get into one of Ken's latest accomplishments: becoming a ranked birder in Franklin County.