Holyoke Media

NMA Singer-Songwriter Showcase-"Men With a Jam": Four of the Best New Voices in W. New England Music
2023-08-25 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
*The New Music Alliance and Holyoke Media have partnered to present this special show at Holyoke Media’s brand new $2.5 million state-of-the-art facility.
*Performers were selected as 4 of the Best New Voices in Western New England Music
Enjoy a great show in a superb acoustically-optimized listening room environment- Unique to this area.
Who’s Appearing?
1) Charlie Diamond, Enfield, CT
2) Jared Fiske, Ware, MA
3) Sean Lemkey, Hartford, CT
4) Dylan Patrick Ward, Bellows Falls, VT
(See More Information on the artists below)
– Performers will each do a 30 minute set that will showcase their original compositions
– The event will conclude with all the performers joining together on stage for an ensemble performance.
Admission: $10 (Seating is limited)
1) Charlie Diamond
Singer-Songwriter/Firefighter/Adventurer– “I was born at night. When the stars were out and the wind danced through the trees like a whirlwind serenade.
And so, music was in my bones. Life’s mysterious undercurrents made sure of that.
Wrestled an alligator, fought a tornado, and been everywhere twice. Ran away with the circus when I was 16 and spent a few years as a tent rigger. Started writing songs when I was hiking the Appalachia trail. Thoroughly convinced I’ve been reincarnated and landed in the wrong decade. I write a lot about the mountain I grew up on. Spend a lot of time in corners talking to myself.”
Song Links: https://open.spotify.com/track/3EJnVeutnaoGlikPCqAnlb…
https://open.spotify.com/track/0o1GVJXhM66Mls5a0ZdVcY…
2) Jared Fiske
Jared is best known for his work as a solo performer and songwriter, and as a member of the popular Americana/rock outfit “The Casters”. He also performs in an acoustic duo with his wife, Jessica, under the pseudonym “Never Say Never”. Hailing from an artistic family, Fiske began performing in musical groups with his father, Rob Adams, and brother Seth at a young age.
Fiske’s original song “Choice” was selected for use in a short film by the non-profit organization Planetaid.org. Worcester Magazine said of his most recent album “We’re Already Gone” that “there’s really no way to prepare oneself for how achingly beautiful and melancholy Jared Fiske’s new album is.” (Victor Infante).
You can catch Jared performing at bars, coffeehouses and festivals throughout Massachusetts.
Song Links: https://open.spotify.com/track/3RDGKiEwa8OEEp97FXHeHT…
https://open.spotify.com/track/7Kkvc4MMve9h244WgtIAX1…
3) Sean Lemkey
Sean Lemkey is a singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Sean is best known for his involvement as vocalist and cofounder of the folk-rock band “Among The Acres”. Lemkey fuses an ethereal and yearning energy with an evocative modern indie-folk-pop sensibility. Taking up the drums at age 5, he would go on to study the instrument for 13 years before later teaching himself guitar in college.
As a drummer, guitarist, songwriter and collaborator, Lemkey has been involved in dozens of projects over the past decade, spanning a breadth of genres and styles. During the isolating pandemic winter of 2022, Lemkey decided to finally embark on the journey of writing and recording his first ever full length solo LP, which was released in April 2023.
Song Links: https://open.spotify.com/track/3BjdBVNOQuPkQpmijQcbfF…
https://open.spotify.com/track/0yuIVXce2OqVpCg4hsAHrI…
4) Dylan Patrick Ward
“He’s funny. He’s also as serious as an ax-handle.”-Peter Mulvey
Known for songs that are by turns heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny, Dylan Patrick Ward is a Vermont-based singer-songwriter whose sharp lyrics and sweet melodies present the world in all it’s absurd and tragic glory.
His empathy and candor have drawn comparisons to the Mountain Goats, John Prine and Randy Newman, and since arriving on the scene in 2021, he’s become increasingly respected and recognized in the worlds of both folk and underground music, and has played respected venues such as Club Passim in Cambridge, MA.
Song Links: https://open.spotify.com/track/10HZsfEwXhuz0OtXgub6dk…
https://open.spotify.com/track/0AYP0BsocIYKc13mvJDMxW…

Open Mic'd
2023-08-19 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Join Attack Bear Press and Holyoke Media for a new live recorded monthly poetry night! Featuring Julio Cesar Diaz!
Julio Cesar Diaz, a Texas-born Centroamericano, lives in Western Massachusetts. As a gay bilingual poet, their work questions their own frameworks of (queer) family, memory, and hyper realistic dreams. Diaz was the recipient of the 2023 Mass MoCA Massachusetts Artist Fellowship, 2022 Daniel and Merrily Glosband MFA Fellowship in Poetry and was a finalist for the 2022 James Hearst Poetry Prize. Diaz has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Conferences as Translator and Writer, Palm Beach Festival, and the Juniper Institute. They serve as a reader for Frontier Poetry and editor for Poetry Currency. Their work can be found in The Cortland Review, Pleiades Magazine, North American Review, Southword Journal, and elsewhere.”
Show starts at 7 PM, Open Mic sign ups start at 6:45 PM. Poetry and spoken word welcome. Entry is free. Donations welcome!!
The show is recorded for broadcast on Holyoke Media.

A More Perfect Union: How the Insular Cases Prolonged Colonialism in Puerto Rico
2023-08-04 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
The Insular Cases have condemned to oblivion a definitive solution to the political status of Puerto Rico, maintaining it as a colony of the United States for 125 years. As a prelude to the 250th anniversary of this American nation’s Declaration of Independence in 2026, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports multiple initiatives for dialogue and reflection about this event.
Puerto Rico Humanities Foundation and Ágora Cultural Architects invite you to the conference A more perfect union: how the Insular Cases prolonged colonialism in Puerto Rico. Award-winning historian and journalist Pedro Reina-Pérez will discuss the political, socioeconomic and cultural repercussions Puerto Ricans suffer today due to decisions on the Insular Cases.
About the speaker:
Pedro Reina Pérez is an award-winning historian and journalist specializing in contemporary Spanish Caribbean history, and the director of the Harvard Puerto Rico Winter Institute. He is a Full Professor of Humanities, and Arts and Cultural Agency and Administration at the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras. Known for his publications on culture and current affairs as well as his work on cultural entrepreneurship, he is a contributing writer for El Nuevo Día (Puerto Rico), El País (Spain) and ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America (US). Among his eleven books and edited volumes are Poeta del Paisaje (2013), El Arco Prodigioso (2009) and La Semilla Que Sembramos (2003). He has also worked on documentaries for TV and public radio such as Si Me Da El Tiempo (WIPR-TV 2003), Palés y la Rumba de Esquina (BPPR 2009) and Pau Casals: La Música Por La Paz (Televisión Española 2013). He has been awarded the Ricardo Alegría Medal (2010), the Bolívar Pagán Journalism Prize (2006) and the 1995 Public Humanities Fellowship (NEH), among others. He holds a BA in Latin American Studies from New York University (Cum Laude), and a PhD in History from the Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe.
Learn more HERE

Holyoke Media Board of Directors Meeting
2020-12-16 18:30 - 20:00 UTC | Zoom, MA, United States
Meeting to be held via Zoom
Agenda

Acceptance of prior meeting minutes
Director’s Report
Old business:

COVID response
Strategic plan

Standing items for discussion:

Building
How do we combat systemic racism within our organization and in the wider community
Membership check-in
See-Click-Fix audit
Personnel check-in

New business:

Budget
Sick time bank
Schedule next meeting – Wed., Jan 20, 2021 at 6:30 p.m.

Review in February:

Translation

Adjourn

Holyoke Media Board of Directors Meeting
2019-10-17 18:30 - 20:00 UTC | Holyoke Public Library, 250 Chestnut St, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
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