Holyoke Media

Valley Jazz Shares - Josh Sinton/Jeb Bishop Duo
2024-09-27 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Halifax) | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
From the Valley Jazz Share’s website:
“Called “varied and exciting,” as well as “one of the most striking baritone saxophonists,” Josh Sinton has been heard with some of the leading voices of Brooklyn’s creative music scene since arriving in 2004. He’s led bands as varied as Predicate, musicianer and Ideal Bread as well as performing in the Nate Wooley Quintet, Anthony Braxton’s Tricentric Orchestra and Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society. He’s studied at the AACM while living in Chicago in the nineties, the New England Conservatory in Boston in the aughts and with friends and colleagues here in NYC. He performs regularly on his chosen instrument the baritone saxophone as well as on bass clarinet and alto flute. He also writes music (and words) when the occasion demands. He is proud to count Ingrid Laubrock, Jonathan Finlayson, Tom Rainey, Jeremiah Cymerman and Guillermo Gregorio among his colleagues and looks forward to making music with many other musicians.
Jeb Bishop was born in Raleigh, North Carolinawhere he began playing the trombone at the age of 10. He majored in classical trombone performance at Northwestern University from 1980-82, studying with Frank Crisafulli. At the same time, he developed an interest in philosophy, eventually majoring in the subject, and spent 1984-85 studying philosophy at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. He pursue graduate studies in philosophy, first at the University of Arizona, then at Loyola University of Chicago (where he was awarded the Crown Fellowship in the Humanities). Returning to Chicago in 1992, he completed his M.A. at Loyola in 1993. By this time he had already begun to make connections with improvising musicians in Chicago, having joined the Flying Luttenbachers as bassist (later adding trombone) in late 1992. In late 1995, Bishop joined the Vandermark 5 as one of its founding members, and remained with the band through the end of 2004. During this period he also became associated with many other groups, including the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, School Days, Ken Vandermark’s Territory Band, Mars Williams’ Ayler XMass and his own Jeb Bishop Trio, In 2012, Bishop relocated to North Carolina, where he made associations with musicians in the area including David Menestres, Dan Ruccia, Carrie Shull, and Eugene Chadbourne, and helped present and organize performances in the NC Triangle region. In 2015, he relocated again to Boston, and is now back in Chicago.”

Open Stage Showcase by New Music Alliance
2024-10-10 19:00 - 22:00 | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
A monthly concert by different singer-songwriters and musicians.
This month:

American Elm
Heather McLarney
Sage King
Marvin Jackson
Tobey Sol Laroche
Martha Borne

Omar Sosa’s 88 Well-Tuned Drums film screening
2024-10-22 19:00 - 21:00 | MA
Omar Sosa’s 88 Well-Tuned Drums, the Award-Winning Documentary on the Life and Music of GRAMMY-Nominated Pianist and Composer Omar Sosa,
Trailer here.

Masters of Sonic Liberation
2024-10-24 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-03-27 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-04-24 19:30 - 22:00 | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
A monthly live experimental music performance featuring musicians from across New England.

The Obituary
2024-11-01 19:00 - 21:30, 2024-11-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
“The Obituary,” the latest creation from playwright Benjamin D. Smith, delves into the poignant tale of a father and son grappling with issues of identity, love, and acceptance in a contemporary world, ultimately leading them to a fateful crossroads.
In a narrative where one lifetime proves insufficient, a son is granted a second chance to communicate the unspoken to the departed, unravelling fifty years of enigmatic family history in the process.
Benjamin Smith, an up-and-coming playwright and student enrolled in Harvard’s esteemed Dramatic Studies Program, weaves an enthralling theatrical narrative that peels back the layers of a family’s hidden triumphs and tribulations.

The Obituary
2024-11-02 15:00 - 16:00 | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
“The Obituary,” the latest creation from playwright Benjamin D. Smith, delves into the poignant tale of a father and son grappling with issues of identity, love, and acceptance in a contemporary world, ultimately leading them to a fateful crossroads.
In a narrative where one lifetime proves insufficient, a son is granted a second chance to communicate the unspoken to the departed, unravelling fifty years of enigmatic family history in the process.
Benjamin Smith, an up-and-coming playwright and student enrolled in Harvard’s esteemed Dramatic Studies Program, weaves an enthralling theatrical narrative that peels back the layers of a family’s hidden triumphs and tribulations.
Catch this compelling production on October 9th, 11th, & 13th at The Latea Theater. Keep an eye out for ticket availability!

Open Stage Showcase by New Music Alliance
2024-11-14 19:00 - 22:00 | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Discover Exciting New & Established Western New England Artists
Solo artists, duos, and trios performing their own original music.
The New Music Alliance (501c(3) and Holyoke Media have partnered to present this monthly Showcase in the Brand New State-of-the-Art Holyoke Media Facility!
Enjoy a great show in a superb acoustically-optimized listening room environment- Unique to this area!
Who’s Appearing? (in order of appearance)
* Daring Coyotes, Easthampton, MA
* Dan Zukergood and the Meanies, Holyoke, MA
* Anna May, Waterford, CT
* Martha Bourne, Plainfield, MA
Your Host: Mark Sherry
Sponsored by Downtown Sounds

Open Mic'd
2024-11-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
A monthly open mic for poets organized by Attack Bear Press.
Open Mic’d is free and open to the public.
Share your poems before an audience that welcomes everyone.

Valley Jazz Shares - Brandon Seabrook
2024-11-20 19:30 - 21:00 | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Brandon Seabrook is a guitarist, banjoist, and composer living in New York City where he has established himself as one of the most forward-thinking and versatile and guitarists of his generation. He has also made a name for himself as an influential banjo innovator, described by the New York Times as “a man apparently hellbent on earning the title of World’s Least Rustic Banjo Player.” His work focuses on the juxtaposition of hallucinatory soundscapes, angular composition, and a massive dynamic range that can change in a nanosecond. He has released seven albums as a leader covering everything from pulverizing art-metal to chamber music bridging the realms of extreme rock and the classical avant-garde. Rolling Stone Magazine noted, “The fiercely dexterous musician has lunched a number of bands combining serious chops with manic intensity and a left- field compositional vision.”

Seabrook honed his guitar skills at the New England Conservatory in Boston. He has since performed extensively in North and South America, Mexico and Europe, as a solo artist, bandleader, and collaborator. He has been called upon by titans such as Anthony Braxton, Nels Cline, Cecile McLorin Salvant, So Percussion, and Joey Arias for his idiosyncratic physical performance style , hyperreal technique and impeccable articulation . He has been profiled in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Premiere Guitar, Downbeat Magazine, Rolling Stone, NPR, The Chicago Reader, and The Wire.
Seabrook Power Plant, the nuclear trio donned “a manic clusterfuck of merciless banjo torture” by the Village Voice, is Brandon’s brainchild, blending the brutal energy of punk-rock with the intricate execution of through-composed avant jazz. The band has released two albums to much critical acclaim. Time Out New York praised the band’s eponymous debut as “not only one of the most baffling experimental releases of the year it’s also one of the best.”
Brandon is an accomplished solo artist, named Best Guitarist in New York City by the Village Voice 2012. In 2014, New Atlantis Records released his first solo album titled “Sylphid Vitalizers.” Noisey called the album a “dissonant guitar army…(with) mind-blowing prog-rock complexities – all at mind-numbing breakneck speed.” Brandon has presented his solo work at Pioneer Works, Sonic Transmissions Festival, Secret Project Robot, NK Berlin, Lima Jazz Festival, Dither Extravaganza, The Smell, Lawrence University, and the Ruidismos Festival in Lima, Peru.
His most recent recording, “BrutalLoveChamp” was released last year on Pyroclastic Records. On October 18, “Object of Unknown Function”, his second solo album will be released on Pyroclastic.

Valley Jazz Shares – Aaron Shragge Whispering Worlds
2025-03-08 19:30 - 21:30 | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Whispering Worlds seamlessly integrates looping/live processing/sampling with the compelling melodic development found in Raga and the music of the shakuhachi. The quartet’s debut performance paid homage to Jon Hassell at Festival of New Trumpet Music in NY drawing praise from artistic director/trumpeter Dave Douglas: “Delving deeply into the sonic and spiritual worlds of Hassell’s work, Aaron Shragge presents a deeply felt homage to the trumpeter and composer. This meditative set demonstrated focus and passion, with beautiful and precise playing. A fantastic vision of what the trumpet can do and be…”
Aaron Shragge has performed with Daniel Carter, Ben Monder, Dave Douglas, William Parker, Jon Gibson, The Sam Roberts Band, Akim Funk Buddha, and Medeski Martin and Wood’s Billy Martin at such venues as Symphony Space, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center and The Blue Note. Aaron is an active in the NYC improvised/creative music scene serving on the board of Festival of New Trumpet Music NY/Canada. Aaron’s unique instrument the Dragon Mouth Trumpet was designed to expand the trumpet’s melodic capacity and is the result of over a decade of studying both the Shakuhachi (Japanese, Flute) as well as North Indian Vocals. Aaron Shragge’s current projects include a duo with Ben Monder, a Jazz quintet that plays the music of Tom Waits and his continuing solo works for Dragon Mouth Trumpet/Shakuhachi.

Odyssey Defiance Alliance
2025-03-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Professional wrestling comes to Holyoke Media with Odyssey Defiance Alliance (ODA) – Defiance Unleashed! The debut show is set, and we’re bringing you matchups that have NEVER been seen before! First-time clashes that will leave you on the edge of your seat. But let’s talk about THE match—the one that will probably steal the show—the MAIN EVENT…
🔥 MAIN EVENT 🔥
For the first time ever, Michael Fain goes one-on-one with Fast Forward! This isn’t just a prediction—it’s a GUARANTEE. This match will be an absolute BANGER! You do NOT want to miss it!
Be there to witness history!

The Birds The Birds The Birds
2025-03-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Silverthorne Theater Company presents a staged reading of playwright Harley Erdman’s new musical, The birds the birds the birds, with music by Gregory Boover. Directed by Gina Kaufmann, with music dramaturgy & direction by Kyle Boatwright, the reading will take place at 7:00pm on Thursday, March 20th, 2025 at Holyoke Media as the first event of Silverthorne’s 2025 Theater Thursdays reading series, with a talkback to follow. Starring Tahmie Der, Hia Ghosh, Aaron Mancaniello, and Sam Samuels.
Tickets are free, and Silverthorne welcomes donations so that we can continue making our work accessible to all.

Marian Pabón ¡Más fuerte que nunca!
2025-03-21 20:00 - 22:00 | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Marian Pabón is what is known as an “all-arounder.” She sings, dances, acts, and writes drama and comedy for both theater and television. Her talent and charismatic personality have made her one of the most beloved artists by Puerto Ricans inside and outside the archipelago. After a 45-year career, the last 10 writing dramatic monologues and comedy, Marian faced a cancer diagnosis. During her recovery, “Más fuerte que nunca” was born, the stand-up with which she successfully returned to the stage and which she will take to the diaspora with the BoriCorridor Tour. In this powerful piece, Marian uses humor to share her recent experiences as a patient and survivor. It is an invitation to laugh and reflect.

Odyssey Defiance Alliance
2025-04-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
ODA Presents: UNSTOPPABLE – April 11! Same time, same place – 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke – with another night of non-stop action and live TV broadcasting! Doors open at 6 PM | Show starts at 7 PM Tickets: • General Admission: $15 • Kids (5-15): $10 • Under 5: FREE This is another banger of a show that CAN’T be missed! Mark your calendars and be there for the action!

FREE JAZZ PROJECT 2025 - 2001-2025 In A Flash @ the Quarter Century Mark
2025-04-25 20:00 - 21:00 | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
A 46-minute live music set featuring video content generated with AI, reflecting USA news events from 2001 to 2025.
On the quarter-century day, 4.25.25, join us for a live performance or watch the streaming show at 8 p.m.

School Committee Community Advisory Committee Meeting
2025-04-28 16:30 - 18:00 | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Agenda Forthcoming

Flywheel and Sour City Present - Perennial - Miracle Blood - Videodome - Velveteenfl
2025-05-09 19:00 - 22:00 | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
PERENNIAL https://perennialtheband.bandcamp.com/
Modernist punk from New England
MIRACLE BLOOD https://miracleblood.bandcamp.com
Gnarly noise-punk for the weird at heart Boston, MA.
VIDEODOME https://videodome.bandcamp.com/
Noise rock/post-hardcore from New Haven, CT. Est. 2017.
VELVETEEN https://velveteen1.bandcamp.com/
Indie bedroom pop from Pittsfield, MA
A Flywheel/Sour City Co-Production

Masters of Sonic Liberation
2025-05-22 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-06-26 19:30 - 22:00 | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Masters of Sonic Liberation is a groundbreaking monthly music series aiming to captivate your senses and push the boundaries of sonic creation. Presented by Bonnie Kane and John Loggia of the KaneLoggiaHYPOTHESIS, the series is a gateway to a universe of limitless musical exploration, fueled by the expansive imagination of master musicians who have left the norms and abandoned the pop, easy listening and pre-fab culture, to continually investigate and create music of the greatest depth and personal expression that reaches directly into the algebra of the mind, heart, and soul. You are invited to witness wildly expressive improvisations, scintillating in their immediacy, an expression of the intersection of time and place known as the NOW.
From improvisation and free jazz to noise, avant-garde, electronic manipulations, and modern composition, our lineup encompasses a wide spectrum of sonic expressions that defy conventional categorization. The unifying principle of these artists is their dedication to exploratory, hypothetical, investigational, probing, observational, theoretical, innovative, inventive, radical, avant-garde, anti-normative, alternative, fringe, unfamiliar, unorthodox, unconventional, unusual, eccentric, avant-garde, avant-core, free thinking, way-out music.
Whether it’s a solo performance that pushes the boundaries of traditional instruments, or a dynamic ensemble blending a symphony of unconventional sounds, we present encounters with the avant-garde that will leave you mesmerized. From hauntingly exquisite melodies to ear-bending dissonance, Masters of Sonic Liberation offers an unique live experience with virtuoso artists, where every note is a testament to audacious creativity.
The live shows are streamed at:
https://bit.ly/SonicLiberation_facebook
https://bit.ly/SonicLiberation_youtube
Past performances can be found on Youtube. http://youtube.com/@mastersofsonicliberation
Masters of Sonic Liberation: Where the intangible becomes tangible; where sound becomes magic.

Rough Cut Screening
2025-05-29 17:00 - 19:00 | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Be the first to watch two powerful short films in progress and share your feedback for the final cut. These stories explore Puerto Rican life in Holyoke, tracing the impact of displacement—from the fires of the 1970s to Hurricane Maria—and celebrating the resilience of a community that continues to rebuild, preserve its history, and resist.
ASHES IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD
Michelle Falcón Fontánez
María Salgado Cartagena
Terry Gibson
BEYOND THE STORM
Kristen Neville
Khalif Neville
Lorenzo Gaines
Michelle Falcón Fontánez
Free to attend. Light refreshments.

Gaia Roots World Music Ensemble
2025-06-12 18:30 - 20:30 | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Join in for a LIVE Gaia Roots concert featuring drummers Aimee Gelinas, Shanti Stark and Dan Cohen with dancers Alpha “Kabisko” Kaba, Miguel Periche and Noel Staples-Freeman and the intergenerational drum group The Valley Rhythm Keepers led by Aimee and Dan of Gaia Roots opening up! This incredible line up will bring traditional West African and Caribbean drum, song, guitar and dance to you all while being recorded on LIVE TV! Bring your friends and family, there is theater style seating in the recording studio. Suggested donation at the door. Email aimee (at) gaiaroots.com for more info. Please RSVP via Facebook “Going” so we can get a head count! Hope to see you there, please share. Doors open at 6:30 so come early!

This project has been supported in part by a grant from the Holyoke Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency

Afro-Caribbean Heritage Festival
2025-06-13 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-06-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Drs. Gloria Caballero & Ivor Miller, organizers.
With Lázaro Galarraga (voice), Danys Pérez and dancers with percussion
“Bomba de Aquí” with Brendaliz Cepeda and Saul Peñaloza and friends
June 13-15, 2025
Workshops: Lyman Park, Holyoke, MA. (June 13-14, 4-5PM)
Performances Holyoke Media Center, Holyoke, MA. (June 13-14, 6-8PM)
Service: Congregational Church, Old Lyme, CT. (June 15, 10AM)
We gather in Holyoke, MA., to honor the cultural systems of the circum-Caribbean as an innovating force in Our Americas. This second annual Juneteenth event highlights the spirituality of Caribbean peoples. We recognize Holyoke as an extension of the Caribbean through its contemporary Puerto Rican, Dominican, Haitian, Cuban and other island populations. Our program title, ‘Afro-Caribbean history through the arts’, is inclusive to welcome all to this occasion with some of the best folk artists of this genre, who will guide and teach us about the collective genius of Caribbean peoples, through inherited methods of evoking and memorializing their history within a sacred context.
Our artists are initiates into Afro-Caribbean systems — traditions that have developed over the centuries to teach mutual respect and co-existence — whose performance art sustains collective support
for the expression of visions and sentiments. We are celebrating Juneteenth by embracing the African heritage of the Caribbean as integral to the history of New England. As evoked by Herman Melville in Moby Dick, as exemplified by the DeWolf family of Rhode Island, as well as the Amistad ship in Mystic, Connecticut, the historic wealth of our coastal communities was developed through Atlantic shipping routes and Caribbean plantations. Today, this history is being recovered through research, for example by members of the Congregational Church of Old Lyme, who have worked to identify and memorialize the enslaved Africans and descendants in their community, as reflected in their African burial ground.
Understanding the value of ancestors in our lives (even if to appreciate the traditions and ideas they left for us), the artists will lead us through songs and dance to honor the deceased who impact our lives positively, to evoke their legacies, whether they came from the Kongo, China, Native America, Europe, and to recall how they fought colonial bondage to give us sovereignty. Responding to a sequence of images from paintings created by culture bearers in the Cuban ritual systems, the artists will then evoke the Carabalí people, whose presence in Santiago de Cuba lives through its carnival ‘comparsa’ groups, and in Havana and Matanzas through the Abakuá society for mutual aid.
Then they will evoke the West African deities known as Orishá, who are structured into a group known as the Lukumí Confederation, where they act essentially as a system of Laws to guide and heal those who serve them. Here in the northeast, the closest equivalent might be the Iroquois Confederation, or the Six Nations, an egalitarian society whose ideas have contributed greatly to North American society.

Two Brass Hit: Phil Haynes' Double Trumpet Trios
2025-06-18 19:30 - 21:30 | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
From the Pioneer Valley Jazz Shares Website: ”
A 25 year veteran New York based artist now teaching at Pennsylvania’s Bucknell University, Phil Haynes (June 15, 1961) is featured on more than 85 LP, DVD and CD releases by numerous American and European record labels. The international media have compared his drumming to masters Jack DeJohnette, Roy Haynes and Elvin Jones, and his compositions to Duke Ellington, Charles Ives, Charles Mingus and the Art Ensemble of Chicago. His recording credentials include many of the seminal musicians of this generation: saxophonists Anthony Braxton, Ellery Eskelin, and David Liebman; trumpeters Dave Douglas, Herb Robertson, and Paul Smoker; bassists Mark Dresser, Ken Filiano, and Drew Gress; keyboard artists David Kikoski, Denman Maroney, and Michelle Rosewoman; guitarists Ben Monder, Steve Salerno, and Jim Yanda; vocalists Theo Bleckman, Nicholas Horner, and Hank Roberts; violinist Mark Feldman, and the composers collective Joint Venture. Current Haynes touring ensembles include his: definitive saxophone trio, No Fast Food, featuring NEA jazz master David Liebman; romantic Americana string band, Free Country, featuring vocalist/cellist Hank Roberts; Double Bill, w/trumpeters Thomas Heberer & Herb Robertson with bassist Ken Filiano; plus the romantic piano trio, Day Dream, a cooperative w/ Yamaha artist Steve Rudolph and Drew Gress.
Thomas Heberer (born September 24, 1965, in Schleswig, Germany) is a trumpeter, quarter-tone trumpeter, cornetist, keyboardist and composer, primarily focused on jazz, creative improvised music and contemporary chamber music, has lived in New York City since 2008. During his formative years in Germany, he was a lecturer at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, and the recipient of both the prestigious “SWR Jazzpreis” and the “Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik.” In addition to recording 100+ projects as sideman, he has released 20 CDs under his own leadership. His current album ‘The Day That Is’ won critical acclaim around the world, ranked among the top jazz recordings of 2021 in The New York City Jazz Record. Collaborators past and present include: Muhal Richard Abrams, Pina Bausch, Han Bennink, Karl Berger, Anthony Braxton, Peter Brötzmann, Eugene Chadbourne, Chico Freeman, Maria João, Joachim Kühn, Steve Lacy, Oliver Lake, Dieter Manderscheid, Misha Mengelberg, Butch Morris, Alphonse Mouzon, David Murray, The Nu Band, Evan Parker, Michael Riessler, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Harald Schmidt, Elliott Sharp, Steve Swell and Aki Takase. Die Zeit critic Konrad Heidkamp called him “The master of German trumpet.”
Nate Wooley (b.1974) was born in Clatskanie, Oregon and began playing trumpet professionally with his father, a big band saxophonist, at the age of thirteen. He made his debut as soloist with the New York Philharmonic at the opening series of their 2019 season. Considered one of the leading lights of the American movement to redefine the physical boundaries of the horn, Wooley has been gathering international acclaim for his idiosyncratic trumpet language. Wooley moved to New York in 2001 and has since become one of the most in-demand trumpet players in the burgeoning Brooklyn jazz, improv, noise, and new music scenes. He has performed regularly with John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, Eliane Radigue, Annea Lockwood, Ken Vandermark, Evan Parker, and Yoshi Wada. He has premiered works for trumpet by Christian Wolff, Michael Pisaro, Annea Lockwood, Ash Fure, Wadada Leo Smith, Sarah Hennies, Martin Arnold, and Eva-Maria Houben. For ten years, he was the editor-in-chief of their online quarterly journal Sound American, which was dedicated to broadening the definition of American music via print and online publications. His essays have appeared in The Baffler, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, and Contemporary Music Review.
Ken Filiano (born 1952) is an American jazz and orchestral bassist based in Brooklyn, NY, and featured prominently on the international new music scene. Since the 1970s, Filiano has played or recorded with Anthony Braxton, Nels Cline, Bill Dixon, Vinny Golia, Fred Ho, Paul Smoker, and Fay Victor, among many. Filiano serves on the teaching roster at the New School in New York, providing master classes in bass and improvisation and maintains an active private studio in Brooklyn. Ken has appeared on literally dozens recordings since the start of the new century, including on trumpeter Bill Dixon’s final recording, ‘Envoi’, as well as albums with Anthony Braxton, Connie Crothers, Herb Robertson, Michael McNeil, Taylor Ho Bynum, Nate Wooley and Anders Nilsson, among scores of others. Filiano’s performances continue to be featured at festivals and clubs around the world, including his presentations for bass soloist, alone.

Odyssey Defiance Alliance Presents No Limit!
2025-06-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
This card is loaded with big-time matchups, intense rivalries, and jaw-dropping action that you won’t want to miss. Every day we’ll be dropping a new match – and trust us, it’s from top to bottom! Tickets are ON SALE NOW! Saturday, June 27, 2025 Holyoke Media – 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA Bell Time: 6:00 PMLive action. Real stories. Wrestling with a purpose.Let’s pack the house and show what Odyssey Defiance Alliance and the Odyssey of Hope Foundation are all about!

BORDERLAND|The Line Within
2025-07-11 18:00 - 21:30 | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Film screening and fundraiser for the Performance Project and Skylight Productions with a post film conversation with Director Pamela Yates and Director Paco de Onis. Music by Tony Silva and light refreshments.
The United States border is not just a geographic location. The border is everywhere. It lies within every undocumented immigrant family with the threat that at any moment they can be captured, incarcerated, deported; their lives destroyed. BORDERLAND | The Line Within not only exposes the profitable business of immigration and its human cost, but weaves together the stories of immigrant heroines and heroes resisting and showing a way forward, intent on building a movement in the shadow of the border industrial complex, recognizing the human rights of all.
Link to trailer: https://vimeo.com/898357006
Join us on Friday July 11th at 6pm at Holyoke Media (1 Court Plaza Holyoke, MA). The evening will begin with light refreshments and Latin American and Spanish music by Tony Silva, followed by an introduction to the work of the Performance Project and Skylight, and the screening of BORDERLAND|The Line Within. After the film, the director Pamela Yates and producer Paco de Onís will host a conversation/Q&A with the audience and share their insights about the making of the film and the important work being done at the border and across the US.
Tickets $10-$25
Virtual attendance available.
For information call 937-681-8719

Odyssey Defiance Alliance Presents Fractured
2025-07-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA, 01040, United States
Holyoke’s newest wrestling promotion is back at Holyoke Media!Live action. Real stories. Wrestling with a purpose.Let’s pack the house and show what Odyssey Defiance Alliance and the Odyssey of Hope Foundation are all about!
