Festivals and Venues
Watermelon Wednesdays
For 25 years and counting, Watermelon Wednesdays has brought renowned and diverse musical acts to a rural setting, with intimate performances at the historic West Whately Chapel and Whately Town Hall. The idea of having a summer concert series featuring out-of-town musical acts was the “brain-child" of Paul Newlin and Rani Arbo. Attending a show at either venue will be to experience not only great live music but living history as well.
Watermelon Wednesdays Official Webpage
Springfield Jazz & Roots Festival
Presented by Blues To Green, this free, two-day festival features live music—including jazz, soul, funk, Afro‑Latin, gospel, and more—from local, regional, and national artists. Experience
Springfield Jazz & Roots Festival Official Webpage
NEPM Asparagus Festival
Each year, the NEPM Asparagus Festival brings people together in celebration of our region’s diversity, beauty, and bounty. The event brings over 7,500 people to the Hadley Town Common to enjoy the best of western Mass. flavors, agriculture, music, and, of course, Hadley grass. The festival is free and open to all with a suggested donation of $5 per person or $20 per family at the gates. Proceeds from the NEPM Asparagus Festival support public media in western Mass.
NEPM Asparagus Festival Official Webpage
MIFA
The Massachusetts Int’l Festival of the Arts (MIFA) has presented great art since 1994 with artists like Mikhail Baryshnikov, Vanessa Redgrave, Hal Holbrook, Eddie Palmieri, William Kentridge, and London’s Globe Theatre along with wonderful Massachusetts artists and institutions. To date, MIFA has presented 389 events with 2,581 artists from 61 international and national companies including 29 company debuts in America and 17 world premieres. Since 2005, MIFA has sponsored Holyoke-based events such as Enchanted Circle Theater, Celebrate Holyoke, Latin Jazz Festival, and the Great Holyoke Brick Race. To date, sponsoring 103 Holyoke-based community events.
North Quabbin Garlic & Arts Festival
The “Festival that Stinks” is a fabulous family friendly destination held amid the fall foliage on a historic farm in Orange, MA. You’ll feel that sense of community and hope for a positive future at this festival!
Over 100 bountiful booths feature regional artists, farmers, community organizations, and healing arts; everyone can strengthen the economy by purchasing locally crafted and grown! Great music, entertainment, and spoken word emanate from three stages and across the rolling fields. The line-up of performers is testimony to the culturally diverse and abundant talents of the region. Be it blues, funk, soul, or rock we’ve got you covered–and dancing! At the Spoken Word stage nestled in the forest, enjoy over 35 poets, many featured in a special compilation. Travel the garlic globe in the chef demo tent, complete with complimentary recipes. Fill your belly with local to global, savory cuisine from local farms, restaurants and food trucks. Over fifty engaging workshops and demos, activities and performances are scheduled throughout the weekend. Enjoy Garlic games on the main field, including the famous raw garlic-eating contest. Your kids will love the free art-making area!
North Quabbin Garlic & Arts Festival Official Webpage
The Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival
We ran a 3 month viral marketing campaign on Facebook and Twitter for the Jewish Film Festival. We built a following of Jewish, local people interested in Film. We ran contests and giveaways, as well as tracked and pushed new fans to the Official webpage. We also ran a press release and postering campaign.
We redesigned the Facebook Fan page with a special design to match the webpage.
"Attendance has been fabulous and I imagine it is partly due to your work!... I am SURE it has helped!"
- Janet Kaplan Bucciarelli Festival Director
Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival Official Webpage
MIT FAST Festival
FAST is a prominent feature of the MIT150 events, a festival celebrating MIT’s unique confluence of Art, Science and Technology. The concert features work by MIT faculty composers, including Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Harbison, Bang-on-a-Can All-Star Evan Ziporyn, and world premieres by Charles Shadle and Peter Child. In addition to the US premiere of Death and the Powers, a musically and technologically visionary “robotic” opera by Tod Machover, developed at the MIT Media Lab. FAST will present an exciting, surprising variety of work, embracing past to future, performance to debate, and installations to the unclassifiable.