“Necessary brattiness” is the motto for Speedy Ortiz’s dauntless new collection of songs, Twerp Verse. The follow-up to 2015’s Foil Deer, the band’s latest indie rock missive is prompted by a tidal wave of voices, no longer silent on the hurt they’ve endured from society’s margins. But like many of these truth-tellers, songwriter, guitarist and singer Sadie Dupuis scales the careful line between what she calls being “outrageous and practical” in order to be heard at all. “You need to employ a self-preservational sense of humor to speak truth in an increasingly baffling world,” says Dupuis. “I call it a ‘twerp verse’ when a musician guests on a track and says something totally outlandish – like a Lil Wayne verse – but it becomes the most crucial part. This record is our own twerp verse, for those instances when you desperately need to stand up and show your teeth.” COVID-19 POLICY: Masks highly recommended. Tickets for ALL events* are available for purchase by phone (via CC payment), in person at the box office, or at the door** *Unless H&R is not ticketing the event. **Only if there are tickets available – please call or email ahead of time.

Palaver launches its ninth season with an escape into the brilliant world of early music, joined by harpsichordist John McKean. This program includes classic concertos such as Corelli’s Christmas Concerto and Geminiani’s La Folia, full of florid violin melodies and driving bass lines sure to sweep you away. Two lesser-known works by Casulana and Lusitano, originally written for voices, are full of harmonic twists and turns. We round out the program with Durante’s La Pazzia and Telemann’s aptly-named Suite La Bizarre. Repertoire: “Morir non può il mio cuore” – Maddalena Casulana, arr. Jesse MacDonald La Pazzia – Franesco Durante Overture Suite La Bizarre – George Telemann intermission “Heu me domine” – Vicente Lusitano, arr. Lysander Jaffe Concerto Gross Op. 6, No 8 (“Christmas Concerto”) – Arcangelo Corelli La Folia – Francesco Geminiani COVID-19 POLICY: Masks highly recommended. Tickets for ALL events* are available for purchase by phone (via CC payment), in person at the box office, or at the door** *Unless H&R is not ticketing the event. **Only if there are tickets available – please call or email ahead of time.

www.donnathebuffalo.com Donna the Buffalo offers everything you want in a roots band — songs that matter, a groove that makes you dance, an audience that spans generations, and a musical voice that evokes a sense of community. COVID-19 POLICY: Masks highly recommended. Tickets for ALL events* are available for purchase by phone (via CC payment), in person at the box office, or at the door** *Unless H&R is not ticketing the event. **Only if there are tickets available – please call or email ahead of time.

Tuff Riddim International & Root Fiyah feat. Abdul Baki Thu, Oct 6, 2022 7:30 PM Two local reggae groups hit the stage!   COVID-19 POLICY: Masks highly recommended.  Tickets for ALL events* are available for purchase by phone (via CC payment), in person at the box office, or at the door** *Unless H&R is not ticketing the event. **Only if there are tickets available – please call or email ahead of time.

Big Yellow Taxi Band – Tribute to Joni Mitchell at Hawks and Reed Fri, Oct 7, 2022 7:00 PM Doors 6:30pm/Show 7pm Tickets $15 adv/ $20 at the door ABOUT Big Yellow Taxi is a New England based band, created to explore the music of Joni Mitchell, from her earliest solo recordings to the multiple projects she recorded/performed with many of the world’s top musical artists. The band features the soaring voice of Teresa Lorenço, along with a band composed of some of New England’s most sought after and talented musicians. The mission of the band is to present a two set show that immerses the audience in an intimate and emotional journey through many of Joni’s best and most powerful songs: a performance that means to go beyond mere imitation, to explore a musical intensity that will leave audiences entertained, moved and elated, much the same way these beautiful songs have had a joyous and profound impact on our lives. OTHER INFO Hawks and Reed is proud to host Greenfield’s newest restaurant COCINA LUPITA, serving authentic Salvadoran street food. Try their pupusas, tacos, burritos and fresh horchata, directly from the streets of San Salvador to downtown Greenfield. Cocina Lupita…

Bitchcraft: How Bitch Became Bitch Starring Bitch (A Musical Play) Fri, Oct 7, 2022 8:00 PM Tickets $18 adv/ $20 at the door ABOUT Performance artist and musician Bitch tells the story of her life in this musical one woman show. From the moment she ‘rides’ her broomstick onto stage, she weaves a colorful tale of how a shy and introverted child goes on to reclaim the word Bitch for a name. This empowering, funny and heart-felt show is woven together with violin-forward pop songs from her most recent album “Bitchcraft,” which came out earlier this year on Kill Rock Stars. “There’s no stopping her now” La Weekly said after she premiered the first version of this show earlier this year. Bitch first came on the scene with her band Bitch and Animal, toured with Ani Difranco and released albums on Righteous Babe Records. Since going solo, Bitch has toured with The Indigo Girls, produced two albums of her folk Idol Ferron, played herself in John Cameron Mitchell’s (Hedwig and The Angry Inch) “Shortbus,” and collaborated with Margaret Cho, Joey Soloway, Faith Soloway, God-des and Logan Lynn. OTHER INFO Hawks and Reed is proud to host Greenfield’s newest restaurant COCINA…

Every day. Every single day, which means some days are better and some much worse. Every day, on average, twenty-two veterans commit suicide. Each year seventy-four hundred current and former members of the United States Armed Services take their own lives. Every day. That number does not include drug overdoses or car wrecks or any of the more inventive ways somebody might less obviously choose to die. It seems trivial to suggest those lives might be saved — healed, even — by a song. By the process of writing a song. And yet. And yet there is nothing trivial about Mary Gauthier’s tenth album, Rifles and Rosary Beads (Thirty Tigers), all eleven songs co-written with and for wounded veterans. Eleven of the nearly four hundred songs that highly accomplished songwriters have co-written as part of Darden Smith’s five-year-old SongwritingWith:Soldiers program. None of the soldiers who have participated in the program have taken their own lives, and there’s nothing trivial about that. Something about writing that song — telling that story — is healing. What Smith calls post-traumatic-growth. Gauthier’s first nine albums presented extraordinary confessional songs, deeply personal, profoundly emotional pieces ranging from “I Drink,” a blunt accounting of addiction, to…

For over 50 years Black Uhuru has remained one of the most popular recognized prolific reggae band from Jamaica. The living legends have earned several achievements in the music industry including winning the first ever Grammy Award for reggae music. They’re long success along with having the highest reggae record sales after Bob Marley & the most songs sampled by other artist over the years has allowed them to become Ambassadors of reggae. COVID-19 POLICY: Masks highly recommended.  Tickets for ALL events* are available for purchase by phone (via CC payment), in person at the box office, or at the door** *Unless H&R is not ticketing the event. **Only if there are tickets available – please call or email ahead of time.

Swing Caravan and the GCC Music Revue Swing Caravan is back! Since bandleader Matthew Shippee took a five year hiatus from concerts to focus on raising kiddos, the band has been returning to area stages in varied configurations with Kirk Sanger on bass, new original songs, and an assortment of guitar pedals for interpreting Gypsy Jazz and vocal jazz standards. This regular gig also features fabulous guest musicians associated with the GCC Music Department where Matthew is faculty and chair of the Contemporary Music Studies program. COVID-19 POLICY: Masks highly recommended. Tickets for ALL events* are available for purchase by phone (via CC payment), in person at the box office, or at the door** *Unless H&R is not ticketing the event. **Only if there are tickets available – please call or email ahead of time.

Soul Magnets is a horn-heavy 9-piece ensemble, playing a mix of old-school, funk and neo-soul originals, deep covers, and dancefloor favorites. We’ve appeared around the Valley at the Green River Festival, Luthier’s Co-op, Stone Church, New City Brewery, Millpond Live, and at TransPerformance performing some of our favorite music: Prince, Earth Wind & Fire, and the Superfly soundtrack! COVID-19 POLICY: Masks highly recommended. Tickets for ALL events* are available for purchase by phone (via CC payment), in person at the box office, or at the door** *Unless H&R is not ticketing the event. **Only if there are tickets available – please call or email ahead of time.

Jules Findlay: Album Release Party at Hawks & Reed DJ: Hetriks Media by: Guru Space Featured artists : Jules Findlay – FB Blacc – Kiexiza Rodriquez -Tuneleef Des December – Jay Supra Smiles – Quan Th3 Donn – Pasto Chris Gwop – Beyond Compare – Evie – T Brown – Pharaoh Bacon – Raig COVID-19 POLICY: Masks highly recommended. Tickets for ALL events* are available for purchase by phone (via CC payment), in person at the box office, or at the door** *Unless H&R is not ticketing the event. **Only if there are tickets available – please call or email ahead of time.

“In My Tribe” was formed as a labor of love to honor American songstress Natalie Merchant, both as a member of the internationally acclaimed group the “10,000 Maniacs” and as a solo artist.  The name of the band comes the from the Maniacs 1987 album “In My Tribe” that contained the hits “What’s The Matter Here”, “Like The Weather”, and “Don’t Talk”, just to name a few.  Every concert will weave it’s way between Maniacs songs and Natalie’s solo material, and between hits, hidden gems and other rarities.