Grace Potter plans stop at Academy of Music

GRACE POTTER will play the Academy of Music in Northampton on March 17.

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Grace Potter performs during the opening show of The Vogel on Oct. 22, 2020, at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, N.J. She will make a stop at the Academy of Music in Northampton on March 17.

Grace Potter, who hails from Waitsfield, Vermont, has been touring with her band, The Nocturnals, since 2002. After signing with major record label Hollywood Records, Potter and her band went on to release four full-length studio albums: “Nothing But The Water,” “This is Somewhere,” “Grace Potter and the Nocturnals” and “The Lion The Beast The Beat,” with the latter two both debuting in the Top 20 of the Billboard charts.

She has also shared the stage with artists such as The Rolling Stones, The Allman Brothers Band, Robert Plant, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and Mavis Staples. Tickets are $39.50 - $69.50 and are available at aomtheatre.com.

Liner notes

• Noel Gallagher and Pet Shop Boys have joined forces on a new track.

The former Oasis guitarist and songwriter collaborated with the duo on a remix of one of the songs from Gallagher’s band, High Flying Birds. Pet Shop Boys vocalist Neil Tennant told students at Cambridge University, “We have just remixed Noel Gallagher. All collaborations are interesting. … The aim is to work with someone who makes you sound 10 times better. I would like more good singers to sing more of our songs, as I think they have great potential.”

Pet Shop Boys are open to other collaborations but don’t want to team up with artists who are just looking to be “cool.”

“I wouldn’t say no. Who knows? Ed Sheeran might suddenly come up with something. Like, if he approached us about it and had something in mind that might work.”

• Rihanna might drop

Doc’s Place: Karaoke. 1264 Granby Road, Chicopee

Southwick Inn: Open mic hosted by Steve Piper of Roadhouse Band. 479 College Highway, Southwick

The Still: Drink specials. 63 Springfield St., Agawam

West Springfield Fish and Game Club: CD jukebox, pool table. 329 Garden St., Feeding Hills

Whip City Brew: DJ with dance. 287 Elm St., Westfield

FRIDAY

Delaney House: Charlie Apicella. 3 Country Club Road, Holyoke

Doc’s Place: Karaoke. 1264 Granby Road, Chicopee

East Mountain Country Club: Union Jack. 1458 East Mountain Rd, Westfield

MGM Springfield: Free Music Fridays: Back in Black. 1 MGM Way, Springfield

The Drake: Tim Eriksen. 44 North Pleasant St., Amherst

The Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center: She Said with Katie Clarke and Larry LeBlanc. 289 Main St., Greenfield

Rihanna performs during the halftime show at Super Bowl 57 between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles Feb. 12 in Glendale, Ariz. (MATT SLOCUM / ASSOCIATED PRESS)

The Meeting House: Dave Brinnel. 827 Williams St., Longmeadow

Theodores’: Mike Laws Blues All Stars. 201 Worthington St., Springfield West Springfield Fish and Game Club: CD jukebox, pool table. 329 Garden St., Feeding Hills

SATURDAY

Delaney House: George Kaye. 3 Country Club Road, Holyoke

Doc’s Place: Karaoke. 1264 Granby Road, Chicopee

The Drake: James Maddock, The Lied

To’s. 44 North Pleasant St., Amherst

Theodores’: Brother Sal’s Blues. 201 Worthington St., Springfield

Whip City Brew: DJ with dance. 287 Elm St., Westfield

SUNDAY

Doc’s Place: Karaoke. 1264 Granby Road, Chicopee

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By K eith O ’C onnor

Special to The Republican

ADEPRESSION-ERA

dysfunctional family will be brought to life on the Majestic Theater stage in West Springfield, starting today, with their production of the Tennessee Williams classic American drama “The Glass Menagerie.”

“The Glass Menagerie,” set in St. Louis, tells the tale of Amanda Wingfield, the faded Southern Belle, who is desperate to marry off ailing daughter Laura, and worries about wayward son Tom. Saddled with the obligations left to him by his absent father, Tom, who also acts as the play’s narrator, arranges for an acquaintance, a gentleman caller, to pay a visit to Laura and sets off not only her own, but her mother’s hopes for a romantic future. Considered to be one of the most significant plays of the 20th century, “The Glass Menagerie” premiered in 1944 in Chicago before moving to Broadway in 1945. It went on to win the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award