Celebrations everywhere as we careen into the last days of the year where all the holidays are all overlapping with each other. 

And as such, we’ll hear about the ways you can observe and connect with community for one of the newest of the season’s holidays: Kwanzaa. This year the Kwanzaa collective is already in the midst of their many celebrations and we’ll hear about the holiday’s origins, it’s lessons, and it’s importance in a land where holidays that center african diasporic community are actively being targeted. We’ll find out where the western mass Kwanzaa celebrations are happening with Ayanna Crawford and Dr. Amilcar Shabazz.

Plus we’ll introduce you to not one, not two, but THREE of the acts you can catch on the very last day of the year at Northampton’s First Night Celebrations, with the synthy post rock plurality of Teen Driver, the combined forces of the jangly 90’s rock influenced Couchboy, and the straightforward rock of Daniel Hales of Frost Heaves and Hales to bring even more music into our studios.