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The River’s Showboat with Joan Holliday is your guide to local and regional concerts and festivals. Want to be CAPTAIN of the Showboat? We’re giving one lucky listener a pair of tickets to concert or festival a month for a year – including VIP tickets to Boston Calling plus weekend passes to the Green River Festival and the Fresh Grass festival at MASS MoCA! A year of incredible music…for FREE! Just enter right here.

ImageSponsored by DSP Shows, bringing great concerts to local venues like the Academy of Music or Pines Theater in Northampton, and Gateway City Arts in Holyoke. Check out their latest shows right here.

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