By day, Alan Williams is the chair of the music department at University of Massachusetts Lowell where he coordinates the music business program, teaches courses in music business and serves as advisor to all music business majors.   Read More >>

Concord Film Project opens with "The Visitor;" Nashua Library stages "Food Fight: Inside the Battle for Market Basket"   Read More >>

NASHUA, N.H. -- The 86th season of the Nashua Community Concert Association begins Saturday, Sept. 24, with The Kat Trio from Ekaterinburg, Russia -- Victoria Gorbich on violin, Vladislav Gorbich on clarinet and Joseph Ross on piano.   Read More >>

Not to get all Casey Kasem right from the get go, but music holds a power over us unlike anything else in our lives.   Read More >>

North Sea Gas, a Scottish folk band, performs at Westford PCA on Saturday; Mistral kicks off its 20th season with "The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind" in Andover on Sunday   Read More >>

Fifty years is a long time and with the passage of time comes the building of a legacy. For Donovan (full name Donovan Philips Leitch, father of actor Donovan Leitch and actress Ione Skye), he's spent the past 50 years building a musical catalog that's virtually unmatched.   Read More >>

CHELMSFORD -- On Saturday, Sept. 24, at 7:30 p.m., the Nick Goumas Quintet returns to the Chelmsford Center for the Arts' Cabaret Café for some cool jazz. Joining saxophonist Goumas are Steve Hunt on piano, Bruce Gertz on bass, Ken Cervenka on trumpet, and Jack Diefendorf on drums.   Read More >>

This week, we're putting the spotlight on an emerging act still in the nascent stages of her career. Nicole Pelletier is a 13-year-old (she'll turn 14 this weekend) freshman at Pelham High School. Pelletier, who goes by the stage name of Nicole Michelle (the latter being her mother's first name), is a singer-performer who has released videos for a half-dozen songs on YouTube and is in the process of recording her first album.   Read More >>

CHELMSFORD -- On Wednesday, Sept. 14, the Joy of Paint series returns to the Chelmsford Center for the Arts with Black Eyed Susans. Join resident artist Trina Teele for a single session, family-friendly painting class -- completed in one night.   Read More >>

Exactly 40 years after his first recording aired on the popular Dr. Demento syndicated radio show, "Weird Al" Yankovic is not only still an active recording artist, he's actually enjoying the biggest popularity of his career.   Read More >>