Trees

In a warming world, places like Amherst can be an oasis where townsfolk have creatively added more shade to lessen the harm of what are known as ‘heat island effects.’ These are places that have warmed more intensively than surrounding rural areas and where air-conditioners, furnaces and heat from vehicles tend to trap the heat in a more concentrated way in places like a downtown. 


(Verse 1)
In the heart of Amherst's summer glow
On sidewalks warmed where the traffic flows
Folks gathered with shovels, sleeves rolled high
To plant the saplings where the heat wouldn't lie
They said let the concrete cool in twilight's light
Let branches rise and hold the storm of night

(Chorus)
Amherst in the shade, that's where we'll be
Under maple, oak, and linden tree
We're sowing hope in every root and spade
Turning heat to calm in Amherst in the shade

(Verse 2)
On Stanley Street they dug last June
By Northampton Road, under the rising moon
Echo Hill and West Street joined the call
Planting for the future, for one and all
From Town Hall's front to Orchard Valley lane
They built a cooler world so we might remain

(Chorus)
Amherst in the shade, that's where we'll be
Under maple, oak, and linden tree
We're sowing hope in every root and spade
Turning heat to calm in Amherst in the shade

(Bridge)
The townsfolk's hands in the earth so fine
Recognizing roots as a cooling line
The pavement yielded, the machines slowed down
When branches whispered in our shared small town
And children running through dappled light
Know the future by the green we brought to fight

(Verse 3)
Years from now when those saplings stand tall
We'll recall this day, we'll remember the call
We softened the city with leaf and breeze
In Amherst's corners we found our ease
No longer just concrete, cars and heat alone
But song of the leaves, a cooler home grown

(Chorus)
Amherst in the shade, that's where we'll be
Under maple, oak, and linden tree
We're sowing hope in every root and spade
Turning heat to calm in Amherst in the shade

(Outro)
So gather your gloves, pick up your spade
In Amherst's sunshine the future is laid
Under the branches that together we raise
We'll find a kinder town in summer's blaze
Amherst in the shade - we're home again
And the shade we planted will be our refrain

Amherst in Shade

October 18, 2025 Home FixIt show

11182025  October 18, 2025 Home FixIt show

Last one till Spring! Today is a fun one at the end theres a blooper reel from Ann and Julie doing all the commercials, and Ann talks about how they dont just go into hibernation the nursery is actually busy busy, just a heads up for Christmas and thru new years, the store will be closed, always call ahead if you arent sure! A reminder this week is the last show until Feburary, a big thanks for listening! And don't forget, The Farmers Market has concluded this season so no more until next year,thanks again to the farmers and families who make it so special!

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Clinton Parkway Nursery Garden Show 10 - 25 - 2025

You ain't nothin' but a troublemaker, girl!

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Oh Debra, written by James Werner

Lead vocals and lead guitar - James Werner
Background vocals and rhythm guitar - Jared Gentile
Background vocals and bass guitar - Maddie Henke
Drums - Spencer Lemann

Album Art: A still from a video filmed by Andrew Sproge at What the Zone?! an event put on by Freak Nature Puppets and hosted by Rabbit Hole Warriors. This, spliced with a still from a video of Spencer Lemann, filmed by Jared Gentile, in which he was playing a chord he wanted documented.

Oh Debra Trees Rehearsal 9.1.25 (Sped)

Face in the trees - DEMO ness

The Gardens Between The Pillars

The Gardens Between the Pillars is one of five movements of The Elemental Cycles, where each cycle uses a primary element as the principal character.  In fact, all five cycles are considered works for “cinema for the ear.”  For this cycle, the sole element used is wood, including sound images pertaining to wood.  There are books and creaky doors, wood surfaces where steady and irregular footsteps walk, the flow of trees pertaining to The Pillars, as well as divine and earthly creatures, and pure and warpy, rough music to accompany this cinema for the ear.

The Gardens, first and foremost, are made up of interior and exterior scenes, motions and projections, and the emergence of figurative and explicit sounds from the decentralization of The Pillars.

In search of a narrative, doors open and close, pages turn,
The duality of images that represents:

Theory and Knowledge
Beauty and Violence
Life and Death
Temptation and Enlightenment

The duality of these sound-images contains the same motion ‘not two’: Advaya
The Pillars points at transcending this duality through 
The reallocated sound images, sound function, and motions
As ways to navigate The Gardens Between

The Pillars¬ are the paths, which reveal the interconnection of the natural, the inter-complexity of the nurtured, and the intervening of scenes through insertion
Which often feel that what is represented is horrific and cruel

We recognize from the far plane The Gardens as a gestalt labyrinth
Up close we perceive the many, many paths and narratives
Between The Pillars, we are presented implications of sounds that have neither beginning nor end

A wanderer severed from illusion in the infinite forest
An area of the Everblossom trees, a life of fleeting beauty 
It is the worldly sculpture of the Bas and High-Relief 

Realms of the Divine and Mortal

An immersion of boundless rhizome—a chiasmus of sonic ascription
An immersion of all materials of wood perceived 
A duality must be understood to walk the way broadly 
And you will hear it in everything 


The Gardens Between The Pillars

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Below average intellegence, above average beats

David Quang-Minh Nguyen is an audio engineer, sound designer/re-recording mixer, and composer of concert music. His current interests lie in composing acousmatic works that explore multi-channel loudspeaker expansion, various types of sound spatialization, and immersive audio.

Recognized nationally and internationally, David has had his works presented at the June in Buffalo New Music Festival, where he received individual master classes with Harvey Sollberger, Martin Bresnick, Roger Reynolds, and Brian Ferneyhough. He was an active participant in the Festival DME under the direction of Åke Parmerud, Musique & Recherches Académie d'été de composition électroacoustique under the direction of Annette Vande Gorne and João Pedro Oliveira, and the Sounds Around Me Festival under Thomas Gorbach. He was also selected by Master Artist Robert Normandeau for a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.

His works have been presented at more than fifty national and international events, and he is a laureate or finalist in numerous competitions.  He has been published on ABLAZE Records' Electronic Masters Vol. 7 and received an honorable mention at the XII° Destellos Electroacoustic Competition 2019 for his work Misprints.  He also placed 2nd in the XIII° Destellos competition for Adumbrations, was a finalist for the PRIX CIME 2019, and won 2nd place for the ASCAP/SEAMUS Award for his work Weight Stranding. In 2021, his SEAMUS-commissioned piece Whale Song Stranding was selected for presentation on the SEAMUS 31 CD and received the Ars Electronica Forum Wallis selection.  David was awarded the Prix CIME 2023 Residency Award for Whale Song Stranding.  His work Texture Arc the Points won 1st place in the ULJUS Međunarodno Pijanističko Takmičenje Smederevo Competition and 2nd place in the prestigious Concours Biennal de Composition Acousmatique Métamorphoses.

David Q. Nguyen holds a BM from Old Dominion University, where he studied with Andrey R. Kasparov and Mark Chambers.  He also graduated at the top of his class from The Omega Studios School of Applied Recording Arts & Sciences with a focus on Audio Engineering in the Music Industry and Film/Television.  He has received his Master and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where his primary teachers are Reynold Tharp, Erik Lund, Eli Fieldsteel, Sever Tipei, and Scott A. Wyatt.

I write songs about my community in Western MA, Science, Nature and the Nature of Things

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