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Learn more about the Black and Afro-Indigenous families of Amherst in our special exhibit at the Amherst Historical Society & Museum.

Please join us for the first South Asian Fall Festival in Amherst on Saturday, November 5th from 3:30 to 6:00 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst in downtown Amherst.

This delightful spooky program for the Hallowmas season depicts ghost encounters, witches’ dances, mad songs, fantastic beasts and more. You’ll hear ghoulish masquing tunes by Campion and Johnson, bizarre instrumental works by Picforth and Lawes, eerie tales of supernatural beings and fairy mayhem, and we’ll take a 17th-century trip to the Moon. We round out this unearthly program with our original settings of broadside ballads about Tom o’ Bedlam’s deranged exploits and the midnight antics of mischievous Robin Goodfellow. Will good magic win in the end? Masks required indoors. Join us outside for cookies and cider after the show! Agnes Coakley Cox, soprano, percussion Karen Burciaga, violin, guitar, voice Dan Meyers, recorder, flute, cornamuse, percussion, voice David H. Miller, bass viol, voice Nathaniel Cox, theorbo, voice Matthew Wright, lute, voice