Shelburne Falls News

Mohawk sophomore Holly Mae Brown, a local pop-country singer from Charlemont, is heading for Boston on June 22, for a live, call-back audition for the television show "The Voice." The NBC singing competition/reality show seeks to find aspiring new talent, age 15 and over, through public auditions.

However, she didn't start her professional life thinking about flowers. "After I graduated from the College of the Atlantic, I got a fellowship that allowed me to spend a year traveling around the world, focusing on agricultural issues.

The unofficial start of the summer season begins tonight as many families prepare to hit the road to celebrate Memorial Day weekend with some hiking, biking, boating or picnicking.

This immaculate and updated Ranch style home is located on a picturesque pond where the water views are simply breathtaking.

Well, we're coming up on the unofficial start to the summer season - can you believe it? It wasn't that long ago that I was counting down the last of our snowstorms that had been predicted by our local precipitation prognosticator.

In a career that spans 14 years, the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from western Massachusetts has released eight full-length albums, three EPs and performed an average of 200 shows a year.

LITTLE BIG HOUSE GALLERY, 323 Patten Road, Shelburne. 625-6697, www.littlebighousegallery.com . Season opening show.

"We're looking for extras for a movie being made by Warner Brothers," Aaron Kahl, casting director for Boston Casting, told the crowd.

Boston Casting will hold an open casting call for the upcoming movie "The Judge" starring Robert Downey Jr.

Nearly 40 years after its first release, "Root Hog or Die," the Franklin County documentary film on the last of the old time horse farmers in Western Massachusetts, re-appears on the big screen in Shelburne Falls.

Singer-songwriter Erica Wheeler remembers growing up in suburban Maryland, where her father imbued her with a sense of curiosity about the stories behind everything they encountered.

Of the occasion, Fanale writes, "I read the poetry of great masters - in this case Rumi and Hafiz and follow this by playing improvised piano responses coming from the feelings and inspiration produced by the poetry itself." Darling's "Musical Bill of Rights," reproduced below, is surely a document designed to ensure that absolutely no one be left ... (more)

On May 31, between 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., film cameras for the upcoming Warner Bros.' film "The Judge" will be shooting aerial views of a funeral procession down the village's main streets.

BASE CAMP PHOTO, 22 Riddell St., Greenfield, 413-475-340. Limited-edition photographs by internationally known contemporary photographers from the photography project called collect.give , which gives 100 percent of its sales to charity.

CASTING CALLS is a free listing of creative opportunities in our area that runs on a weekly Entertainment page.

Boston Casting plans to hold an open casting call for the upcoming movie The Judge, starring Robert Downey Jr., in Shelburne Falls, MA on Saturday, May 18.

Recorder/Paul Franz Phyllis Labanowski and Jane Beatrice Wegscheider stand in the Arts Garden in Shelburne Falls amid works in the Rx 4 HEALth exhibit.

Big Kid Pictures in association with Team Downey are gearing up to begin filming on the Warner Bros.

Board members Liz O'Keefe and Jesse Martinez hold up the cake marking Wheel Estates' new establishment date a resident-owned park.

Boston Casting Inc. will hold an open casting call for Shelburne Falls area residents for scenes that are to be shot for the movie this summer.