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ColliderFest, 130 Pine Street, Northampton, MA (2026)

05/12/2023

GOOD NEWS to temper the bad news. This weekend's Collider!fest at Bombyx has been cancelled, and while we can't move the whole festival, our friends at Hawks and Reed Performing Arts Center in Greenfield have stepped up and the Friday night musical lineup will happen there TONIGHT.

Tickets will be at the door only on a $20 to $50 sliding scale; it's up to you. NOTE: Your Collider!fest ticket has been, or will soon be, fully refunded and you will need to purchase a new ticket at the door tonight. Unfortunately we have been unable to reschedule Saturday's performers.

Doors 7PM
Brad Barr 8PM
Amayo + Orchestra 9:30
Dragonchild X Sunken Cages 11PM

All Ages

05/12/2023

Friends— Due to truly unforeseen circumstance we are forced to cancel this year's ColliderFest. We are not happy and we are so sorry to disappoint you, the artists, the vendors, and everyone else who worked so hard to make this happen. If you have tickets, your purchase will be refunded in full to your original payment method. Give it 3-5 business days to appear on your statement.

05/04/2023

“Spiritual, cosmic, and groove-happy” - Bandcamp

Danny Mekonnen (dragonchild) calls it world-building: “What can you put in a world, so that it feels like the world? [The world] has to be large, but it has to be bounded, right? It has to have some shape, otherwise it won’t feel real.”

The world in question is a composite of two artists — Ethiopian-American saxophonist D.A. Mekonnen and Indian-American percussionist/producer Ravish Momin. They share a love for African music and its infinite potential for experimental expression. The music swirls out of nostalgia for their cultural heritage and a never-ending quest for a bigger, more diverse musical picture.

On the first night of collider!Fest, they’ll offer two sets of music in Bombyx’s intimate Peacock Room. Think Pharaoh Sanders, Flying Lotus, Ethiopiques; a Love Supreme remixed with heavy beats. The vibe is transcendent.

05/03/2023

Ready to get your spirits lifted? is here with us on the second night of collider!FEST with a joyful and raucous reinterpretation of bachata, merengue, and other Afro-Dominican roots music remixed from his childhood on the island. Part of a pan-Latin lineup also featuring and .

Collider!FEST is co-presented by .productions and .noho with crucial support from our sponsors and presenting partners: , , , , , , , .us , and .

05/02/2023

Beat-maker, rabble-rouser, and ecstatic singer with a wide range of influences, from her Puerto Rican and Cuban roots to R&B, electronica, hip-hop, and jazz. “I think my signature sound is a collage of different musics coming together on a visceral level, connecting the dots with my voice and imagination.”

Get ready for a very special set of music. joins her friends and for the second night of collider!fest — a tropical explosion of sonic inspirations from Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rica, and Cuba.

Collider!FEST is co-presented by .productions and .noho with crucial support from our sponsors and presenting partners:

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04/30/2023

This is the sound of Joropo. This is the sound of Mafer Bandola’s Pipiris Nights.

If you’re Venezuelan, it sounds like home. If you’re Mexican, it might sound like son jarocho to you — they are musical cousins, both in 6/8 time. And if you’re completely unfamiliar, well — joropo sounds like energy and life — rhythmic, percussive, and thundering.

Pipiris Nights is a monthly portable community house for Joropo in NYC. The word literally means ‘party’ in Venezuela. It is a diaspora home for Venezuelan ex-pats, though everyone is invited of course. For Mafer, who permanently relocated to NYC recently, it is a passion project of the highest order — a way of bringing home to where she is.

When she isn’t teaching in the community or playing with (who hit at Carnegie Hall tonight), the gifted Bandola llanera player and composer is teaching the world about joropo — a genre of music popular in Venezuela that is almost inexistent in the US. The style has African, native South American, and European influences and is a male-dominated musical form.

She joins us on the second night of collider!fest this year with her Pipiris Band — catch the dance lessons at 6PM followed by two sets of high energy, joyful music on the second stage. Guaranteed to open your heart and get your blood flowing.

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04/29/2023

Collider!Fest is is in just two weeks! Please join us in welcoming the lion 🦁 of afrobeat — the former frontman of Antibalas who is forging his own path with original members of the band this year — Duke Amayo.

If it hadn’t been for AMAYO , the afrobeat revival might have never happened at all. The young Duke came to the US from Nigeria on a soccer scholarship when he was 17 years old. In his words: ““I moved to NYC, opened up my Afrospot temple where I taught Kung Fu, put on fashion shows and where two guys came in and asked me to join a band. We were Antibalas. The rest is history.”

On Friday night, the Duke and his ensemble bring their positive spirit and New Afrika Shrine energy to .live . LFG ❤️‍🔥

Collider!FEST is co-presented by Secret Planet, Western Mass and Laudable Productions with crucial support from our sponsors and presenting partners:

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04/28/2023

WORKSHOPS ARE UP! There are four of them this year, on both Friday and Saturday. Pull up and learn something new — your brain, heart and body will thank you. They are ticketed individually or you can pick up the all access festival pass and save a bunch of moolah. Check it all out at www.bombyx.live/collider-fest

Collider!FEST is co-presented by .noho and .live with crucial support from our sponsors and presenting partners: , , , , , , , .us , and .

04/26/2023

We’re pretty damn excited about all of the artists coming to collider!FEST this year — but you’ve gotta start somewhere, so lets start with the very first notes of music we’ll hear — the one and only Brad Barr (of the BARR BROTHERS and The Slip) kicks off the fest on Friday night with the only genuinely sit-down set of the weekend.

Things will get wild and weird later, but first we have a single guitarist on stage to focus our collective energies and activate our listening centers. The Montreal-based artist is best known for his improvisational and compositional work, spanning three decades, with the avant-rock band The Slip and the experimental folk group The Barr Brothers.

(Brad is also teaching a guitar workshop on Saturday morning)

04/01/2023

ColliderFest workshops are live this morning! Get your tickets for these separately, or pick up the full weekend + workshop pass.
🎟: https://bombyx.live/collider-fest/

✨ 5/12 Friday. Mekonnen & Momin: Global Music, Improvisation & Technology. Learn some Indian rhythmic patterns, some Ethiopian melodic scales, and how to start integrating electronic technology into your music. All levels welcome. The workshop will get the participants involved in clapping and singing rhythms and melodies. It will also delve into the process of taking traditional music forms into the digital realm.

✨ 5/13 Saturday Brad Barr: Combining Familiar Song Forms with Experimental Improvisation. How can musicians find ways to straddle the line between conventional songwriting and more complex, progressive melodies? How does one find the balance between loose, unstructured improvisation and the necessary windows and walls of a ballad? We’ll walk the ridgeline together and explore some entry points. All levels welcome. Bring a guitar if you like (optional). Coffee and cider donuts included.

✨ 5/13 Saturday Richie Barshay Body Percussion Workshop. Where does rhythm live in your body? A crash course in body percussion and movement, designed to enhance your groove and rhythmic creativity. For music enthusiasts and musicians at any level looking to practice their rhythm skills and gain more familiarity with drumming in general. The class will tap into eastern and western traditions of movement and rhythm, cultivating a more grounded sense of musical time and the beat. Led by Richie Barshay (Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Esperanza Spalding, The Klezmatics).

✨ 5/13 Saturday Joropo Dance Workshop with Mafer Bandola. “Joropo”, which means “party” in Venezuela, is perhaps the country’s most celebrated musical form. In the “llanera”, or plains, it is played hard and fast, and the dancing is inseparable from the music. Mafer Bandola, a female pioneer in the male-dominated musical tradition, brings joropo to Western Mass for the very first time with her Pipiris Band. The power-house bandola player of the pan-Lat-Am female group LADAMA resides permanently in New York City now, where she’s created a “portable community house” for Venezuelan expats through music and dance. She’s looking forward to giving curious Collideristas a crash course in the philosophy, structure, and movement in the music prior to the band’s two sets in the Peacock Room.

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