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Virtual MLK Day celebration planned in Springfield

Five organizations are participating in the annual Martin Luther King Day celebration in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Community Music School of Springfield
Five organizations are participating in the annual Martin Luther King Day celebration in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Event will be live-streamed

There will be a Martin Luther King Day celebration Monday in Springfield, Massachusetts.

For the second year in a row, the annual event is being staged virtually.

Put on by five community organizations, the celebration is highlighted by hundreds of young people performing music, dance, and theater.

WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Eileen McCaffery of the Community Music School of Springfield.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.