This show is free and accessible for all ages.
Donations accepted.

PETE NELSON is a writer with over 30 books and 200 articles or short stories published in national magazines. His novel, I Thought You Were Dead (Algonquin, 2012) was a NEIBA best- seller and his non-fiction history Left For Dead was an ALA “Reading Is Fundamental” pick and won the Christopher Award in 2004. Nelson is also a songwriter, with two albums, THE RESTLESS BOYS CLUB and DAYS LIKE HORSES, on the Signature Sounds label. Maine public radio called Nelson “America’s best undiscovered songwriter.” LAST REQUEST; A LOVE STORY is drawn from two novellas Nelson published in The Iowa Review.

LAST REQUEST; A LOVE STORY is a story of love, loss, and lessons learned. Katie Fitzgerald has returned to her childhood home to take care of her mother, Kedney, who is in hospice. To make the time pass, Kedney comes up with a game and challenges her daughter Katie to write a musical about her life, “and then you can sing it to me while I die.” Kedney’s extraordinary life was filled with passion, drama, humor, poetry, and for Katie, one significant surprise. Katie, who tells the story, wants people to understand, and help her remember who her mother was.

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TRACY GRAMMER is a nationally-touring singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actor and writer based in Greenfield, Massachusetts. In 2018, after 12 albums and 20 years on the road, she joined the Pioneer Valley’s theatre community by way of Greenfield Community College, and remains as active as her music career will allow, appearing most recently as Mrs. Kendal in GCC’s production of THE ELEPHANT MAN (May, 2022) and as Bessie in Westfield Theatre Groups MARVIN’S ROOM (Oct. 2022).