Valley Voices

Valley Voices

Vanessa Cerillo

Episodes 20
Avg. Duration 7m
Activity Dormant
Since Aug 2024
Latest Episode Aug 2025

Publishing Details

Schedule
Weekly
Format
Episodic
Hosting
www.nepm.org

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About This Podcast

Our podcast features the outrageous, funny and heartwarming true stories told by your friends and neighbors at Valley Voices Story Slam events throughout western Massachusetts. Valley Voices Story Slam is presented by New England Public Media and the Academy of Music Theatre.

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Recent Episodes

Valley Voices Summer Shorts: Killing Me Softly Because of My Song

Aug 29, 2025 7m

We’re wrapping up this season of Valley Voices Summer Shorts with a story from Michael “Buster” McMahon complete with examples of his karaoke prowess and a mob boss with a carnation in his lapel.…

Valley Voices Summer Shorts: Tuesdays with Lois

Aug 22, 2025 6m

You wouldn’t think that being part of “the definition of a hot mess” would be a sweet memory, but Tara Bronner brought us right there in her story “Tuesdays with Lois”. That’s this week’s Valley…

Valley Voices Summer Shorts: Peace on Wheels

Aug 15, 2025 7m

This week on NEPM’s Summer Shorts podcast, Ruthy Woodring gets existential about her love of bike riding.

Valley Voices Summer Shorts: Messy Desks

Aug 08, 2025 7m

When you know you are the “keeper of a messy desk”, might as well just own it! Angela Combest is this week’s storyteller for NEPM’s Summer Shorts podcast. She looks back on a memory from grade school…

Mother Teresa and a Pit Bull

Aug 01, 2025 7m

On NEPM’s Valley Voices Summer Shorts this week, Sarah Madden shares her story “Mother Teresa and a Pit Bull” including a few memories of her early days of teaching. This one should come with a…

True Therapy Crime

Jul 25, 2025 7m

Jennifer Baker is up next in NEPM’s Valley Voices Summer Shorts podcast. At our “Valley Folklore” story slam this season, Jennifer takes a look at an unexpected guest who showed up at her office.

Valley Voices Summer Shorts: It's Going To Be Fine

Jul 18, 2025 8m

Another veteran storyteller this week for NEPM’s Valley Voices Summer Shorts podcast. Paul McNeil takes a minute to examine his life’s philosophy while in the back of a cop car.

Valley Voices Summer Shorts: The Smartest Bird The World Has Ever Seen

Jul 11, 2025 7m

Jessica Geil takes us back to elementary school on NEPM’s Valley Voices Summer Shorts podcast this week. She seems to be remembering a lot of emotions that were specific to her situation, but somehow…

Valley Voices Summer Shorts: Dancing With the In Laws

Jul 04, 2025 8m

This week on NEPM’s Summer Shorts podcast, veteran story slam participant Matthew Dicks takes a look at one night from the past that could have been just embarrassing, but in the end gave him a…

Valley Voices Summer Shorts: Talking Trees

Jun 27, 2025 7m

As part of NEPM’s 10th season of our Valley Voices Story Slam, we asked for people’s “Valley Folklore” - tales about the unique place that we all live.Helene Busby went to Hampshire College, surely…

Valley Voices Summer Shorts: Gratitude Lists

Jun 20, 2025 6m

Up next in our Valley Voices Summer Shorts podcast season, it’s Valerie Reiss with a story about her and her dad that swoops from the present to the past and back again. Enjoy!

Suite Disaster

Jun 13, 2025 6m

Storyteller Wesley Blixt kicks off 2025's Summer Shorts season of Valley Voices from NEPM - check out his nostalgia for his younger days and how they led him to where he is now.

Best of Season 10

Jun 06, 2025 26m

It’s the Valley Voices Story Slam podcast: We had the winners of season 10’s Story Slams on stage at the Academy of Music in Northampton in April. And now we present to you - the Best of Season 10!…

Elementary

Apr 18, 2025 20m

NEPM’s latest Valley Voices podcast presents the winners of our Story Slam on the theme “Elementary”. We let the storytellers elaborate on what that meant to them, and then invited them up on stage…

Valley Folklore

Feb 28, 2025 22m

NEPM’s latest Valley Voices podcast presents the winners of our Story Slam on the theme of Valley Folklore that we hosted at the Iron Horse in Northampton. The Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts…

Toasted

Feb 07, 2025 24m

NEPM is celebrating 10 years of hosting nights of live storytelling that we call Valley Voices Story Slams. For the first slam in our 10th season, we figured we wanted to be “toasted” - whether…

Best of Season 9

Oct 18, 2024 24m

This time on the Valley Voices Story Slam podcast: We had 10 winners of season 9’s Story Slams up on stage at the Academy of Music in Northampton. And now we present to you - the Best of Season 9!…

Bad boys are my weakness

Aug 30, 2024 6m

For our final Summer Short story of the 2024 season, we bring you Susan Bartfay and her story “Bad boys are my weakness”. Some people just have to recount things that happened in their life to bring…

Girl meets boy

Aug 23, 2024 7m

Rachel Leventhal Weiner is up next in NEPM’s Summer Short podcast series. She takes out an old personal memory set to the back drop of a quite public memory that we all share. Enjoy “Girl Meets Boy”…

Valley Voices Summer Shorts: Who ate my salami?

Aug 16, 2024 7m

This week in NEPM’s Valley Voices Summer Shorts podcast series, we reach back to our Whodunit? story slam last fall to hear from Judy Gutlerner and the life perspective she got from a household mixup.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many episodes does Valley Voices have?

Valley Voices has published 20 episodes since August 2024, covering topics in Arts.

Is Valley Voices still active?

Valley Voices is currently dormant with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 7m.

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