Aug 29, 20258 minS0
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. Enjoy!
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Valley Voices
Hosted by Vanessa Cerillo · arts · EN
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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What is Valley Voices about?
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.
Who hosts Valley Voices?
Valley Voices is hosted by Vanessa Cerillo. The show has published 20 episodes to date.
What has Valley Voices covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Valley Voices Summer Shorts: Killing Me Softly Because of My Song" (29 August 2025, 8 minutes), "Valley Voices Summer Shorts: Tuesdays with Lois" (22 August 2025, 7 minutes), and "Valley Voices Summer Shorts: Peace on Wheels" (15 August 2025, 7 minutes).
How often does Valley Voices publish?
Valley Voices publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 12 minutes across 20 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Valley Voices?
Booking probability for Valley Voices is 20%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Valley Voices requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Valley Voices's contact route on record: verified email.
Who should pitch Valley Voices?
The strongest fits for Valley Voices are Artists, Writers & Performers. Valley Voices has an arts audience.
About the host
Vanessa Cerillo hosts Valley Voices, an arts podcast with 20 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Valley Voices
Valley Voices Summer Shorts: Tuesdays with Lois
Aug 22, 20257 minS0You 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 Voices Summer Shorts...
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Valley Voices Summer Shorts: Peace on Wheels
Aug 15, 20257 minS0This week on NEPM’s Summer Shorts podcast, Ruthy Woodring gets existential about her love of bike riding.
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Valley Voices Summer Shorts: Messy Desks
Aug 8, 20258 minS0When 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 and gets a peek...
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Mother Teresa and a Pit Bull
Aug 1, 20257 minS0On 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 language warning - you...
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True Therapy Crime
Jul 25, 20258 minS0Jennifer 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.
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Valley Voices Summer Shorts: It's Going To Be Fine
Jul 18, 20258 minS0Another 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.
- Jul 11, 20257 minS0
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 those feelings are...
- Jul 4, 20259 minS0
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 chance to re-think his...
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Valley Voices Summer Shorts: Talking Trees
Jun 27, 20258 minS0As 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 one of the most...
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Valley Voices Summer Shorts: Gratitude Lists
Jun 20, 20257 minS0Up 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!
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Suite Disaster
Jun 13, 20257 minS0Storyteller 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.
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Best of Season 10
Jun 6, 202527 minS0It’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! There were great...
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Elementary
Apr 18, 202521 minS0NEPM’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 at the Shea Theater...
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Valley Folklore
Feb 28, 202523 minS0NEPM’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 is a very...
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Toasted
Feb 7, 202524 minS0NEPM 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 that’s a clink of...
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Best of Season 9
Oct 18, 202425 minS0This 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! There were great...
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Bad boys are my weakness
Aug 30, 20246 minS0For 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 a really incredible...
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Girl meets boy
Aug 23, 20247 minS0Rachel 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” from our “Missed...
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Valley Voices Summer Shorts: Who ate my salami?
Aug 16, 20247 minS0This 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.
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Jennifer Baker
Associate Vice Provost and Director of Athletics & Recreation, George Washington University's Program on Extremism
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Paul McNeil
Head of Development, Steppe Consulting
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Matthew Dicks
bestselling author and master storyteller
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Chris Bell
Senior Vice President of Global Channels, Alliances, and Business Development, Grace Baptist Church in Monroeville, PA
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