I used to go see concerts at the Iron Horse in Northampton across the river from Amherst, and even fifteen years ago, it was insufferably leftist. Can’t imagine going there now.
I saw BB King and Kenny Wayne Shepard at the college auditorium. There were only about a hundred people. The concert rocked. I used to have to commute through the U Mass campus daily, nice town on the surface just don’t scratch too deep.