The Other Side
An Interview with singer-songwriter Melissa Ferrick
There is a hum and buzz circling through the rafters of the packaged room. It is the eve of my 35th birthday. I’m in the iconic Iron Horse music venue in Northampton, Massachusetts waiting for Melissa Ferrick’s show to begin. It will be one of her last shows for the next few years as she enters Harvard University Graduate School of Education and moves o…