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On Saturday, Dec. 17, Suzanne Vega performs at The Academy of Music in Northampton.

Suzanne Vega is telling New York stories in her songs these days. Having moved to the city with her family at age two, New York remains the center of her axis. While attending college uptown in the late 1970s and early 1980s, she began playing the downtown folk circuit and became the first of the Fast Folk movement to record an album. A rarity at the time, her acoustic guitar-centered second album in 1987 sold more than a million copies […]