No, thats not a Texas dance band. Its how MA Democratic gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick plans to spend Saturday, May 21st. He’s coming to the western wing of Massachusetts — making appearances in North Adams, Pittsfield, Northampton, and Greenfield.

This is his first visit to this part of the state since he electrified the MA Democratic Platform Convention in Lowell last weekend with his oratory. Here is what two western Mass bloggers had to say about the speech:

Noho-missives declared: “I’m biased, but I think the story of the convention is the emergence of Deval Patrick as a genuine star in the Massachusetts Democratic party. I was helping with floor activities and was visibly a supporter (wearing the neon t-shirt that was visible from any part of the arena) — after he spoke, many fellow delegates came up to tell me how much they liked the speech…. Patrick fit in very well with Ted Kennedy and Howard Dean, both gifted orators.”

Michael Wilcox says, “reading it on the screen won’t evoke (unless you were there) the visceral reaction produced by his delivery to an arena in which thousands of people were screaming, “yes, we can!”