The African Artists’ Community Development Project and the Chikumbuso Widows’ and Orphans’ Project are collaborating to produce a concert this July in order to raise awareness and funds for Zambian children, widows, and artists. Please come to the Vineyard Haven Library Tuesday night, July 7 at 7 p.m. to learn about these two organizations. Help us wage peace.
The Chappaquiddick Summer Music Festival concludes on Thursday, August 13, with a performance by the Split Second Piano Duo, comprising Marc Peloquin and Roberto Hidalgo.
Split Second, described by the New York Times as “gifted [and] musically curious,” has been offering works for four hands at one piano and two pianos for over a decade. The program will include works by Bach, Brahms, Virgil Thomson, Frederic Rzewski and David Del Tredici.
On April 4, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School Minnesingers performed at the Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association Festival, and despite this being their first return to the festival in ten years and singing pieces of the highest-rated level of difficulty, they excelled, and were awarded by the association a bronze medal. Congratulations go out to the Minnesingers; their director, Janis Wightman and their accompianist, Melanie Sroka.
Tonight is the annual Tabernacle concert from the Vineyard Sound, the Island’s summer a cappella men’s chorus since 1992. Showtime is 8 p.m.
Drawing members from colleges and universities across the Northeast, the Vineyard Sound present superb singing, inventive arrangements, and engaging humor. The group’s repertoire ranges from traditional songs to classic Beatles tunes, from Van Morrison to Martin Sexton, from gems of the 1980s to contemporary radio hits.
On the heels of his highly successful new release, Toolin’ Around Woodstock with Levon Helm, master guitarist Arlen Roth teams up with daughter Lexie for an evening of acoustic music at the Yard, Sunday, Sept. 6 at 7 p.m. The program will include Roth’s current radio hit version of Layla, as well as songs from his upcoming all Dylan and all Simon and Garfunkel discs.
Kaleidescope Dance will make school more fun (and inspiring) than you ever imagined, when it presents the 14th annual spring show on Sunday, May 31, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the performing arts center at the regional high school.
A concert called Shipwrecks, Pirates and Mermaids, with songs and stories tied to seafaring around the Vineyard, begins at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 30 at the Whaling Church in Edgartown.
The event is a fund-raiser for the Martha’s Vineyard Preservation Trust and the Martha’s Vineyard Museum. Admission is $15, children and seniors $10.
The Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society concludes its 39th summer season with a pair of concerts on Monday, August 17, at the Old Whaling Church, and Tuesday, August 18, at the Chilmark Community Center, featuring violinist Roger Wilkie, cellist Antonio Lysy and pianist Delores Stevens, artistic director of the music society.
Sunday, May 3 is Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday, and as part of a worldwide celebration of the man and his music, Featherstone Center for the Arts in Oak Bluffs will host a free concert. The event begins at 4 p.m. Tristan Israel, Nancy Jephcote, Mark Lovewell, and Paul Thurlow will perform songs both written and made famous by the legendary environmentalist, civil rights activist, and folk singer.
