Music

Not Just a Young Man’s Game, Rock Band Serendipity Keeps the Beat

Katie Ruppel

Chuck a choo choos, shooby doo wop dee wops and wah wah oohs echoed in Merrily Fenner’s basement at a band rehearsal for Serendipity, the Island’s...

2:44 pm, July 22, 2013
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Music Festival Returns for 42nd Encore

Ivy Ashe

Everybody growing up in the small town of Kingman,  Kans., took piano lessons, Delores (Dee) Stevens, 83, explained, sitting at the table of her...

3:16 pm, July 18, 2013
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Paul Thurlow Plays Jazz

The Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven will be pulsating with the beat of world jazz sounds as pianist Paul Thurlow brings friends Nancy...

6:23 pm, July 17, 2013
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Songs and Stories for Kids by Kid at Heart

Mark Lovewell is a journalist and photographer who has traveled all over the world and the Vineyard writing stories and chronicling aspects of the...

5:49 pm, July 17, 2013
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Reelin' in the Years and the Hits, All Star Jam Rocks Out for a Friend

Nicholas Bradley

On Saturday night the opening guitar licks of Steely Dan’s Reelin’ in the Years poured out the doors of Hooked in Oak Bluffs and the crowd roared...

4:30 pm, July 17, 2013
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Back in Swing of Things, NRBQ Headlines Flatbread

Nicholas Bradley

From rockabilly to pop, rock and blues to jazz-rock, New Rhythm and Blues Quartet, NRBQ, can just about play it all. Founded by pianist Terry Adams...

11:36 am, July 17, 2013
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Spreading the Ladino Love on-Island

Nicholas Bradley

Ladino music is a multicultural experience. A unique blend of Spanish and Hebrew lyrics, Mediterranean instrumentation and Arabic rhythms, it...

11:18 am, July 17, 2013
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Master Class, Marilyn Horne Helps Give Opera Full Voice

Olivia Hull

Marilyn Horne has no plans to travel to Martha’s Vineyard this summer, but her influence and musical genius will arrive in the brain and muscle...

5:06 pm, July 15, 2013
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Benefit for Kidney Disease is Smokin'

A new event for the Vineyard this summer is the On The Vine Festival, which will bring musical artists Smokey Robinson and Natalie Cole, among other...

2:42 pm, July 11, 2013
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Super Group Jam at Hooked

Hooked in Oak Bluffs is baiting the hook with some serious musical talent on Saturday night. Former members of Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers,...

2:00 pm, July 11, 2013
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Songs in Praise of Whaling Church Mural

This past spring Margot Datz completed work restoring a mural at the Old Whaling Church in Edgatown. The three-month project brought back to life the...