The Chappaquiddick Summer Music Festival continues its 2008 season on Thursday, July 31 at 8 p.m. with a performance by Trio Solisti. The program includes Copland’s Hoe-Down, Schoenfield’s Cafe Music, Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, and the trio’s highly acclaimed arrangement of Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition.
Acclaimed concert pianist Sarah Haera Tocco makes her Vineyard debut with virtuosic Romantic masterworks in a Piano Recital at the Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs on Saturday, May 24, at 8 p.m.
Grace Potter is two hours into her summer tour and she’s already laughing. The woman who throws herself at a Hammond B-3 organ with a force that can only be described as feral retains her cheerful sense of rock and roll social awareness.
“Yeah, we’ve got a new vehicle,” she reports. “A sprint-er.”
A Sunday matiné e musical puppet show for all ages at Che’s Lounge will feature musical monkeys who love to dance and play, with their friends Bella and Arakataka’s Little Band. Are You Looking for Bananas? is the name of this happy play about a musical land where musician monkeys live and enjoy life.
The play and its songs are written by Bella and they are performed live in both English and Portuguese by Bella and Carol Loud, a music teacher for children.
The Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company> will present Mayne Mentshn, a poignant celebration of family life in a complex world, on Saturday, May 24, at 6:30 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center
Tickets are available at several levels. Admission for $100 includes premium seating and a post-performance supper party with the cast at the home of the president of The Yard, Emerita Elanie Miller, in Vineyard Haven. Tickets also are available for $50 for premium seating and $10 for general admission.
If you weren’t one of the lucky 200 who showed up at the Tabernacle to see the first and likely-to-be annual Martha’s Vineyard Jazz Festival, then you missed out. It was the last event of the summer to be held at the Camp Ground but certainly not the least.
Touring musicians are supposed to say they like the venue they’re about to play.
John Cruz and the Island?
You can’t shut him up.
“Yeah, I was in Amherst at University of Massachusetts and a friend I gigged with always summered there and told me the Vineyard was perfect for my music,” the Hawaiian born performer songwriter said by phone this week from Oahu.
“Two things kept me there. One, I fell in love with the place and, two, the bonito, man. I fell hook, line and sinker for fishing bonito and the derby.
Katie Mayhew, 16, of West Tisbury will perform with the Boston Pops on Wednesday, June 18, at Symphony Hall. The Pops will be conducted by Keith Lockhart. Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell will perform the same evening.
Katie is one of six semi-finalists in the Pops High School Sing-Off. She will sing Being Alive, a song from the Broadway musical Company. She and two other semi-finalists will perform that night. The three other semi-finalists will have performed the night before.
After dusk on July 24, I ran up Look street in a downpour, searching for the party. I knew I had found the right place when I saw the ubiquitous Vineyard white-painted wooden parking sign — the one that usually reads “Reserved for: Norton” but read instead, “Reserved for: Rabbi.” I was coming to hear Alicia Svigals and the Klezmer Fiddle Express perform at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center in Vineyard Haven.
