Open Mike at Island Co-Housing, a new monthly series that continues Friday, Feb. 1 at 6 p.m., is designed to encourage any and all youngsters to play and enjoy each other’s music.
When organizer Paul Lazes read an article in the Gazette a few months back about surveys revealing the alarming attempted suicide rate at the high school, he decided he needed to take action. “It is my firm belief that a vibrant music scene of young performers is achievable on the Vineyard,” he said.
Best known for his playing of Appalachian music, multi-instrumentalist Bruce Molsky has spent decades learning from the masters of the old-time music tradition. On Friday, June 13, he’s bringing that fiddle, banjo and guitar music to Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven courtesy of the KCT Concert Series.
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.
A latter-day Odetta, with her low, low voice, singer-songwriter Melanie DeMore has shared stages with Pete Seeger, Sweet Honey in the Rock, and John Prine. Now you too can join with her singing.
Island music teachers are bringing Ms. DeMore back for the All-Island Choral Festival next week, when she will give her popular workshops not only to students but also, for the first time here, to adults. The workshop is free and open to any singers, on Tuesday, Oct. 6, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the high school chorus room.
The Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society continues a popular holiday tradition this Saturday, Nov. 28, presenting its annual Thanksgiving weekend concert at 7:30 p.m. at the Whaling Church in Edgartown.
Pianist Delores Stevens, the music society’s artistic director, has invited three notable artists to join her in a concert program that will feature two great quartets from the classical repertoire: Beethoven’s Piano Quartet, Opus 16, and Fauré’s Piano Quartet in C Minor.
He carries in his fingertips the rhythms of the world, from the Caribbean calypso that cries out from his old beat-up steel drum, to the Cuban guaguanco (wa-wan-kó) that comes from his congas, to the Brazilian sambas he lays down in layers. The samba he teaches in parts — one, for instance, he taps out to the phrase, “I like pizza, all kinds of pizza” — to groups of elderly Parkinson’s patients, to preschoolers, to prisoners and to people with cerebral palsy.
Falmouth Academy seniors Janaye Rooney and Clea Baumhofer, both of Vineyard Haven, will perform and have solos with Falmouth Academy’s Chamber Orchestra for Holidays at Heritage, at concert at Heritage Plantation in Sandwich on Friday, Dec. 11 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Falmouth Academy’s orchestra will play Corelli’s Christmas Concerto Grosso and two movements of Schubert’s fifth symphony.
Singer-songwriter Nancy Jephcote will entertain at the Vineyard Playhouse’s second Spoon in the Moon Coffeehouse, on Friday night, Dec. 4 at the playhouse on Church street in downtown Vineyard Haven.
Ms. Jephcote will be featuring songs from her new solo album, Garland of Rain. With an exquisite voice, profound lyrics and imaginative instrumental arrangements, her delivery is always genuine. In her own words, “this is genre-bending, folk-imbued original music with heart and spirit. The lyrics carry my experience, strength and hope.”
WVVY 93.7 LPFM Community Radio and the Mediterranean restaurant have announced the first annual Halloween Hellraiser, a party to be held at Mediterranean in Oak Bluffs, off Seaview avenue, on Halloween night. Doors open at 8:30 p.m. With music from the Gypsy Sound System and featured WVVY deejays, a buffet dinner, and a costume contest with a $500 first place prize, this may be the go-to party for Halloween night, as well as a great opportunity to help support community radio on Martha’s Vineyard.
