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.
The Island Community Chorus has been rehearsing since before the ferry rates went down, since before the fall Derby began – in fact, since the week public schools opened on the Vineyard – in preparation for this weekend’s holiday concerts at the Whaling Church.
Billed as the perfect blend of Joni Mitchell and Ella Fitzgerald, singer-songwriter Sarah Blacker will take the stage Friday, Nov. 6, at the Vineyard Playhouse for a new monthly entertainment called Spoon in the Moon Coffeehouse.
More than 150 young musicians will play such favorites as Georgia on My Mind, Charlie Brown’s Linus and Lucy and African Bell Carol in the all-Island winter concert on Wednesday, Dec. 16, at 7:30 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center at the regional high school. Admission is free, and the show lasts under an hour.
He is a seasoned pianist with an Island legacy that echoes through the streets of Oak Bluffs, where he spent a 20-year run entertaining guests at David’s Island House. She is a teenage singing prodigy who won the chance to perform with the Boston Pops, a homegrown celebrity just beginning to leave her footprint on the musical world.
The Vineyard Sinfonietta will present selections ranging from Handel and Corelli, to Beethoven, Chopin, Benjamin Britten and even a modern piece by Island resident Heidi Schultz at a concert at the Trinity Methodist Parish House in the Camp Ground in Oak Bluffs on Wednesday, Dec. 16, at 3 p.m.
This well-established Island amateur classical and Pops string ensemble will perform Ms. Schultz’s composition Contemplation, featuring Island cellist Jan Hyer, who will be accompanied by the rest of the group.
Chris Velan is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, lawyer and producer of the soundtrack to the documentary film, Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, called Living Like a Refugee. He’s also an environmentally concerned musician, and he’s making a stop on his North American tour to play at Nectar’s nightclub at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport for a concert to benefit Plum Hill School’s effort to build a permanent and eco-green home for the school here on the Island.
