Building Bridges Through Song
Bill Eville

Roberta Kirn finds songs wherever she goes, a wandering minstrel for music as part of her Song Exchange Project.

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Yard’s Winter Season Brings Light Into the Darkness
Landry Harlan

The Yard is on a mission to help Vineyarders beat the winter doldrums with dance.

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Swedish Fish and Quartet San Francisco; a Strings Supergroup
Landry Harlan

Quartet San Francisco has been visiting Island schools this week to perform and play music with students, in a program sponsored by the Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Society.

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LadyFest Rocks With the Beat of Solidarity

Throngs of music lovers crowded a closed down Circuit avenue in Oak Bluffs Saturday night to celebrate Island women in music.

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Women Take Center Stage at LadyFest Music Festival

LadyFest returns on Saturday evening for its second year, featuring female musicians from all over the Island and raising money for Connect to End Violence.

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Band on the Run, Up Circuit Avenue

This Saturday, Sept. 8 is the ninth annual Best Fest. There will be dancing in the streets, or rather street: Circuit avenue.

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Jazz and Blues Summerfest

The Martha’s Vineyard Jazz and Blues Summerfest kicked off on Thursday, August 30.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Introducing Slammy B and the Electric Snakes
Bill Eville

On Thursday, four 14 year olds defied expectations and age limits when they strutted into the Ritz and instead of being tossed out started tuning up.

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Ageless as the Music He Performs
Louisa Hufstader

The golden era of reggae and rock-steady gleamed again for two hours at the Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center August 13, when Toots & the Maytals delighted their audience with a concert featuring many Jamaican hits from the 1960s and 1970s.

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Mavis Staples Still a Force On Stage and Everywhere
Louisa Hufstader

With a lifetime of musical activism and nonviolent resistance behind her, Mavis Staples still sings for peace and justice.

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