Island audiences are welcoming Billy Baloo back to the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, where the Island-grown musical made its debut to sold-out houses last October.
The new musical Billy Baloo has quickly become a hit for the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, which is adding five more performances Oct. 23 through Oct. 28.
Island singer-songwriter Michael Mason spent more than half a century writing his musical play Billy Baloo, which opened this weekend at the Martha's Vineyard Playhouse.
Singer/songwriter Willy Mason spent New Year’s Eve 2019 at Signal Corps Recording in Brooklyn. At 11:30 p.m., he, producer Noel Heroux, and sound engineer Rachel Alina completed mixing the songs that would become Mason’s new album, Already Dead. It was a good way to end one decade and usher in a new one.
Then the global pandemic hit.
Jemima James and her son Willy Mason shared the bill as the Martha’s Vineyard Museum kicked off its 2021 Music in the Courtyard series.
Close to 100 Islanders of all ages, including entire families with children in pajamas, turned out for Willy Mason’s concert at the West Tisbury Public Library.