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.
The choir of First-Plymouth Church, UCC of Lincoln, Neb., under the direction of Dr. John C. Cummins, will present a 30-minute concert on Friday, June 6 at noon at Trinity United Methodist Church in Oak Bluffs.
The concert will include music by Vierne, Viadana, Mendelssohn and Brahms. Two classic spiritual arrangements by William Dawson will be sung. All are welcome to attend. A free will offering is requested. More information is available by calling 508-645-3100.
The folk trio of Cindy Kallet, Ellen Epstein and Michael Cicone have emerged after a 15-year recording hiatus to release Heartwalk, a collection of original songs and folk favorites. While the three may have spent the past decade and a half on other projects, the warmth and sincerity on Heartwalk demonstrates they’ve lost none of the chemistry that earned them accolades on the New England folk circuit for their previous albums Angels in Daring (1988) and Only Human (1993).
As part of a new series of Choreographic Guided Tours, designed to be of interest to both the most sophisticated dance lovers and complete newcomers to the form, The Yard is honored to present an evening curated and hosted by legendary dance educator Martha Myers.
The Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School’s Rock Auction — part auction and part 1960s dance party — is scheduled for Sunday, May 25 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center.
A silent auction and hot hors d’oeuvres are set from 5:30 to 7 p.m., a live auction from 7 to 8:30 p.m., and dancing to 1960s tunes from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m.
Tim Laursen, who writes the majority of the lyrics for The Billionaires, looks through his screen porch out at the woodland behind his family’s Vineyard Haven home, and tries to explain his song-writing method.
“Okay, popping into my head right now, wood,” he says, humming a tune and then seamlessly cranking out a lyric: “Must be romantic cutting wood by hand/Put down the power tools and give me back the land.”
During the day Che’s Lounge is a quiet coffee shop with second-hand sofas and deep, sometimes springless armchairs situated at the back of an alley off Main street Vineyard Haven. In the summer months some of this furniture is dragged out under a canopy where a few regulars nurse lattes.
But by night it is one of the Island’s principle music venues.
Island born and raised, Mr. Silva has appeared on stages on and off the Vineyard for nearly 40 years, his voice a familiar throaty growl.
His public persona is the sheen on a core of enormous strength and wisdom, shaped by time and pressure.
Maynard Silva is the sum of the elements of his life code: tradition, humility, the value of relationships and of mentors. And he has a wriggling delight in our inexhaustible opportunities to experience joy in life.
A contemporary musical that chronicles the five-year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up — or from break-up to meeting, depending on how you look at it — opens Thursday for a three-weekend season at Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven.
The Last Five Years, by Jason Robert Brown (Parade, Songs for a New World), is an intensely personal look at the relationship between a writer and an actress told from both points of view.
