In 1940, at just 23, a young Southern writer — a woman no less — wrote a novel that somehow captured the racial tension and moral isolation of those times in Georgia with such compassion, apprehension, tenderness and humanity that it still inspires today.
Her name was Carson McCullers and the book was The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
Spoon in the Moon Coffeehouse at the Vineyard Playhouse begins its second season on Saturday, Dec. 18.
The Playhouse, in association with Hummingbird Productions and Kate Taylor, presents Tish Hinojosa in a concert titled, From Texas for a Christmas Night.
Tish’s chart topping hits include Something in the Rain and By the Rio Grande. She will perform at 8 p.m.
Admission is $20 and advance tickets are on sale now through the Playhouse Web site, vineyardplayhouse.org.
The Chappaquiddick Summer Music Festival continues on Thursday, August 12 with a recital by soprano Jeanine De Bique, accompanied by pianist Keun-A Lee, at 8 p.m. at the Chappaquiddick Community Center.
Miss De Bique’s recital will include Cinq Mélodies Populaires Greques by Maurice Ravel, songs by Hugo Wolf and Fernando Obradors, Ah! non son io che parlo by Mozart, and selected spirituals. A reception follows the concert and everyone is invited to attend.
Last spring, the performance artist, dancer and choreographer Mary Paula Hunter staked out a storefront window space in New York city and covered herself and her fellow dancers in food products. The commissioned piece was called We Are Karen Finley, after the outrageous, and oft labeled obscene, legendary performance artist.
This weekend Mary Paula Hunter arrives at the Yard with a group of youthful collaborators in a program entitled JUMP!
On Thursday night, soprano Jeanine De Bique told the story of a woman torn between her loyalty to her family and her love for a man whose family ties made him enemy to her own. She asked that the gods strike her down with lightning, “because it’s better to be dead, I guess, than to be in love,” said Ms. De Bique. She told another story of a woman who found herself unexpectedly pregnant by a cold, cruel man, and the heartbreak that ensued.
Reflections of Shakespeare, a concert of music, poetry and dance, will be presented by Boston’s Row Twelve Chamber Music Ensemble free to the public on Saturday, Oct. 16, at 5:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center.
The performance is a gift from Row Twelve to the Island community, and supported in part by the Martha’s Vineyard Cultural Council in collaboration with the Massachusetts Cultural Council and by MPRI, in memory of Robert Hansen.
The thing Martha’s Vineyard NAACP branch president Laurie Perry-Henry likes best about the jazz band Pieces of a Dream was their sense of togetherness and common purpose.
“That’s our theme for the NAACP, is One Nation, One Dream,” said Ms. Perry-Henry in an interview this week. “It’s almost prophetic in nature,” she said of the common values shared by the national civil rights group, and the smaller, musical one.
It’s just a few nights before the darkest day of the year, at least in the earthly sense, when along comes this amazing experience, full of light in every way. It’s free buoyancy. It’s a way to put your sense of isolation in isolation. A way to get out of the noise of The Holidays and into the rhythm of your heart.
It may be a cliche on the radio, but around the piano at a Circuit avenue barroom sing-along on Monday night, the audience sang the old Billy Joel lyrics with nuance and exuberance: “Sing us a song, you’re the piano man, sing us a song tonight.” David Crohan was playing his Kurzweil electric piano.
What could be better? Well, soonafter Mr. Crohan was accompanied by his old friends Hugh Taylor and Merrily Fenner and more.
There was a sacred energy on stage last Saturday at Nectar’s when John Forté took the stage alongside his good friend Ben Taylor, Ben’s sister, Sally Taylor, and their mother, Carly Simon. It was a little like peering into someone’s living room. There was a banter on stage that you didn’t want to interrupt and yet wanted to be part of, hoping someone would clue you in on the inside jokes and sideways glances.
