Arts & Entertainment
A Cappella
The Vineyard Sound’s two-hour Farewell to Summer final concert for the season will be Saturday at the Old Whaling Church, starting at 7:30. General admission is $15; reserved seats, $20. For tickets or details, call 1-866-VIN-SOUND.
Smooth Jazz
Enjoy an evening of contemporary chamber jazz in Vineyard Haven on Sunday, with a new jazz ensemble consisting of professional musicians from West Tisbury and Chilmark: Eric Johnson on electric and nylon-string guitar, Tauras Biskis on percussion, and Boaz Kirschenbaum on fretless bass guitar.
The concert is on August 22 at 7:30 p.m. at the Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven. The program will feature the music of Pat Metheny and Jaco Pastorius.
Uncovering Carnal Knowledge
Carnal knowledge is a legal euphemism for sexual intercourse. It is also the title of a movie made in 1971 that included this bit of dialogue: “Boys begin life not liking girls, later they don’t change, they just get horny.”
Rough stuff but that’s the world so many movies of that era dealt with. Unflinching in their portraits of the human condition, many say it truly was, if not the golden age, then definitely the slap in the face, punch in the gut decade of cinema.
Singing the Stories
Ulali, the Native American a cappella singing group. has performed nearly everywhere: the Smithsonian’s Folkways 50th Anniversary Gala at Carnegie Hall, Woodstock 94, the Hollywood Bowl, the New Orleans Jazz Festival, Madison Square Garden, even the Olympics. They have traversed the world too. From Fiji to New Caledonia; Portugal to Brazil.
And on Wednesday, August 25, at 5:30 p.m. they play the Aquinnah Cultural Center.
We sat in a circle trying to make each other laugh. The tent at the Yard in Chilmark provided a writers’ den for the 11 fledgling or developed comedy writers who signed up to take Anne Beatts’s comedy workshop last week.
Gould Gallery
No need to be at sixes and sevens — the Wall Street World Cup sailor turned photographer, painter and gallery-owner Louisa Gould has not got the seven year itch. Rather, she’s hit lucky seven, and the grown-up gallery at 54 Main street, Vineyard Haven is celebrating with a seven-year anniversary party on Saturday, August 21, from 5 to 8 p.m.
