The Martha’s Vineyard Film Society is becoming much more than great movies, comfortable seats and state of the art sound. It’s also a concert hall. On Saturday, Dec. 15, the Daytrippers, the Island’s home-grown Beatles band, will be performing on the stage of the center. During the performance, clips of the original Fab Four will play behind the band on the big screen.

Last year Erika Van Pelt made it to the top ten on American Idol. This meant in addition to an incredible run on national television for one of the singers of Martha’s Vineyard’s own Sultans of Swing, she spent the summer touring the country with the rest of the idols. Tonight she returns to the Vineyard to sing with her old bandmates at Dreamland in Oak Bluffs.

On Sunday, Dec. 16, beginning at 4 p.m. the 11th annual Songs of Peace and Hope and Light concert will be performed at the Hebrew Center in Vineyard Haven. Actually, performed does not do the program justice. For part of the concert the audience is invited to join in and make their own voices heard as part of a community sing.

Christian McNeill and the Sea Monsters used to play Sunday nights at the Precinct in Somerville. The weekly gig was voted Best Ongoing Residency.

Recently Mr. McNeill moved to the Vineyard and this Saturday, Dec. 15, at 8 p.m. he will be playing at the Pit Stop in Oak Bluffs. This will be a mostly solo affair; the Sea Monsters will be haunting some other locale. Nina Violet opens the show.

Bay scallops are again being shipped to the mainland after a slowdown in the market two weeks ago. On Nov. 30, several local handlers of wholesale seafood reported having difficulty finding markets on the mainland, with some shellfishermen told to stay out of the waters until demand increased.

As of last week, lines to the mainland had been reopened.

A mechanical Santa wrote with a quill inside Moonstone Jewelers window, a mannequin fashioned a poinsettia dress in Alley Cat’s and a toy train zipped around photographs of snowy Vineyard days inside Island Art Gallery.

All were admired by the crowds assembled on Main street in Vineyard Haven on Tuesday, but Mix’s storefront — adorned with vintage toys stuffed in coffee cups — earned the best window award, given by four high school art students.