Community
Tashmoo Benefit
The second annual Tastes of Tashmoo fundraiser to benefit the restoration of the historic 1887 pumping station at the head of Lake Tashmoo will be held on July 17 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the waterfront home of Denys and Marilyn Wortman. The event will include a silent auction as well as music by Christine Box, Ray Frazio and Tristan Israel. More information and tickets are available by calling 508-696-4202 or e-mailing [email protected].
Featherstone Center for the Arts presents its annual fundraiser, Art Under the Stars, on Monday evening, July 7, at Farm Neck on County Road in Oak Bluffs. The evening gets under way at 5:30 p.m. with cocktails and appetizers. The premier event is The Art of Living Auction. The invitation explains it this way: “There is art and artistry in a comfortable home, a thriving garden, a lovingly prepared dinner, a healthy body and time spent enjoying the things that matter with the people who mean the most to us.”
The African Artists’ Community Development project will be selling crafts from Ghana, Niger, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe on Tuesday, July 8, at the Grange Hall in West Tisbury from 5 to 9 p.m. Items for sale include baskets, woven grass ceremonial cloth, Tuareg silver jewelry, malachite jewelry, carved wooden bowls and salad servers, animal and human sculpture, brilliant khanga printed cloth and more.
The Island Community Chorus will open the 2008 season of programs at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs with a concert at 8 p.m. this Saturday, July 5.
The chorus of more than 100 voices, under the direction of Peter Boak and accompanied by L. Garrett Brown at the Tabernacle’s nine-foot Steinway piano, will present a program of music designed for the holiday weekend, music whose variety pays tribute to the richness of the American experience.
David Stanwood is back in business and invites his old friends and prospective customers to visit his piano shop off Lambert’s Cove Road this Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for a get-reacquainted open house.
Mr. Stanwood, 57, runs Stanwood and Company, a piano restoration, piano tuning and repair operation that has been around for 30 years.
The internationally acclaimed St. Petersburg Quartet opens the 38th summer season of the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society with performances at 8 p.m. on July 7 and 8 — Monday at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown, Tuesday at the Chilmark Community Center.
The concert program includes Alexander Glazunov’s Three Novelettes, opus 15; the String Quartet in E-flat Major by Antonin Dvorák, and with the chamber society’s artistic director, Delores Stevens, joining the group on stage, the Piano Quintet by Dmitri Shostakovich.