Rosin Up That Bow
Seven years ago, the Irish fiddle player Oisin Mac Diarmada came to Martha’s Vineyard to play with his newly formed group Teada. It was the band’s first concert in the United States. Islanders in attendance that evening were rewarded with not just an outstanding evening of traditional Irish music. They also witnessed the birth of a band that would go on to earn top ten album honors of 2006 by MOJO magazine.
The second annual Martha’s Vineyard Songwriters Festival last weekend combined pop and country BMI hit-makers in exclusive live music lineups and intimate settings, adopting the overwhelmingly successful approach of the perennially popular Key West Songwriters Festival. The event is designed to introduce top BMI pop and country songwriters not only to a wider audience, but to one another as well. While attendees soaked up performances from the composers behind the hits, the performers took advantage of the retreat-like setting and established new creative partnerships.
Salsa Classes
Get in shape while learning to move as if you’ve got undies full of earthworms. Yup, it’s salsa time again on the Vineyard.
The basic beginner course is on Tuesdays at the high school for the month of Oct. from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Learn basic steps and timing for salsa, merengue and Latin partner dancing.
Eighties Benefit Has Got the Beat
Were you that guy or gal Holding Back the Years while hoisting 99 Luftballoons at your White Wedding full of Karma Chameleons? Or maybe, instead, you were the Owner of a Lonely Heart because Sister Christian said Girls Just Want to Have Fun and then she started Dancing in the Dark with Mr. Roboto to the heat of St. Elmo’s Fire. Well, it Gives Love a Bad Name, right, all this Dancing on the Ceiling, but even if you do Blame It on the Rain, the sad fact is you miss doing the Wild Thing.
Satsang Lounge
Come to the cabaret, my friend, come to the cabaret. Billed as the Satsang lounge the Yard will be hosting this modern day art extravaganza featuring musicians, performers, dancers, artists, writers and filmmakers on Saturday, Sept. 18. Essentially, a smorgasbord of creative mediums.
What to expect? Who knows, except for the unexpected. This is the first edition of Satsang Lounge on the road. The lounge began at the Wesbeth Theatre in New York City and now calls Los Angeles home.
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