Next Monday night Jemima James will treat the public to the kind of concert that regularly takes place in her own home. With two musically accomplished sons (her older is currently touring Europe with Norah Jones) and Ms. James an Island legend in her own right, she has become a matriarch of sorts for the Vineyard folk music scene. It is a scene that is surprisingly young and vibrant and a perfect match for the Musical Mondays summer series at the Featherstone Center for the Arts.
Still On a Mission from God
Missing your soul men? Well, weep no longer because the Official Blues Brothers Revue will be rocking the pews at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs this Thursday, July 1 at 8:30 p.m.
Art and Music
You know it’s summer in Edgartown when you hear the music ringing out from the porch of the Eisenhauer Gallery. This is the gallery’s 10th year, and it continues its summer concert series with the Mike Benjamin Band’s return to the courtyard on Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m.
Practicing Arts Alchemy at the Yard
What do you get when you cross the bad boy of downtown dance with Carmen Miranda, Lenny Bruce, and a whole bunch of hard working bodies? Another tour de force show from the Yard, of course. This weekend the artistic love child of Patricia Hoffbauer and Mark Dendy, entitled Para-dice, pushes the boundaries of dance, theatre and performance.
Musical Mondays
The jazz, funk and blues guitar of Jon Zeeman and Friends will kick off Musical Mondays at Featherstone Center for the Arts on June 28.
It’s BYO lawn chair, blanket and picnic basket to the greens of the arts campus on Barnes Road, not far from the blinker in Oak Bluffs, each Monday evening from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Admission is $7 for adults or $5 with Our Island Club card; children are free.
The Pews Are Alive . . .