Wailing for Hunger
At 11 p.m. on Sundays in summer reggae music rumbles underground, three concrete steps beneath Circuit avenue in Oak Bluffs at the Dive Bar. The boom and song of Peter Tosh, Mavado and Sean Paul, earlier sealed surreptitiously in this sunken saloon, swell and rupture to the streets as the party peaks in size and vibrancy.
In 1965 when Rhonda Coullet (nee Oglesby) was crowned as Miss Arkansas, she decided in the third month of ribbon-cutting that her duties lay on the frivolous side (presumably Queen Elizabeth could jump to this same conclusion, but England isn’t Arkansas). The young beauty queen caught the next ride out of Lafayette County to become a singing star in Hollywood.
Dance for Radio
Community Radio WVVY(93.7) will holdits annual summer fundraiser on Thursday,August 20,at Nectar’s.
The lineupfeatures Willy Mason and friends includingKahoots, with WVVY deejays between sets and starting the evening off with some greatdance music.
A free piano recital by Amaryllis Glass will precede the film screening Tuesday, August 18 at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs, They Came to Play, an award-winning, uplifting feature-length documentary chronicling the International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs. The film is at 8 p.m. and the recital begins at 7:30 p.m.
The Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society concludes its 39th summer season with a pair of concerts on Monday, August 17, at the Old Whaling Church, and Tuesday, August 18, at the Chilmark Community Center, featuring violinist Roger Wilkie, cellist Antonio Lysy and pianist Delores Stevens, artistic director of the music society.