Virtuoso Guitarist Plays Dive Bar
Jersey Shore-based musician Pat Guadagno will perform two shows on Friday and Saturday, June 5 and 6 at the Dive Bar on Circuit avenue in Oak Bluffs, located between the Ritz and the Lampost. The club, formerly known as the Rare Duck, has been a tour stop for Guadagno for over 15 years. “I stopped in this little club and met John Cruz, we played together, and I have been coming back every year since,” he says.
Energetic dancers of all ages lit up the stage on Sunday evening for the 14th annual Kaleidoscope Dance spring concert, the first to be held at the Performing Arts Center at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. Kaleidoscope Dance, under the direction of extraordinary choreographer Laura Sargent Hall, displayed a wide variety of dance, ranging from exquisite ballet pieces to eclectic gymnastics-inspired sequences. All came under the theme of the recital: School Days.
Grace Church welcomes the Wes Nagy Jazz Ensemble at their 11 a.m. Worship service on the Day of Pentecost: Sunday, May 31. Under the leadership of keyboardist Wes Nagy (who also happens to be the Director of Music at Grace Church), the ensemble will perform a medley of jazz music and will also accompany the congregational singing that day, which will feature hymns from Lift Every Voice and Sing, an African-American hymnal of the Episcopal Church.
Kaleidescope Dance will make school more fun (and inspiring) than you ever imagined, when it presents the 14th annual spring show on Sunday, May 31, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the performing arts center at the regional high school.
Unusual sounds are coming out of the normally sedate Up-Island Senior Center at Howes House this Monday afternoon in May. Shortly after a barefoot man jumps out of a van to unload a set of conga drums, the rhythms from palms and sticks start to reverberate throughout the building.
Piano Concerts
Rebekah Nivala, an 18-year-old pianist from Vineyard Haven, will be presenting two piano concerts this Memorial Day weekend, and both are open to the public.
The first performance is at 4 p.m. on May 23 at Grace Episcopal Church in Vineyard Haven, with a reception to follow. Donations accepted. The second is at 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 24, at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown.
Music featured in the concerts will include works by Beethoven, Schumann, Bach, Messaien and Corigliano.