Art
Comedian Scott Blakeman is back on the Island (he always seems to arrive with a hurricane) to treat Island audiences to a large dose of political humor.
Mr. Blakeman’s show is entitled Liberal Jew: The Comedy of Scott Blakeman. This, of course, is an indication of the show’s leanings, but no worries, in the world of politics and humor, all sides are fair game.
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Shephard Fine ArtSpace in Oak Bluffs is hosting the first of what hopefully will not be the last exhibition of its kind. The show features artists with Island connections who are showing for the first time on the Vineyard. They include Colin Ruel, Rick Lazes, Jonathan Klenner, Dylan Sean Murray, and Percy 14e Wright.
KCT Concerts Has the Medicine
This weekend KCT Concerts gets going again with a show featuring Richie Stearns and special guests Willie Watson from Old Crow Medicine Show and Rosie Newton of the The Pearly Drops and the Evil City String Band. Now there’s a cool name for a band.
The Vineyard Haven Library is not going gently into that fall season.
On Tuesday, Sept. 6, at 7 p.m. the library hosts a lecture by Saloma Furlong entitled Why I Left the Amish. Ms. Furlong was born and raised in an Amish community in Ohio, but decided she had to leave to pursue a different type of life which included a formal education. She graduated from Smith College in 2007 and recently left her position at Amherst College to pursue her writing career full-time.
Ms. Saloma will discuss what it was like to live and leave the Amish lifestyle.
Mass in the Grass
The fourth annual Labor Day celebration and cookout at Grace Episcopal Church in Vineyard Haven gets underway at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 4, at the big tent on the rectory lawn.
There will food, ice cream, jazz music, and an announcement of a new effort in conjunction with the TogetherNow campaign, to address critical infrastructure needs.
The church is located at the intersection of Woodlawn and Franklin avenues.
For more details, call 508-693-0332.