Arts & Entertainment
Despite being a part of one of the most famous musical families in America, “Sister Kate” Taylor has had a career uniquely her own. After recording three albums and going out on nation-wide tours in the 1970s, Ms. Taylor decided to settle into a quieter life on Vineyard, where she spent several summers in a teepee with husband Charlie Witham and their growing family.
Four well-known organists will be performing at the First Baptist Church in Vineyard Haven on the evening of Friday, August 14, at 7:30 p.m. Martha Child, Philip Dietterich, David Rhoderick and Nancy Rogers will play the old Hook and Hastings organ. Edson Rogers with his trumpet will take part in this musical program, along with several vocal soloists. There is no admission charge; a free-will offering will be received and used toward the maintenance and repair of the organ.
You can bring the kids for the stilt walkers and jugglers, for the popcorn, pizza and face-painting, for all the under-the-big-tent fun that is Cinema Circus at the Chilmark Community Center every Wednesday at 5 p.m. The main act, of course, is the movie. This week the film is Where is Winky’s Horse? and here to review it is Island kid critic Zen Hughes.
For more on the 8 p.m. grownup film, Soul Power, with a question and answer session hosted by director Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, see below.
A love story with mythological heroes, shipwrecked kings, queens, witches, a drunken sailor and a famous death scene plays this weekend at the Yard in the form of Dido and Aeneas, a 50-minute opera sung in English. There will be dancing, action sequences and a string quintet.
And of course there will be its famous aria, Dido’s lament, When I Am Laid in Earth, which has been performed by artists as far from opera as Klaus Nomi, Jeff Buckley and even (as a Trance mix) Armin van Buuren.
Ashley Medowski Show at Saltwater
Ask about Keith Farm, one of Island artist Ashley Medowski’s new works, and she says, “It’s a serene picture you can dive into.”
Diving in is exactly what you want to do with Medowski’s mixed media assemblages, works you might call paintings-plus.
Keith’s Farm features in the foreground a three-dimensional mosaic stonewall made out of tiny beach stones; if you could just dive past it, you could get to that pond and ocean flirting from the background.
Big Screen Babe at the Farm
After the sun goes down on the Farm Institute in Katama tonight, August 7, the beloved barnyard classic film, Babe, will go up on the big screen, mounted on the side of the Farm’s horse barn by the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society. Given the special venue, filmgoers are asked to bring beach chairs, blankets and dress appropriately. And be prepared to share the theatre space with the ducks, sheep and turkeys who live nearby.
