Arts & Entertainment
The Martha’s Vineyard All-Island Junior High Band earned a gold medal at the Great East Music Festival.
Despite fierce opposition, Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival leaders said they intend to follow through with plans to buy a tract of residential farmland in West Tisbury.
The winners of the 2016 Best of the Vineyard awards will be announced Thursday, June 9 by Martha’s Vineyard Magazine.
The Vineyard Sinfonietta will be hosting a concert called From Bach to Beatles. The musicians will include 12 Vineyarders playing strings and woodwinds.
A bronze fertility idol on a marble base stood at the entrance to the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury this weekend, greeting visitors to the 27th annual Family Planning Art Show
A 12.5-acre residential property off Old County Road is slated to become a permanent home for the film festival, the organization said, although no plan has been presented yet.

