Arts & Entertainment
They come from all over the country, staying for one or two weeks or up to a full month. They explore Edgartown from their home base at the former Point Way Inn. Some of them work in their rooms, others find a nesting spot in one of the many elegant downstairs parlors. For dinner they might bring home scallops from the Net Result, ingredients for a pasta Siciliana, and share the meal pot-luck style in the formal dining room, which is two stories high and lit up like a stage set.
Mother’s Day weekend and the beginning of spring are coming together for one extravaganza taking place all over Edgartown. The Pink & Green weekend runs from May 10 to 12 and is celebrated with shopping, noshing and even dancing at numerous locations. Sponsored by the Edgartown Board of Trade, the colorful weekend gets the season going for local businesses while offering special deals and events for visitors and year-rounders. It all starts this Friday and ends sometime after the Mother’s Day brunches and the last second-look at the boutiques on Sunday.
The Island’s littlest musicians take center stage as the All-Island Spring String Concert begins at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, May 20, at the Performing Arts Center at the regional high school.
The concert is free and offers a chance for all the Island elementary schools to showcase their talent at the world premiere of Rock On by Nancy Jephcote. As per tradition, the evening ends with a Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star finale.
The Hebrew Center in Vineyard Haven is hosting The Long Point 5 on Sunday, May 19, at 4 p.m. The quintet of Vineyarders will perform music ranging from jazz of Duke Ellington and Jelly Roll Morton, rags of Scott Joplin and a little Argentinian tango. The group consists of John Schilling on trumpet, Jim Athearn on trombone, Julie Schilling on clarinet, Bud Larson on flute and Jeri Larson on keyboard.
In honor of Memorial Day, Jonathan Auerbach will bring his second annual Brave Women, Brave Men benefit concert to the Vineyard beginning at 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 26, at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center in the Tisbury Market Place, 79 Beach Road in Vineyard Haven. Mr. Auerbach will peform original music along with vocalist Carole Charlin and percussionist Alejandro Carreno. Local veterans will also attend the concert.
The Arts at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center will present the San Francisco-based early music ensemble Passamezzo Moderno in a concert of 17th Century instrumental music from Rome using original instruments. The concert will be held in the Harriet B. Freedberg Learning Center at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center, 130 Center street in Vineyard Haven, on Thursday, June 13 at 7:30 p.m. It is sponsored by the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society.
