Music
A proposed music festival at the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks ballpark got a preliminary but unanimous thumbs-up this week from the regional high school committee, owner of the park on school property in Oak Bluffs.
The Old Whaling Church in Edgartown resounded with music and applause over the weekend as the Island Community Chorus presented its spring concerts, opening with a powerful performance of Misa Criolla.
The Island Community Chorus returns to the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown this weekend, with a pair of concerts centered on the 1964 liturgical work Misa Criolla by Argentinian composer Ariel Ramírez.
On Saturday, Stillpoint in West Tisbury will host screening of Cabin Music and a concert by the subject of the film, James Carson, and local musician and piano technician David Stanwood.
After a special screening of A Complete Unknown, the new Bob Dylan biopic, Menemsha resident Jane Slater recalled her memories of hosting Mr. Dylan when she lived in Greenwich Village in the 1960s.
The West Tisbury select board voted 2-1 last week to allow the annual event, but said the festival could have no more than 300 attendees – less than half of what the festival had hoped for.
