Singing Back the Darkness
It’s just a few nights before the darkest day of the year, at least in the earthly sense, when along comes this amazing experience, full of light in every way. It’s free buoyancy. It’s a way to put your sense of isolation in isolation. A way to get out of the noise of The Holidays and into the rhythm of your heart.
Spoon in the Moon
Spoon in the Moon Coffeehouse at the Vineyard Playhouse begins its second season on Saturday, Dec. 18.
The Playhouse, in association with Hummingbird Productions and Kate Taylor, presents Tish Hinojosa in a concert titled, From Texas for a Christmas Night.
Tish’s chart topping hits include Something in the Rain and By the Rio Grande. She will perform at 8 p.m.
Admission is $20 and advance tickets are on sale now through the Playhouse Web site, vineyardplayhouse.org.
Holiday Concert
This is the season for holiday favorites spilling forth from the radio. Jose Feliciano, Bing and Bowie, those Jingle wooofing dogs. We smile for a bit, but then it fades. How could it not? We’ve heard it all before. There is nothing new the Boss can tell us about Santa coming to town.
Perhaps then it is time to seek out the new and different this year. Some feast for the ears and by extension the soul. But where to turn?
The Old Whaling Church this weekend, that’s where.
Music lovers bound for the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society’s annual Thanksgiving concert this Saturday had best leave room for dessert. The evening will offer a wide-ranging menu of melodies — some light, some rich — all intended to linger sweetly on the palate.
Guest baritone Thomas Jones presents the first plate — the swaggering Toreador Song from the second act of Georges Bizet’s Carmen.
By REMY TUMIN
Every August, Vineyarders flood the fair grounds at the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society Hall in West Tisbury. Every fall, we are treated to the harvest festival to celebrate the season’s bounty, and every winter we have Island artisans’ fairs, community potlucks or most recently the winter farmers’ markets. The Vineyard is a place of tradition, and the Ag Hall is a beacon of that.
Combine your love of literature and music by spending the evening with vocalist Stephanie Miele as she sings Broadway ballads inspired by children’s literature.
Yes, there are quite a few.
Richard Rogers, Oscar Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Kern and Lerner and Loewe have all whetted their creative fires by igniting the child within.
Examples include C’est Moi from Camelot, Many a New Day from Oklahoma, and Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man of Mine from Showboat.