The Chappaquiddick Summer Music Festival opens its 14th season on Thursday, July 30, with a recital by internationally acclaimed cellist Inbal Segev, accompanied by pianist Noreen Cassidy-Polera.
Entrain Brings Big Love to Oak Bluffs
Vineyard-born world-rock band Entrain will present Drums for Peace, a theatre production combining elements of a rock concert, an epic drum circle, projected imagery and audience participation at the Tabernacle on Saturday, July 25 at 8 p.m. Bring your clapping hands and dancing feet. Tickets to the performance are $10 in advance at www.entrainshop.stores.yahoo.net, or $15 at the door, and kids under 12 are free.
The Joel Zoss Trio will be in concert on Saturday, August 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven.
Tickets are $20 and include a free compact disc. Advance tickets are available at Alley’s, Aboveground Records and Midnight Farm.
A new piano quintet by composer Gernot Wolfgang, New England Travelogue, will have its world premiere on Monday, July 27, at the Old Whaling Church and again on Tuesday, July 28, at the Chilmark Community Center, as part of a program presented by pianist Delores Stevens, artistic director of the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society, and the Eclipse String Quartet.
Dr. Amaryllis Iglesias Glass, one of the staff pianists at the Tabernacle, will present a concert with her mother, Amaryllis Iglesias, tonight, July 24, at 8 p.m. A freewill offering will be taken.
Amarylllis Glass won the Schumann Competition in the Johanna Hodges International Piano Competition in 1982 and has performed with the Florida International Symphony Orchestra.
A Jazz Tribute to President Obama, an original work of words and music by Columbia Law School professor and columnist for The Nation Patricia Williams and composer and saxophonist Oliver Lake, will be performed on Saturday, July 25, at 4 p.m. in Ocean Park as the centerpiece of Della Hardman Day. The performance is free and open to the public.