For the first time in her rich musical history, Vineyard musician Kate Taylor is prepared to release an album with a distinctly personal touch: she has written, or cowritten, all the songs on the album. And throughout Fair Time! — the title track is a reference to the West Tisbury Agricultural and Livestock Fair — she weaves heartfelt tributes to Islanders who have helped to make her Vineyard home.
Woods Tea Company
Acoustic folk group the Woods Tea Company presents a concert in the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs on Saturday, July 18, at 8 p.m. The Woods Tea Company performs Celtic tunes, bluegrass, sea shanties and American folk songs on instruments including banjos and bouzoukis, guitars and bodhrans, and traditional whistles. Tickets are $20, online MVCMA.org or at the door. For details, call 508-693-0525.
The Harlem String Quartet makes its Vineyard debut on Monday and Tuesday, July 20 and 21, as part of the summer concert series of the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society.
In 8 p.m. concerts Monday at the Old Whaling Church and Tuesday at the Chilmark Community Center, the quartet will perform music by Joachin Turina, Maurice Ravel, Wynton Marsalis and Billy Strayhorn.
A Cappella Anyone?
Tonight is the annual Tabernacle concert from the Vineyard Sound, the Island’s summer a cappella men’s chorus since 1992. Showtime is 8 p.m.
Drawing members from colleges and universities across the Northeast, the Vineyard Sound present superb singing, inventive arrangements, and engaging humor. The group’s repertoire ranges from traditional songs to classic Beatles tunes, from Van Morrison to Martin Sexton, from gems of the 1980s to contemporary radio hits.
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A Singular Sensation
Friday and Saturday night at 7 p.m., campers and counselors from the Martha’s Vineyard Cerebral Palsy Camp, also known as Camp Jabberwocky, are offering a free performance of A Chorus Line on the camp’s studio stage on Greenwood avenue in Vineyard Haven.While Jabberwocky’s plays do not always stick to the script, they always improve upon the original material. For details, call 508-693-2339.