Art
Like her on-stage vaudeville persona, Angel Russell herself is a variety act.
A barista, herbologist, florist and painter — most recently she has been painting large, close-up portraits of chickens — Ms. Russell is first and foremost a musician.
She currently lends her nimble fingers to four Island bands, playing piano, guitar, trumpet, drums and bass.
Special Education
Island Grown Schools begins ten free clinics for teachers next week. The winter farm-to-school afterschool clinics can be taken individually or as a series; it runs Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. Jan. 19 through Feb. 18.
Melinda Rabbitt DeFeo will include in each clinic curriculum resources and how-to advice to help incorporate food and agriculture education into the already-busy classroom day.
You can tell a meal is almost ready when you begin to catch the full scent wafting from the oven, instructor Carol McManus told 10 chefs-in-the-making as they sat to enjoy a bread and cheese plate in a home economics classroom at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School Tuesday night.
This is about the time when people in other areas of the building start to wander in, joked Lynn Ditchfield, beckoned by the smell of peppers, sweet onions and herbs that made up the casserole baking in the oven.
Islanders Play Festival
Three Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School musicians participated in the Music Educators’ Southeast District Festival at Oliver Ames High School last weekend. Sidra Dumont and Emily Lowe sang with the choir of over 200 voices, and Madison Ibsen, second chair viola out of 14, performed with the 96-piece orchestra.
Later this month, Emily and Madison will be auditioning for the Massachusetts All State Festival, which will be held at Symphony Hall in March.
Two years ago, as Brooke Hardman made the move to what she then saw as “a remote Island,” the actress whose career had taken her to Boston, New York and Chicago resigned herself to the fact that “I wouldn’t be acting anymore.”