MVY Radio: Live from Martha’s Vineyard
According to claymoresound.com, in the 1990s, a Texas-based media company slowly and meticulously began snatching up radio stations to add to its collection. Managing a mere 10 stations in the early ’80s, they grew...
Tristan Israel’s new CD – ‘Snake Hollow’
Tristan Israel is a unique singer/songwriter who has performed and recorded since the 1970s. He first arrived and worked summers on the island in the late sixties and has lived here for about 50...
Johnny Hoy and the Bluefish raise the roof
The Barn Raisers Ball, an annual off-season community event, celebrated its 30th anniversary last Saturday night, with folks bringing a dessert to share, placing a donation to the M.V. Agricultural Society in a large...
‘Romeo and Juliet’ plays at M.V. Regional High School
It’s not often that we see Shakespeare’s tragedy “Romeo and Juliet” performed by star-crossed lovers of the right age. What a treat, then, that students from the MVRHS will share the classic with us...
Catching the comedy bug
I like to think of comedy as its own universe filled with black holes. If you’re a comedian, it’s very easy to get sucked into one — never to be seen again. Even a...
Multiple musical languages
The Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society is bringing us what promises to be a splendid musical evening this fall. The six-piece American African fusion band, co-led by Malian balafon player Balla Kouyaté and Mike...
M.V. Playhouse: ‘THE UNExPECTED 3rd’
There is one unifying thing that everyone shares from the moment we are born … we are all getting older. Obie-winning actress and playwright Kathryn Grody shares her perspective on this thing we call...
Arts of the Earth
Theresa Thomason began her musical career singing gospel with her family. “I’ve been singing since I was 13,” Thomason said. “My family formed a gospel group. My father is a pastor and he took...
Nashville on the Vineyard
Nashville is coming to light up the Vineyard on Sept. 20 and 21. Matt Casey is bringing both hit songwriters and emerging stars to play a plethora of venues over the Tivoli weekend.
Casey, a...
‘Billy Baloo’ redux
Michael Mason may have died in February 2023, but he’s living on through his labor of love, “Billy Baloo,” now onstage at the M.V. Playhouse. The tale was his life’s work, and his family...
‘Dancing in the Streets’ with Dance Theater of Harlem
Bodies were moving this past Friday in Ocean Park for a free community event called Dancing in the Street, where Islanders participated in an old-style Soul Train dance.
The world renowned Dance Theater of Harlem...
‘Dancing in the Streets’
Get your dancing shoes on because on Friday, August 9, at 5 pm in Ocean Park, you can dance with the world-renowned Dance Theater of Harlem (DTH) at their free community event, Dancing in...
Silas Berlin returns to perform classics at Edgartown library
Pianist Silas Berlin will be playing an afternoon piano concert at the Edgartown library Saturday, August 10, from 3 to 4 pm. The program will include Bach and Rachmaninov, and he and soprano Molly...
Livingston Taylor: Words and music
Singer, songwriter, teacher, performer, and supreme raconteur Livingston Taylor does it all. The latter makes him enthralling to see on stage and a delight to interview.
Like all busy Vineyarders, we begin our conversation by...
Storytelling on stage
The cast of “Miss Maybelline’s Nocturnal Flights of Fancy” at the M.V. Playhouse sings — quite literally at times. Although the play is not a musical as such, Miss Maybelline, while over 100 years...
‘Broadway Divas’ comes to the M.V. Film Center
How lucky are we? No need for subways. No bridges or tunnels to drive through from out of town to Manhattan’s theater district. Broadway divas will grace the stage at the M.V. Film Center...
Jewel comes to the Campground
Working to sustain and maintain the beautiful Campground in Oak Bluffs, with its charming and colorful architecture and storied history, is part and parcel of Kelly Feirtag’s job as general manager of the MV...
Fierce, dynamic, touching, trios and quartets
The Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society (MVCMS) has two treats for us this summer at the Old Whaling Church.
The Verona Quartet will return to the Vineyard on July 28 at 4 pm — this...
‘Overcome’ and the tyranny of normal
Good theater engages us in innumerable ways. It makes us think and feel, draws us into the present moment and keeps us there. It also provides a peephole into someone else’s experience — one...
Meet Dock Street Fight Club
Alone they stand, together they're Dock Street Fight Club. The promising Island band has been playing together for three summers now, and have been playing at Dock Dance since last summer. On June 9,...