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.

That proud twinkle in John Alaimo’s eye on the cover of his latest solo album does not deceive.

Called Songs for Three Seasons, the disc delivers a rich and textured display of a master mood painter on an enchanting and enriching spree. Mr. Alaimo affably invites us to share his whimsy, his nostalgia, an occasional flirtation with regret, all on a splendidly harmonic solo pianistic tour of nature’s three warmer seasons.

Irish Tunes on July 4

Irish music duo Michael Rooney (on harp) and June McCormack (on flute) bring freshness, forcefulness and finesse to traditional music for a concert at 8 p.m. on Saturday, July 4, at Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven. Tickets are $15 in advance at Aboveground Records, Island Entertainment and Alley’s General Store, or $20 at the door. Children are free at the door. Call 508-693-6996 or 508-693-6237

Four well-known organists will be performing at the First Baptist Church in Vineyard Haven on the evening of Friday, August 14, at 7:30 p.m. Martha Child, Philip Dietterich, David Rhoderick and Nancy Rogers will play the old Hook and Hastings organ. Edson Rogers with his trumpet will take part in this musical program, along with several vocal soloists. There is no admission charge; a free-will offering will be received and used toward the maintenance and repair of the organ.

In his 1841 essay Circles, the transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson celebrated the moment when a visionary rises up amongst us. “By a flash of his eye,” wrote Emerson, the artist “burns up the veil which shrouded all things, and the meaning of the very furniture, of cup and saucer, of chair and clock and tester, is manifest.”

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.

It’s a double feature of classic choreography and the chaos of Wall Street on stage this weekend at The Yard.

First, world-renowned Isadora Duncan specialist Catherine Gallant will perform new choreography plus rarely performed pieces of early modern dance in a program featuring live piano music by Daniel Fox on Friday, August 28, at 8 p.m. and on Saturday, August 29 at 4 p.m. at the arts center on Middle Road in Chilmark.

Grace Church welcomes the Wes Nagy Jazz Ensemble at their 11 a.m. Worship service on the Day of Pentecost: Sunday, May 31. Under the leadership of keyboardist Wes Nagy (who also happens to be the Director of Music at Grace Church), the ensemble will perform a medley of jazz music and will also accompany the congregational singing that day, which will feature hymns from Lift Every Voice and Sing, an African-American hymnal of the Episcopal Church.

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.

During college in 1940, while working as a summer cowhand on the family’s Northern California cattle ranch, Dave Brubeck asked his father’s permission to take a job playing jazz at a San Francisco night club. Confounded by the idea, his father shook his head and replied, “I can’t understand why you would want to spend time in a dark and noisy and smoky place, when you could be out here with me in the fresh air with beautiful country all around you.”