Category Archives: music

Drummer

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Susanna J. Sturgis

More about the weirdness of writing: In Squatters’ Speakeasy young Mark Churchill has a band, and of course the band has a drummer. Drummers usually sit back in the shadows with their drum sets so until a few months ago … Continue reading →

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Todd’s Legacy

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Susanna J. Sturgis

Saturday morning I arrived at the Ag Hall a little after the appointed hour of 10 a.m., and already most of the tables and chairs were in place. I fell in with the crew: helped move a few tables, set … Continue reading →

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Willy Mason Carries On

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Susanna J. Sturgis

I missed the pre-Christmas CD release party for Willy Mason’s newest because I had the three-week malaise that may or may not have been the flu. Fortunately a friend scored me a copy of Carry On. In typical Vineyard fashion … Continue reading →

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The Year That Was: Everything Else

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Susanna J. Sturgis

There was much more to my 2012 than politics. How do politics and “everything else” fit together? Here’s hoping 2013 offers some clues. Travvy Trav and I took several trips off-island, including four for Rally Obedience trials and one for … Continue reading →

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Giving Local 2

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Susanna J. Sturgis

Here’s the promised musical follow-up to “Giving Local,” un/fashionably late, as usual. I’m not a musician, but the grassroots music scene has been a vital part of my life since I landed on the rock.  It’s been a vital part … Continue reading →

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The M.V. Roundabout Nightmare Song

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Susanna J. Sturgis

A front-page story in the current Martha’s Vineyard Times announces “Roundabout Construction Expected to Begin in March.” If it actually happens, we’ll be able to use the whole sordid saga as a case study in how democracy can fail with … Continue reading →

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Viva the Ape Woman

Posted on August 30, 2012 by Susanna J. Sturgis

May Oskan’s rock opera The Ape Woman had its world premiere at the Pit Stop last night and all I can say is WOW. GO SEE IT. No, I lied. That’s not all I can say. There’s only one more … Continue reading →

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Laureation

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Susanna J. Sturgis

I hoped I’d made that word up, but no such luck: poets can be laureated, making them poets laureate, and the act of doing so is laureation. The dictionary says so. Laureation, specifically the laureation of poets, is enjoying a … Continue reading →

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Singing for Our Lives

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Susanna J. Sturgis

We are a gentle, angry people and we are singing, singing for our lives . . . — Holly Near The spirituals choir sang at Union Chapel Saturday night. I knew it was going to be a good night when … Continue reading →

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The Privilege of Pique

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Susanna J. Sturgis

This is by way of a sequel to “Compromise,” in which I listed a bunch of things I don’t like about WUMB-FM, the public radio station I listen to when I’m listening to the radio, and then explained why I … Continue reading →

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