Category Archives: music
Compromise
Tonight I renewed my membership in WUMB-FM. WUMB is a public radio station out of UMass.-Boston. It specializes in acoustic and roots music, and in giving radio voice to the Boston area’s vibrant music scene. I’ve been a member since … Continue reading
The Pit Stop Goes Legit
The Pit Stop is official! On Tuesday, Feb. 21, the Oak Bluffs board of selectmen approved Don Muckerheide’s application for a business and entertainment license. The venue’s grand opening is a two-night extravaganza that showcases the diversity of the island’s … Continue reading
Facebook MV
Anything any Facebook junkie says about Facebook has to be taken with a few grains of salt, for the same reasons that no junkie can be trusted where junk is concerned. Everyone’s the hero of her own story, and most … Continue reading
Midweek Brass
Summer people are chronically curious about what we year-rounders do in winter when — as I’ve been told more than once — “there’s no one around.” “We manage,” I like to say, trying to give the impression that it’s tough … Continue reading
Musicale
When I first heard a couple weeks ago that there’d be a musicale at the Pit Stop on January 14, I couldn’t wait. But as the date drew closer, my enthusiasm drooped. I didn’t want to go. I was afraid … Continue reading
Pit Stop
Some cold winter nights it seems that Oak Bluffs is just too far from West Tisbury to venture after dark, but other nights the incentive is powerful enough to make me bundle up and set off. (Note to off-islanders: Oak … Continue reading
Spirituals at East Chop Light
I’d managed to miss all chances to hear the Martha’s Vineyard Spirituals Choir, despite best intentions and the fact that several friends sing in it, but this week I made up for lost time by hearing them twice, first at … Continue reading
SOOP MV
Martha’s Vineyard has a long history of Vineyarders entertaining each other in living rooms, backyards, church basements, barns — almost any space will do. Last night I went to SOOP MV. I’m pleased to report that we’re still doing it, … Continue reading
I, Trobairitz
What’s a trobairitz? Why, a female troubadour! Troubadours and trobairitz were traveling musician-poets in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Occitania, in the south of what is now France (see map below). They sang, they wrote, they carried the news — and they … Continue reading
From the Seasonally Occupied Territories . . . 