Payomet brought one of the hottest jazz and blues divas performing today, Catherine Russell, to Wellfleet on Sunday, February 19th for an unforgettable Valentine’s concert. Catherine celebrated the release of her newest album, Strictly Romancin’ . NPR just named one of the cuts from her new album, “Romance in the Dark,” a Song of the Day.
Catherine is coming to town with her full band- Matt Munisteri on guitar and banjo, pianist Mark Shane and bassist Lee Hudson. According to the Boston Globe, Catherine “Cat” Russell mines "a treasure trove of blues, vintage jazz and Tin Pan Alley gems, delivering the songs as if they were written yesterday, just for her."
Critic Nat Hentoff considers Russell "the real thing" among a crowded field of jazz singers "who couldn't last through a chorus in a contest with Ella Fitzgerald or Betty Carter." Russell's roots in the music business are deep: Her father, the late Luis Russell, was a pioneering pianist, composer, bandleader and Louis Armstrong's long-time side-kick. Her mother, Carline Ray, is a bassist, guitarist and vocalist who has performed with Mary Lou Williams and the International Sweethearts of Rhythm.
After graduating with honors from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Russell set out to establish a musical career. When not singing with Carrie Smith, Steely Dan, David Bowie, Cyndi Lauper, Paul Simon, Jackson Browne, Michael Feinstein, or Rosanne Cash, Russell can often be heard performing solo at jazz clubs and arts centers around the world. Her fourth solo recording, Strictly Romancin', will be released Feb. 14 by World Village/Harmonia Mundi. She also can be heard performing "Crazy Blues" on Boardwalk Empire: Volume 1, which recently was nominated for a Grammy in the category of best compilation soundtrack.
MUSIC AT PAYOMET'S 2011
NEW ORLEANS ZYDECO FESTIVAL ! Bring your dancing shoes & your appetite for fun...
August 28 - September 4
Jeffery Broussard & the Creole Cowboys Two Performances:
Thursday, Sept. 1
8pm Wellfleet Preservation Hall
General Admission: $20.00
Day of: $25.00
Preferred Seating- 1st 3 rows: $30
Friday, Sept. 2
8pm Cultural Center of
Cape Cod
307 Old Main St
Bass River
South Yarmouth, MA 02664
General Admission: $20.00
Day of: $25.00
Preferred Seating- 1st 3 rows: $30
The New York Times raves... "Mr. Broussard and his Cowboys are fabulous: You start moving in your seat as soon as their rhythmic, rich melodies, both joyous and mournful, flood the theater."
The band delivers great, pack-the-floor renditions of Creole classics as well as their own brand of contemporary Zydeco featuring the accordion mastery and soulful vocals of front man Jeffery Broussard, from the legendary band, Zydeco Force. These high energy performers are taking the next generation's perspective of this music and presenting it with contemporary flair and expertise.
Saturday, September 3
8pm
Payomet in Truro
Direct from New Orleans:
Marcia Ball
Rain or Shine Lawn Seats $25
Day of Show $35
Preferred $40 (sold out)
Preferred & AfterParty $55
Front Row Friend $75
Singer/pianist Marcia Ball knows how to raise roofs and tear down walls with her infectious, intelligent and deeply emotional brand of southern boogie, rollicking, roadhouse blues and heartfelt ballads. Over the course of her three-decade career, Ball has earned a huge and intensely loyal following all over the world. Her exquisite piano playing and passionate, playful vocals fuse New Orleans and Gulf Coast R&B with Austin's deep songwriting tradition into a sound No Depression described as "a little rock, a lot of roll, a pinch of rhythm and a handful of blues."
"A sensational, saucy singer and superb pianist... where Texas stomp-rock and Louisiana blues-swamp meet" - USA Today. "Rollicking, playful, good time blues and intimate, reflective balladry...her songs ring with emotional depth."- Rolling Stone
"An irresistible, celebratory blend of rollicking, two-fisted New Orleans piano, Louisiana Swamp rock and smoldering Texas blues from a compelling storyteller."- Boston Globe
"A sensational, saucy singer and superb pianist...where Texas stomp-rock and Louisiana blues-swamp meet" - USA Today
THIS EVENT WILL BE RESCHEDULED -
STAY TUNED !
David Greely and Joel Savoy
- Cajun music stars, kick off a week of New Orleans Fest (WOMR benefit) Sept 1-4 New Orleans Music Festival will feature some of the best national zydeco, cajun and jazz in the country.
This benefit concert for WOMR kicks off Payomet’s
4th annual New Orleans Zydeco festival.
The swampy bayous and shimmering marshes of Cajun country are brought vividly to life by the unmatched virtuosity of David Greely, founding fiddler of Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, and Joel Savoy, of the Savoy Family Band and one-time Redstick Rambler. The GreelySavoyDuo, raised in the heart of Lousiana, both play traditional Cajun fiddle, combining a uniquely intimate performing style and deep love for the music with all the original spice and joie de vivre of Cajun music from generations past.
Hot Club of Cowtown
- Sensational western swing/jazz band with cult-like following.
Sunday, October 09 at 7:00PM
at First Congregational Church of Wellfleet
200 Main St.
Wellfleet, MA 02667
From the bright lights of the Grand Ol' Opry to the UK's Glastonbury Festival, to regular appearances on A Prairie Home Companion and festival stages worldwide, the Hot Club of Cowtown has ascended from its unlikely beginnings in NYC's East Village a decade ago to become the premier ambassador of hot jazz and Western swing through sheer tenacity, virtuosity and the unstoppable power of their breathtaking live show.
"Unfussy and unpretentious, their blend of down-home melodies and exuberant improvisation harks back to a lost era of so-called western swing. When they plunge into Orange Blossom Special your thoughts turn not so much to runaway trains as to a B-52 tearing up a runway." - Clive Davis, The Times (London), 2008
"One of the finest performances by a visiting American country act I've witnessed for a very long time... they pretty much lifted the roof [off of the Black Box in Belfast] a couple of months back...a pretty much perfect country trio at the very top of their game." - Ralph McLean, The Belfast Telegraph, 2008
"Working in such tradition, the Hot Club of Cowtown can burn, playing fast and furious driving rhythms at break-neck pace, and the wild abandon of Whit's fleet-fingered solos improvised over dangerous changes can leave a listener slack-jawed and winded." - Baker Rorick, Guitar Magazine
Visualization, Isolation, Lovers, Travelers, After-lifers- the witty and pungent restaging of
HOPPER'S GHOST
- at home in Truro!
- performances through August 27
Hopper's Ghosts
A comedy by Kevin Rice exploring the lives of Ed and Jo Hopper
Directed by Allen Kennedy and featuring Stephen Russell as Edward Hopper and Caitlin Langstaff as Jo Nivison Hopper
Thur-Sun, Aug 18, 19, 20, 21
& Thur-Sat, Aug 25, 26, 27* @7:30pm
*All performances 7:30pm, with the exception of Saturday Aug 27 @5pm.
Edward Hopper, Summer Evening 1947, Oil on canvas, 30 x 42"
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert H. Kinney
“Compelling” - The Provincetown Banner
“Hauntingly good.” - The Cape Cod Times
Tix $26- $35. Discounts at the door for seniors; students; teachers; union members; artists. Student Rush - 50% off 1 hr before the show.
Brought back to life just miles from the Hopper House, Kevin Rice’s hit HOPPER’S GHOSTS, completely restaged, with the directing talents of New York’s Allen Kennedy and a professional Actors Equity cast of Stephen Russell as Edward Hopper and Caitlin Langstaff as Jo Nivison Hopper. This SOLD OUT hit of last summer explores the cosmic and often comic look at the lives and South Truro haunts of one of America’s most famous “art” couples.
Join us on
Saturday, August 27, 2011
for
Hopper’s Fantasy Feast
- Payomet’s Annual Summer Party a co-benefit for PAAM
The event includes 2 parts:
- 5pm performance of Hopper’s Ghosts*
- 6:30-8:30 party
Hopper’s Fantasy Feast complimentary wine from Truro Vineyards, champagne from Wellfleet Spirits Shoppe, hors d’oeuvres from Terra Luna, and Farland, Sushi Bar by Dan Jaffe & raw bar compliments of Wellfleet Oystermen.
Silent auction of items donated by supporters of Payomet and Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Live auction of photo by Berenice Abbott: Edward Hopper, 1948. Original signed gelatin print by Berenice Abbott. Donated by Del Filardi & Harriet Rubin. Signed by Berenice Abbott. Live auction item at party.
Additional support for Hopper's Ghost has been provided by the JEREMIAH KAPLAN FOUNDATION, Atlantic Spice Company, and Blackfish Restaurant
Hosts: Bruce & Nancy Bierhans, Jeffrey & Suzanne Bloomberg, Judy Cicero, Martin Garbus, David & Nancy Kaplan, Wendy Levine, David Lothrop Mayo, Chris McCarthy, Honorable Sarah Peake, Anne Peretz, Tom & Janet Reinhart, Kevin & Marla Rice, Del Filardi & Harriet Rubin, Lawrence & Elizabeth Schiffenhaus, Hannah Shrand, Berta Walker, Carol Warshawsky, Honorable Dan Wolf
Talk: Stephen Kinzer
Monday, Aug 22
7:30pm
Explosion the Middle East: Where Will It End?
Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents. His articles and books have led the Washington Post to place him “among the best in popular foreign policy storytelling.”
Kinzer's most recent book is Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America’s Future. “Stephen Kinzer is a journalist of a certain cheeky fearlessness and exquisite timing,” The Huffington Post said in its review. “This book is a bold exercise in reimagining the United States’ big links in the Middle East.”
In 2006 Kinzer published Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. It recounts the 14 times the United States has overthrown foreign governments. Kinzer seeks to explain why these interventions were carried out and what their long-term effects have been. He is also the author of All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror. It tells how the CIA overthrew Iran's nationalist government in 1953.
Kinzer spent more than 20 years working for the New York Times, most of it as a foreign correspondent. His foreign postings placed him at the center of historic events and, at times, in the line of fire. While covering world events, he has been shot at, jailed, beaten by police, tear-gassed and bombed from the air.
ONE WEEK OF YIDDISH THEATER & KLEZMER MUSIC
ACROSS CAPE COD!
FEEL THE GYPSY - KLEZMER CONNECTION!
Payomet Performing Arts Center shares the Gypsy Klezmer connection from Provincetown to Yarmouth. Featuring Payomet alum, ANDY STATMAN, who The New Yorker calls “a musician’s musician.” Statman is one of four nights of Gypsy/Klemer music, other nights included the young and hot FISHTANK ENSEMBLE, the big and brassy FRANK LONDON’S KLEZMER BRASS ALL STARS, closing the festival at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, the buoyant and brilliant GUY MENDILOW QUINTET.
Other events include the New England premiere of a documentary about the legendary Jewish writer, SHOLEM ALEICHEM and on Monday, August 15, the neurotically funny stand-up comic, MICHELE BALAN. The Yiddish Klezmer Festival runs throughout Cape Cod, August 13 to August 17 and sponsored by JEREMIAH KAPLAN FOUNDATION, JEWISH FEDERATION OF CAPE COD, CAPE AIR and WOMR/WFMR.
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY:
THE LAW OFFICES OF BRUCE BIERHANS KAPLANSKY INSURANCE WENDY LEVINE HANNAH SHRAND LARRY PHILLIPS DAVID AND NAOMI BALTO
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
SHOLEM ALEICHEM: LAUGHING IN THE DARKNESS
SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 7:30PM
TICKETS: $12 (includes reception with director Joseph Dorman)
LOCATION: Wellfleet Preservation Hall, 335 Main Street, Wellfleet
Directed by Joseph Dorman
A riveting portrait of the great writer whose stories became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof.
Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness tells the tale of the rebellious genius who created an entirely new literature. Plumbing the depths of a Jewish world locked in crisis and on the cusp of profound change, he captured that world with brilliant humor. Sholem Aleichem was not just a witness to the creation of a new modern Jewish identity, but one of the very men who forged it.
“A rich … modern history of East European Jewry. Conjures the look and vitality of shtetl life so vividly you can almost … smell the pungent aromas of the cooking.” -- New York Times
Stage Reading of Tony Kushner’s adaptation of THE DYBBUK
DATE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 5:00PM
TICKETS: $12
LOCATION: Payomet Tent, 29 Old Dewline Road, North Truro
The drama has deep roots in Kabbalah and Yiddish Theatre. Taken from mystical stories, the play unfolds with a Talmudic scholar and his love who are kept from marrying by her rich father. The scholar dies of a broken heart, and at his gravesite, his grief-stricken love becomes possessed by The Dybbuk, a raging, lost soul. A rabbi is called in to exorcise the spirit from the young woman and restore balance to the living and the dead.
“Tony Kushner’s adaptation of A Dybbuk, perhaps the greatest classic Yiddish drama, is passionate and illuminating.” -- The New York Post
FISHTANK ENSEMBLE
DATE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 8:00PM
TICKETS: GEN’L $20; PREFERRED $35
LOCATION: Payomet Tent, 29 Old Dewline Road, North Truro
The LA Weekly calls them “cross pollinated gypsy music….one of the most thrilling young acts on the planet.” Formed in 2005 and playing everywhere from the hippest LA clubs to festivals, cultural centers, museums, parades, and even on the street, the band includes two explosive violins, the world's best slap bass player, musical saw, flamenco and gypsy jazz guitar, trombone, opera, jazz and gypsy vocals, accordion and one little banjolele. Tackling everything from French hot jazz to wild Serbian and Transylvanian gypsy anthems, Flamenco, and oddball originals, the band is a not to be missed event for world music lovers...and everyone will love this intoxicating mix of music!!
COMIC MICHELE BALAN
DATE: MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 6:30PM
TICKETS: $20 (includes meet & greet with Michele Balan)
LOCATION: Payomet Tent, 29 Old Dewline Road, North Truro
Michele Balan was one of the finalists on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing,” and she was "The Last Woman Comic Standing." She has appeared on The Joy Behar Show, Byron Allen's Comics Unleashed, and the OUTlaugh festival on MTV's LOGO and voted one of “Top 10 Comics” by Backstage Magazine. Along with her stand-up, Michele writes for many other well-known comedians, and is a contributor to a variety of magazines.
FRANK LONDON’S KLEZMER BRASS ALL STARS
with SPECIAL GUEST ELEANOR REISSA
DATE: MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 8:00PM
TICKETS: GEN’L $20; PREFERRED $35
LOCATION: Payomet Tent, 29 Old Dewline Road, North Truro
Trumpeter (and sometimes keyboardist) Frank London has been recording jazz and modern Jewish music since the mid-80s. He has performed with a wide variety of musicians including John Zorn, Mel Torme, LaMonte Young, Gal Costa, LL Cool J, David Byrne, They Might Be Giants and Palestinian violinist Simon Shaheen. As composer and arranger, London has created works for films including Jonathan Berman's The Shvitz (a recording of the music was released by Knitting Factory) and Bruno de Almeida's The Debt, 1993 Cannes Film Festival prizewinner. In theater, London served as music director for Robert Wilson's The Knee Plays, cowrote Chelm, CA with Flying Karamozov Brother Paul Magid, even composed the score for a marionette production of The Golem! London has been a member of Les Miserables Brass Band and the Klezmatics, and leads his own group Hasidic New Wave, in addition to his other collaborations, including his work with vocalist Lorin Sklamberg. In 2000 he collaborated with a number of great New York musicians, including Anthony Coleman, Gina Leishman and Myra Melford to release Invocations for Tzadik's Radical Jewish Culture series.
ANDY STATMAN TRIO
DATE: TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 8:00PM
TICKETS: GEN’L $25; PREFERRED $35
LOCATION: Payomet Tent, 29 Old Dewline Road, North Truro
Andy Statman, Clarinetist/Composer/Bandleader, is a pioneering musician who is completely devoted to musical tradition but one who continually breaks new artistic ground. As one of the most inventive creators of a fresh approach to American roots music commonly described as “new grass,” he is also quite adept at performing world music and is considered a driving force behind the neo-Klezmer movement. Statman has released over 25 albums in his vast career to great critical acclaim and has worked with musical masterminds such as Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, Itzhak Perlman, Bill Monroe and Jesse McReynolds. Statman is joined by bassist Jim Whitney and drummer/percussionist Larry Eagle.
"Andy Statman, clarinet and mandolin virtuoso, is an American visionary... " -- The New Yorker
DATE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 8:00PM
TICKETS: $20
LOCATION: Cultural Center of Cape Cod, 307 Main Street, Yarmouth
Led by Israeli composer/performer Guy Mendilow, this spirited quintet breaks down musical boundaries with an inventive blend of Israeli and Sephardi tempered with Bahian street beats and Blues. Performing in Hebrew, Arabic, Ladino, Portuguese and English, the band skillfully fuses tradition with a contemporary sound. Alongside lush vocal harmonies, woodwinds and strings, the five members of the Guy Mendilow Band create intricate textures with berimbaus, percussion, trancy jaw harps, and Mendilow’s award-winning overtone singing. The group’s appeal reaches far beyond world music audiences. The Guy Mendilow Band has been winning over audiences from many spectrums because the strength of the group lies in offering audiences a highly accessible, yet refreshingly different international sound, creating cross-cultural connections between listeners and the band’s far-off homes.
"Guy Mendilow is quickly developing a reputation as a masterful, deeply passionate and sincere performer." -- Global Rhythm Magazine
“ Your actions are my dreams ” WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S THE WINTER’S TALE
Opens Wed, July 20
through August 13
co-directed by Tessa Bry & Will Sturdivant
Cast:
Tessa Bry
Melanie Freedom Flynn
Jake Ford
Ben Griessmeyer
Robin Russell
Will Sturdivant
Nathaniel Taylor
& Ruby Wolf
Jealousy, lust, revenge, redemption and, yes, a good dose of romance and comedy, make The Winter's Tale one of Shakespeare's most beloved works.
Set in the enchanted lands of Sicilia and Bohemia, this fully staged gorgeous Payomet production weaves deep pathos into a story of warring kings, powerful women, families torn apart by suspicion... and the eternal rebirth of hope.
If you see just one play this summer, then make it this rarely staged epic performed by one of the most exciting and brilliant young casts ever assembled on Cape Cod.
July 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29** & Aug 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 13
Curtain 7:30 pm
Tickets: $26-$35
$5 discount for Students, Teachers, Union Members & Outer Cape residents
50% Student Rush (1 hour before show)
All discounts and Student Rush tickets available at Box Office ONLY
**Fri, July 29 Performance + Party.
Join us on the 29th to Meet & Greet the cast and directors immediately following the performance over wine and hors d’oeuvres. $75
Sponsored by:
The Winter’s Tale for Children: A 1-Hour Adaptation for Kids
Friendship, forgiveness and love are explored in the magical story of an angry, heartbroken king, his beautiful queen, and a lost princess’ quest for home, set against a backdrop of warring kingdoms and fearsome creatures.
Challenge your imagination and discover one of Shakespeare’s most beloved fairy tales in this one-hour children’s adaptation, open to kids of all ages. The performance will include a post-show talkback and a chance to meet the actors who bring it to life.
Thursdays at 5 pm, July 21, 28, Aug 4, 11
Soul of the Seashore Concert
Cape Air, WOMR, and Payomet invite you to celebrate the
50th Anniverasy of the Cape Cod National Seashore
on August 7 with
The New Queen of Soul and Blues and her world renouned band !
August 7 7:30 pm
Shemekia Copeland - Soul/blues diva and her phenomenal band.
Blues queen Shemekia Copeland rocked the Congregational Church in Wellfleet to its foundation last February, and we’re bringing her back for one of our biggest dates this summer, August 7th, marking the 50th anniversary of the Cape Cod National Seashore. Shemekia released her debut album at 19 and was met with unanimous and hearty praise from the likes of the Boston Globe, who declared that
“she roars with a sizzling hot intensity,”
and the Village Voice, who lauded her as “nothing short of uncanny.” Since then she has risen steadily in the echelons of the blues, opening for the Rolling Stones, starring in the Chicago Blues Festival, and playing alongside B.B. King, Taj Mahal and Buddy Guy. With a voice that harkens back to Ella Fitzgerald and Etta James, Shemekia Copeland has soul to burn.
JANE LEAVY reads from her latest work:
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood
Monday, July 25, 7:30pm
Hailed as one of the great baseball biographies, Jane Leavy’s new book sheds light on an era of discovery and disillusionment.
Jane Leavy, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, returns with a biography of an American original—number 7, Mickey Mantle.
Drawing on more than five hundred interviews with friends and family, teammates, and opponents, she delivers the definitive account of Mantle's life, mining the mythology of The Mick for the true story of a luminous and illustrious talent with an achingly damaged soul.
Meticulously reported and elegantly written, The Last Boy is a baseball tapestry that weaves together episodes from the author's weekend with The Mick in Atlantic City, where she interviewed her hero in 1983, after he was banned from baseball, with reminiscences from friends and family of the boy from Commerce, Oklahoma, who would lead the Yankees to seven world championships, be voted the American League's Most Valuable Player three times, win the Triple Crown in 1956, and duel teammate Roger Maris for Babe Ruth's home run crown in the summer of 1961—the same boy who would never grow up.
July 24
bluegrass stars Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum
- with Special Guest opener Crabgrass
Payomet's grammy-licious summer continues with a WOMR/WFMR benefit blending bluegrass, folk and country. Bluegrass musicians Laurie LEWIS and Tom ROZUM have been called "two of the finest singers/songwriters/instrumentalists in the known acoustic music world" by Nashville Public Radio. The noted duo appears on the PAYOMET stage to benefit local, community radio station WOMR/WFMR on Sunday, July 24 at 7:30, with special guest opener, Cape Cod's own bluegrass legends, CRABGRASS.
ABOUT LAURIE LEWIS AND TOM ROZUM
Since Tom joined Laurie's acclaimed band, Grant Street, in 1986, their musical partnership has included 12 albums and performed around the globe. These Grammy-nominated artists (for their 1995 album The Oak and the Laurel) are widely regarded as among the leading lights of modern bluegrass and are highly-prized by their peers as sidemen and producers.
International Bluegrass Music Association executive director Dan Hays calls Laurie "one of the preeminent bluegrass and Americana artists of our time." Acclaimed musician Sam Bush puts it more simply, calling her "a great singer, terrific fiddle player, fine songwriter, and one very good band leader." Laurie also performed on both the Grammy-award winning, 1997 IBMA album of the year True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe, and the Grammy-nominated Ralph Stanley & Friends' release Clinch Mountain Country.
New England native Tom Rozum "possesses an earnest tenor voice in the vein of contemporary bluegrass great Tim O'Brien, and peels off rhythmically crisp licks on mandolin and guitar." —Derk Richardson In 1998, he released his debut solo album Jubilee on Dog Boy Records. "Without reservation, one of 1998's most rewarding acoustic releases." —Amazon.com
In 2004, Lewis & Rozum released their third duo album, Guest House (their first for HighTone Records), a characteristically versatile and engaging offering of love songs, laments, social commentary, and freewheelin' fun in the spirit of old-time music. Laurie and Tom pay homage to such eminent influences as Woody Guthrie, Hazel Dickens, Grandpa Jones, and the inimitable Bill Monroe, adding their own distinctive touches to traditional favorites as well as performing several of Laurie's nonpareil compositions. Laurie Lewis Website
ABOUT WOMR/WFMR
WOMR/WFMR is a noncommercial educational radio station that provides a broadcast service and programming from community members as well as local news and cultural and ethnic programs. WOMR WEBSITE
Payomet is brought the Carolina Chocolate Drops back for the second year in a row—and they’ve won a Grammy in the meantime! Start with an old, nearly forgotten tradition of African-American string music. Add three strikingly gifted young Southern musicians, pour in some bluegrass and a whole lot of soul, and you get the Carolina Chocolate Drops, who have toured across the country and performed at the Grand Old Opry. Described as “dirt-floor-dance-electricity” by Rolling Stone, the Carolina Chocolate Drops are pure spirit and rhythm, melding the fire of youth with the power of the past.
Sunday, July 17, 7:30pm
"The Carolina Chocolate Drops... breathe new life into the African-American string band tradition." -NPR, Jan 5, 2010
"All Things Considered"
There’s a long tradition of African-Americans playing old-time music, from blues legends Blind Blake, the Reverend Gary Davis and Josh White to artists such as the Mississippi Mud Steppers and Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong, whose early ragtime outfit, the Tennessee Chocolate Drops, has provided a lasting influence - and this modern-day act with its name.
The Carolina Chocolate Drops formed in 2005 at the Black Banjo Gathering in Boone, N.C. and since then the young trio has been determined to prove that “black folk were a huge part of the stringband tradition.” What they’ve also done is dust off a musical form seen today as either a novelty or the exclusive provenance of ethnomusicologists. To paraphrase Rakim’s immortal words, these Drops ain’t no joke: Their enthusiasm for the tradition is obvious even as the trio spans from traditional arrangements (the rollicking fiddle rave-ups ‘Trouble in Your Mind” and “Cindy Gal”) to self-penned works (the particularly terrific “Kissin’ and Cussin’”) and stringband makeovers of modern-day works (a hip-hop influenced cover of Blu Cantrell’s “Hit ‘em Up Style (Oops!)” and Tom Waits’ “Trampled Rose”).
Several generations removed from the origins of their chosen idiom, the Carolina Chocolate Drops are nonetheless the genuine article.
Trevor The Juggler!
10 am
Wenesday, July 13
Payomet is raising the roof for Cape Cod native Trevor Pearson, who has been inspiring and amusing audiences throughout the Northeast for over 10 years with his exciting performances.
Trevor combines a naturally friendly and silly disposition with visually spectacular juggling and a deep love for music and dance to create one-of-a-kind interactive performances. Come and be amazed as Trevor juggles clubs, rings, scarves, balls, chickens, plungers, apples, fish, and audience-suggested objects to boot. He might even juggle boots!
PETER MANSO to read from his newest work:
Reasonable Doubt - based on the controversial Christa Worthington murder.
Monday, July 11, 7:30pm
Rarely has a homicide trial been refracted so clearly through the prism of those who engineered it, and in Reasonable Doubt, bestselling author and biographer Peter Manso is determined to rectify what has become one of the most grossly unjust verdicts in modern trial history. In his riveting new book he bares the anatomy of a horrific murder—as well as the political corruption and racism that appear to be endemic in one of America's most privileged playgrounds, Cape Cod.
Exhaustively researched and vividly accessible, Reasonable Doubt is a no-holds-barred account of not only Christa Worthington's murder but also of a botched investigation and a trial that was rife with bias. Manso dug deep into the case, and the results were explosive. The Cape DA indicted the author, threatening him with fifty years in prison.
The trial and conviction of Christopher McCowen for rape and murder should worry American citizens, and should prompt us to truly examine the lip service we pay to the presumption of innocence . . . and to reasonable doubt. With this explosive and challenging book Manso does just that.
"The Christa Worthington murder case on [old] Cape Cod is an unusually captivating story, and Peter Manso has expertly plumbed the depths of it to write a riveting book that true crime fans will love." --Vincent Bugliosi, New York Times bestselling author of HELTER SKELTER and Outrage
"Only the fearless and risk-taking Peter Manso--capitalizing on his unique familiarity with the culture of the Cape and its denizens, including the victim of this horrible killing--could have written this powerful expose of prosecutorial corruption and the conviction of a possibly innocent victim of racial stereotyping. It will shock, enrage and educate you." --Alan Dershowitz, New York Times bestselling author of The Trials of Zion
ROSANNE CASH:
Bad news... Seats for Rosanne Cash under the tent are sold out. Good news... Announcing "Rain or Shine" Lawn Seats!
... See Rosanne under the stars for only $35!
Sunday, July 10, 7:30pm
Though she has a legendary father, Rosanne Cash has long since staked her own claim to fame. Making her first Cape Cod appearance, Rosanne will exhibit the broad range of talent which earned her a Grammy win and nine more nominations, as a guitarist, vocalist and queen of folk, pop, blues and rock.
Photo: Deborah Feingold
Acclaimed as a “sublime singer, a terrific songwriter in her own right” by the Chicago Tribune and blessed with a “voice both dark and sweet, a gentle but reliable vibrato,” as the New York Times declared with admiration, Rosanne Cash’s masterful, soulful songs will be the perfect match for a starry, cliffside Cape Cod night
HIGHLANDS FEST CELEBRATING VOLUNTEERISM:
MAKING WAVES
Join us for
Cape Cod National Seashore’s
50th Anniversary
celebration of volunteers
for their service to science, arts,
education, and the community
Highlands Center
Cape Cod National Seashore North Truro
Saturday July 9
3-5pm Mural Painting
5-6pm Award Ceremony
Hosted by the Highlands Center Partner Organizations
Frank Vignola Duo
with Vinny Raniolo
Saturday, June 25 at 8pm
Wellfleet Preservation Hall
Acoustic Guitar Music like you've never heard before!
Frank Vignola is one of the most extraordinary guitarists performing before the public today. His stunning virtuosity has made him the guitarist of choice for many of the world's top musicians, including Ringo Starr, Madonna, Donald Fagen, Wynton Marsalis, Tommy Emmanuel, Mark O Connor, the Boston Pops, the New York Pops, and guitar legend Les Paul, who named Vignola to his "Five Most Admired Guitarists List" for the Wall Street Journal. Vignola's jaw-dropping technique explains why the New York Times deemed him "one of the brightest...stars of the guitar".
"Vignola, who possesses jaw-dropping techinique, wears his influences on the tip of his pick" - Mike Joyce - Washington Post
"A spectacular sold out concert ushered in the 7th year of Jazz at the Powerhouse." - Mary Johnson - Baltimore Sun
"Listeners including myself were hooting and hollering in reaction to the Vignolas group's burning set" - Melissa Merli - News Gazette - Krannert Center Guitar Festival
"For me, the standout musician in the ensemble was guitarist Frank Vignola, who can play more musically at ridiculous tempos than just about anyone I've heard. Vignola had the crowd in the palm of his hand for every solo."- The Jazz Session Jason Crane, Tanglewood Jazz Festival
" How versatile is Frank Vignola? He's collaborated with Lionel Hampton and Madonna, covers Mozart and McCartney on the same record and is one of Les Paul's favorite guitarists." - Joan Anderman, Boston Globe
"It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America." - Les Paul, on naming Vignola to his 'Five Most Admired Guitarists' list for The Wall Street Journal.
"Frank Vignola has too much fun onstage to be as serious about his music as he obviously is." - Louisville Music News
"Vignola returned on Sweet Georgia Brown, exhibiting his acoustic mastery in exhilarating single string runs, complex flurries and astounding full register riffs. When speed and clarity were demanded, Vignola stunned." - Downbeat
"Frank Vignola...is one of the brightest of the young guitar stars" - New York Times
"Vignola's finger flying solos sparked stupendous versions of Limehouse Blues and Minor Swing." - Kansas City Star
"The monstrous Frank Vignola...is one of the most vicious tremelo-pickers on the scene" - Jude Gold - Guitar Player Magazine
Payomet Presents Two Screenings for
The Provincetown International Film Festival - in TRURO ! - On the Silver Screen at Payomet -
For over forty years, Director Lynn Hershman Leeson has collected hundreds of hour of interviews with visionary artists, historians, curators, and critics who shaped the beliefs and values of the Feminist Art Movement and reveal previosly undocumented strategies used to politicize female artists and integrate women into art structures.
WE STILL LIVE HERE
Screening Saturday, June 18 @6pm and Sunday, June 19 @4pm:
Directed by Anne Makepeace
Spurred on by an indomitable Wampanoag linguist named Jessie Littledoe Baird, recent recipient of a MacArthur "genuis" award, the Wampanoag are bringing their language and culture back. We Still Live Here tells the amazing story of the tribe reclaiming their language and their culture.
Delightful sounds from songtress Maeve Gilchrist, her fusion of folk and jazz will echo the new Wellfleet Preservation Hall as Payomet presents Boston-Based Singer/Songwriter and Harpist and her quartet to play during Wellfleet’s first annual Harborfest weekend as
MAEVE GILCHRIST QUARTET with Special Guest Opener - THE CLARRIDGES
SATURDAY, JUNE 11 2011
TIME: 8:00 PM
LOCATION: Preservation Hall
335 Main Street, Wellfleet, MA
TICKETS: $20 General Seating; $15 Teachers, Students & Union Members; $30 Preferred Seating and AfterParty
PHONE: 866-811-4111 (No service charge for advance tickets)
MAEVE GILCHRIST QUARTET, marries their roots in traditional music with a combined interest in jazz and improvisation, the trio plays original music and rearranged traditional material to produce an exciting, multicultural sound. This is Payomet’s first show in the freshly restored Preservation Hall, in conjunction with the first ever Wellfleet Harborfest on Saturday, June 11 at 7:00 PM. Special guest, THE CLARRIDGES - brother-sister fiddle duo, opens with their elegant blend of tradition and innovation.
ABOUT THE MAEVE GILCHRIST QUARTET Maeve Gilchrist was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland. Daughter to an Irish mother and Scottish father she grew up immersed in traditional folk music. At seventeen Maeve received a full scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA where she studied jazz and world music, and began a colorful career as a professional musician and teacher. Recent performance highlights include the Tanglewood Jazz Festival, the World Harp Congress (Netherlands), Celtic Connections Festival (Scotland), the Edinburgh International Jazz Festival and the ICONS Irish Festival. She has collaborated with some of the most celebrated contemporary musicians on the scene today such as Darol Anger, Vardan Ovsepian, the Unusual Suspects, Kathy Mattea, Esperanza Spalding and Martyn Bennett.
Her debut CD ‘Reaching Me’ was released in 2006 to International Acclaim. In March 2010 Maeve went into the studio to record her album 'Song of Delight' for the Adventure Music label. The week spent in the studio was the first time that Maeve and her regular collaborator, bassist, Aidan O Donnell had combined their duo with the rich sounds of fiddle and cello. That recording turned out to be the seed from which grew the Maeve Gilchrist Quartet. Combining the sustained sounds of fiddle with the plucked harp, and the depth of the bass with the warmth of the cello, this group proved a perfect vehicle for Maeve Gilchrist's unique songs and compositions. Featuring Aidan O Donnell on bass (Glasgow, Scotland), Duncan Wickel on fiddle (Asheville NC) and Daniel Plane (The Pioneer Valley MA) this group is representative of the innovative and progressive string scene currently happening in the North East of America. Drawing on elements of her Native Scotland along with the colors and freedoms of jazz and pop, Maeve Gilchrist's music has been described as 'Both Fascinating and Absorbing in equal measure, an original voice' (Scotsman Newspaper'08) mavegilchristmusic.com
ABOUT THE CLARRIDGES 6 time Grand National fiddle champions Tristan and Tashina Clarridge have been making music together all their lives. Their quartet The Bee Eaters "combines chamber music’s finely calibrated arrangements with bluegrass’s playful virtuosity and pop music’s melodic resourcefulness.” (The Boston Globe).
Tashina has toured with Mark O’Connor and Tony Trischka and has performed at Carnegie Hall as a part of MacArthur Fellow/Grammy-winning bassist Edgar Meyer’s Young Artists program. Multi-instrumentalist brother Tristan is an innovative cellist - his talents have been sought by Darol Anger, Mike Marshall, Bruce Molsky and Cape Breton fiddle phenomenon Natalie MacMaster. He also tours internationally with Crooked Still.
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