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M EMORIAL D AY G UIDE TO THE H AMPTONS
Music
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North Sea, which is making a name for and wife Steve Earle and Allison Moorer itself with its Wednesday night open mic will be on hand to perform their politically series and featured bands on other nights. charged roots rock. Local towns and villages schedule outdoor And while WHBPAC is a great place to concerts in area parks, so be sure to check see a show, there are certainly other places their web sites for schedules. The vineyards across the East End to catch live music, one on the North Fork often have music on of them being The Stephen Talkhouse in weekends. Also on the North Fork is the Vail Amagansett. While it’s a great place to Leavitt Music Hall, which not only features check out some of the many talented local a monthly open mic series and occasional acts that call our area home, the Talkhouse performances by local and touring bands, also books a number of big name acts durbut also is the sponsor of the annual ing the summer, with Martin Sexton perRiverhead Blues Festival July 18 and 19. forming on Memorial Day weekend and Now in its 11th year, so far some well known Suzanne Vega playing Labor Day weekend names performing are Kim Simmonds & as the bookends for some great music. You The Savoy Brown Blues Band, Rosie Ledet also certainly won’t want to miss Richie & The Zydeco Playboys and Little Toby Havens on June 19 or Jorma Kaukonen, Walker. who performed with Jefferson Airplane, on And for classical music fans, Pianofest, a June 27. Also making the trip out to Little Toby Walker will perform at the Riverhead Blues Festival in July. well-known festival takes place at various Amagansett this summer – Joan Osborne on Boom, by including other instruments and mixing venues around the East End during July and July 4; seminal folksinger Judy Collins on July 10; Brazilian rhythms with rock, electronica and world August, though it’s still planning its upcoming seaPaulo Nutini on July 20; Raul Malo, who fronted the melodies. Also performing that night is Dan Bailey son and classes. Also, the Southampton Cultural Mavericks and infuses country music with his Latin & Living Rhythm, who will be joined by Jay Center is always a safe bet for great music, and in roots, on July 30; Rhett Miller, frontman for the Old Schneiderman and Jeffrey Berstein. Crossroads will 97s performing his solo material on August 1; Dar addition to the musical events it plans on its own, also host a night of local teen bands on June 13, Williams on August 6; and Dave Mason, founding will also host two of the Opera of Hamptons (OH) including Philosophunk, Consent of Kings and Rite member of the band Traffic and Rock and Roll Hall summer performances – Giacomo Puccini’s La of Way, with another teen night scheduled for of Famer, performing two nights in a row on August Boheme on August 1 and Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida on August. And later this summer, on August 15 you 28 and 29. August 29. Duck Walk Vineyards will host an OH can catch Grammy award winning songwriter And Guild Hall’s newly refurbished John Drew performance of Puccini’s Tosca on June 20. Rosanne Cash. Local favorite Nancy Atlas takes the Theatre is a great place to hear live music as well. As you can see, with so many options to choose stage August 27. On Saturday, May 30, Crossroads Music will showfrom this summer, it’s bound to be overwhelming for There are other places to check out great local live case the Bastards of Boom, which grew out of the any music fan. So now’s the time to start planning music as well. The Memory Motel in Montauk typiHamptons percussion group Escola de Samba out your music schedule for the summer. cally features bands, as does Regulars Music Café in
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