Spirited Jazz
The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, in partnership with Hamptons Jazz Fest, will host a performance by the bass player and composer Santi Debriano and his Flash of the Spirit Quintet, Friday at 6 p.m.
The outdoor concert on the museum's terrace will feature Mr. Debriano's modern and Latin jazz compositions, many from his recently released "Flash of the Spirit" album, which celebrates music influenced by Middle Eastern styles, Brazilian folk, and Cuban songo rhythms. He will be accompanied by Xito Lovell on trombone, Craig Handy on saxophone, Andrea Brachfeld on flute, Tommy Campbell on drums, and Bill O'Connell on piano.
Tickets are $15, $5 for members and students. Museum seating will not be available.
Eclectic Folk Music
Miriam Elhajli, a folk singer, composer-improviser, and musicologist whose work is influenced by the musical traditions of her Venezuelan, Moroccan, and North American heritage, will perform a free concert at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs on Saturday at 5 p.m.
Based in New York City, she works as a researcher at the Association for Cultural Equity, which was founded by Alan Lomax to preserve, research, and disseminate the world's music and dance. Ms. Elhajli will perform songs from her recently released album "The Uncertainty of Signs."
Channeling Melville
The Church in Sag Harbor will host a one-night reading of "Pierre," a new dark comedy by Keith Reddin, on Saturday at 7 p.m. The production is directed by Doug Hughes, a Tony Award winner for "Doubt: A Parable."
Inspired in part by Herman Melville's novel "Pierre; or, The Ambiguities," the play is not only about Melville but also a Marxist-Leninist book club in Helena, Mont., fanatical rare-book collectors, deep family secrets, and murder.
Of the play, conceived while he isolated in Sag Harbor during the pandemic, Mr. Reddin said, "I wrote it to explore Melville's boundless curiosity and brilliant poetic imagination. As well as some jokes thrown in."
Tickets are $40.
Paying Attention
ESTAR(SER), a research collective now in residence at the Watermill Center, will be the next guests in the center's Viewpoints conversation series, on Tuesday at 6 p.m. Associates in the group, which pursues the goal of "pure attention," will discuss their work and its place in the wider debates about the attention economy.
The discussion will be led by Anthony Acciavatti of Yale, who will be joined by D. Graham Burnett of Princeton and Catherine L. Hansen of the University of Tokyo, co-editors of "In Search of the Third Bird," the recent ESTAR(SER) book.
Tickets are $25.
Out East in Sag
Out East, a trio of East Hampton-based musicians whose music covers a range of genres from singer-songwriter ballads to rock to jazz to Latin, will perform in the Masonic Music Series at the Sag Harbor Masonic Club on Saturday at 8 p.m. The band has recently been working on music for "Psychedelicized: the Electric Circus Story," a documentary about the legendary East Village music venue.
The band consists of John Jinks (guitar, vocals, electric sitar), Gerry Giliberti (percussion, vocals), and Carlos Barrios (bass, tanpura). Admission is $20.
