Party at Guild Hall
Guild Hall's summer benefit, set for Friday, Aug. 4, will honor Ken Wyse, a trustee, for his enduring commitment to the institution, and will include a preview of "Celestial Garden," an immersive installation by Leo Villareal, who is known for his light sculptures, use of LED technology, and computer-driven imagery.
The evening will be emceed by Jordan Roth, a theatrical innovator, fashion model, and recent inductee into the Guild Hall Academy of the Arts. Renee Cox, whose exhibition "A Proof of Being" is also on view, will be in attendance.
The event will begin at 5 p.m. at Guild Hall, where guests can see the two exhibitions in the newly renovated galleries. It will move across to Mulford Farm for a cocktail hour at 6, dinner at 7, and a performance by the Guild Hall and Bel Canto Boot Camp resident opera artists, and will conclude with dancing to the music of D.J. Mick.
Tickets start at $1,500, $500 for those ages 21 to 40, $500 for cocktails only.
Design and Jazz
The Southampton Arts Center is pivoting from interior design to jazz this week, starting Thursday at 5:30 p.m. with a free talk and book signing with Stewart Manger, the author of "Romancing the Home: Stylish Interiors for a Modern Lifestyle."
Based in New York City, Mr. Manger has designed residences in Paris, London, Scotland, Antigua, Palm Beach, Newport, and the Hamptons over the course of 20 years.
Hamptons Jazz Fest will return to the arts center with an outdoor concert by the Bakithi Kumalo Band on Saturday at 7 p.m. Born in South Africa, Mr. Kumalo became recognized as a top session bassist by the 1980s, and after being introduced to Paul Simon in 1985 he traveled with Mr. Simon to New York to finish the "Graceland" album.
Mr. Kumalo has also recorded and performed with Joan Baez, Cyndi Lauper, Hugh Masekela, Herbie Hancock, and Randy Brecker, among others.
Tickets are $35, $30 for members, $15 for students. Rain will move the show into the theater.
Percussion and Sax
The Abraham Burton and Eric McPherson Quartet is up next in Summer Jazz on the Terrace at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, Friday at 6 p.m., in collaboration with Hamptons Jazz Fest.
Born and raised in New York City, by the time he was 12, Mr. McPherson, a drummer, was jamming with Mr. Burton, a saxophonist. Mr. McPherson went on to perform with such important jazz figures as Pharaoh Sanders, Andrew Hill, Richard Davies, Claudia Acuna, and Avishai Cohen.
Mr. Burton, who has two Grammy Award-winning albums on his resume, has toured throughout Europe and played at New York City jazz clubs, including the Village Vanguard, Blue Note, Sweet Basil, and Birdland.
Tickets are $25, $15 for members, their guests, students, and senior citizens, and $5 for children.
The Solace of Nature
A directed reading of "Through the Sands of Time," a one-person play by Cynthia L. Cooper starring John Hickok, a Broadway actor, and directed by Sal Trapani, will happen Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at the Montauk Library.
The play is based on "The Outermost House," a memoir by Henry Beston, a naturalist writer, about the year he spent living in a small house in the dunes of Wellfleet on Cape Cod in the late 1920s. A World War I veteran, Beston, overwhelmed by anxiety, turned to nature for solace.
Mr. Hickok's Broadway credits include featured roles in "Parade," "Aida," and "Little Women," among others. Mr. Trapani is a summer resident and charter boat captain in Montauk.
Country and Brass
The Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton will be jumping with the music of the Rusty Spur Band on Thursday evening at 6:30, and Real East End Brass next Thursday at 6 p.m.
Rusty Spur is a country band that blends modern country songs with traditional country classics. The seven-piece band is fronted by Nicole Case, lead female vocals, and James Brull, lead male vocals and acoustic guitar.
The nine-piece Real East End Brass, comprised of musicians and music educators from Eastern Long Island, is rooted in the sounds of New Orleans brass bands, jazz, and funk.
