In advance of its Printaganza fund-raiser, which will happen on Aug. 4, LTV Studios in Wainscott is hosting a lead-up tonight at 7:30, in association with “The Mannix Show: Shooting the Sh*T With Cultural Folk.” The event will be filmed.
Dan Welden, a master printmaker, will be on hand for a conversation with several of the participating artists, and a sneak peek at “Printaganza,” a short film by Jason Nower featuring the artist John Alexander.
A raffle will offer chances for a John Alexander print; a Dan Welden print; two Printaganza benefit tickets, valued at $200, and six tickets to a private preview screening of “Lasting Impressions,” a film about the life and work of Mr. Welden.
In addition, an auction of works on paper by 65 artists is now live on LTV’s website.
Tickets to tonight’s event are $20, $25 at the door; buyers will receive a 25-percent discount on Printaganza benefit tickets.
Hamptons Summer Songbook by the Sea will return to LTV on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. with “Perfectly Frank,” a celebration of the life and music of Frank Sinatra by Sal Viviano, a Broadway star who worked with and recorded for many of the songwriters whose music Sinatra popularized.
Mr. Viviano has performed at the White House, by invitation of President and Mrs. Reagan; Carnegie Hall, Wolf Trap, London’s Palladium, the Kennedy Center, the Hollywood Bowl, and, closer to home, 54 Below, the Iridium Jazz Club, and the Russian Tea Room.
Tickets are $50 in advance, $55 at the door, and $80 for cafe table seating.
“Sea Stories,” a multimedia program featuring dramatic readings of original works by East End writers, live music, and stories of the region’s maritime past, will take over the studio on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. The evening has been organized by John McCaffrey, a writer based in Wainscott, who has a novel and three short-story collections to his credit. His father introduced him to clamming, fishing, and crabbing here.
LTV and Mr. McCaffrey issued a call for submissions of previously unpublished nonfiction stories on themes of the local surroundings and the sea. Among the readers are William Norwich, who has written and edited for The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, and Town & Country, and published two novels. Also presenting will be Seamus McDonagh, an actor and boxer; Susan Wartur, and Bruce Bronster.
David Cataletto, an East Hampton Town Trustee, educator, and environmental advocate, will combine tales of the region’s maritime past with sea shanties, accompanied by ukulele, percussion, and guitar.
Tickets are $25, $50 for cafe table seating.
LTV’s East End Underground live concert series, in association with Hamptons JazzFest, will feature a solo performance by Bill O’Connell on Monday at 6 p.m. A Grammy nominee, Mr. O’Connell has been a soloist, leader, arranger, music director, and sideman for such artists as Astrud Gilberto, Sonny Rollins, Chet Baker, and Gato Barbieri. He was the keyboardist and music director for Mongo Santamaria’s group for two years.
Of Mr. O’Connell’s piano virtuosity, George Carroll wrote in ejazznews, “The range of his artistic spectrum seems limitless, and I suggest my readers will be moved by this colossus of musical dignity and improvisational authority.”
Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door.
