Latin Jazz
Rachel Therrien, a French-Canadian trumpet and flugelhorn player, will bring her Latin Jazz Project to the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs next Thursday at 6 p.m.
The Latin Jazz Project reflects Ms. Therrien's graduate studies in Havana, her musical experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean, and her 20 years of collaboration with the Latin jazz community in Montreal, New York, and Toronto. Her repertoire includes original pieces as well as her arrangements of Afro-Latin jazz classics.
Camila Cortina, piano, Raul Reyes, bass, and Juan Carlos Polo, drums, round out the group.
Audience members have been encouraged to bring seating and picnics. In the event of rain, the concert will take place in the John Little Barn for a limited audience. First to come will be first seated.
Jazz from Lincoln Center
Jazz at Lincoln Center will present four concerts this summer at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill. The first program, set for Friday at 6 p.m., will feature the Summer Camargo Quintet.
Ms. Camargo has toured with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, performed with Jon Batiste at the Newport Jazz Festival, and participated in Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead at the Kennedy Center.
"She approaches original repertoire and classic tunes with a sense of lyricism and a swinging disposition," says Jazz at Lincoln Center/Dizzy's Club.
Tickets are $45, $40 for senior citizens, $35 for members, $20 for students, $10 for children 13 and older, and free for those 12 and under.
Party and 'Party?'
Ambassador Sujay, founder of the Global Black Women's Chamber of Commerce, will return to LTV Studios in Wainscott to host "Celebrating Black Culture on the East End" Friday at 7 p.m. Crystal Brown and Maria DeLongoria will co-host.
D.J. Master will be at the turntables, and light refreshments will be available. Tickets are $45 in advance, $50 at the door; doors will open at 6:30.
Staged readings of "Party?", a play by Anne Marilyn Lucas that takes a fresh and often funny look at marriage through the eyes of three generations of a single family, will be performed Monday and Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. The play comes direct from New York's Theater for the New City, where it had a sold-out run in March.
The production stars Alan Ceppos, Molly Chiffer, Audrey Heffernan Meyer, Jordan Lage, Brian Mason, and Pamela Shaw, and is directed by Ezra Barnes.
Tickets are $30, $100 including a reception. All proceeds will benefit the Ellen Hermanson Foundation.
Serial Killer
Nannie Doss -- also known as the Giggling Granny, the Lonely Hearts Killer, the Black Widow, and Lady Blue Beard -- was an American serial killer responsible for the deaths of 11 people between the 1920s and 1954. She died in prison in 1965, but will be brought to life again by Marilyn Chris in a solo reading of "The Giggling Granny," a play by Marsha Lee Sheiness, on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Southampton Cultural Center.
Ms. Chris is familiar to soap opera devotees for her eight years as Wanda Wolek in ABC's "One Life to Live." Her film credits include "Love With the Proper Stranger," "The Honeymoon Killers," and "The Black Marble."
She received Obie, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle awards for her performance in Allen Ginsberg's "Kaddish." A New York Times reviewer called it "one of the great performances of the season."
Tickets are $20.
Halsey House Gala
The Southampton History Museum will celebrate local history, culture, and Chuck Scarborough, who will be the guest of honor at the Halsey House Gala on Saturday from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Mr. Scarborough, who is marking a milestone of 50 years at WNBC, is being honored for his contributions to journalism, and to Southampton's Lake Agawam Conservancy.
The event will include hors d'oeuvres, drinks, a raw bar stocked with local oysters, and dancing to live music. A silent auction will feature a variety of items, including works of art and a tour of NBC Studios with Mr. Scarborough.
Tickets are $250, $150 for those 21 to 35, $100 for ages 17 to 20.
Jazz in Sag
The music series at the Sag Harbor Masonic Club, in partnership with Hamptons Jazz Fest, will host a performance by the Spike Wilner Quartet on Saturday at 7 p.m.
Mr. Wilner is a veteran of the New York City jazz scene. In a New York Times review, Peter Watrous said, "Mr. Wilner is obviously intoxicated with the flow and dance of the great pianists who graced jazz in the 1940’s and 50’s, and his lines, surging and rhythmically powerful, were convincing."
The doors will open at 6:30. A portion of the $30 admission charge supports local charities.
Local Lifeguards
"Waterproof: Lifeguards for Life," an award-winning 40-minute documentary about the efforts of the Town of East Hampton to create a safe swimming environment, will be shown at the Southampton Arts Center on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Directed by the Oscar winner Ross Kauffman and produced by Mae Mougin, an artist, the film shows how the town's lifeguards, led by John Ryan and John Ryan Jr., ensure the safety of locals and tourists.
Tickets are $20, $10 for members.
Jazz on the Lawn
The John Ludlow Quartet will perform a free concert on the lawn of Hampton Library in Bridgehampton on Wednesday at 6 p.m.
Mr. Ludlow, who was was born and raised in Bridgehampton on his parent’s farm, Mecox Bay Dairy, studied saxophone with the jazz legend Hal McKusick, who called him “. . . extremely gifted and one of today's outstanding performers."
The other musicians in the group are Gary Fisher on keyboards, Dominic Duval on bass, and John Mele on drums.
This article has been changed from its print version to include the John Ludlow Quartet performance, news of which arrived after the paper went to press.
