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Bits and Pieces 08.29.24

Tue, 08/27/2024 - 14:02
Melissa Errico, seen here performing at Bay Street Theater last year, will dip into the Great American Songbook at the Southampton Arts Center.
Phil Merritt

Jazz and Broadway

In partnership with Hamptons JazzFest, the Southampton Arts Center will host the Ada Rovatti Quintet on Saturday at 7 p.m. After winning a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music, Ms. Rovatti divided her time between Boston and Italy before moving first to Paris, and then to New York.

Since then she has appeared at important jazz festivals and performed with Aretha Franklin, Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Heath, Patti Austin, Joe Bonamassa, and many others.

Tickets are $30, $25 for members.

Melissa Errico, a Tony Award-nominated Broadway actress, singer, and writer, will take the stage at the arts center on Sunday evening at 7. In addition to standards by Lerner and Loewe, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Michel Legrand, and the Great American Songbook, Ms. Errico punctuates her performance with witty stories about life on the Great White Way.

Terry Teachout of The Wall Street Journal called her 2018 album “Sondheim Sublime” “the best all-Sondheim album ever recorded.”

General admission tickets cost $75. V.I.P. tickets, which include a reception with Ms. Errico, are $125.

Mimosas and Dialogue

“Brunch Banter,” a presentation of Erase Racism, will bring Joy-Ann Reid, an MSNBC political analyst, and Maya Wiley, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, to The Church in Sag Harbor on Saturday morning at 10.

Ms. Reid, who wrote “Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America,” and Ms. Reid, the author of the memoir “Remember, You Are a Wiley,” will discuss Black women, politics, power, and the future of leadership in America.

Tickets are $175 and include a signed copy of each book.

On a lighter note, Just Dance will return to The Church with D.J. Mister Lama tomorrow from 7 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $20, $15 for members, and snacks and drinks will be available.

Man on a Wire

In 2014, Philippe Petit walked across the pond at LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his historic walk between the two towers of the World Trade Center.

History will repeat itself yet again on Sunday afternoon at 4 when Mr. Petit will commemorate the 50th anniversary with another walk on a wire. His feat will be accompanied by Anat Cohen, a Grammy Award-nominated clarinetist and saxophonist, as well as musicians from the Young Concert Artists.

LongHouse will open at 2 p.m. on Sunday for ticketholders only. Tickets are $500 and will include dinner in the LongHouse Pavilion with Mr. Petit after his performance.

Music for Brunch

Leading up to the Sag Harbor American Music Festival, which will happen from Sept. 26 through Sept. 29, the festival has announced its “September Sundays” residency at Baron’s Cove in that village.

Starting on Sunday from 2 to 3:30 p.m., brunch and a view of the cove will be accompanied by live music. Annie Trezza, a singer-songwriter from Montauk, will kick off the series. She will be followed by Rorie Kelly (Sept. 8), Chloe Halpin (Sept. 15), and Lina Maxine (Sept. 22).

Reservations to secure a table have been suggested.

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