Music Fest News
While the Hamptons Festival of Music’s Main Stage festival is more than six months away, the community has been invited to meet Michael Palmer, the festival’s artistic director, at Hoie Hall, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, East Hampton, for a preview on Saturday at 4 p.m.
Maestro Palmer will discuss the festival’s school and community outreach programs taking place throughout the year, as well as September’s concert series at St. Luke’s.
Tickets are $35 on the festival’s website.
Hamptons Harmony, a benefit performance for the festival’s community outreach programs, will take place Sunday from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Springs home of Maestro Palmer and Michael Yip, the festival’s executive director, at 34 1st Street.
The evening will feature a concert for an audience of 30 by Eric Silberger, a violinist and Tchaikovsky Competition winner, and Philip Edward Fisher, an acclaimed British concert pianist.
Tickets are $75.
Watergate Redux
Guild Hall and HamptonsFilm are teaming up on Saturday at 7 p.m. to present “All the President’s Men,” Alan J. Pakula’s 1976 landmark film that chronicled the uncovering of the Watergate scandal.
The film, which stars Robert Redford as Bob Woodward and Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein, the Washington Post reporters who investigated the scandal, earned eight Academy Award nominations, including best picture and best director, and garnered Jason Robards a best supporting actor Oscar and William Goldman an Oscar for his screenplay adaptation.
After the screening, Alec Baldwin, HamptonsFilm’s co-chairman, and David Nugent, its artistic director, will discuss the legacy and influence of the film.
Tickets are $25, $22.50 for members.
For New Orleans
LTV Studios in Wainscott will hold a fund-raiser to support the victims of the recent tragedy on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Tuesday starting at 6:30 p.m. Real East End Brass (REEB), a New Orleans-style brass band, will be on hand to perform, and the evening will be filmed as part of an LTV/REEB documentary about the Big Easy.
The evening is free, but donations to the New Orleans New Year's Day Tragedy Fund can be made in person or via a link on the LTV website.
Good Times in Sag
On Saturday, the eve of Mardi Gras, the Paumanok Stompers, the only band on Long Island performing traditional New Orleans jazz exclusively, will let the good times roll at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater, starting at 7 with a party in the lobby featuring “Mardi Gras hurricane cocktails and king cake.” The show will start at 8.
The band’s repertoire includes not only traditional 20th-century jazz classics from the late teens, ‘20s, ‘30s, and beyond, but also New Orleans second-line marches, jazz funeral tunes, and Mardi Gras classics.
Tickets range from $42 to $54.
Piano Recital
The Liliane Questel Recital Series will return to the Southampton Cultural Center on Saturday at 6 p.m. with a piano concert by Jack Gao. Based in New York, Mr. Gao, who has performed in China, Canada, and the United States, won the Naumburg International Piano Competition in 2023 and the second prize in the 2019 Steinway Piano Competition. He is among 77 pianists who have been invited to compete this spring in Fort Worth, at the annual Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
Mr. Gao will perform compositions by Frederic Chopin, Franz Liszt, Olivier Messiaen, Alexander Scriabin, and Bela Bartok, as well as his own “Impromptu,” composed in 2023.
Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door, free for students under 21.
The African Diaspora
Shades of Yale, a coed a cappella group of Yale undergraduates founded in 1988 to celebrate the music of the African diaspora and the African-American tradition, will perform a concert on Sunday afternoon at 3 at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church.
Drawing from the diverse backgrounds of their members and the oral traditions of Black people everywhere, Shades of Yale strives to portray the true depth and complexity of the Black experience.
The group has sung with Lenny Kravitz, Angelique Kidjo, and Sweet Honey in the Rock, and performed for Nelson Mandela, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and former President Barack Obama.
Tickets are $20, $10 for youth.
Mapping History
The Timelines Project is a participatory art initiative that explores how historical events influence cultural workers and activists who are trying to improve their communities.
Members of the Shinnecock Nation have been invited to a workshop at Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio in Southampton on Sunday at 6 p.m. to participate in the project by mapping key historical events that have shaped their cultural work and advocacy efforts. The resulting data will be digitized and made widely available.
In addition, the information will be presented at BRIC House Gallery in Brooklyn, along with data generated by New Yorkers for Culture and Arts and the Latinx Arts Consortium of New York, from March 21 through April 5.
Jazz Night
Jazz Night at the Sag Harbor Masonic Club, a presentation of Hamptons JazzFest, will now happen on alternating Friday nights, starting tomorrow at 7 p.m. with “Bop, Groove, and Passion: Jazz That Moves You.” The performers are Bill O’Connell, piano; Tony DePaolis, bass; Ken Fowser, tenor saxophone, and Claes Brondal, drums.
Doors open at 6:30. Part of the $20 admission fee is donated to local charities.
Greek to Her
Bergenstages, a student theater group at Bergen Community College in Paramus, N.J., is performing Aristophanes’s Greek comedy “Lysistrata” in the college’s Ender Hall Lab Theatre tonight and tomorrow at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday at 2 and 7:30.
The play was adapted in 1991 by Carolyn Balducci, the adult programs coordinator of the Montauk Library. Since its initial production at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, her translation/adaptation has been presented in readings and full productions at multiple locations worldwide.
Tickets are $18, $12 for senior citizens, and $5 for students.
Bird-Friendly Gardens
The next free round-table discussion of the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons, set for Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon, will tackle the subject of how a garden can be a bird’s best friend.
Among the topics to be discussed are the role of native plants in sustaining local birds; the role of various shrubs; the best berrying trees and shrubs and their timing as food and water sources over the seasons; flowers whose shapes, colors, and other properties cater to the needs of different kinds of birds; birdhouses, and the pros and cons of man-made feeders. A slide show will begin the program, which takes place at the Bridgehampton Community House.
