A busy weekend at LTV Studios in Wainscott will kick off tomorrow with performances at 10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. of “Shirley Chisholm: Unbossed and Unbowed,” a one-woman show about the first African-American woman to run for president, written and performed by Ingrid Griffith.
Born in Brooklyn to immigrant parents, in 1968 Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to Congress, where for seven terms she represented a Brooklyn district centered in Bedford-Stuyvesant. In 1972, she became the first Black candidate and the first woman to run for a major-party presidential nomination.
Chisholm worked to improve opportunities for inner-city residents, supported increases for a variety of social services, and was an advocate for the Equal Rights Amendment.
Ms. Griffith, an actor based in New York, has been touring “Unbossed and Unbowed” across the nation, in the hope that Chisholm’s largely unheard story will help catalyze social change. The recipient of a Danny Glover Power of Dream Award (2022) and a Guyana Cultural Award (2023), she was a 2023 Suzi Bass Award nominee for outstanding principal performer in a play.
Admission to both shows is free.
The East End Underground Live Concert Series will return on Saturday at 7 p.m. with an evening of local music from Annie Trezza, the Dumbo Project, and Secret Ion.
Ms. Trezza is a singer-songwriter from Montauk whose lyrics, according to her website, are inspired by “heartaches, the ocean, surfing, travels, loves lost and found, and life itself.” Her most recent project, the EP “Surf Crushin’,” was recorded at MonkMusic Studios in East Hampton and released last August.
Formed in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood in 2009, the Dumbo Project, which features Drew Burchenal, vocals and guitar; Jamie Grubb, keyboards, guitar, and vocals; Alex Rivers, bass and vocals, and John Schmidt, drums, creates original music that incorporates rock-and-roll, blues, punk, and soul.
Secret Ion had its origins when Hope Woodason played a solo set at the Village Pub in Lindenhurst. Since then she has been joined by Victoria Pietrzak, John Seymour, and Charles Pallotta. Their songs use wit and satire to poke fun at society.
Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door, and $15 for students and senior citizens.
In association with Temple Adas Israel of Sag Harbor, LTV will host Isle of Klezbos, a New York quartet that draws from Yiddish musical traditions, on Sunday afternoon at 4.
The all-female klezmer group has toured from Vienna to Vancouver since 1998, performing “neo-folkloric tunes, re-grooved standards, and genre-transcending originals,” according to its website.
An article on the Boston Public Library website cites the Ashkenazi Jews of Europe as the source of klezmer, noting “This traditional folk music borrows inspiration from music from the synagogue, Roma peoples, European folk music, and even classical music.”
Isle of Klezbos has been seen and heard on HBO, NPR, “CBS Sunday Morning,” PBS, and “The L Word,” and has collaborated with artists such as Jill Sobule, Gregg Bordowitz, and the Grammy-nominated, platinum-selling Scissor Sisters.
“The all-woman klezmer outfit Isle of Klezbos tests the elasticity of the genre by mixing the traditional Jewish wedding music with merengue, swing jazz, and other diverse musical elements,” according to The New Yorker.
The LTV concert will feature Reut Regev, trombone; Debra Kreisberg, clarinet and saxophone; Shoko Nagai, piano and accordion, and Eve Sicular, drummer and bandleader.
Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 at the door, $60 for cafe table seating, and $20 for students.
