Arts

“It’s getting very intense,” said Steph Paynes, guitarist and founder of Lez Zeppelin, “which is nice.”

The Montauk Library will present a musical change of pace on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., with a free performance by the Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O’s Celtic band.

The Hampton Classic is riding into town and so are Lynn Matsuoka's equestrian paintings. See them at Snake Hollow Studio, Bridgehampton, located across the road from the Hampton Classic. See work by 11 local artists in "Convergence II," at Ashawagh Hall in Springs.

A benefit concert by Maxfield and Leo Panish for the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork will be held Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at the congregation’s home, 977 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike.

Maxfield, who attends the Manhattan School of Music, has performed with the school’s Philharmonia and Symphony Orchestra and in recitals throughout the metropolitan area. Leo, his brother, was the concertmaster of the Symphony Orchestra at the school’s Precollege. The Panish brothers are from East Hampton.

Songs, stories, and special guests are in store on Monday night at 8 at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor when Corky Laing, best known for his time as co-founder and drummer in the rock ’n’ roll group Mountain, and Kinky Friedman, a satirical country music artist, author, and would-be public servant, present “Folked Up Rock.”

The stars will be shining at Guild Hall this week, beginning tonight at 8 with a staged reading of “Sharpies,” a new comedy by Eugene Pack, an Emmy Award-nominated writer.

The Montauk Library will present “Man of Fire: José Clemente Orozco,” a free, illustrated lecture by Jane Weissman, on Wednesday evening at 7.

“You Made Me Love You: Celebrating 100 Years of the Great American Songbook,” starring Jennifer Sheehan, will take place at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday at 8 p.m. as part of Guild Hall’s Songbook Salon Series.

Music Fridays will return to Bridge Gardens in Bridgehampton tomorrow at 6 p.m. with Joe Hampton and the Kingpins.

Last week, Ruth Appelhof told the board and staff she would retire as director of Guild Hall at the end of 2016, after 16 years of steering the East Hampton arts institution.

Rock ’n’ roll, ballet, cabaret, and Dr. Oz will take turns entertaining and informing audiences at Guild Hall in East Hampton Village this week, with “Bjork: Biophilia Live,” a film that captures the artist’s 2013 multimedia concert in London, set to conclude the Rock Cinema series tonight at 8.

Angel Reda, a vocalist, actress, and dancer who is currently starring on Broadway as Roxie Hart in “Chicago,” will perform a program of Frank Sinatra’s hits at the American Hotel in Sag Harbor on Monday at 7:30 p.m. Russ Kassoff, Sinatra’s longtime pianist, will accompany her.

I took a look at Ryan McGinness’s work at the Silas Marder Gallery, then I looked again, and then once more. No matter how familiar his world of idiosyncratic signs and symbols, there is always something new to see in their more-is-more layering.

“Summer Diaries,” a show by Billy Sullivan will open at Ille Arts with a reception on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. “Anna Walinska: Abstractions From the ’50s and ’60s” will open Saturday at Lawrence Fine Art in East Hampton with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. and remain on view through Sept. 3.

For those who like their iambic pentameter served alfresco while seated on lawn chairs or picnic blankets, this weekend should be a cause for celebration, with two free productions of Shakespeare plays to choose from and a new partnership that could offer more in the future.

William Quigley, a painter who lives in New York and Los Angeles, will host an art exhibition and fashion runway on Saturday at 6 p.m. on the back lot of Schenck Fuels, 62 Newtown Lane in East Hampton.

As his teacher had before him, the late saxophonist Hal McKusick, who lived in Sag Harbor, wanted to inspire students to pursue their dream and be passionate about what they believe in. “That takes mentors,” he told The Star in 1998. “And that’s what I’d like to do with my students.”

The Hamptons International Film Festival’s 23rd iteration, which will take place from Oct. 8 through 12, will be the last with Stuart Match Suna as chairman. Mr. Match Suna, the president of Silvercup Studios and a founder of the festival, has been chairman for 18 years.

“Green Afternoon III,” a garden dance performance by Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre, will take place Saturday at 5 p.m. at the home of Marcia Previti and Peter Gumpel, 230 Old Stone Highway in Springs.

Bulletproof Stockings, a Hasidic rock duo, will grace East Hampton for the first time next week, and the two front-women are curious how the audience will react.

The Aviva Players, one of the first chamber ensembles to feature the music of women composers, will perform at the Montauk Library on Sunday afternoon at 3:30.

Fern Mallis has navigated two worlds in the fashion industry: the initial, enormous behind-the-scenes efforts, as executive director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, to unite the industry under what eventually became New York City’s iconic Fashion Week, and the public acclaim she later began to receive for that work as senior vice president of IMG Fashion.

A rare trove of photographs and posters depicting the history of Cuba along with contemporary images will be on display this summer at the Southampton Arts Center thanks to a collaboration with the International Center of Photography in New York City.

Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano, a cabaret duo, will bring “Helluva Town: A New York Soundtrack” to the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday evening at 8 as part of Guild Hall’s Songbook Salon series.

“Unpregnant Pause: Where Are the Babies?” — a free performance based on a new book by Debbie Slevin — will take place Sunday afternoon at 3:30 at the Montauk Library.

On Friday afternoon, Chris Harmon of East Hampton, one of the more outstanding surfers to grow out of Long Island waves, crouched, nearly knelt, before a finely shaped length of fiberglass-coated polyurethane foam, virtually flat, the nose of it pointed with a forked tail, two fins, a red deck, and white bottom.

"Let them eat cake" at the “True Confections,” exhibition of work by Monica Banks and Christa Maiwald at the Nightingale. The Sag Harbor Whaling Museum will present “East End Artists: Then and Now,” an exhibition organized by Peter Marcelle, from tomorrow through Aug. 23.

The Allman Brothers Band may be finished (or maybe not), but Butch Trucks, a founding member and one of its two percussionists, is rocking on. Now at his house in France, Mr. Trucks will arrive in the United States next Thursday and head directly to Amagansett and the Stephen Talkhouse.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill is offering two programs tomorrow at 6 p.m. The “Sounds of Summer” series will present Jake Lear, a singer and guitar virtuoso. “Gesture Jam,” a figure-drawing class featuring theatrical costumes and live accompaniment, will take place in the museum’s permanent collection galleries under the direction of Andrea Cote.

“One-Man Star Wars Trilogy,” a solo performance by Charles Ross, a Canadian performer and writer, will transport the galaxy from far, far away to Guild Hall on Saturday at 8 p.m.