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2010 Season Archive
Payomet is getting the word out for:
Benefit the Bayou
Casting the net from Cape Cod to the Gulf
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a musical fundraiser - be part of one fishing community helping another.
Featuring:
Henry Butler - "The Pride of New Orleans"
The Chandler Travis Trio - Author Heidi Jon Schmidt
Monday, September 27 - 7pm
Wellfleet Congregational Church
All proceeds from the event will be divided between the Gulf Relief Foundation which focuses on the human needs that have resulted from the oil disaster, and the Restore the Earth Foundation, which, among other things, supplies Gulf Saver Bags. These are burlap bags filled with tree humus, infused with oil-eating microbes that are plugged with new march grasses, which are deployed by out of work fishermen.
Tickets can be purchased online at benefitthebayou.org
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IRIS DEMENT
Saturday, September 18 at 8:15PM
This Performance was held at the Wellfleet Congregational Church
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One of the most celebrated country-folk performers of her day, Iris Dement was born on January 5, 1961, in rural Paragould, AR, the youngest of 14 children. At the age of three, her devoutly religious family moved to California, where she grew up singing gospel music; during her teenaged years, however, she was first exposed to country, folk, and R&B, drawing influence from Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, and Joni Mitchell. Upon graduating high school, she relocated to Kansas City to attend college.
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After a series of jobs waitressing and typing, Dement first began composing songs at the age of 25. Honing her skills at open-mic nights, in 1988 she moved to Nashville, where she contacted producer Jim Rooney, who helped her land a record contract.
Dement did not make her recording debut until 1992, when her independent label offering, Infamous Angel, won almost universal acclaim thanks to her pure, evocative vocal style and spare, heartfelt songcraft. Despite a complete lack of support from country radio, the record's word-of-mouth praise earned her a deal with Warner Bros., which reissued Infamous Angel in 1993 as well as its follow-up, 1994's stunning My Life.
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Her third LP, 1996's eclectic The Way I Should, marked a dramatic change not only in its more rock-influenced sound but also in its subject matter; where Dement's prior work was introspective and deeply personal, The Way I Should was fiercely political, tackling topics like sexual abuse, religion, government policy, and Vietnam. In 1999, she collaborated with country man John Prine on his album, In Spite of Ourselves. Dement recorded four duets with Prine that earned her a Grammy nod the following year.
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| OUT OF THE BOX: Reading at Payomet: |
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Through Veterans' Eyes: The Iraq and Afghanistan Experience
Reading by author Larry Minear
Monday, August 30 at 8:15PM
General Admission $10.00
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| Speaker Larry Minear is the Co-founder and Director of the "Humanitarianism and War Project". He has researched and written many publications and has also participated in prestigious, international research groups at Brown University and Tufts University. |
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Through Veterans' Eyes: The Iraq and Afghanistan Experience reveals the real thoughts and stories of our nation's vets, returning from war but encountering new conflicts: the memories of war and the realities of home. A balanced, powerful oral history brought to us through the humanitarian eyes of its author.
larryminear.com
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Hopper's Ghosts
A new comedy by Kevin Rice exploring the lives of Ed and Jo Hopper
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays
Aug 12 - 28
Tix $25. Discounts at the door for seniors; students; teachers; union members; artists.
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Edward Hopper, Summer Evening 1947, Oil on canvas, 30 x 42"
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert H. Kinney
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BROTHERS & SISTERS: Woodbury Brothers & The Parkington Sisters
Wednesday, August 25 at 8:15PM
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Payomet Performing Arts Center is pleased to announce the return of the five, fabulous folk musicians, also known as The Parkington Sisters. The nationally, regionally, and locally acclaimed quintet captivate listeners with their melodious but complex string and vocal harmonies, always leaving their audience wanting more.
Also appearing are the "talk of the Cape", local band, Sam and Nick Woodbury the Woodbury Brothers. MOONBOUNCE – The Woodbury Brothers Experience, includes two other musicians. In their own words: "Creativity meets exploration meets moon meets bounce...
Meet Bounce Brothers Sam and Nick Woodbury (bass/guitar/Berklee Alumni, drums/percussion/Stony Brook Masters in Music) together with guitarist Austin Smith and bassist Dylan Coleman (both Berklee Alumni) as they create anew and ferry you through an improvisatory jazz, funk, and rock mélange.
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OUT OF THE BOX: Reading at Payomet:
With Few Reservations
Reading by author Peter Rose
Monday, August 23 at 8:15PM
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| Speaker Peter I. Rose is a sociologist, ethnographer, photographer, and prize-winning travel journalist. He is also Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow of the Kahn Institute at Smith College, a faculty member and fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar in Austria, and author of many other books, including They and We, Tempest-Tost, and Guest Appearances and Other Travels in Time and Space. When not traveling, Peter and his wife, Hedy, live in Northampton and Wellfleet, Massachusetts. |
In WITH FEW RESERVATIONS, Peter Rose, Wellfleet-based sociologist, photographer and prize-winning travel journalist, offers intriguing portraits of places and people from Cape Cod to Cape Horn. Follow him as he plays gumshoe in Honolulu, tour guide in Amsterdam, taxonomist in China (classifying American tourists and other odd birds), and on many other adventures on land and sea.
theprosewriter.com
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| Click here to listen to tracks from Julian’s Grammy Nominated Album
When Julian Lage emerged on the music scene 13 years ago, the young San Francisco Bay Area-based musician was not only deemed a guitar-playing prodigy, but he was also offered record deals on numerous occasions. Playing a unique style that melded blues, classical, folk and jazz influences, Lage decided to wait for the right moment to document his own music. He chooses instead to become a sideman with established instrumentalists like Gary Burton and to collaborate with contemporaries such as pianist Taylor Eigsti.
He has played with such renowned artists as Carlos Santana (when he was 8 years old), Pat Metheny, Gary Burton, Kenny Werner, Toots Thielemans, Martin Taylor, David Grisman, Béla Fleck, Eric Harland, Gretchen Parlato, Mark O'Connor, and Taylor Eigsti, among others. Julian's extraordinary talent led him to be the subject of the 1997 Academy Award nominated documentary Jules at Eight. In addition to performing, Lage has recorded as a duo with David Grisman on the 1999 release Dawg Duos, and contributed a fine cover of "In a Sentimental Mood" with Martin Taylor and David Grisman, for the 2000 compilation Acoustic Disc: 100% Handmade Music, Vol. V.
Classically trained at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, he has studied at Sonoma State University, Ali Akbar College of Music, and the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Lage has also appeared at numerous jazz concerts/festivals, including the Monterey Jazz Festival, the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Montreux Jazz Festival, and the San Francisco Jazz Festival. At age 13 he performed at the 2000 Grammy Awards.
In 2004 and 2005 Gary Burton released two albums featuring Lage prominently throughout. The first was titled Generations released in 2004 and was followed by Next Generations in 2005.
On March 24th, 2009 Lage released his debut album Sounding Point on EmArcy Records, to rave reviews. It was nominated for the 2010 Grammy Award "Best Contemporary Jazz Album.
Herbie Hancock: “Julian, you play with heart, mind, and soul. Where’d you find all this so early in life?”
David Grisman: “I was amazed by the depth of his playing, he’s a real improviser who just goes with the flow. He’s not about anything other than making a beautiful musical statement.”
Gary Burton: “We had to do various takes on different tunes, and it struck me how none of his solos were alike. He was constantly inventive but without a need to show off. His way of proving himself is not by being flashy, but by discovering the meaning in the music.”
Martin Taylor: “My favorite guitar player!”
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Join us for four action filled days of concerts, films, talks, and readings of classic plays from the rich treasure trove of Yiddish theatre - Fifteen events over five days!
- Talks and films every day at 6:30 p.m. starting Sunday, August 15 at 6:30pm when Nahma Sandrow gives a talk titled “The Ultimate American Theatre Was Yiddish.” Admission - Free.
- Readings of Yiddish Classics by large casts of professional actors including Tony Kushner’s adaptaton of Dybbuk. (In English translation) Every day at 4pm.
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This event takes place at the Wellfleet Library
- live klezmer music before the film.
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Sold out for six weeks straight in its first run in LA, this film by Dan Katzir has gone on to raves across the country. This powerful and moving story follows the legendary woman who has kept the oldest running Yiddish Theater in America alive. Zypora Spaisman is a holocaust survivor who conquers all hearts in her passion for life, art and Yiddish. The film has been an official selection in numerous important film festivals and won Critics Pick in New York Magazine. Jeannette Catsoulis of the New York Times called it “funny, wistful and resolute”. Kenneth Tynan of the LA Times called it “ Charming… an irreplaceable record of a life and movement”.
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Sunday, Aug 15
4pm
Reading of Sholem Aleichem's play, The Winning Ticket
The Winning Ticket (aka The Jackpot directed by Nahma Sandrow):
The Jackpot (1915), a folk-play in four acts, is the last work by the celebrated playwright Sholem Aleichem. Considered his best comedy, the urban story centers around a poor tailor who wins a lottery jackpot, which complicates his family’s life, particularly his independent daughter’s who has other, romantic ambitions.
“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich,a tragedy for the poor.” Sholem Aleichem
Yiddish activist, humorist, poet, playwright, writer of adult and children’s fiction, Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916) was born in the Ukraine and eventually moved to New York in 1906. He traveled extensively and, used his experiences to write about real life with such passion and wit, that Mark Twain called himself (Twain)” the American Sholem Aleichem.” Many of his “Tevye” series of stories were the basis for the musical, Fiddler on the Roof.
Talk by Nahma Sandrow, The Ultimate American Theatre Was Yiddish, 6:30 pm, FREE
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In addition to maintaining a demanding performance schedule, which has included such venues as Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, ArtPark, The Ordway Theater, The Metropolitan Museum, The Frick Museum, The Jewish Museum, Folger Shakespeare Library, Library of Congress, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Western Wind regularly conducts Workshops in Ensemble Singing.
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Monday, Aug 16
4 pm
Reading of Motke Thief at 4:00 pm
Motke Thief (1917), written by Sholem Asch and translated from the Yiddish by Caraid O’Brien. Directed by Myra Slotnik. Motke Thief dramatizes the life of a petty thief whose blind ambition prevents him from finding the respectability that he craves. Set in the seedy underworld of Warsaw, after World War I and before the Russian Revolution, Motke Thief, introduces the audience to characters who take us to the darkest places of the human soul.
Talk at 6:30 pm by Kevin Rice: What’s Not To Like About North Truro? The Origins of the Yiddish Theatre/Klezmer Music Festival
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Tuesday, Aug 17
4 pm
Reading of Tony Kushner's adaptation of Dybbuk
A Dybbuk (1914), 1997 adaptation by Tony winning playwright, Tony Kushner, from the play by S. Ansky. Directed by Myra Slotnik. The drama has deep roots in Kabbalah and Yiddish Theatre. Taken from mystical stories, the play unfolds with a Talmudic scholar and his love who are kept from marrying by her rich father. The scholar dies of a broken heart, and at his gravesite, his grief-stricken love becomes possessed by The Dybbuk, a raging, lost soul. A rabbi is called in to exorcise the spirit from the young woman and restore balance to the living and the dead.
This production features a cast of 20+ who will bring the mystical characters to life. Poignant ,in the little-known fact that the majority of actors who performed in the 1938 Polish film version of The Dybbuk died during Hitler’s final solution.
Talk back and selected clips of the film Dybbuk, the FILM at 6:30 pm, FREE
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Wednesday, Aug 18
4 pm
Reading of SHOP
SHOP (1926) by H. Leivick, translated by Nahma Sandrow. Directed by Kevin Rice. Leivick, renowned for his dramatic poem, The Golem. set the play, SHOP , in a garment manufacturing plant, describing union organizers' valiant struggle for the dignity and respect of labor. Born in Russia, Levick supported the Russian Revolution as a member of the Jewish Bund, was eventually exiled to Siberia but smuggled out and into the United States in 1913.
Talk by Nahma Sandrow: Translating Yiddish, Page to Stage, at 6:30 pm, FREE
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Statman bridges two amazing worlds – klezmer on clarinet and bluegrass on mandolin – with one of the tightest trios you’ll ever see. Sold out the tent last year!
Andy Statman, one of the world’s premiere mandolinists and klezmer clarinetists, appears at the grand finale of our Yiddish Music and Theatre festival! Statman, appearing with his trio, will give a concert that spans klezmer to bluegrass to newgrass. Andy studied at a young age with David Grisman who said, “If the only thing I ever did was give Andy his first mandolin lesson, it would have been a life well spent.”
Statman has made groundbreaking recordings over a long career that dates back to what's been called the Jewgrass scene of the 1960s in New York's Washington Square Park. Since then he’s played with Bob Dylan and Bela Fleck, and has recorded with the likes of Jerry Garcia.
Andy's music isn't a novelty--it holds together in an organic way, and it feels like the narration of a spiritual journey. His concerts show the influence of the many countries he’s traveled and other traditions he's studied, from avant-garde jazz to traditional music, from Ireland to Azerbaijan. Andy Statman has been nominated for a 2008 Grammy for Best Country Instrumental Performance for the "Rawhide!" track from his new "East Flatbush Blues" CD. Andy Statman’s music taps into something beyond time and space, taking the audience on a journey into the very heart of Klezmer Music. And beyond. On August 12, he will perform with band consisting of master bassist Jim Whitney and Larry Eagles who has toured with, among others, Bruce Springsteen.
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Gandalf Murphy
& the Slambovian Circus of Dreams
Sunday, August 8
8:15pm
Folk-rock band from New York, shook the tent two years ago. Come and experience why!
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www.slambovia.com
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This band is a riveting, mesmerizing, crazy, amazing machine of music that gives you chills both through the playing of their eclectic musical devices, as well as through their spiritually evoking lyrical content."
- Bottomline NYC Concert Review, Chronogram.
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Join us at 6pm as the South Wellfleet Neighborhood Association presents Hoops with Moya - and pre-concert food and drinks to benefit the Pond Hill School Restoration Project
www.swnasu.org
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Friday and Saturday,
Aug. 6, 7
"Night Falls On Emerald City "
by Larry Marsland
If you don't already know, then come find out why Larry Marsland is one of the most closely watched actors (and singers) to appear in these far-flung parts.
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In his titillating new show, Larry takes us to June of 1968, when Judy Garland was scheduled to appear for two nights at the Back Bay Theater in Boston. The playwright, then a college student, ushered the first night of the run. Miss Garland kept the audience waiting two hours until she finally showed up at ten o’clock. After profuse apologies, she sang until well after midnight. It was an extraordinary evening.
Thrilled by the experience, the playwright bought a ticket for the second evening’s performance but Miss Garland never showed up. "Night Falls on Emerald City" is an imagining of what might have occurred between the first and second nights.
Tix $25. Discounts at the door for seniors; students; teachers; union members; also, see below for group discounts and our "Pay-What-You-Can Performances on Friday."
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KLEZMER MUSIC PARTY
Thursday, August 5
8:15pm
This event is at the First Parish Church, Main Street, Brewster, MA
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ALICIA SVIGALS
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“Listening to Alicia Svigals' violin wail...is nothing short of an ethereal musical experience, like turning an ear to heaven and listening ...” --- The Jewish Reporter (Las Vegas)
“Sinuous, demonic fiddle.” --- Rootsworld
“Violin playing with depth and urgency.” ---L.A. Times
“Her fiddle ruled.” --- New York Times
“A violinist who makes her instrument sing as if it had a human voice.” ---Willamette Week, Portland
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Session Americana
Wednesday, August 4
8:15 pm
www.sessionamericana.com
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Session Americana sit tightly around a small cafe table, ambient mics tuned to catch the whole sound of the voices and instruments. A suit-case drum kit, an old electric bass, a bunch of acoustic instruments, a field organ: This format feels very theatrical and though the musicians face each other, the audience feels drawn into the circle by the warmth, joy and camaraderie that emanate outwards by the all star cast of characters seated around the table.
What keeps you coming back show after show is the same thing that any audience member longs for, great songs performed by a great band.
The six core members of the band have brought enviable careers worth of experience to the "table", featuring (current and former) members of Treat Her Right, Patty Griffin, Lori McKenna, The The, Dennis Brennan, Kris Delmhorst. The group has grown from a rag tag jam at a local pub to a regional institution, playing gigs from church coffee houses to urban nightclubs to regional festival tents to large halls.
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RESTREPO
Mon & Tues, Aug 2 & 3, 7:30pm
Exclusive screening of Sebastian Junger's new award-winning documentary. Sold out at Sundance. Sebastian will attend Aug 2 screening.
restropothemovie.com
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RESTREPO is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, “Restrepo,” named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. This is an entirely experiential film: the cameras never leave the valley; there are no interviews with generals or diplomats. The only goal is to make viewers feel as if they have just been through a 94-minute deployment. This is war, full stop. The conclusions are up to you.
DIRECTORS’ STATEMENT
The war in Afghanistan has become highly politicized, but soldiers rarely take part in that discussion. Our intention was to capture the experience of combat, boredom and fear through the eyes of the soldiers themselves. Their lives were our lives: we did not sit down with their families, we did not interview Afghans, we did not explore geopolitical debates. Soldiers are living and fighting and dying at remote outposts in Afghanistan in conditions that few Americans back home can imagine. Their experiences are important to understand, regardless of one’s political beliefs. Beliefs can be a way to avoid looking at reality. This is reality. – Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger
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THE MAKING OF RESTREPO
From May 2007 to July 2008, Battle Company of the 173rd Airborne Brigade was stationed in the remote Korengal Valley of eastern Afghanistan – considered one of the most dangerous postings of the war. The soldiers of Second Platoon built and manned a remote and strategic outpost that they named “Restrepo,” in honor of their medic, PFC Juan Restrepo, who was killed in action. This is their story, in their words, of a group of men who came be considered the “tip of the spear” for America efforts in that area.
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Juanito Pascual
Sunday, August 1
8:15 pm
Jonathan “Juanito” Pascual is acclaimed as one of the top young flamenco guitarists on the international music scene. His latest solo album release, Language of the Heart, deeply celebrates flamenco tradition while showcasing a virtual "Who's Who" of the new school of Flamenco.
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www.juanitopascual.com
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Juanito has won praise around the globe as a respected new voice in this most Spanish of musical genres. He is recognized in Spain as a unique and creative voice with mesmerizing virtuosity, warm and evocative playing, and original compositional style.
He has been a featured artist in some of the best-known fine arts centers, clubs, and festivals in the United States, including the renowned Tanglewood Jazz Festival, New York's 92nd St. Y, Blue Note Jazz Club, Boston's Jordan Hall and Regattabar, and countless colleges and performing arts centers. He has also been featured on National Public Radio's "The World" program, as well as countless television and radio programs.
“One of the hottest Flamenco guitarists to emerge in recent years.”-National Public Radio
"Juanito has a remarkable command of the guitar. His dynamic range is truly impressive and his compositions show real depth and understanding of both genres, flamenco and contemporary forms." -Flamenco USA
"A flamenco phenom...A rising star of the Spanish guitar form." -The Boston Globe
"These guys rocked...when the musicians engaged in impassioned crossfire, the heat index broke all records." -The Village Voice
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Elvis Perkins
Wednesday, July 28
8:15pm
Folk singer-songwriter Elvis Perkins crafts brooding, thoughtful melodies with a sophisticated pop sensibility. His songs sound both catchy and timeless, earning lofty comparisons to the likes of Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan.
Having lost both his parents to tragedy, Perkins writes reflective music that often borders on heartbreaking, yet remains hopeful and charming. He has quickly become a popular live draw, having delivered eye-opening performances at the Sasquatch and Austin City Limits music festivals.
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His music, as Ryan Dombal from Pitchforkmedia describes, "will tear your heart out (literally, like, reach through your chest and leave you a bloody, zombie mess)."
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July 9, 10 & 23, 24 at 8:15pm
2 New One-Act Plays
"The Finer Life" by Tom Wolfson and "Sunny And The Swami" by McNeely Myers
Tom Wolfson and McNeely Myers have not just performed, but each has singlehandedly lit up Cape and off-Cape stages --- from Provincetown and the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre to Boston and New York. Now each of them brings to life their newest works --- bursting with comedy and drama --- for your total pleasure, right on the Payomet stage.
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Everyone's got a story, and Tom Wolfson's "The Finer Life" tells his in the form of this poignant and powerful autobiographical piece. Playing nine different characters from his father and mother to the servant of the ambassador of India, Tom's show is rooted in the struggle of a nine year old boy trying just (and not just) to survive inside the reality of a humorous and volatile family in a New York City Upper East Side brownstone in the latter 1950’s. |
| In her latest work, "Sunny And The Swami" (also titled "Swami Channel" in diverse countries, locations and planets around the globe) McNeely Myers sweeps us off our feet and clear out the door by raising questions such as "Is there a god? Paper or plastic? What is a chakra zipper. This spiritual workshop comedy brings Swami's hilarious pithy answers, one woman’s path to channeling and new ways to wonder. . . How can we laugh at ourselves now? |
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Payomet's 2nd Annual Summer Party- A Celebration of “Raising The Tent”
Sunday, July 25 at 6pm at the Truro Vineyards
On Saturday, June 12, a stalwart crew of Payomet volunteers put the tent up for the first time by themselves, thus marking a new chapter in our history, as we step up to take charge of our own fate.
The metaphor of raising the tent can be extended to raising the level of arts and culture, consciousness, and to deepening our commitment to the communities we serve.
Honorary Chairperson, Governor Deval Patrick
Hosts:
Stephen & Barbara Anthony, Bruce Bierhans, Ansel B. Chaplin Judy Cicero Jay Critchley, Sally Deane, Charles & Gail Fields, Peter & Patricia Fontecchio, Joyce Johnson, David & Nancy Kaplan, Stephen Kinzer, Larry Marsland, Jerry Nelson, Honorary Sarah Peake, Buddy & Marla Perkel, Hannah Shrand, Isaiah Sheffer, Roger Skillings, Ike Williams & Noa Hall, Dan Wolf, Barry & Pam Zuckerman
We’ll celebrate our 12th season with an evening filled with
- wine from Truro Vineyards
- music by the First Encounter Chamber Players
- a cornucopia of hors d’oeuvres from Van Rensselaer’s Restaurant in South Wellfleet
- a small sampling of Night Falls On Emerald City performed by Larry Marsland
- and a Silent Auction
- $100 per person
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The Hot Club of Cowtown
Thursday, July 22
8:15pm
www.hotclubofcowtown.com
From the bright lights of the Grand Ol' Opry to the UK's Glastonbury Festival, to regular appearances on A Prairie Home Companion and festival stages worldwide, the Hot Club of Cowtown has ascended from its unlikely beginnings in NYC's East Village a decade ago to become the premier ambassador of hot jazz and Western swing through sheer tenacity, virtuosity and the unstoppable power of their breathtaking live show.
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"Unfussy and unpretentious, their blend of down-home melodies and exuberant improvisation harks back to a lost era of so-called western swing. When they plunge into Orange Blossom Special your thoughts turn not so much to runaway trains as to a B-52 tearing up a runway." - Clive Davis, The Times (London), 2008
"One of the finest performances by a visiting American country act I've witnessed for a very long time... they pretty much lifted the roof [off of the Black Box in Belfast] a couple of months back...a pretty much perfect country trio at the very top of their game." - Ralph McLean, The Belfast Telegraph, 2008
"Working in such tradition, the Hot Club of Cowtown can burn, playing fast and furious driving rhythms at break-neck pace, and the wild abandon of Whit's fleet-fingered solos improvised over dangerous changes can leave a listener slack-jawed and winded." - Baker Rorick, Guitar Magazine
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Payomets Celtic Music Festival - Sunday, July 18 !
Opening the festival are Cape Cod's Highland Light Scottish Pipe Band - with the traditional music and spectacle of the Great Highland Bagpipes and Drums.
Plus Three Great Celtic bands... Longing for Ireland, Maeve Gilchrist, and Glengarry Bhoys !
Each ticket included a complimentary beverage in our "Pub Tent"
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Chandler Travis Trio
Thursday, July 15
6:30pm...
...has been cancelled, and will be re-scheduled in September- check back soon to this site for new date and time...
A beloved legend on his Cape Cod, MA, home turf, veteran cult hero Chandler Travis is a one-of-a-kind songwriter whose absurdist wit co-exists with a bruised idealism that gives his best tunes a deep and haunting resonance.
- Scott Schinder, Time Out New York
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A FREE EVENT! -Saturday, July 10th, 1:00pm - Paint murals, watch the unloading of a kiln, enjoy a short film series, and music in the evening at the Payomet tent!
1:00 – Mural Painting begins; this will continue on into the evening.
2:00 – Watch the unloading of the Castle Hill outdoor wood fired kiln.
4:00 – A Hungry Crab in the Salt Marsh Science presentation at the NPS Atlantic Research Center
4:30 – First film at the Payomet Tent, Portrait of a Coast
5:00 – Community Picnic – pack your own picnic and dessert will be provided!
5:30 – Films at the Payomet Tent – Out of Service, about the site’s Air Force Station's past, and Portrait of a Coast, 21st Century
Led by the seven partner organizations, the Highlands Center at Cape Cod National Seashore will be the site if the 5th Annual Highlands Fest July 10th that incorporates arts & science, a community picnic and a musical performance! Help brighten the site by volunteering to paint murals for two selected buildings; enjoy the unloading of a wood fire kiln or a discussion comparing two short films on Cape Cod’s coastal change. Bring your own picnic dinner to join in a community picnic until music begins in the Payomet tent under a nearly full moon. Mural painting will begin at 2:00pm and activities continue on into the night, so come at any time to enjoy the festivities! For more information see www.nps.gov/caco/planyourvisit/highlands-center-at-cape-cod-national-seashore.htm. Visit the National Park Services Highlands Center page here.
Sponsored by the Highlands Center Partners: Cape Cod National Seashore, Highlands Center Inc., Payomet Performing Arts Center in Truro, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Barnstable County’s AmeriCorps Cape Cod, Fine Arts Work Center, and the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies.
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Crooked Still- WOMR Benefit
Sunday, July 11
8:15 pm
General Admission $20.00
Preferred $30.00
Day Of $25.00
VIP Seating $40.00
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Aoife O’Donovan’s expressive vocals are but a part of the composite that forms when this quintet purrs along on all cylinders. Joined by bassist Corey DiMario, banjo player Greg Liszt, cellist Tristan Clarridge, and fiddler Brittany Haas, the finger picking and bow-playing layers add depth and balance that makes even the saddest moments full and emotive. To put it bluntly, these people are amazing.” -www.blogcritics.org
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MARCUS THE MAGICIAN
Tues, July 6
6pm
Marcus is nothing if not magnificent. A wizard, a genius, a world you've only ever imagined and now made real! Marcus opens eyes to magic and illusion that leaves you wide-eyed and smiling!
Tickets: $8.00
A very visual, high-energy, 45 minute comedy magic show, geared for ages 3-12. He uses the children to assist him, and parents and peers watch these assistants become the performers. A dove is miraculously produced during a performance filled with fun and laughter. For a finale, Marcus produces a magic rabbit.
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Narrowland New Art Quartet
Monday, July 5 - 8:15pm
General Admission $15.00
One of the most unique music concerts of the year will take place at the tent when the Narrowland New Art Quartet takes the stage for the first time.
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Founded last winter by Rebecca Dalmas and Daniel Parkington, the quartet includes Jennifer Bewerse and Chris McClain. The classically trained group will perform works of Glass, Reich and Adams featuring:
- Steve Reich`s 1990 Grammy award winning Different Trains - hailed as a "a work of such astonishing originality" and "harrowing impact."
- Philip Glass's 1991 composition, Quartet #5 - considered a masterwork of emotional complexity merging to a transcendant impassioned climax.
- John Adams' composition, Habernera, from the Book of Alleged Dances.
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Haiti Rocks! comes to the Big Top in North Truro on Saturday, June 26 with a triple bill of film (The Price of Sugar at 6pm), talk (15 minute presentation by Ellen LeBow at 7:45pm) and music (concert by African/Haitian roots 11 member band Tjovi Ginen at 8:15pm). Some hors d’oeuvres representative of Haitian/French cuisine will be available at the concession stand before and between events.
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HAITI ROCKS!
FESTIVAL
Saturday, June 26
6-10pm
6pm: Film- The Price of Sugar
TIX: $8.00
7:45: a presentation by Ellen Lebow representing the Haiti Project in Matenwa, Haiti
FREE
artmatenwa.org
8:15: Concert by Tjovi Ginen, 10 member band playing African roots / Haitian voudou / rara
TIX: $$20 advance, $25 day of show
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TJOVI GINEN is a primary example of how Haitian roots music has no boundaries and embraces all colors, nations and creeds. A mainstay in the Boston music scene, Daniel Laurent moved to New York city in the late 90's and reformed TJOVI GINEN with an ensemble of seasoned musicians representing their Latin, African and American culture and history all supported by the tanbou, vodou rhythms, and Haitian chants.
TJOVI GINEN’s music is “vibrant…taking root in both Africa and Haiti, so we know that there’s joy in the message and in the struggle.”
TJOVI GINEN ON MYSPACE
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THE PRICE OF SUGAR
Saturday, June 26, 6:00pm
TIX: $8.00
"Haney has taken a story of outrage and injustice and made a film that's as much an inpsiring story of spiritual awakening as it is a call to action."
- Ann Hornaday, Washington Post.
thepriceofsugar.com
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Film at 6pm:
Directed by Bill Haney and narrated by Paul Newman, the award-winning documentary, “The Price Of Sugar,” tells the story of modern slavery in the Dominican Republic where Haitian wage slaves work the sugar fields 14 hours a day. The white stuff will never taste the same (or at least not as sweet) again.
Ellen LeBow at 7:45pm:
The film will help whet your appetite for the talk that is about to follow: Ellen LeBow’s will speak for 15-minutes about her most recent trip to Haiti, one week after the earthquake, and will also describe the Haiti Project, a major community initiative on the island of Lagonave, Haiti. For more than 15 years, Ellen has traveled and worked in Haiti where she co-founded and built, with the help of Nauset High School teacher Lisa Brown, a crafts workshop and school in Matenwa, a village in the mountains of Lagonave. Today these “women artists of Matenwa,” produce beautiful hand-decorated scarves and wall hangings that are marketed throughout the United States. The profits from these textile products are returned to the community of Matenwa where they are needed more than ever in the aftermath of the January earthquake.
The Cape Cod-Haiti connection is also reinforced through a program at Nauset Regional High School that has enabled more than a hundred high school students to participate as volunteers in the Haiti Project. Lisa Brown, a Nauset Music Teacher and World Music expert, has been a major force for ten years in the Haiti Project, facilitating and accompanying dozens of groups of these young people eager to perform community service in Matenwa.
Two alumni from the original group of students, Sky Freyss-Cole and Mike Andolina, have continued their affiliation and work with the Haiti Project for more than five years.
Music at 8:15pm:
The energy continues to build through the film and the talk, and then, at 8:15pm, helps set off what will be one of the most exciting musical experiences of 2010 when the 11 members of the band, Tjovi Ginen, take the stage at 8:15.
The New York Times calls Tjovi Ginen “a band to wach.” The Boston Globe says “the positive energy keeps you moving all night long.” For more than ten years, Tjovi Ginen has been exploring Haitian/African roots music while drawing freely from funk, reggae, ska and Jamaican dub poetry. Band leader Daniel Laurent will also take five minutes between sets to describe the three trips he has made to Haiti since the quake, and to emphasize the continuing need for help in his home country.
Tix for the film, The Price of Sugar, are $8. Tix for Tjovi Ginen are $20 advance, $25 day of show. They can be purchased online at payomet.org or by phone at 866-811-4111. For more information call Payomet Performing Arts Center at 508-487-5400.
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PROVINCETOWN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Payomet is Screening two official selections, the documentaries
Basquiat and Wasteland.
Tickets avialable through the PIFF Website
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WASTELAND
Saturday, June 19, 6:00pm
Tickets $12.00
Director Lucy Walker (Blindsight) returns to PIFF with her Sundance and Berlin Film Festival Audience Award winning documentary.
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Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of "catadores" -- or self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz's initial objective was to "paint" the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both dignity and despair as the catadores begin to re-imagine their lives. |
Director Lucy Walker will attend this screening and a talkback led by Robert Rindler and including scultptor Lauren Ewing. Walker (Devil's Playground, Blindsight) has great access to the entire process and, in the end, offers stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit. In Portuguese/English with English subtitles.
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JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT:
THE RADIANT CHILD
Two screenings:
Friday, June 18, 6:00pm
Sunday, June 20, 3:00pm
Tickets $12.00
Talkbacks led by Robert Rindler include Lauren Ewing on Friday and Sunday, and they will be joined by Christine McCarthy on Sunday.
Centered on a rare interview that director and friend Tamra Davis (GUNCRAZY) shot with Basquiat over twenty years ago, this definitive documentary chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of the young artist. In the crime-ridden NYC of the 1970s, he covers the city with the graffiti tag SAMO.
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In 1981 he puts paint on canvas for the first time, and by 1983 he is an artist with “rock star” status. He achieves critical and commercial success, though he is constantly confronted by racism from his peers.
In 1985 he and Andy Warhol become close friends and painting collaborators, but they part ways and Warhol dies suddenly in 1987. Basquiat’s heroin addiction worsens, and he dies of an overdose in 1988 at the age of 27.
The artist was 25 years old at the height of his career, and today his canvases sell for more than a million dollars. With compassion and psychological insight, Tamra Davis details the mysteries that surround this charismatic young man, an artist of enormous talent whose fortunes mirrored the rollercoaster quality of the downtown scene he seemed to embody.
Featuring interviews with Julian Schnabel, Larry Gagosian, Bruno Bischofberger, Tony Shafrazi, Fab 5 Freddy, Jeffrey Deitch, Glenn O’Brien, Maripol, Kai Eric, Nicholas Taylor, Fred Hoffmann, Michael Holman, Diego Cortez, Annina Nosei, Suzanne Mallouk, Rene Ricard, Kenny Scharf, among many others.
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Sunday, May 30 !
Just one of 20+ great concerts Payomet has planned for 2010
SOLD OUT !!
"The Carolina Chocolate Drops... breathe new life into the African-American string band tradition." -NPR, Jan 5, 2010
"All Things Considered"
To sample this amazing music go to...
www.carolinachocolatedrops.com
listen to the NPR interview from
All Things Considered
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There’s a long tradition of African-Americans playing old-time music, from blues legends Blind Blake, the Reverend Gary Davis and Josh White to artists such as the Mississippi Mud Steppers and Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong, whose early ragtime outfit, the Tennessee Chocolate Drops, has provided a lasting influence - and this modern-day act with its name.
The Carolina Chocolate Drops formed in 2005 at the Black Banjo Gathering in Boone, N.C. and since then the young trio has been determined to prove that “black folk were a huge part of the stringband tradition.” What they’ve also done is dust off a musical form seen today as either a novelty or the exclusive provenance of ethnomusicologists. To paraphrase Rakim’s immortal words, these Drops ain’t no joke: Their enthusiasm for the tradition is obvious even as the trio spans from traditional arrangements (the rollicking fiddle rave-ups ‘Trouble in Your Mind” and “Cindy Gal”) to self-penned works (the particularly terrific “Kissin’ and Cussin’”) and stringband makeovers of modern-day works (a hip-hop influenced cover of Blu Cantrell’s “Hit ‘em Up Style (Oops!)” and Tom Waits’ “Trampled Rose”).
Several generations removed from the origins of their chosen idiom, the Carolina Chocolate Drops are nonetheless the genuine article.
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Screening on Saturday, April 10:
Truro Community Center
Library Lane in North Truro (off Standish)
Four Different Shows:
2:00, 3:30, 5:45 and 7:30 pm
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A retrospective of three Payomet Audience Favorites -- plus one new documentary.
Showcase curator and filmmaker Rebecca Alvin will attend as well as several of the filmmakers and subjects of the films.
Tickets available at the door.
Tickets for one show, $8.
For each additional show, $5.
Discounts to Seniors, Students and Teachers.
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This Saturday's Payomet Documentary Film Showcase will be a rare opportunity to meet some of the
creative spirits who inhabit the filmmaking scene on Cape Cod including...
Rebecca M. Alvin (Women Of Faith; Out Of Service) has been making films professionally for over 15 years.
Her documentaries have been shown worldwide. An associate professor of film studies at the New School
for Social Research, she also teaches at Cape Cod Community College. In 2002, she started the Cape Cod
Film Society Screening Series to bring underground cinema to Cape Cod and she has programmed series
for organizations including The Provincetown Art Association & Museum, the Boston Women's International
Film Festival, and Payomet. Her writings on film have appeared in numerous regional and local publications,
as well as the national film journal, Cineaste. Rebecca is currently the editor of Provincetown Magazine.
Seth Rolbein (Provincetown USA) is an accomplished investigative journalist, editor and veteran
documentary filmmaker who makes his home in Wellfleet. Seth's recent professional travels have taken him
to Africa and lately to Haiti, just a few days after the earthquake.
Kristin Alexander (Green Eco-Machine) began documentary filming in 2000 with renewed vigor after
dropping out of film school years before, then becoming a Nurse Practitioner and mother. Her short
documentaries include Nothing Without Joy, following 5 women surviving cancer on Cape Cod. Green Eco-
Machinewon an award for creative use of cinema to highlight environmental innovators, and an offshoot of
this film will be in the Smithsonian Design Museum May 2010 for 6 months prior to going on the road.
Melissa Yeaw (Elliot to Ellie) studied documentary video at Emerson College, receiving her Master's Degree
in May, 2005. The movies she produces reflect her desire to focus on the universal similarities connecting
people everywhere.
Also attending:
Robert Rindler, former Dean of the Cooper Union School of Art, will attend the screening of Herb and
Dorothy, and will lead a short discussion after. Betsy Argo, the founder of the Orleans Arena Theater, will be present for the screening and talkback
following Stagestruck.
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