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ARTSFALMOUTH
NEWSLETTER
Connect With Arts in Falmouth
December 2012
ArtsFalmouth
is a non-profit organization celebrating and promoting cultural events and artists in and around Falmouth. The ArtsFalmouth website features a calendar of events as well as a directory of local artists. Additionally, ArtsFalmouth hosts regular networking evenings and presents both the annual Arts Alive! Festival and Jazzfest Falmouth.
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Theater and Film
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On Going Events
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Special Holiday Events
The Holidays at Highfield - Bigger and Better Than Ever This Year!
Fridays, November 30 and December 7, Noon - 7 PM,
Saturdays, Dec. 1 and 8, 10 AM - 4 PM,
Sundays, Dec. 2 and 9, Noon - 4 PM
$5 adults, children and members free
56 Highfield Drive
highfieldhall .org for full schedule
View the elegant rooms of Highfield Hall in all their holiday finery as local designers and decorators take holiday décor to the next level with theme rooms and new displays. This family-fun event will feature musical performances, dance demonstrations, theatre presentations, singing, model trains, and ongoing children's activities. New this year, Highfield staff and volunteers will roll out their expertise to offer special presentations from bread baking in the kitchen, to Robert Wyatt at the piano, to flower arranging tips. There will be loads of new activities for all to enjoy throughout the six-day event. Our popular gift gallery will again feature a selection of artisan-made wares and small art works for holiday gift giving. And will you be the winner of our iPad giveaway? You'll receive an iPad raffle ticket with every paid admission - wouldn't that be a nice Christmas gift! A holiday tradition, not to be missed - mark your calendar!
F almouth Holidays by the Sea Weekend 2012
Christmas Parade and Many More Events Around Town
Friday, November 30 through Sunday, December 2
Falmouthchamber.com for full schedule
Holiday Market & Gift Gallery at The Falmouth Art Center
137 Gifford Street...through December 23, Tuesday through Friday, 9 AM - 4 PM, Saturday, 9 AM - 1 PM, Sunday 1 - 4 PM...508-540-3304,
www.falmouthart.org
Christmas Fairs on Saturday, December 1
St. Barnabas Christmas Fair on the Village Green...Main Street ...9am to 2pm
Old Fashioned Christmas Fair at The First Congregational Church of
Falmouth on the Village Green...9 AM to 2 PM
13th Annual Holiday Fair at the Cataumet Schoolhouse
1200 County Road...9 AM to 2 PM
Renaissance Fair at Woods Hole Community Hall...10 AM to 3 PM
Falmouth Farmers Market Special Holiday Market. ..Peg Noonan Park,
Main Street...noon to 2 PM
Christmas at Museums on the Green
55 and 65 Palmer Avenue...Saturday, December 1, 1 to 8 PM, Sunday,
December 2, 1 to 4 PM, Thursday through Sunday December 6 through 9, 1 to 4 PM
36th Annual West Falmouth Library Holiday House Tour and Boutique
575 West Falmouth Highway...Sunday, December 9, 11 AM to 4 PM
$25 in advance at local businesses and the Library, $30 day of the tour
In addition to the library, tickets may be purchased at:
Bojangles, Int'l; Eight Cousins; Jack in the Beanstalk; New Wave Printing & Design Inc.; Uncle Bill's Country Store; Uptown Dog Cape Cod-West Falmouth; West Falmouth Market; Woods Hole Market; Black Dog, Mashpee Commons; and Titcomb's Bookshop in Sandwich.
The tour features six West Falmouth properties, located in close proximity, and festively decorated for the season. Ticket price also includes admission to the holiday boutique located at the library, which will feature gifts, decorations and greenery displays all handcrafted by library volunteers. Light refreshments will be provided in the community room. The theme for this year's tour is "Possibilities" and to that end, the properties, historic and renovated, were especially chosen for their dichotomy, to celebrate how to take the best of tradition and to adapt it to simpler and economic living. Whether retired and down-sizing, nostalgic, or simply open to common sense, economical solutions, tour goers will find inspiration and enjoyment.
A Child's Christmas in Wales with the Aurea Ensemble
Highfield Hall
56 Highfield Drive
Sunday, December 23, 3:00 pm and 7:00 pm
With poetry, drama, classical and folk music, puppetry and movement, The Aurea Ensemble from Providence presents a unique telling of Dylan Thomas' classic tale. Additional musical selections feature the chamber works of Handel, Vivaldi and Bach, ending with a special session of medieval carol singing.
$40 for members / $45 for non-members. Purchase on-line .
Musical Events are listed under Music
Opportunities
Falmouth Theatre Guild
Highfield Theater
58 Highfield Drive
The Lion in Winter, a comedy in two acts by James Goldman
AUDITION DATES
December 2 and 3 at 6:30pm
Performances February 1 - 10
You think your family is dysfunctional? Meet the Plantagenets. It's 1183, and King Henry has let his Queen out of jail for Christmas. Insults, subterfuge, and underhanded scheming abound as King, Queen, and their ambitious sons try to outwit each other in a high stakes power struggle.
Sharp dialog and believable historic characters have made this play a classic of contemporary theater. First produced in 1966, "The Lion in Winter" unquestionably holds its own against "The Borgias" or "The Tudors."
Director Laura Garner is looking for actors who can make the most of the seven excellent roles, bring the characters vividly to life and involve the audience in their compelling dynamics.
You will be asked to read from the script. Email theaterwench at gmail.com with questions.
CHARACTERS
Henry II, King of England - just turned 50, an age at which most men were dead back then. But he's full of life and fight, wily and passionate, bigger than life.
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry's queen - 61, a truly handsome woman of great temperament, authority and presence; genuinely feminine yet thoroughly capable of holding her own in a man's world.
Richard Lionheart, the oldest son, age 26, thick and powerful but at the same time graceful, handsome, and impressive.
Geoffrey, the middle son, age 25. Quick of speech and movement. The best brain of a brainy family.
John , the youngest son, age 16, pimpled, brutish, with a round open face and a sweet smile.
Alais , a French Princess, age 23, is serenely beautiful, and deeply in love with Henry.
Philip , King of France, age 17, has been king of France for three years.
Cotuit Center for the Arts
4404 Falmouth Road, Cotuit
508-428-0669 www.artsonthecape.org
AUDITIONS:
Monday and Tuesday Dec. 17 & 18, 7-9pm
two one-act plays by Don Nigro directed by Robert Bock.
Performances will be held March 8-24 in the Black Box Theater.
The Great Gromboolian Plain: 2F; 1M
Dinah: 20's; younger sister currently a patient in a private mental hospital. Sharp and intelligent; uses sarcasm and wit as defense mechanisms; withholding important family document; believes she can travel through time.
April: Late 20's early 30's; fashion model older sister who is responsible for placing Dinah in the hospital; wants the document.
Magellan: Mid-late 30's; also a patient at the hospital.
Note: 1) Although the role of April is critical to the plot, the majority of the lines belong to Dinah and Magellan.
2) The 2 actors in Specter will be used in non-speaking roles.
Specter: 1M; 1F
Norris: 30's; college professor; just experienced the shock of his life.
Marla: 20-30's; delivered the shock and is enjoying it.
Setting: Front seat of a car.
Contact: robertbock at hotmail.com for more info
Cotuit is also accepting submissions for interior and exterior three dimensional work to be displayed in the art galleries. The upper gallery of the theater features 60 linear feet of space dedicated to sculpture, pottery and other work which may be displayed on pedestals. These interior shows rotate approximately every 5-10 weeks. The Center also seeks work to be displayed on a long-term basis on the exterior grounds of the Center's campus. All work, inside and out, may be offered for sale under the standard terms of the gallery. Any artists interested in being considered by the Center's curatorial committee for a solo or group invitational show should submit inquiries and website links to gallery at Cotuit Center for the Arts.org .
Cotuit is also seeking volunteers for its Docent/Greeter Program.
Every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 1 - 4 pm, there are volunteer docent/greeters on hand to answer questions about the exhibits and the arts center. The exhibits change every four-to-six weeks. Often there are three separate shows sharing the gallery space, including paintings, drawings, prints, mixed-media works, and three-dimensional works such as sculpture and pottery. email pat at cotuitcenterforthearts.org.
Highfield Hall
56 Highfield Drive
P.O. Box 494
Barbara Milligan, Executive Director
Highfield Hall is always seeking the names of artists, guilds and groups who are interested in exhibiting work at Highfield Hall. If you are an individual artist, please mail your bio, artist's statement, and a CD with samples of your work to the address above.
If you are a guild or group looking to exhibit, please send a proposal that includes requested time frame, name of participating artists, proposed theme, approximate number of works, and websites or samples of their work. Send this, also by mail, to Barbara Milligan at the above address.
ArtSake, an online publication of the
Massachusetts Cultural Council
is a place to explore, celebrate, and advance the creative work of Massachusetts individual artists. Every week, ArtSake rounds up a list of opportunities for artists, contests, artist residency, call to artists, publication, and more. It is full of opportunities and information!!!!
Cultural Center of Cape Cod
307 Old Main Street, South Yarmouth
508-394-7100 www.cultural-center.org
Call for Submissions for Picture Window Exhibit
The Cultural Center of Cape Cod seeks entries to Picture Window, a juried exhibit of art that incorporates windows or that depicts windows and the views seen through them from outside or in. Drop off days are November 25, 12:30 - 4:30pm and November 26, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm.
All media are acceptable: paintings, drawings, assemblage, mixed media, photography, glass art, textiles, sculpture, etc. There is no limit on the number of entries. Approximately 40 pieces will be included in the exhibit, which will run from November 28 - December 20, with a reception
on November 30, in the Great Hall Gallery.
The Thomas E. Hanley Art Gallery
Falmouth Hospital
100 Ter Heun Drive
508-495-0870 or email mhenloc at yahoo.com
Muriel Locklin, Art Director for the Falmouth Hospital Auxilary, is currently accepting exhibition proposals for 2014. The exhibits are hung for two months and refreshments are provided for opening receptions. Muriel is also looking for an assistant to help hang the exhibits, which change 6 times a year.
The Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism
has added a new Galleries section on its website. If you have a gallery or studio able to receive visitors, consider adding your information to the Galleries page to reach a wider audience. To add a listing:
1. Go to business.massvacation.com
and select to create anew account.
2. Complete account information, then click on Add Business.
3. Complete Business Information. From Classification pull-down menu, select Attractions.
4. From the attractions menu below, click on Galleries and check appropriate boxes.
5. Click on Add New.
For assistance in creating a listing contact john.alzapiedi at state.ma.us
Upper Cape Camera Club Welcomes New Members
novice or experienced photographers alike - specializing in film or digital photography. The Club meets on the second and fourth Wednesday of every month. Meetings are held in the West Falmouth Public Library's Community Room from 7-9:00pm. For more information please e-mail Milt Williamson at willmitt2005 at yahoo.com
Falmouth Chamber Players Orchestra
Seeking Musicians
FCPO welcomes calls from all classical musicians and rehearses and performs in the Falmouth area. Contact: June Gallant 508-274-2632 sonnichs at berkshire.net
Theater and Film
Falmouth Theatre Guild
Highfield Theater, 58 Highfield Drive
508-548-0400 www.falmouththeatreguild.org
866-811-4111
T he Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Fridays, November 30 and December 7 at 7:30 PM
Saturdays December 1 and 8
Sundays December 2 and 9 at 4 PM
$12 adults, $10 seniors and under 18
Cotuit Center for the Arts
4404 Falmouth Road, Route 28, Cotuit
508-428-0669 www.ArtsOnTheCape.org
Talking With...
a series of monologues by Jane Martin
December 5 - 16, Wednesdays at 7pm, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8pm,
Sundays at 2pm
Tickets $12
Presented by Theater Under the Stairs in the Black Box Theater
Directed by Holly Erin McCarthy
These extraordinary monologues received a standing ovation at Louisville's Actors Theatre. Idiosyncratic characters amuse, move and frighten, always speaking from the depths of their souls. They include a baton twirler, a fundamentalist snake handler, an ex rodeo rider and an actress willing to go to any length to get a job. 1982 winner of the American Theatre Critics Association Award for Best Regional Play.
Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka December 7 - 23Friday and Saturday evening performances at 7pm
Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2pm
Tickets: $25/$22 seniors/$20 members/$15 students
Group rates are available for parties of 10 or more.
A musical by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley. Adapted by Tim McDonald and Leslie Bricusse. Roald Dahl's timeless story of the world-famous candy man and his quest to find an heir comes to life in this stage adaptation of his book "Charlie and The Chocolate Factory," which features the songs from the classic family film Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory.
Woods Hole Film Festival
Dinner & a Movie
Captain Kidd Restaurant
77 Water Street, Woods Hole
www.woodsholefilmfestival.org
For $25 per person, select from a preset menu of sumptuous food prepared specially for the evening. Price includes entree and movie, but does not include beverage, dessert, tax or tip.
Dinner is served from 5:30 pm - 7:00 p.m. and the screening begins at 7:30 pm. Reservations are required. Call (508) 548-8563 for reservations. When possible, the filmmakers will attend the screening. Woods Hole Film Festival patron discount available. Dinner & A Movie gift certificates make great gifts. For more information about Dinner & a Movie, contact the Woods Hole Film Festival at (508) 495-3456 or info at woodsholefilmfestival.org .
Queen of Versailles
Friday, December 7
The Queen of Versailles is a character-driven documentary about a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis. With epic proportions of Shakespearean tragedy, the film follows two unique characters, whose rags to riches success stories reveal the innate virtues and flaws of the American Dream. The film begins with the family triumphantly constructing the largest privately owned house in America, a 90,000 sq. ft. palace. Over the next two years, their sprawling empire, fueled by the real estate bubble and cheap money, falters due to the economic crisis. Major changes in lifestyle and character ensue within the cross-cultural household of family members and domestic staff. Feature Documentary by Lauren Greenfield, 2012 Filmmaker in Residence.
Her Master's Voice
Friday, December 14
Internationally acclaimed ventriloquist Nina Conti, takes the bereaved puppets of her mentor and erstwhile lover Ken Campbell on a pilgrimage to 'Venthaven' the resting place for puppets of dead ventriloquists. She gets to know her latex and wooden travelling partners along the way, and with them deconstructs herself and her lost love in this ventriloquial docu-mocumentary requiem.
Ken Campbell was a hugely respected maverick of the British Theatre, an eccentric genius who would snort out forgotten art forms. Nina was his prodigy in ventriloquism and has been said to have reinvented the art form. This film is truly unique in genre and style. Feature Documentary by Nina Conti. Screens with the short film A Tiny Spark by Franco Sacchi.
Monthly Film Series at Cotuit Center for the Arts
4404 Falmouth Road (Route 28)
Cotuit
Each screening will be hosted and will include a post-screening reception in the gallery. When possible, the filmmakers will attend the screening. Ticket prices are $12. Tickets are available in advance through the Cotuit Center for the Arts online at www.artsonthecape.org
or by calling (508) 428-0669. Screenings begin at 7pm.
Becoming Santa
feature documentary by Jeff Myers and Jack Sanderson
Tuesday, December 18th
Feature Documentary |2010 | 82 mins.,USA
When Christmas rolled around again after his father's death, Jack Sanderson realized he was not looking forward to the holiday. It seemed to Jack that Christmas had become a burden. He had only two choices, avoid it entirely or dive into the deepest part of the Christmas pool. In such a commercial culture, avoiding it seemed impossible so Jack decided the best way to get through Christmas was to be the eye of the Christmas Season storm. Jack would become Santa Claus and do as many of the things Santa is asked to do as possible.
For the documentary "Becoming Santa", director Jeff Myers followed Jack on his journey to become Santa which entailed getting a custom Santa suit from Adele Saidy of 'Adele's of Hollywood', attending the 'American Events Santa School' taught by Susen Mesco in Denver, Colorado and then Santa jobs. Along the way, Santa Jack rides in the 57th Annual Quincy Christmas Parade, rings a bell on a street corner in New York City for Volunteers of America and appears on the Susquehanna Railroad's 'Polar Express' in Phillipsburg, New Jersey.
At Mesco's School, Jack learns that there is a lot more to being a good Santa than a great suit and an excellent 'Ho, Ho, Ho'. Susen Mesco teaches her novice Claus' how to answer really tough questions from children (Can you get my parents back together?), the right way to pose for pictures, how to handle screaming babies and petulant parents and proper make-up techniques for Santa.
Rachel Weinstein, at Volunteers of America, dresses Jack in their version of Santa's suit and sends him out to the streets of New York on the coldest day of the year to ring a bell. John Stocker, a Conductor on the Susquehanna Polar Express, guides Jack through six grueling hours of Santa visits on a moving train. In Quincy, MA, Parade Organizer, George White sacrifices an unsuspecting Santa Jack to a crowd of a hundred tots and then puts him atop a fire truck in a position of dubious safety.
Wrapped around Jack's journey into Christmas, like the red stripe around a candy cane, are interviews with professional Santas, Santa aficionados and historians who provide the fascinating little known history of Santa Claus in America and how the Civil War helped to shape the Christmas holiday as we know it today.
Falmouth Art Center
137 Gifford Street
508-540-3304
www.falmouthart.org
Masterpiece Theatre: Art Cinema Series: Herb and Dorothy
Wednesday, December 12, 3 - 5:30pm, $5 donation
Herb and Dorothy. Postal clerk Herb Vogel and his librarian wife, Dorothy, share a passion for art which they pursued over decades becoming two of the most important collectors of minimalist and conceptual art with more than 4,000 pieces.
The Art Cinema Series meets the second and fourth Wednesday of the month Light refreshments are served.
Music
Falmouth Chorale - Christmas Across The Channel
Saturday, December 8, 4:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, December 9, 3:00 p.m.
First Congregational Church, on the Village Green
$20 adults, $5 students and can be purchased at falmouthchorale.org
Harp and strings blend with voices to herald the holiday season in "A Ceremony of Carols," music from France and England. Our annual concert at the First Congregational Church on the Village Green is a tradition not to be missed.
Program includes:
A Ceremony of Carols, Britten
Shepherd's Farewell, Berlioz
In the Bleak Midwinter arr. Darke
Il est né arr. Rutter
Guest Soloists:
Soprano, Jodi Edwards
Jodi Edwards is excited and honored to be making her choral soloist debut with the Falmouth Chorale. A native of Cape Cod, Ms. Edwards received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Vocal Performance at Westfield State University. Operatic roles she has performed include Sister Angelica (Suor Angelica), Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors), and Lucy (The Telephone). Musical theater roles include Maria (The Sound of Music), Nancy (Oliver!), and Rosie (Bye Bye Birdie). Ms. Edwards was a semi-finalist in the 2009 N.A.T.S. Song and Aria Festival competition and traveled to Prague to perform in an Advent music concert series with the Bay Path College Festival Choir. In 2010, Ms. Edwards was privileged to perform in the Distinguished Concerts International New York concert series, featuring the premiere of Eric Whitacre's, "the city and the sea - The music of Eric Whitacre meets the poetry of ee cummings." The concert, performed at New York's Carnegie Hall, was conducted by Maestro Whitacre himself. She has studied voice with Ms. Victoria Vieira and Dr. Mary Brown-Bonacci. Ms. Edwards currently lives in Mashpee and regularly performs as a member in both the Falmouth Chorale and Falmouth Chamber Chorale.
Harpist, Sandra Bittermann
Sandra Bittermann, hailing from Martha's Vineyard, has been principal harpist with the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra since 1986. Prior to her island life, she was harpist with the New York Harp Ensemble under Columbia Artists Management. The quartet concretized extensively across most of North America as well as South America, Europe, and the Middle and Far East. The group also appeared in concert on the Today Show and in The White House. When earlier living in the Midwest, Sandra performed several years with Detroit Opera, the American Symphony Orchestra League Conductors' Institute, and enjoyed playing on the lighter side as entertaining harpist at Mackinac Island's Grand Hotel. Several years ago she traveled to Ireland to acquire an Irish harp made for her by a maker in Cork City, so she now also enjoys playing a little traditional music on the side, occasionally playing for English country dances.
Greater Falmouth Mostly All-Male Men's Chorus presents "All Aboard!"
Saturday, December 1, 7:30pm
Sunday, December 2, 3pm
St Patrick's Church, 511 Main Street
$10, under 12 $5, at the door or in advance from Chorus members or at Eight Cousins
GFMAMMC presents "All Aboard!" The journey is the destination and we're going by cars, boats, planes, and trains; featuring popular American music from lovely romantic ballads to folk songs and rock 'n roll classics.
Cranberry Shores Chorus Presents Sounds of the Holiday Season
Friday, December 7, 7pm
Liberty Hall, Marstons Mills.
$10 adults, $5 children
Stanley and Grimm - A Celtic Christmas
Featuring the Engstrom Family and the Sonnay Fiddlers
December 8, 7pm
John Wesley Methodist Church
corner of Gifford and Jones Rd.
$15, $10 kids - at the door
Tripping Lilly at the Fishmonger
Tuesday, December 11 at 8pm - doors open at 6pm for light fare
Water Street, Woods Hole
Tickets are $15 at Eight Cousins, Under the Sun, or at the Fishmonger on show night.
If you have not seen them, you're in for a treat.It's not jazz in any common sense of the word, but it's great music, written by the members of the band, sung and played on ukeleles, mandolins and guitars with sensitive arranging and fine musicianship.
The Solstice Singers
To Drive the Cold Winter Away
Friday, December 21, 7pm
Saturday, December 22, 4pm
Woods Hole Community Hall
68 Water Street, Woods Hole
Adults $15 in advance, $18 at the door
Seniors and students $12 in advance, $15 at the door
Children 12 and under are free
Tickets at Eight Cousins Books in Falmouth and Puritans in Hyannis and Mashpee
or on line at solsticesingers.org/events
Adults: $18, Seniors & students: $15 - both include a $3 ticketing fee
The Solstice Singers celebrate their 20th anniversary with joyous festivities on the shortest day of the year. To Drive the Cold Winter Away will celebrate the season with reverence and revelry fit for a king. Accompanied by early music ensemble Passacaglia, the children's chorus Les Enfants du Soleil and surprise guest performers. The Solstice Singers will charm audiences with music, dance and drama to light the darkest night.
Musical selections range from those that reflect the sanctity of Christmas and the cold of winter to playful pieces more in keeping with the season's warmth of heart and hearth. The ensemble will perform in colorful, authentic costume bringing rich harmonies to the dark of winter.
Cotuit Center for the Arts
4404 Falmouth Road, Route 28, Cotuit
508-428-0669 www.ArtsOnTheCape.org
2nd Annual Members Open Mic Night
December 1, 7pm
Here's a recap of the 1st Annual members open mic. now a tradition. join us and plan your talent now!
At 7pm everyone moved to the theater for 90 minutes of entertainment by our members and their peers. Jane Hattemer kicked things off with some poetry, Melanne Mueller performed 3 lovely Bach piano solos, Christine Rathbun-Ernst followed with more poetry setting the stage for Cindy Parker's remarkable "fitted sheet folding demonstration" with the Sabre Dance playing in the background. Then our youngest participant, Celia Wills sang auf Deutsch after which the executive director pounded out the first movment of the Ginastera piano sonata. Jason Santos sang two beautiful songs after which Kiley Donovan regaled the audience with a short story. Then Michelle Law sang a cappella, Annellen Zalis read a poem, Bill Black performed his very entertaining "Ballad of the Marquis de Sade" and Lee Drescher closed the evening in song. A grand time was had by all. And it was free!
Over the Moon Cabaret: Christine Prescott in concer t
Thursday, December 13, 7pm - $15
You'll be 'over the moon' for Christine Prescott as she warms your heart and soothes your soul with a mix of iconic jazz tunes and classic holiday favorites. So come in from the cold, pull up a chair because her spirit and passion are sure to make it a night that's 'unforgettable'!
Monica Rizzio Holiday Concert and CD Release Celebration
Wednesday, December 19, 7:30pm - $15
Monica Rizzio has performed in the folk acoustic band Tripping Lily for the past 10 years (and still continues to perform with). As successful as her band has been there was always something missing. As a child in Texas she used to stay up late and sing along to the records of Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, Perry Como, and Ella Fitzgerald. Last year she was at a concert by legendary guitar players Frank Vignola, Vinny Raniolo, Olli Soikkeli, and bombshell bassist Nicki Parrott, when they asked her to sing a few numbers. Well, the audience was blown away, and a solo jazz career was born.
Monica went out on a whim and asked Vinny and Nicki to leave New York and travel to Cape Cod to record a life long dream of hers, a Holiday record. Accompanied by a true maestro on the Piano, Fred Boyle, legendary drummer Bart Weisman and the newest gypsy guitar player from New England, Ben Kushigian, the freshly assembled group bunkered down on Cape Cod and produced a Holiday album that is sure to make waves this season and beyond.
This album brings to life many traditional Christmas songs with lively guitar and piano solos, while a non-traditional holiday song, Walking in the Air, truly feels like Monica Rizzio's voice is taking you for a sleigh ride. A very unique a cappella version of Away in a Manger, performed by Monica and Nicki Parrott, is the perfect blend of two spirits. You can feel the same feeling listening to this song as they felt while recording it. The final song, the traditional gospel hymn, Amazing Grace, shows the range of Monica Rizzio's musical instrument talents as well as her voice. Her beautiful ukulele leads you on a journey through one of the most recognizable songs and you will find yourself joining in with the whole band as they bring the CD to a climatic end.
It may be the end of the album but it is just the beginning of something amazing. Monica Rizzio opened for Chris Botti 2 years ago with her band Tripping Lily, and this is all he had to say, "It won't be long before Monica Rizzio and her voice are a household name."
Woods Hole House Concert
Location disclosed when reservations are made
Reservations required. Info and reservations:
http://nicki-trio.doattend.com
Nicki Parrott with Jason Anick and Olli Soikkeli
Tuesday, December 13, 7pm
$30 - cash
Nicki has been to Woods Hole several times with Bucky Pizzarelli, Frank Vignola and
others. Her bass playing and vocals are delightfully smile-icious. Jason Anick -- who was just great last night! -- is the violin player for the John Jorgenson Quintet, and at 20-something he is coming into his own as a musical force. Olli Soikkeli, in his second visit to Woods Hole, at age 22, is already a guitar player that the established great musicians are noticing.
West Falmouth Library
575 West Falmouth Highway
"A Celtic Celebration" with John Yankee and Liz Rogers
Sunday, December 16, 4pm
$10 for adults and $5 for students and are available at the library or at the door.
The concert benefits the library and the musicians.
T he event will feature songs and tunes which celebrate the season. Take some time out of the hustle and bustle of the holidays to connect with the joyful and reflective spirit of the holiday. The afternoon will include singing duet and solo arrangements with guitar, hammered dulcimer, piano and flute, with a program of seasonal songs from Ireland, Scotland, and their relatives.
Rogers is a local singer/songwriter who leads sacred singing regularly in Falmouth, and has been singing professionally for over 30 years. This is her third season performing with Yankee.
Yankee was a member of the Baltimore-based folk trio "Cross Country", which continues to reunite for concert tours every few years. He is currently the director of numerous and varied choruses and instrumental ensembles in the Falmouth region, including the Falmouth Chorale.
For more information about Liz Rogers, visit elizabethrogers.com . For more information about this and other programs at the library, call 508-548-4709, e-mail westfallib at comcast.net , or visit westfalmouthlibrary.org
Visual Arts
Falmouth Art Center
137 Gifford Street
508-540-3304 www.falmouthart.org
Tuesday through Friday, 9am - 4pm, Saturday, 9am - 1pm, Sunday 1 - 4pm
Holiday Market & Gift Gallery
through December 23
Maser Gallery at FCTV
310A Dillingham Avenue
508-457-0800 www.fctv.org
Sunday and Monday, 2 - 10pm, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 10am - 10pm, Friday 10am - 6pm
Sketches in Oil and On Paper by Garison Weiland & Erica M. Szuplat
Opening reception Dec. 2, 3 to 5pm
Woodruff's Art Center
Bates Road, Mashpee Commons North
Monday - Saturday 9-6pm and Sunday 11-5pm
508-477-5767 www.WoodruffsArtCenter.com
"100 Ways to Paint I Love You" - A Group Show of Small Works of Art
through December 31
A portion of the proceeds from all art sold during this exhibit will be donated to the Joslin Diabetes Center in memory of Ned Manter. a talented photographer/artist who passed away in February 2012, loved the natural world and had an uncanny ability to view seemingly ordinary scenes in nature through his lens and make us notice them in an extraordinary way. Enduring a 45 year battle with diabetes, Ned received excellent care through the Joslin Diabetes Center. Several of Ned's works are available in this exhibit.
This show offers something for everyone! There are 100+ unique works of art created by over 25 artists from Cape Cod and R.I. All of the works are small (average 8x8) and are perfect for gift giving. In addition to small paintings in pastels, watercolors, oils and acrylics, there is one-of-a-kind jewelry, collage, stained glass, photography, sculpture, etchings and hand painted ceramics.
Cahoon Museum of American Art
4676 Falmouth Road (Route 28), Cotuit
508-428-7581 www.cahoonmuseum.org
Tuesday through Saturday 10am - 4pm, Sunday 1 - 4pm
$6, general admission, $5, seniors , $4, students, members and children free
Cherubs: From Imps to Angels
through December 30
This exhibition will look at the wide variey of the portrayal of cherubs in American Art. It will include painting, sculpture and photography.The history of the cherub begins with the Hellenistic times and continues to the present. It starts with the transformation of the cherub as a mischievous angel in ancient times to the role of the protective angel in Christian art.
Exhibit tour by curator Richard Waterhouse on December 4, 11am.
Heather Blume & Rachel Ellis Kaufman in the Little Gallery
through December 30
Heather Blume and Rachel Ellis Kaufman: Kaufman (1913-2001) created paintings, drawings, watercolors, lithographs, pastels, scratch board prints and wood block prints of her years on the Cape. Blume focuses on creating metaphorical and archetypal figurative drawings, paintings, and sculptures in mixed mediums.
Gallery Talk with Heather Blume on December 11, 11am.
Sandwich Glass Museum
129 Main Street, Sandwich
508-888-0251
www.sandwichglassmuseum.org .
Glassblowers' Christmas & Snow Globes at Sandwich Glass Museum
Sandwich Glass Museum presents its 3rd Annual
Glassblowers' Christmas and Celebrating Snow Globes
through December 20
Glassblowers' Christmas includes trees adorned with hundreds of unique glass ornaments made by some of the region's finest glass artists such as McDermott Glass Studio, Glass Studio on Cape Cod, Anchor Bend Studio, Christopher Belleau, Boyce Art Glass, Federici Designs, Billy Mayer, Elias Studios, Sayuri Kingsbury and Fritz Glass. Celebrating Snow Globes will feature dozens of snow globes manufactured in the United States and abroad and will reflect upon their influence on a popular culture.
Cotuit Center for the Arts
4404 Falmouth, Road, Route 28, Cotuit
508-428-0669 www.artsonthecape.org
open daily, 10am - 4pm
Annual Members, Students and Faculty Show
and The Sculprue of Alfred Glover
November 21 - December 30
Opening Reception Saturday, December 1, 5-7 pm
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