While enjoying my cup of chocolate chip on the porch outside Wellfleet’s Gelato Joy, I watched a woman approach the counter. She scanned the list of flavors, then turned to […]
MASH-UP
Pop Songs, With a Classical Twist
Well-Strung, the quartet born in Provincetown, returns for a holiday show
The idea for Well-Strung, a singing and string quartet, was born in Provincetown. While visiting the Cape for a different show in 2010, violinist Chris Marchant was playing on the […]
ALL AROUND
Eleanor and Dario’s Multilingual Repertoire
The husband-and-wife duo will perform songs from around the world
Eleanor Dubinsky met Dario Acosta Teich in 2019 while scoping out a Candombe jam at a Uruguayan restaurant on the Lower East Side. “Candombe is Afro-Uruguayan,” Dubinsky says. “It comes […]
EXPERIMENTS IN MUSIC
Twisted Pine’s Progressive Spin on Bluegrass
The band combines tradition and innovation — with a Whammy pedal
Chris Sartori, the bassist of the bluegrass band Twisted Pine, says the band’s success is due to the friendship they have cultivated on the road, traveling across the country in […]
NOT FOR EATING
Caren Zane Takes a Close Look at Oysters and Horseshoe Crabs
In her watercolors, she finds the galactic in the diminutive
Caren Zane paints oysters and horseshoe crabs almost exclusively. She collects the creatures herself, here on the Outer Cape. “All the oysters I paint I’ve picked and shucked,” she says. […]
THE PORTRAITIST
Putting the Creative Community on Canvas in Big, Bold Strokes
Amy Kandall wants to paint ‘what everybody has to say’
During the summer of 2021, Truro artist Amy Kandall painted more than 50 life-size portraits of artists, gallerists, restaurant owners, and other creative people who live on the Outer Cape. […]
THE STROLL
Wellfleet, Saturday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery stroll
Jeff Soderbergh Gallery (11B West Main St.) Artist Lisa Barsumian of Jamestown, R.I. is showing some of her work in the Jeff Soderbergh Gallery. This Saturday-night stroll is great, she […]
PORCHFEST PREVIEW
Jacqueline Schwab Improvises on a Theme
The pianist tries to create ‘music that welcomes everybody’
Pianist Jacqueline Schwab, who lives in Cambridge, describes growing up in Pittsburgh, Pa. surrounded by “a black shroud of dust” from the city’s steel mills. “It’s in my lungs, I’m […]
FINAL BOWS
The Emerson Quartet Says Goodbye
They will play Walker, Shostakovich, and Beethoven in their last appearance here
“There’s a time for everything,” says Lawrence Dutton, violist of the Emerson Quartet. After 47 years of touring, the renowned string quartet will disband in October. Their performance at the […]
IN TUNE
Harold López-Nussa Brings the Piano to Life
A new album, Timba a la Americana, reflects his move from Cuba to France
The Cuban pianist Harold López-Nussa was born into music. His mother was a piano teacher and his father a professional drummer. His uncle and grandmother were both piano players. While […]
THE THREAD
Craft Becomes Art in Gretchen Romey-Tanzer’s Weaving Studio
A room full of looms is classroom, workshop, and gallery
BREWSTER — Eight big floor looms stand in various stages of use in Gretchen Romey-Tanzer’s studio. The walls are lined with vibrant spools of wool and cotton and with the […]
KEEPING SCORE
Composing on the Outer Cape
Three women composers talk about their lives and their work
Classical concerts rarely feature pieces composed by women. Three women composers who draw inspiration from the Outer Cape discuss how they found (and are still finding) their ways in an […]
EVERYTHING ICE
Bright Pops of Summer Joy
Lime, mint, watermelon, and berries make ice pops even parents can love
Summer swept over us like a heavy blanket when we were growing up in New York City. Above ground, my twin sister and I absorbed the fumes of hot asphalt. […]
INCIDENTALLY
Beach Rescue
I sat in the dark with two friends on the wet sand at Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet on the evening of July 4th. To our left, fireworks lit up […]
SONGWRITERS
Patty Larkin’s Outer Cape Comeback
After a devastating spinal cord injury, the singer returns with renewed passion
Folk musician Patty Larkin, 72, tripped and fell in a dark room during a family vacation last June, suffering a spinal cord injury that could have left her a quadriplegic. […]
