Friday, March 30, 6:30-8:00 pm

Hogan’s Goat (Bob Dunlap – guitar, vocals; Kathi Taylor – snare, bodhran, vocals; Skip Toomey – accordion, whistle, banjo, vocals) will play and sing a high energy mix of  traditional reels, jigs, polkas, marches, contemporary Irish ballads, “Boston Irish” and tin pan alley songs, a cappella sea shanties, three-part harmonies, and more.  Reservations required (508.385.8151). Suggested donation: $15/person.

Sunday, March 25, at 3 pm

The esteemed nature writer Robert Finch will present a series of portraits of Cape Codders and Newfoundlanders, denizens of two places with striking similarities and differences. Mr. Finch has written extensively about both Cape Cod and Newfoundland, with highly acclaimed works including A Cape Cod Notebook and The Iambics of Newfoundland. (Please click here for a review of The Iambics of Newfoundland)

Sunday, January 22, 3-4:30 pm

Jackson T. Zee, Executive Director of Wild Care Cape Cod, will introduce his audience to some of the 17,000 reptiles, mammals, and birds that his organization and rescued and returned to nature. Hear about the rescue of a young male Red-Tailed Hawk covered in asphalt, a pair of Screech Owls from a clear-cut lot, and a Loon tangled in discarded fishing line. Learn about the perils and prospects for wildlife on Cape Cod, and how you can make a difference.

Sunday, November 13, 3 pm

Chatham Chorale Music Director T. Joseph Marchio will discuss Benjamin Britten’s dramatic and engaging cantata “St. Nicolas” Op. 42, and the historical figure whose astonishing life and legend provide the setting for Britten’s work.  Free admission and refreshments.

Sunday, August 21, 4 pm

Author Deborah Forman will speak on her just-released, landmark two-volume history of “the nation’s oldest art colony.” Perspectives on the Provincetown Art Colony was published in June, 2011 by Schiffer Publishing Ltd. and immediately heralded as the most comprehensive review of the art colony to date. As a journalist trained in and devoted to the arts, Deborah Forman has engaged with the Provincetown colony for more than 30 years – conducting interviews, writing articles, and filming an acclaimed documentary.  Ms. Forman will share first-hand stories of the celebrated artists and writers fascinated and influenced by Provincetown, from Robert Motherwell,  Raphael Soyer, and Paul Resika, to Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, and Saul Bellow.

Admission and refreshments are free. Donations are welcome.  

Chris Wadsworth and his Dixieland Band

Sunday, July 10, at 3 pm

 
The Jacob Sears Memorial Library will celebrate the 115th anniversary of its dedication with a concert at the Evangelical Free Church of East Dennis on Center Street, across from the library.

Broadway Babies

Maggie Bossi and her students at the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School will present “Broadway Babies,” including great repertory from stage and screen musicals. This one-hour program is the final project for a seminar Maggie Bossi is teaching at the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School. Family members, friends , and other visitors are welcome!

Children, Toys, Games in American Art since 1620

Sunday, March 20, at 3 pm
 
Henry Callan of Sandwich, noted art and antiques expert, will show how views of childhood have changed radically through the years.  Sponsored by the Dennis Historical Society.

Making Music

Sunday, April 10 at 3 pm

”I have had pleasure enough: I have had singing.”  So said the hard-pressed, music-loving farmer interviewed by Ronald Blythe in Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village. On Sunday, April 10, several Cape Cod musicians will affirm this sentiment as they share how their lives have been shaped and enhanced by the inexorable pull and incomparable pleasure of making music.

Each musician participating in the program is wedded to music in a different way. Their passions range from performing, composing, instrument-making, and instrument-tuning to music education. Their talents range, as well, across all types of musical instruments – from keyboard, wind, strings, and percussion to the human voice. Whatever the occupation or instrument, all have been drawn to living in and around music, often through a variety of activities and numerous instruments.

Charles Bihler, an educator who holds a Master’s degree in Music Education from Rutgers University, will introduce the program and serve as impresario. A fervent believer that “great musical culture is not yet dead,” Charles will share his own observations on making music and, through his trademark blend of insight, anecdote, and humor, introduce the key themes of the day.

Charles will be joined by singer/songwriter/guitarist Robert Emmet Dunlap, singer/percussionist Kathi Taylor, vioBill Walsman, and Pat Selemon – all musicians making and enabling music here on the Cape. Highly proficient in their respective “technical” areas, they will work together to convey their shared conviction that the essence of music resides in its power to touch and to move.