The DeRosa Family
The DeRosa family's Holiday Concert, featuring Patricia DeRosa Padden, a pianist, singer, and songwriter, and Nicole DeRosa Padden, a flutist, pianist, and vocalist, will happen on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Montauk Library.
The Paddens are carrying on the tradition that began with Patricia's father, Pat DeRosa, a renowned saxophonist who died in April at the age of 101. The concert will include such holiday standards as "Jingle Bell Rock," "Let It Snow," "Santa Baby," and "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town."
Holiday Market
Merry Madoo!, a free holiday market and celebration, will take place Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack. Offerings will include Madoo-grown paperwhites, lady apple pomanders with vintage velvet ribbon, fresh-cut boughs, pottery from Mae Mougin, and gardening tools from Sneeboer.
Chestnuts over an open fire, hot mulled cider, and, after noon, vin chaud will provide fortification against the cold.
Dreaming of Cuba
"Top Drawer: Stories of Dysfunction and Redemption From Park Avenue to Havana," an autobiographical one-woman show written and performed by Adelaide Mestre that combines music and storytelling, will be performed at the Southampton Cultural Center on Sunday afternoon at 4.
The show follows her quest to reclaim her family's Cuban and artistic heritage by returning to Havana to find her deceased father's piano, which was left behind when the family fled the island in 1960. She also chronicles life growing up on Manhattan's Upper East Side with her mother, an opera-singing socialite, and her Cuban father, a gay, manic-depressive concert pianist.
Tickets are $40.
The Good Earth
In his latest collection of essays, "Soil and Spirit: Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life," Scott Chaskey, a writer and farmer, reflects on his exploration of poetry, land cultivation, and life. He will be a guest of the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons at the Bridgehampton Community House on Sunday at 2 p.m. to talk about how food sovereignty and organic farming can be keys to building healthy communities.
A pioneer of the community-supported agriculture movement, Mr. Chaskey cultivated more than 60 crops for the Peconic Land Trust at Quail Hill Farm in Amagansett for over 30 years. His poetry has been published widely; he is also the author of a memoir and a book of nonfiction.
Tickets are $10, free for members.
Dead and Dickens
Shows at the Masonic Temple in Sag Harbor range from the Grateful Dead to Charles Dickens this weekend, starting Saturday at 8 p.m. with a performance by the Roses Grove Band. Not only will the band channel the Dead, "gear for the Dead Head in your life" will be available, according to the temple. Admission is $20.
Laura Jasper, a local actor and theater artist, will perform a one-woman reading of "A Christmas Carol" on Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m., suitable for all audiences. Admission is free, but donations of canned food will be accepted.
In addition, the temple hosts the Jam Session's Jazz Night every Tuesday from 7 to 9. Tickets are $20.
A Roaring Concert
A concert called "All That 20s!" will pay tribute to music from that decade on Sunday afternoon at 3 at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton. The program will celebrate the music and illuminate the lives of such composers as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Kurt Weill.
The performance will feature Ilana Meredith, a singer, Joe Rutkowski, a pianist, and Jim Mackin, a historian.
