Live Reggae
The Hamptons Summer Reggae Tour of Street Sounds Productions will touch down Friday at 8 p.m. at the Sag Harbor Masonic Club as part of that venue's ongoing music series, and Saturday afternoon at 5 at the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center.
Street Sounds was founded by Christopher Street, a Southampton native now based in San Francisco, to work with students from around the Bay Area and to present live concerts throughout the United States. Winston Irie will join Mr. Street for the concert of live reggae.
Tomorrow's tickets are $25. Proceeds will benefit Street Sounds' free arts programming for underserved communities. Saturday's program is free.
Jazz Piano
The Piano Masters series, a partnership between Hamptons Jazz Fest and LTV Studios in Wainscott, will continue Monday at 6 p.m. with a performance at LTV by Amina Figarova.
Born and trained as a classical pianist in Azerbaijan, she became interested in folk music, and later specialized in jazz. While at the Moscow Jazz Festival in 1988, she was invited to study at the Rotterdam Conservatoire, and she completed her education at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Since the late '80s, she has performed in jazz festivals around the world with her husband, Bart Platteau, a flutist.
A $10 donation is required and can be made by texting LTVPIANO to 41444.
Ragtime to Jazz
Inspired by a television program about Scott Joplin, Michael (Spike) Wilner learned to play ragtime music at an early age. As part of Hamptons Jazz Fest, he and his trio will be at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill Friday at 6 p.m.
During the last 15 years, Mr. Wilner has toured with the Artie Shaw Orchestra, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, and Maynard Ferguson's Big Bop Nouveau band. He has performed with such well-known jazz artists as Peter Bernstein, Joe Magnarelli, Grant Stewart, Jesse Davis, Eric Alexander, Jim Rotundi, and Joe Farnsworth.
Tickets are $25, $15 for members and their guests, senior citizens, and students, and $5 for children.
South Asian Music
NOTE -- This concert has been postponed. A future date will be announced soon.
Vagabonds, a group of three Indian-American improviser-composers, will perform at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs on Saturday at 5 p.m. as part of Duck Creek's summer music series.
The trio explores multiple intersections among South Asian music, jazz, and other musical forms. Its members are Rajna Swaminathan, a vocalist and one of the few women who play the mrudangam, an ancient percussion instrument, professionally; Ganavya Lives, a vocalist, improviser, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist; Utsav Lal, a raga and jazz pianist who has worked with Irish, Scottish, jazz, and experimental artists, and Amir ElSaffar, a jazz trumpeter.
