Romantic Music
“Jazz With a French Twist,” a free performance in anticipation of Valentine’s Day, will take place at the Montauk Library on Sunday afternoon at 3. The artists are Jane Hastay, piano, Peter Martin Weiss, bass, and Lilly-Anne Merat, vocals. The program will include soulful jazz and love songs sung in French and English.
Ms. Hastay and Mr. Weiss, who are married and well known to East End audiences, have appeared solo or together at Birdland, the Village Vanguard, the Five Spot, the Kitano Hotel, and the Blue Note in Manhattan, and have toured internationally. Since graduating from Skidmore with a degree in music, Ms. Merat divides her time between Asheville, N.C., where she performs with Third Nature and KISMET, and New York City.
Latin and Blues
“Unity Through Sound,” a Hamptons JazzFest concert, will bring five musicians to Sag Harbor’s Masonic Temple Friday at 7 p.m. Benito Gonzalez, a pianist, Carly Maldonado, a percussionist, Oscar Feldman, a saxophonist, Gregg August, a bassist, and Claes Brondal, a drummer and the M.C., draw from modern jazz, Latin, and world music.
Doors open at 6:30 for food and drinks from the bar. Tickets are $20.
Jake Lear and the Kings will rock the temple when its music series devoted to East End musicians resumes on Saturday at 8 p.m. With Mr. Lear on guitar and vocals, Jamie Ellis on bass, and Mike Guglielmo on drums, they perform classics from such blues luminaries as Robert Johnson, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, Howlin’ Wolf, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, as well as blues takes on Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix. They will be joined by Eric Simons of Kings County Tractor Supply, a blues and roots band.
Tickets are $20.
Jazz Jam
The next East Meets West Jazz Jam Session, a collaboration of East End Jazz and the Southampton Cultural Center, will happen on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the cultural center.
The free program will begin with a 35-minute performance by the Hampton Music Educators Association Honors Jazz Band, a group of the most accomplished student-musicians from over 20 East End school districts. They will perform music by Thad Jones, Duke Ellington, and Tower of Power, among others, under the direction of Mark Stuckey.
After their set, the stage will transition into a jam session open to all musicians and singers. Interested performers have been asked to email [email protected] to sign up.
Artists as Parents
The Watermill Center’s Questions and Ideas talk series, which features thinkers from across the arts, humanities, and sciences, will take up the subject of “The Artist as Parent” on Saturday from 2 to 3 p.m. Featuring a panel of parent-artists, the program will explore how parenting and creative work shape, challenge, and inform each other across daily life.
The talk is free, but space is limited and registration is required.
Improv Sold Out
Guild Hall’s Yes, And: Intro to Improv, a six-week workshop set to start Tuesday at 6 p.m., has sold out, but a standby list can be accessed by emailing [email protected].
A similar program, as well as one-off workshops, is being considered for the future, according to Amy Kirwin, the venue’s chief public engagement and impact officer.
