Madoo Market
The 14th annual Much Ado About Madoo garden market and cocktail party will be held at the Sagaponack Conservancy on Saturday. This year it honors the Foster family, Madoo's neighbors: Lee Foster and her children, Dean, Marilee, and Robin.
The garden market, which is free and open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., features more than two dozen vendors purveying home accessories, men's and women's fashions and accessories, garden-derived beauty products, antiques, tabletop items, and jewelry. Fifteen percent of all sales will be donated to the conservancy. The Shop at Madoo will also be open, with garden tools and gear, arts and crafts products, books and magazines, and more.
The cocktail party takes place from 5 to 8 in the venue's gardens, overlooking the Foster farm. Tickets start at $450.
Verdi's Duets
"Viva Verdi" will bring opera music by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Antonin Dvorak, and other composers to the Leiber Collection in Springs on Saturday afternoon at 5. Verdi's acclaimed father-daughter duets, drawn from "Rigoletto," "La Traviata," and "Il Trovatore," are at the heart of the evening.
The vocalists are Daniel Sutin, a baritone, and Ashley Galvani Bell, a soprano. Sutin has performed with the Metropolitan Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Washington National Opera, and L'Opera de Montreal, among others. Bell's credits include Carnegie Hall, the Bilbao Opera, Seville's Teatro de la Maestranza, and opera houses throughout Europe and the United States. They will be accompanied on piano by Michael Fennelly.
Tickets are $50.
Pride Party
The fifth annual Hamptons Pride Party will take place at East Hampton's LongHouse Reserve on Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. The fund-raiser will feature musical performances, D.J. Watts, summer wine, beer and hors d'oeuvres, and the Served With Pride art auction.
This year's auction includes everyday wooden serving trays turned into works of art by dozens of artists, among them Adriana Barone, Kirsten Benfield, Ross Bleckner, Scott Bluedorn, Stephanie Brody-Lederman, John Haubrich, Susan Lazarus-Reiman, Bastienne Schmidt, George Singer, Dan Welden, and Gus Yero.
Tickets, which benefit Hamptons Pride's year-round activities, are $175.
String Quartet
Shelter Island Friends of Music will host a free concert by the Ulysses Quartet on Sunday at 6 p.m. at the island's Presbyterian Church. Featuring Christina Bouey and Rhiannon Banerdt, violinists, Grace Ho, a cellist, and Julian Seney, a violist, the quartet will perform music by Haydn, Shostakovich, and Mendelssohn, as well as a trio of traditional songs arranged by the group.
Founded in 2015, Ulysses has won top prizes at such major competitions as the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the Schoenfeld International String Competition, and the Vietnam International Music Competition. The quartet has performed at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the National Gallery of Art, and Wigmore Hall in London.
A reception with the artists will follow the performance.
A Juneteenth Nook
Update, June 19, 9:50 a.m.: This program has been postponed.
The Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center's second annual Center Literacy Nook, a Juneteenth celebration of literature, culture, and community, will take place on Saturday from 3 to 6 p.m., with author conversations, book signings, vendors, literary discussions, African art and cultural memorabilia displays, and light refreshments.
Tiffany D. Cross, a journalist, television host, writer, and the author of "Love, Me: A Letter to Black Women in a Toxic Country, Career, and Relationship," will be a featured guest. A suggested donation of $30 will secure a copy of her book.
Singer-Songwriter
Juliet Garrett, a singer-songwriter whose music has been compared to the best by the songwriters of the 1970s, is up next in the Masonic Temple's music series, on Friday at 8 p.m. in Sag Harbor. The show, which will feature a full band, will close out the singer's Northeast tour in support of her new single, "The Coffee Song."
Tickets are $20; doors open at 7:30.
Atlas in the Barn
"Blues in the Barn," featuring Nancy Atlas, will introduce music lovers to the Bridgehampton Museum's newly renovated Tractor Barn at the Corwith House at 2368 Montauk Highway, on June 27 from 6 to 9 p.m.
Lighted by lanterns, the concert will feature cocktails and barbecue stations, as well as live blues. Tickets start at $225.
