Jazz Alfresco
The summer benefit concert of the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs will feature an outdoor performance by Georgia Heers and her quartet, next Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m., with a rain date of Friday, July 10, same time.
A jazz vocalist and composer, Heers made her Broadway debut before the age of 25 in George Clooney’s 2025 production of “Good Night, and Good Luck.” As part of the New York jazz scene, she has played at Mezzrow, Dizzy’s Club, and Minton’s Playhouse, She will be joined onstage by Jason Clotter on bass, Jimmy Macbride on drums, and Will Hill on piano.
The concert will be accompanied by local fare from Montauk Pearl Oysters, Balsam Farms, Springs Brewery, East Hampton Wines and Liquors, and Sagaponack Farm Distillery. Tickets are $200, $125 for those under 30.
Garden Party
The fifth annual Springs Garden Party, a benefit for the Springs Food Pantry, will happen from 4 to 7 p.m. on July 11 in the garden of Greg McCarthy and Peter Bickford at 248 Old Stone Highway.
Cocktails, seasonal hors d’oeuvres, live music, a silent auction, and a raffle will be on offer. The auction will include works of art and a variety of experiences, among them a beach bonfire cookout for six and an East Hampton Golf Club foursome. Raffle categories are shopping, dining/culinary, and wellness/fitness.
The event will also celebrate the pantry’s farming partners, Amber Waves, Balsam Farms, Quail Hill Farm, and Share the Harvest Farm, whose generosity helps the food pantry provide healthy produce throughout the growing season.
Tickets are $250.
Banjo Virtuoso
Alison Brown, a Grammy Award-winning banjo player, will bring an evening rooted in American tradition and shaped by global influence to Guild Hall on Sunday at 7.
Through original compositions, reimagined roots repertoire, and spontaneous musical conversation, Brown has taken the banjo beyond bluegrass, drawing on jazz, folk, Celtic, and other international traditions.
She will be joined by Michael Daves, a vocalist and guitarist who bridges traditional bluegrass and contemporary acoustic music, and Tatiana Hargreaves, a fiddler known for her interpretations of old-time, bluegrass, and vernacular string-band traditions. Also onstage will be members of the Alison Brown Quintet: John Ragusa, flute; Jody Nardone, piano; Garry West, bass, and Bryan Brock, drums.
Tickets are $54 to $89.
Words and Music
An evening of words and music will be held at Ashawagh Hall on Tuesday at 6 p.m. Presented by the Springs Historical Society and Library, the program will be hosted by Glyn Vincent, a writer, journalist, and Springs resident, who will read from his new book, “Crossing,” a memoir about a perilous sail across the Atlantic Ocean and his family’s troubled past.
He will be joined by Zachary Lazar, the author of seven books, who will read from his novel “Vacancy,” to be published later this year, and Joanne Pilgrim, a poet, essayist, and journalist, who will read “Is This Sorcery?” and other poems.
Music will be provided by Yves Duboin, a saxophonist, and Francine Whitney, a vocalist.
Jason Robert Brown
Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater will launch this season’s Music Mondays with a performance by Jason Robert Brown on Monday at 8 p.m.
A Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist, Brown is known for the musicals “Parade,” “The Last Five Years,” “Urban Cowboy,” “13.” “The Bridges of Madison County,” and “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” among others.
As a soloist or with his band, he has performed concerts around the world, including a solo debut at Carnegie Hall in 2024 and a sold-out performance at the London Palladium with Cynthia Erivo.
Tickets are $69.99 to $99.99.
Deconstructing Pop
Summer Jazz at the Parrish Art Museum, co-presented with Hamptons JazzFest, will bring Steve Bernstein’s Sexmob to the museum Friday at 6 p.m.
The quartet, which includes Bernstein on slide trumpet, Briggan Krauss on saxophone, Tony Scherr on bass, and Kenny Wollesen on drums, is known for lively deconstructions of music by such pop acts as Abba, James Brown, and Prince, and the film music of Nino Rota and John Barry.
An improvisor, composer, and arranger, Bernstein has worked with Bill Frisell, Lou Reed, Linda Ronstadt, Leonard Cohen, and others.
Tickets are $30, $25 for resident members passholders and members, $20 for students, and $10 for children.
Comedy From Caroline
The Southampton Playhouse has joined with Caroline Hirsch, the founder of Carolines on Broadway and the New York Comedy Festival, to bring an evening of stand-up comedy to the playhouse on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
The lineup will include Jason Choi, Jaye McBride, and Maddy Smith. A comedian, writer, and actor, Choi is a Comedy Mob Festival winner. McBride has performed across the country, including at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheater and Madison Square Garden. Smith, a nationally touring comedian, is known for her seven-season run on MTV’s Wild ‘N Out and weekly podcast, “Mad House.”
Tickets are $35.
Black Culture
Celebrating Black Culture on the East End, a fund-raiser for the Global Black Women’s Chamber of Commerce and Women on the Worldstage, will happen Friday evening at 7 at LTV Studios in Wainscott.
Hosted by Ambassador Sujay Johnson Cook and Crystal Brown, the evening will feature the music of Nat King Cole performed by Jerome Foster Lewis, with light refreshments and members of the Segre family of Sag Harbor and leaders of the Shinnecock Nation. There will be presentations about St. David’s AME Zion Church and the Underground Railroad in Sag Harbor.
Tickets are $70 online, $75 at the door, and $95 online for cafe table seating with two drinks, $100 at the door if available.
