Roots Music Alfresco
Guild Hall stays open late on the third Thursday of every month until 7:30 with live music in the garden curated by Carlos Lama and extended gallery hours. Next Thursday’s musical guest is Friday Night Traditional (a day early, but who’s counting). The set starts at 5:30. Reservations are not required.
Friday Night Traditional is led by Brad Penuel, who writes and records songs that draw on his Alabama roots. In addition to his original material, he covers a roots music and country, often performing with a rotating group of musicians.
Swamp Blues
Sag Harbor’s Masonic Temple will host a performance by Eric Simons, a guitarist and vocalist, and Bradford Reed, a multi-instrumentalist, Friday at 8 p.m.
Known as the Dirt Whisperers, the duo’s music is rooted in Mississippi Delta blues and classic soul, with touches of gospel, Americana, funk, and rock-and-roll. Simons’s guitar will be paired with Reed’s self-invented pencilina, a 10-string electric hybrid that allows him to cover bass and drums simultaneously. (Its name only looks like an antibiotic at first glance.)
The temple promises “a night of psychedelic swamp blues.” Tickets are $25.
‘Killer Bees’ Screening
“Killer Bees,” a 2017 documentary by Ben and Orson Cummings, who are brothers, will be shown in the Bridgehampton Museum’s Tractor Barn on the Corwith House property on Saturday at 6 p.m.
The film follows the Bridgehampton High School basketball team as it pursues a state championship. The team has long been a source of pride, tradition, and hope for a community struggling to survive in one of the wealthiest communities in the country.
The filmmakers and some “special guests” will take questions after the screening. Tickets are $10, free for those 17 and under.
