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Monday Essentials: "Washashore," Smokey Robinson and More on Martha's Vineyard This Week
The Obamas and their motorcade have left Martha's Vineyard to the rest of us. Here are five of the many fun things they'll miss on the Island this week. Find more things to do in our Events calendar and Today on Martha's Vineyard section.
- At Edgartown Books Monday afternoon, meet the author of WASHASHORE, a novel for ages 9-14 about a girl who moves to Martha's Vineyard. 4 p.m., free.
- Monday night, you can hear four singer-songwriters at the Martha's Vineyard Film Center in Vineyard Haven: Ryan Montbleau and Christian McNeill from the mainland and Willy Mason and Alex Karalekas from the Vineyard. 9:30 p.m., $25.
- There are just two nights left of the acclaimed Built on Stilts dance festival at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday for the drum circle and dancer warm-up; performances begin at 8 p.m. Free.
- Tuesday's free movie at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs is the new film "The Watsons Go to Birmingham," a family tale set in 1963 whose executive producer and screenwriter, Tonya Lewis Lee, is a summer Oak Bluffs resident with her husband Spike Lee and their two teenagers. 7 p.m., free.
- Thursday, Motown great Smokey Robinson and opener Angie Stone kick off the On the Vine Music Festival at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs. Tickets to this show are $125-$150, but On the Vine also has a free jazz concert with percussionist Kahil El'Zabar and trumpeter Maurice Brown at 9 p.m. Friday. Festival headliner Natalie Cole performs Saturday at the Tabernacle. Find the complete schedule at onthevineevents.com.
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