STONINGTON — Your summer playlist is ready with a music filled month of July at the Stonington Opera House!
Homegrown Maine celebrity band The Soulbenders will take the stage for a dance party on Wednesday, July 9 at 7 p.m. The seats will be removed and the floor will be open – returning the Opera House to the dance floor it had been more than 100 years ago.
Your feet will still be tapping by July 15 when local favorites Hymn for Her return to the Opera House with their juiced-up backwoods country blues with a dose of desert rock psychedelia. They will perform at 6 p.m. as part of our Live! for $5 program. .
Multiple Grammy Award winning artist Quentin Baxter will headline the 25th Annual Deer Isle Jazz Festival at 7 p.m. on July 18-19. On July 18 the Quentin Baxter Quintet will blend modern Jazz with the Gullah traditions of his native Charleston, South Carolina. On July 19, the Opera House will move to the beat of Quentin Baxer’s African Marketplace – Celebrating Abdullah Ibrahim. This performance will celebrate the influence of the renowned South African pianist through new arrangements and compositions that honor Ibrahim’s legacy.
On Friday, July 25 at 7 p.m. Bailey’s Mistake, a not-quite-traditional, Celtic-inspired, four-piece folk band from Maine, will mix traditional music from Ireland, Scotland and Newfoundland with brand new songs about contemporary life in New England.
The potent melodies and moody, varied arrangements of rising indie rock band Dead Gowns will play the Opera House on Tuesday, July 29 at 7 p.m. Their music is a stirring compilation of raw, passionate folk-rock that calls to mind the music of Cat Power, PJ Harvey and Big Thief.
The DaPonte String Quartet will fill the Burnt Cove Church Community Center on Thursday, July 31 at 7 p.m. The region’s foremost chamber quartet returns to Stonington with a stirring new program of pieces by Haydn, Korngold and Randall Thompson’s “Alleluia.”
For more information and to purchase tickets visit operahousearts.org or call 207-367-2788.
