Martha\'s Vineyard has a rich musical legacy that stretches back to the earliest drumbeats of the Wampanoags and the whaling chanteys of the nineteenth century.
Authors Thomas Dresser and Jerry Muskin explore the homegrown Music scene and the summer stars who keep islanders and visitors moving to the beat..
Discover this melodious History from the early twentieth-century dance bands at the Tivoli ballroom, through the war years, the piano bars and the nascent folk Music scene at the Mooncusser Cafe, where Carly Simon and James Taylor played their first licks.
Vineyarders embrace all things musical, from choral and string ensembles to singers and songwriters.
Returning Civil War veterans formed the island\'s oldest continuous Music ensemble, the Vineyard Haven Band.
Martha\'s Vineyard has a rich musical legacy that stretches back to the earliest drumbeats of the Wampanoags and the whaling chanteys of the nineteenth century
