Ebook: Music on Martha's Vineyard: A History of Harmony

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. Returning
Civil War veterans formed the island’s
oldest continuous music ensemble, the
Vineyard Haven Band. Vineyarders embrace all things musical, from choral and string ensembles to singers and songwriters.
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
Café, where Carly Simon and James Taylor played their first licks.
Authors Thomas Dresser and Jerry Muskin explore the homegrown music scene and
the summer stars who keep islanders and visitors moving to the beat.