ONGOING WEEKLY CLASSES  

Mon, 1-2:30pm; Yoga with Suzie Hurley, Advanced beginners, $20/class, 10 classes $150

Sat, 9:30-11am; Yoga w Suzie Hurley, Intermediate, $20/class, 10 classes/ $150

Tues-Thurs, 10am; Steady & Strong w/ Janet Pfeffer, $10/class 10/$80

JUNE 2024

June 22, 2024, 5:30-7pm – Juneteenth Celebration with Antigua Artisans

Come celebrate Juneteenth and learn about the masterful handicraft of wild tamarind and ‘jumbie’ bead seed work by Antiguan artisans. This seed work is a tradition whose African origins have outlived and surpassed its challenging past, infused with a message that is undeniably as beautiful, empowering, and profound as the craft itself. FREE.

JULY 2024

July 6, 2024, 8:30am – Cars & Coffee

Free, Sponsored by Prestige Auto Vault, Eat Sprout & Doc’s Sunset Grille. Come enjoy the incredible array of automobiles!

July 14, 2024, 5:30-6:30pm – Paint Oxford Day

Join the Plein Air Easton artists and spend the day getting to know Oxford, a tiny town with a huge personality and water on three sides. This is an exhibit and sale of works produced during this special competition.

July 20, 2024 – Oxford Museum Movie Night 

Come enjoy a circa 1960’s movie at the Oxford Community Center. More info

available at https://www.oxfordmuseummd.org. If you haven’t yet seen the 1960’s exhibit at the Museum, stop by before it closes the end of July!

July 27, 2024 – Music Festival with WHCP TIME

An all-day music event full of fun and fundraising! Area music favorites include Heartside with Sam Pugh, Steven & The Lowe Downs, Daphne Eckman and Black Dog Alley. On the terrace at the Oxford Community Center for one fantastic Music Festival! Proceeds benefit WHCP’s Live Music Series. Go to https://whcp.org/events for tickets.

AUGUST 2024

August 3, 2024, 8:30am – Cars & Coffee

Free, Sponsored by Prestige Auto Vault, Eat Sprout & Doc’s Sunset Grille. Come enjoy the incredible array of automobiles!

August 3, 2024 – Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Chamber Concert

This summer, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s (BSO) Music for Maryland Tour makes its 2024 return, delivering eight, pay-what-you-wish performances across the state of Maryland, and they’re performing at the Oxford Community Center on August 3rd! RSVP online at oxfordcc.org. 

August 31, 2024, 9A-noon – Community Day with Oxford Vendors

Visit with your favorite community organizations and learn about ones you didn’t know about! On the side lawn at the Oxford Community Center.

August 31, 2024, 7-10pm – The Fabulous Hubcaps!

They’re BACK! Join us Saturday, August 31st at 7PM for an evening with the Fabulous Hubcaps!  Tickets are on sale now! $35 Cash bar. 

For more info contact: [email protected] or [email protected]

For tickets to classes and shows visit oxfordcc.org

To volunteer at our events, visit oxfordcc.org/volunteer

Allegro Academy, located at 114 N. Washington Street, Easton, is delighted to welcome a new flute choir, piano instructor, and community singers this summer.  

The Allegro Flute Choir will have its inaugural meeting on July 6, at 10am in which flute players ages 13 and up are invited to join us for this one-day flute-player gathering. The ensemble will sight-read easy to medium flute ensemble works while exploring tone production, ensemble balance, and intonation. Allegro strives to provide a positive space for passionate flute players of all ages to meet other flute players and experience the joy of playing chamber music. There is no cost to participate in this event, but donations of $10 are appreciated to cover the cost of music and refreshments. All flute players are welcome; no audition required.

Also beginning in July are piano lessons with Dr. Debra Dew.  Dr. Debra is an Eastern Shore native who has returned to the Shore after residing in Illinois.  She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in music education, with piano as her primary instrument.  She earned her PhD in teacher education and supervision at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. During that time, she also enrolled in several music courses. Dr. Dew has taught elementary and middle school general music, operated a private piano studio, taught college students how to become teachers in all content areas, taught piano ensemble, keyboard, and theory classes, and accompanied church choirs.  For fun, she has sung in various choral groups and accompanied instrumental students during recitals. 

Rehearsals for Allegro Academy’s 6th Summer Sing Choir Festival begin July 8.  Area musicians gather annually to form a community choir joined by professional soloists and instrumentalists.  This year’s program will feature Robert Ray’s Gospel Mass along with an assortment of spirituals, gospel arrangements, and special guests. All rehearsals will take place at Temple B’Nai Israel with a performance on July 27. The Summer Sing is an exciting event with no participation fee and the performance is offered at no cost.  All are welcome. 

For more information about any of these programs, please visit allegroacademyeaston.com or call 410-603-8361. Programs of Allegro Academy are funded by generous contributions from the community, Talbot Arts, and the Maryland State Arts Council.

Seven talented artists of the Eastern Shore Photographers Collective will have an exhibit at the Heron Point Art Gallery in Chestertown, MD.

The exhibit provides a captivating glimpse into the beauty and charm of the Eastern Shore and will be open to the public July 3^rd to August 28^th, 2024 from 10 AM to 4 PM daily. These talented artists (Mike Morris, Libby Morris, Kenneth Jones, Tony Burton, Latoya Drummond, Samuel Everett and Seldon Dix) will be honored at a reception on Sunday, July 14^th from 2 to 4 PM and speak about their creative process. The photographs will be available for viewing and purchase until August 28, 2024.

These Delmarva artists are dedicated to capturing the unique beauty and essence of Delmarva through their lens. Their collection of work showcases the diverse landscapes, vibrant communities, and rich cultural heritage of the region, applying their individual perspectives and artistic styles. They create a fresh and innovative approach to documenting the natural wonders and human stories of Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

The artist’s eye guides the Science of Photography, making each photograph a frozen moment in time. Frozen time that speaks to the viewer with unwritten words. This group of friends chase sunrises at 3 AM, stand in the cold to get the shot, plan the time and angle to give the shot the look and add character in hours of post processing.

This Photography Show will take place at Heron Point of Chestertown, an ACTs retirement community affiliate located at 501 East Campus Avenue, Chestertown, MD 21620, phone: 410-778-7300.

First place: “Downtime” an oil painting by Rhonda Ford

The St. Michaels Art League (SMAL) is pleased to announce the winners of their 2024 Members Show featuring all mediums.

The exhibit was judged by Gail Patterson, Director and Curator of the online gallery spiralisgallery.com which also has a brick-and-mortar location, “The Zebra and Spiralis Galleries” located at 5 N. Harrison St. in Easton.    

First Place was awarded to Rhonda Ford for her oil Painting “Downtime.”  Second Place went to Georgette Toews for her oil painting “Waiting.”  Third place was awarded to Beth Wright for her gouache painting “A Man Walks into a Bar.”  Honorable mentions went to Michael Iandolo for his oil painting “Jazz,” to George Sass for his photograph “Under the Boardwalk,” to Donna Finley for her pastel “Majestic Sanctuary” and to Irene Martinelli for her acrylic painting titled “Geisha.”  

For more information about the St. Michaels League and its activities visit Smartleague.org.  

The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Shipyard is offering guests the opportunity to learn the ins and outs of casting metal during a Bronze Casting Workshop on June 20-23.

Running 9am-4pm each day, the hands-on workshop will focus on casting bronze and aluminum using the traditional green sand technique under the direction of Christian Benefiel, a visiting master, sculptor, and Director of Welding and Fabrication at Chesapeake College.

Over the four days, participants will learn the intricacies of making patterns out of various materials, packing the sand molds, working the furnace, pouring molten metal, and the proper cleanup of their cast pieces.

Participants can choose what they cast, with the option to create art, boat hardware, and more. Afterward, they get to take these custom-made pieces home.

The cost for this Apprentice for a Day program is $650, with a 20% discount for CBMM members, and includes all required tools and materials. Get more information and register at cbmm.org/BronzeCasting2024.

To access the CBMM member discount for the Bronze Casting Workshop and become part of the Chesapeake story, purchase a membership today by visiting cbmm.org/memberships or contacting Membership Services Coordinator Debbie Ruzicka at 410-745-4991 or [email protected].

Chris Tilghman

The Bookplate is continuing its 2024 season of author lectures on June 12th with regional author Christopher Tilghman for a 6pm reservation required event at Sultana’s Lawrence Wetlands Preserve. 

The culmination of Christopher Tilghman’s great Chesapeake saga, a story spanning four centuries of an American family.

It is the Fourth of July 2019, and the Mason family is gathering at their historic Chesapeake farm, Mason’s Retreat. It isn’t everyone’s favorite party, but Harry Mason has once again goaded his wife, Kate, and their children into hosting a celebratory dinner. Their oldest, Rosalie, is having trouble with her marriage; the youngest, Ethan, is in the throes of a fitful first relationship. In between, Eleanor despairs over her stalled novel, a fictionalized memoir of the wife of the first Mason settler who landed there in 1659.

Kate, recovering from a second round of chemotherapy, is at the center of this ritual of remembrance. Tart and candid, she asks her husband, “What crime against humanity did your family not commit on that land?” And so it is more or less inevitable that when the clan, joined by a cast of neighbors and cousins from France, sits down for dinner, the question of how they should think and feel about their past comes to the fore.

Told with irony and deep insight, On the Tobacco Coast is Christopher Tilghman’s concluding meditation on the themes of his novels about this ancestral monument: the pride and shame in its long history, the persistence of family stories, race and privilege, the enigmas and customs of regions. It is a reflection on the state of America today, with its battles with its own history and efforts to reckon with the wrongs of the past while looking forward to an uncertain, more just future.

“Elegant, boisterous, and moving.” —Taylor Antrim, Vogue

“Over the course of four books, beginning with Mason’s Retreat (1996), Tilghman has produced a wonderful saga about a Chesapeake family, incorporating a superb sense of place with expressive prose and complex interpersonal dynamics . . . While this novel can stand alone, it also has great respect for the series’ history, bringing many generational strands to a satisfying close.” —Sarah Johnson, Booklist

“Tilghman concludes his Chesapeake Bay quartet (after Thomas and Beal in the Midi) with this understated yet consequential drama of an American family’s reckoning with its colonial heritage . . . A satisfying end to a rich saga.” —Publishers Weekly

Christopher Tilghman is the author of two short-story collections, In a Father’s Place and The Way People Run, and four previous novels, including Thomas and Beal in the Midi, The Right-Hand Shore, and Mason’s Retreat, which recount the connected stories of the Mason and Bayly families. He lives with his wife, the novelist Caroline Preston, in Charlottesville, Virginia, and in Centreville, Maryland.

For more event details or to reserve your seat, contact The Bookplate at 410-778-4167 or [email protected]. These events are free and open to the public, but reservations are required for the Tilghman event on June 12th. The Lawrence Wetlands Preserve is located at 301 S. Mill Street in Chestertown, Maryland. The Bookplate will continue their event series with a Pride Month event at the Lawrence Wetlands Preserve on Saturday June 22nd as poet Sunu P. Chandy and author Jeffrey Dale Lofton will be discussing their individual works My Dear Comrades and Red Clay Suzie.

The Bay Country Chorus is the Easton Maryland chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society. Since 1995 the chorus has been entertaining throughout the mid-shore of Maryland. Our performances are mostly at senior living facilities, nursing homes, and venues where residents are in rehab or dealing with dementia. Most of these special residents are unable to get out and enjoy live music. Quite simply we bring the music to them. 

Recently the chorus gave a special performance at Talbot Hospice. We sang several songs at several locations in the facility. The residents and staff were appreciative of our performance. We feel it added a little sunshine to their day. 

The chorus meets on Monday evenings beginning at 6 pm at the Talbot County Senior Center at 400 Brooklets Ave in Easton. Men and women of all ages who may be interested in singing four-part harmony are invited to drop in. For further information about the chorus please call John Crovo at 410-820-4761.