Best bets: Dance the night away, hear the heart of Celtic country

Gwenn Friss, Cape Cod Times
·2 min read

Rockabilly Dance Party

Sarah Swain and the Oh Boys play everything from rock to country at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 18, for an adults-only, BYOB (coolers welcome) dance party. Reservations encouraged. With Sarah on guitar and vocals, Ron Siegel on upright bass, Mark Usher on lead guitar, and Liam Hogg on drums, vocals. $35. For tickets, visit https://www.cultural-center.org/events-main or call 508-394-7100. Cultural Center of Cape Cod, 307 Old Main St., South Yarmouth.

Jazz Jam Cape Cod

Love jazz? In a regular, every third Sunday of the month gig, a jazz band plays from noon to 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 19 at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, 307 Old Main St., South Yarmouth. Come to listen or perform jazz standards with Fred Boyle on piano, Ron Ormsby on bass, and Bart Weisman on drums. No cover charge. A light lunch brunch and drinks are available for purchase. Since 2006, Weisman writes, this has been the only Jazz Jam on Cape Cod. Professional and student musicians are welcome, along with jazz enthusiasts. For more information visit www.cultural-center.org, www.bartweisman.com/jazzjam, or call 508-394-7100.

Sarah Swain & the Oh Boys are back with a BYOB rockabilly dance party at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod.
Sarah Swain & the Oh Boys are back with a BYOB rockabilly dance party at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod.

'Fatty Pastrami'

The new work by playwright Julia Salinger will be read at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 18, at Truro Public Library as part of a program by The Truro Playwright Collective and Truro Public Library. The library is at 7 Standish Way, North Truro. Admission is free. Call 508-487-1105 or email tpl_mail@clamsnet.org/. More information: www.trurolibrary.org

Celebrating all things Celtic

Friends of the South Harwich Meetinghouse, Inc. proudly present our wildly popular Celtic Crossroads Concert including songs, tunes and the spoken word. Performances will take place at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 18, and 3 p.m. Sunday, March 19.

The concert takes place in the restored 1836 South Harwich Meetinghouse and is directed by Rose Clancy of the Chatham Fiddle Company. It features John Alden, Max Cohen, Bailey Ford, Jonathan Ford, Sarah Ford Marchio, Thomas Marchio, Christopher Marchio, with Dennis Cunningham, in the role of Shanachie, a traditional Gaelic storyteller, and Irish Step Dancing Master Kevin Doyle, recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship in Irish Dance from the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honor bestowed on a traditional artist in the U.S. Musicians will perform on fiddles, bass, guitars, Highland bagpipes, Scottish small pipes, banjo, piano and Irish whistle.

Tickets are $25 for adult general admission and $15 for children (12 and under) at Eventbrite.com or at the door, as available. The South Harwich Meetinghouse is located at 270 Chatham Road, Harwich. For further information: www.southharwichmeetinghouse.com or call 508-364-5223.

This article originally appeared on Cape Cod Times: Cape Cod hosts Celtic, rockabilly and jazz concerts this week.