Arts

A calming and Celtic holiday concert

While box-store patrons likely heard Mariah Carey’s “All I want for Christmas is You” once again, concert-goers at the Wareham Free Library heard a different variety of seasonal tune from a performance by an authentic Celtic harpist. Aine Minogue is...

Dinner and a show: Upper Cape students put on holiday themed dinner theater

For the second year in a row, drama students at Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical High School are putting on a holiday themed dinner theater performance as the school's drama club performs "It's a Wonderful Life: A live radio play." The dinner...
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Dreams and nightmares on the Wareham High School stage

[Editor’s Note: This story was written by Daniella Amezian, a student in John Flynn’s journalism class at Wareham High School.] “Frankenstein,” the play script by R. N Sandberg, will be performed by the Wareham Viking Theater...

A smoothly done and student run craft fair

On Nov. 23, Wareham High School student Kailee Rose donned a wireless headset to communicate from across the gym with fellow student Priscilla Ross and other DECA members as they organized the clubs annual craft fair. DECA, which stands for...

Regional artists showcase work in Wareham

The Bourne Wareham Art Association will hold its winter showcase in the Wareham Free Library, 59 Marion Road, beginning Nov. 22 with 10 artists from around the region displaying their works in oil, acrylics, pastels, watercolor, photography and...

Children's art builds international community at Wareham Free Library

After traveling the world for eight years, art pieces created by Ukrainian children have found their way to Wareham. The art exhibit is currently hanging in the Wareham Free Library and is known as "Ideal House," Ukrainian children’s depictions of...

100+ crowd experiences Grace Morrison’s ‘Saltwater Country’

Grace Morrison wowed a near sold-out crowd in her hometown of Wareham on Saturday, October 5, singing songs from her upcoming album Saltwater Country with a full band. More than 100 people attended the event, which was hosted in partnership with...

Saltwater Country: A love letter from Wareham native Grace Morrison

Grace Morrison’s upcoming album, Saltwater Country, is part love letter to her hometown, part portrait of a woman who has grown into herself and her music, and part affirmation that her songwriting deserves to be heard and celebrated. “The eternal...

The sound of one porch playing: Live jazz comes to Onset

On a sunny Saturday in Onset, the vibes were immaculate – the sounds of vibraphone, saxophone, guitar and more carried through the air around West Central Avenue as jazz band Bob’s Chili Combo played their third One-Porch Onset Porchfest on Sept. 14...

Dog park art show celebrates ‘creative’ talents

Wareham is paw-sitively overflowing with creative talent, and the Dog Park Affiliation of Wareham recognized their tail-wagging tallent with awards from its sixth annual youth art contest. The Affiliation and contest judges “were impressed with this...

Traditional tunes close out concert series at library

Attendees of the Wareham Free Library’s summer concert series got a glimpse into the “vast and wonderful” world of traditional Irish music on Monday, Aug. 5 as Wareham fiddler Fern Tamigini-O'Donnell played for an enraptured crowd. Tamigini-O'...

All Onset’s a stage: Shakespeare returns to the park

As noble players acted on the stage, a gentle breeze of Onset wafted through, and brought with it the sound of horns and song, and brilliant clouds above all clear to view. This was Shakespeare Under the Stars, a program that marked the Bard’s...

Time and tides wait for no sandman

Rodney Johnson, known affectionately as “Mr. Sandman,” started off his day on Sunday, July 14 working alone, carving up the sand of Onset Beach with long-handled shovels and a tamper. Most years, Rodney would be swarmed with helpers, he said, as he...

‘Living pieces of art’ on display in garden tour

The backyard of the home on Twins Beach Lane feels like it stretches on forever. A narrow path leads from the road to flower beds out at the back of the house, the air rich with the scent of lilies. From there, a wide corridor of green grass leads...

Leave your pawprint: Dog park creative contest now accepting submissions

Got a creative bone in your body? Don’t just bury it like our four-legged friends: Participate in the Dog Park Association of Wareham’s Unleash the PAWsibilities Area Youth Creative Contests. The Association is accepting submissions from now until...

‘Artful Pride’ celebrates congregation, LGBTQ+ ‘vitality’

On a small table, almost an altar, in the First Congregational Church of Wareham, a rolled-up, rainbow umbrella shares space with four figurines and a canvas with white flowers painted into a rainbow backdrop. It was created by Christine Markola,...