The Falmouth Art Market features the vibraphone player Julian Loida and over 30 creative artists on Tuesday, July 30, 11 AM until 5 PM, at Falmouth Marine Park, 180 Scranton Avenue. In addition, there will be a Meet the Author booth, lunch from the Filling Station Food Truck, and ice cream from Sea Scoops. The event continues every Tuesday throughout the summer.
Gabriella Simpkins will perform from 2 to 4 PM. She is an award-winning singer-songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist from Cape Cod. Her music features elements of folk, classical, jazz, and indie rock.
Simpkins enjoys connecting with people through music, as she explores difficult emotions, and different social issues through her songs.
Simpkins performs regularly on the Cape and in the Boston area, teaches applied music theory and songwriting, and hopes to establish herself further as a freelance composer in the coming years.
The featured artist is David Horne, who makes whirly gigs and other garden art items and paints plein air landscape and architectural watercolors. Horne graduated from college with a degree in sculpture and went on to build boats and work as an industrial hygienist.
His interest in garden art began when he started making ornamental steel stakes to support the flowers in his garden. A folk musician, Horne creates music-themed stakes, such as treble clefs.
“I’ve always been fascinated by whirly gigs,” Horne said of the wooden sculptures that are designed to move in the wind. “The children of friends of mine play in a fife and drum corps, so I started making whirly gigs with that very New England theme. Other whirly gigs depict Morris dancers, square dancers, or dancing limber jacks.
Horne plays string bass, mandolin, piano, and tenor banjo and enjoys performing folk, country, Irish, and bluegrass music for square and contra dancers.
Joanne Carota, author of The Docks, will be at the Meet the Author booth. Her protagonist, Kate Finn, grew up on the South Boston docks, idolizing her fisherman father, Seamus Finn, and his friends. Now she is a marine biologist working for the FDA and still spends as much time as she can on the docks near this salty crew. When her father is accused of the murder of his best friend, Kate vows to clear his name.
For more information, visit falmouthartmarket.com.
Notes on The Arts 