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Sputnik lands at the Beachcomber & readings Mon.-Tues.
Banner Daily Update posted Sun. July 15 (audio clip)
By Sue Harrison
Banner Staff
On Wednesday at 10 p.m., the New York band Sputnik will take over the stage at the Wellfleet Beachcomber on Cahoon Hollow Road and mind meld with whoever is brave enough to show up. Kicking off the show at the Beachcomber are Squidda and the East Coast Tremors.
Sputnik can also be caught earlier on Wednesday at Windmill Green in Eastham where they will perform from 6 to 8 p.m.
Genie Morrow, lead singer for Sputnik, has Cape connections. She spent summers at the family’s Wellfleet home and still likes to hang here whenever she can. With a popular indie band to front that may not be as much as she’d like.
The band also features Nigel Rawles on drums, Mic Rains on guitar and keyboard and Pemberton H. Roach on bass. Everyone kicks in on vocals and Morrow shows her musical chops on accordion and guitar.
Their most recent CD, “Shine On,” offers 15 tracks of sparking Sputnik sounds. Morrow penned six of the tunes with the remainder made up of covers of both obscure and well-known tunes like “Temptation Eyes” and “Better Things.” Every track makes you smile and maybe dance as Sputnik puts each of the song into its own unique and well crafted orbit..
In other beginning of the week events, David Weintraub, author of “Walking the Cape and Islands,” shares information on where to find the best walking and hiking in coastal New England at 7 p.m. Monday at the Chapel in the Pines on Samoset Road in Eastham. Books will be available for sale and signing the day of the event. Proceeds benefit Friends of the Eastham Library.
Seth Rolbein, publisher of the Cape Cod Voice, will present “Still Standing: Trap Fishing in America,” a 30-minute documentary that follows the story of a family struggling to carry on the practice of trap fishing, at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Cape Cod National Seashore Province Lands Visitor Center.
The film features nautical paintings, photographs, footage from days at sea, Provincetown’s fishing fleet and commentary from those involved in the industry. Rolbein’s work addresses the problems of those who have made a living from this tradition that is now a disappearing industry.
Rolbein has worked as a writer, editor and documentary filmmaker for WGBH and National Public Television, is a former editor of the Cape Codder newspaper and is the recipient of an Emmy Award for filmmaking. An open forum follows the film.
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Commercial Street repaving moves ahead
Whitecrest isn’t breaking.
Commercial bass fishing season begins
Entire ORV route closes
Schooner regatta rescued
Krall at Melody Tent
Thomas releases CD, has concert
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Jul 12th, 2007
