Show of Cards will perform Saturday at the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum, 130 River Drive, Hadley, as part of the museum’s “A Perfect Spot of Tea” series.
Show of Cards was originally formed as an alternative folk-rock trio of siblings, Karen, Joe, and Mike Cardozo. They will perform an acoustic show on the veranda, with seatings at 2:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
Admission costs $12 and includes pastries and Earl Grey tea.
For information, visit www.pphmuseum.org.
A concert of music by Mozart, Fauré and Rachmaninoff will be presented Sunday at 4 p.m. at the Sevenars Academy, 15 Ireland St. in South Worthington.
Bulgarian violinist Joana Genova and violist and conductor Ariel Rudiakov, both directors of the Manchester Music Festival, will be joined for the program by cellist Ben Capps and pianist Vassily Primakov.
Capps has been called “most appealing” by The New York Times and “virtuosic and impassioned by The Barre Montpelier Times.
Primakov has been praised for his “technical wizardry” by NY Concert Review.
On the program: Mozart’s “Piano Quartet in G Minor” Rachmaninoff’s “Sonata for Piano and Cello” and Fauré’s “Piano Quartet in C Minor.
Free refreshments will be offered. Admission costs $20.
“Addressing Perspectives” will be presented Sunday through Aug. 6 at the A.P.E. Gallery, 126 Main St. in Northampton.
During the one-week project, dancer and actor Peter Schmitz, visual landscape artist Kathy Couch and writer and filmmaker Sasha Statman-Weil will use the gallery space to explore questions of perception.
Visitors will observe two performers framed by curtains. “Those standing outside the bounds of the curtains give form and parameter to their experiences with the curtains that surround the space, which are available to help visitors shape their literal vision,” the organizers write. “With them, observers are in charge of their framing and their vantage; they alone determine what and how they see.”
The exhibit will be open Aug. 6 from 12:30 to 3 p.m. and 5 to 7:30 p.m.
For information, visit www.apearts.org/6-x-6.html.
“Progressions,” an exhibit by David Andrews, Karen Chapman and Nina Rossi, will open with a reception Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. and will remain on view through Aug. 30 at the Hosmer Gallery at Forbes Library, 20 West St. in Northampton.
The work by the artists is diverse in style and medium, yet similar in their dedication to their own artistic journey.
Andrews’ graphite drawings explore elemental organic forms; Chapman’s abstract paintings on canvas reference naturalistic forms; and Rossi constructs geometric figures of painted wood.
Gallery hours are Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1 to 5 p.m.; and Fridays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Saturdays and Sundays in August.
Chester Theater Company will present the regional premiere of “Sister Play” Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Chester Town Hall, 15 Middlefield Road in Chester.
Alternately described as “whimsical … dramatic … deeply philosophical” by The New York Times, and “fresh and potent” by The Boston Globe, when it premiered at Wellfleet’s Harbor Theatre in 2015, the play centers around Anna and Lilly, sisters whose long-defined roles in each other’s live are dramatically altered when a mysterious stranger enters their midst.
“Sister Play,” written by John Kolvenbach and directed by Daniel Elihu Kramer, runs through Aug. 14. For times and ticket information, visit chestertheatre.org.
Watermelon Wednesday
The Irish trio Socks in the Frying Pan will perform Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at “Watermelon Wednesdays” at the West Whately Chapel, at Conway and Williamsburg roads in West Whately.
The award-winning trio is from County Clare on the west coast of Ireland, the universal hub of Irish traditional music, which they perform with dynamic three-part harmonies and onstage wit. The group was named “New Band of the Year” in 2014 by the Irish Music Association.
Socks in the Frying Pan was selected to be part of Culture Ireland’s “Centenary Programme,” which commemorates the Easter Uprising, launched in 1916 by Irish republicans to end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent Irish Republic.
The trio’s tour of the United States is part of a global project dedicated to bringing Irish arts to an international audience.
Tickets cost $23. For information, visit www.watermelonwednesdays.com.
“Six/Photography” will open Aug. 4 with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. and will remain on view through from Aug. 27 at Gallery A3, 28 Amity Street, Amherst.
“Six” is a group show that offers diverse approaches to photography, including abstraction, mixed media, classic prints and wall installations.
Works will be featured by Marianne Connolly, Sue Katz, Gloria Kegeles, Rebecca Muller, Larry Rankin and Rochelle Shicoff.
“Artist in Conversation” an informal discussion with the artists, will take place Aug. 18 at 7:30 p.m.
Gallery hours are Thursdays through Sundays from 1 to 7 p.m. The events are free and open to the public.
For information, visit www.gallerya3.com.