Weekend Agenda: Music, Food and Duckies

Food:

• On Saturday from 9 to noon at the Marblehead Veterans Middle School 217 Pleasant Street — enter from Vine Street — is the Marblehead Farmers' Market.

• On Sunday at Swampscott High School from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. is the Swampscott Farmers' Market. This Sunday is the Chefs' Throwdown competition.

• Marblehead's Devereux Beach, Saturday, September 14, 2013 from 11 a.m. to  p.m. 
  

• On Friday, September 13, the me&thee presents Grammy Award-winning songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor Loudon Wainwright III. ¶ Sarah Blacker, 2012 Female Performer of the Year (New England Music Awards) will open the show. $32 / $35 at door.  Doors open at 7:30 PM for this 8:00 PM show at the me&thee coffeehouse which is located at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Marblehead at 28 Mugford Street.

• The Stetson Art Gallery in the Unitarian Universalist Church of Marblehead reopens Sunday, September 8, with “My HeART,” an exhibit of new works by versatile Marblehead artist Holly Aloha Jaynes. An opening reception will be held from Noon-2 p.m. The new art in Holly Aloha Jaynes’ exhibit consists primarily of collages, depicting subjects of value and interest to the artist.  Jaynes experiments with a wide variety of media from rust, fabric, ruined photos, images and painted papers, combining different texture, colors, or images to see how an original idea may be transformed to create something totally unexpected, expanding the imagination. 

• At the Abbot Public Library "Gardens: Cultivated and Wild," Black and White and Hand-Painted Photographs by Gail Giarrusso Wednesday, September 4th through Monday, September 30th Public Reception: Sunday, September 8th, 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm Gail Giarrusso has been photographing and printing her own photographs for thirty years. At the Abbot Public Library in Marblehead "Pecheur de lune":Photographs by Natalie Borden Saturday, Aug. 3 through Saturday, Aug. 31 

• Marblehead Arts Association Exhibits

  August 31–October 6
  Opening Reception, Sunday, September 8, 2–4pm

  The Marblehead Arts Association is pleased to announce the opening of its latest exhibit on Saturday, August 31, at the King Hooper Mansion at 8 Hooper Street. Following an opening reception on Sunday, September 8, from 2 to 4 pm, the exhibit will remain open until October 8.

  Featured artists will be Rich Grote and Anthony Padula, of Marblehead, Paul McMahan of Chelsea, Ilona Gelpey of Danvers and Melissa Kornfeld of Salem. The “Meet the Artist” wall will feature Anita Cohen of Newton.