Provincetown Magazine

30^th Anniversary

PAAM Presents Music

By Jan Kelly

September 4, 2008

The Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) has been Provincetown’s cultural center since 1914. Through days of peace and war, it has gone through the gradual changes of all ongoing institutions to maintain, preserve, and hopefully grow. Since the selection of Chris McCarthy as executive director, the success of PAAM has been meteoric.

In conversation with Chris, you quickly get the strength and rounding of PAAM’s activities. “We had a performance of the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival and our Summer and Winter Jazz Programs,” she explains. And there’s no stopping McCarthy; her energy spilling out the chorus of PAAM’s accomplishments. “We had a young musician’s concert, ages 18 – 22 in July – Bart Weisman organized it as he does the winter and summer programs and the Provincetown Jazz Festival.”

The young musicians were spectacular, playing guitar, drums, bass and saxophone. Kareem Sanjaghi on drums was joined by his grandfather, Bob Hayes, on piano. Provincetown’s Tyler Clibbon on sax played with the skill of a veteran musician. Tyler is the son of Melyssa Bearse and Robert Clibbon, of the Clibbon Gallery in Provincetown.

In addition to the Summer and Winter Jazz Concert Series with Bart Weisman, PAAM has the Blue Door Chamber Music series, Dick Miller and Friends and the “Eyelash Cabaret” with Zoe Lewis and Ilona Royce-Smithkin.