A truly unique event - mixing live music and the vintage screening of a true silent film classic will take Tuesday, August 7th at the Tabernacle - perfect for classical music and film lovers and for all ages.

The Devil Music Ensemble is performing their original score live to the first/best silent version of "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" (1920) starring John Barrymore, on Tuesday, August 7th at the Tabernacle in Trinity Park, Oak Bluffs.

The DME, formed in Boston in 1999, is comprised of Brendon Wood on guitars, lap steel, and synthesizer; Jonah Rapino on electric violin, vibraphone, and synthesizer; and Tim Nylander on drums, percussion and synthesizer.

"The Devil Music Ensemble has established itself as one of the primary American
groups composing and performing scores for silent films, and can be spoken of in
the same breath as groups like the Alloy Orchestra and the Tin Hat Trio."
Dylan Skolnick - Director of Programming - Cinema Arts Centre

The DME has been on numerous tours playing soundtracks for silent film; performing in museums, theaters, performing arts centers, and college campuses. The DME recently completed a 7-week tour that took them all over the entire United States.

Brendon Wood, from Tiverton RI, has his Bachelors of Fine Arts in Music from the University of Mass. Jonah Rapino, from Toledo Ohio, received his Bachelors Fine Arts in classical music performance from Boston University. Tim Nylander, from Portsmouth NH, received his Bachelors in Fine Arts from Harvard University.
In its short history, the DME has been a rock trio, and Eastern European folk band, a country band, a 40 piece modern orchestral ensemble, a house band for live theater, and a multi-member ensemble performing live soundtracks to silent films. Members of DME have also begun to make their name doing soundtracks for modern film, which include Darkon and the Day of The Cabbage, amongst others. "Violinist Jonah Rapino, who also scores silent classics, has created an evocative score on par with any Hollywood fantasy."~ Eddie Cockrell (from a recent review of Darkon in Variety Magazine)
No single description of the DME performance experience can accurately depict this groups versatile and genre spanning capabilities. The DME, striving to explore different sonic territory with every new project they undertake, keeps audiences surprised and coming back to hear and see whatever they are doing next. To hear mp3's or find out more about the DME go to www.devilmusic.org.

From barns to 2000 seat performing art centers, here are a few of the more memorable places that the DME has visited of late: the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh Pa, the Proctors Theater in Schenectady NY, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston MA, the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville NY, The Block Museum in Chicago IL, the Coolidge Corner Cinema in Boston MA, The Starz Film Center in Denver CO, the Balboa Theater in San Francisco CA, the Cleveland Institute of Art In Cleveland OH, the Bantam Cinema in CT, the Colonial Theater in Phoenixville PA, the Vickers Theater in Three Oaks Michigan, the Railroad Square Cinema in Waterville Maine, Upstate Films in Rhinebeck NY, the Saratoga Film Forum in Saratoga Springs NY, The Wilton Town Hall Theater in Wilton NH, and many many more.