Cherry Grove Pizza staff (left to right) Jamie, Kamala, proprietor Frank Pezzuto, Christina & Amy (missing from photo: AJ), Dan Daly against Dennis McConkey's ocean mural, Dan Daly & Mike Schaefer - all photos by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
On May 1, beloved pianist-singer-songwriter Dan Daly made his seasonal return to Cherry Grove to perform outdoors at Cherry Grove Pizza. Beginning on May 21, he will also play at Sand Castle on the Ocea restaurant, as he has in the past.
Dan favored us with a number of his wonderful original songs about love, both gone wrong and satisfying. Of the regular singers, Mike Schaefer (“Nice ’n’ Easy”) and this writer (“Moon River,” “Some Enchanted Evening,” “L-O-V-E” and melody-countermelody duets with Dan “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter/It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie” and “I Hear Singing/You’re Just in Love”) were present on this opening night.
Photographer Koitz has been chronicling the gay people and events of Cherry Grove and Fire Island Pines for more than a decade and a half in work that has appeared in newspapers and been displayed in art shows. Koitz’s clear and sensitive photos find a dramatic setting in a new art book entitled “Gay Fire Island: It’s Good to Be Us,” with foreword by Patrick ...
