Music

• Lincoln Arts Festival

  Classical pianist Stephen Porter in concert

  Mon, 07/15/2019 - 7:00pm

  

  Lincoln Arts Festival presents Stephen Porter at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 27 at the Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor, 125 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor. Classical pianist Stephen Porter has appeared as a soloist in New York, London, Lake Como, Istanbul, Rio de Janiero, San Francisco, Oslo, Gothenburg, Malmo and Sarajevo, among other cities. It was a great honor for Mr. Porter, as an American pianist, to be named artist-resident of the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris during...

• The Weight Band at The Strand

  Sun, 07/14/2019 - 10:30am

  

  The Weight Band, featuring members of The Band and the Levon Helm Band, will appear on the Strand Theatre stage on Friday, Aug. 9 at 7:30 p.m. The Weight Band originated in 2013 inside the famed Woodstock, New York barn of Levon Helm when Jim Weider and Randy Ciarlante — both former members of The Band — performed “Songs of The Band” with Band founder, Garth Hudson, alongside Jimmy Vivino and Byron Isaacs. Inspired to carry on the legacy of the unforgettable rock group, Weider, Ciarlante and...

• A Hingham Singers concert in Wiscasset

  Sat, 07/13/2019 - 9:00am

  

  Come hear The Hingham Singers, a Boston-area-based ensemble, perform the music of Peter, Paul, and Mary on Friday, July 19 at First Congregational Church, 28 High St., Wiscasset. There is no admission to the 7:30 p.m. concert – donations are accepted with thanks! The performance will include many of your favorite songs from the 1960’s, including “If I Had a Hammer,” to Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” to Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land,’ and many others...

• All Saints by-the-Sea organ concert featuring Henry Lowe July 21

  Sat, 07/13/2019 - 7:00am

  

  On Sunday, July 21 at 4 p.m., the Boothbay community will be treated to the glorious sounds of classical organ music at All Saints by-the-Sea on Southport Island. Mr. Henry Lowe comes to us from Baltimore, Maryland where he is the dean of the Baltimore Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Following a 50-year career in the Episcopal church, he retired from the Church of the Redeemer in Baltimore in 2016 where he led choirs of children and adults in weekly liturgies as well as concerts of...
• Opera House at Boothbay Harbor

  An Evening of Broadway & Beyond with Kevin Kiley & Friends

  Fri, 07/12/2019 - 7:45am

  

  For more than three decades, summertime in the Boothbay region meant that pianist Kevin Kiley would be playing at the Boothbay Harbor Inn as well as working on stage and behind the scenes at the Carousel Theater. During those years he met and worked with a large troupe of vocalists and performers. On Saturday, July 27, Kevin has invited some of them to join him at the Opera House in Boothbay Harbor. The evening of Broadway music and American standards will include vocalists Devin Dukes, Arthur...

• Amos Lee to play Savage Oaks

  Thu, 07/11/2019 - 11:00am

  

  Head for Savage Oaks Vineyard & Winery, 175 Barrett Hill Rd. in Union, on Saturday, July 27 for a 7 p.m. concert featuring Amos Lee with special guest – BAILEN - rain or shine. Gates open at 5 p.m. Amos Lee’s new album, “My New Moon,” is out now on Dualtone, and has been called “the most personal and deeply felt of his seven studio albums” (Billboard). The record debuted at #1 on the Billboard Rock and Americana/Folk charts, #2 on the Independent Album chart, and earned raves everywhere...
• Chocolate Church Arts Center

  Free Waterfront Concert Series performers named

  Thu, 07/11/2019 - 10:30am

  

  For the sixth consecutive year, the Chocolate Church Arts Center will present free weekly concerts at 6 p.m. on Saturdays at Waterfront Park in Bath. This year’s series, which is presented in collaboration with Main Street Bath and the City of Bath, highlights some of Maine’s best regional performers, and runs for eight weeks from July 13 to Aug. 31. The series kicks off on July 13 with Crystal Vision, who perform the music of classic rock staples, Fleetwood Mac. On July 20, Cribstone will...

• Kennebec Early Music Festival next month

  Thu, 07/11/2019 - 10:15am

  

  The Kennebec Early Music Festival will be held Aug. 11-18 in the Long Reach Hall, Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington St., Bath, and the intimate Linden Tree Meeting House, 10 Church Lane, in Phippsburg. All concerts have an interactive pre-show discussion 45 minutes before with our performers about their instruments. It has been a favorite. Concerts are evenings at 7:30 p.m.; the Sunday concerts will be at 3 p.m. Tickets are $25 general admission, $20 seniors, $10 students and young adults (...
• Heartwood Regional Theater Company

  ‘Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ opens this Friday

  Thu, 07/11/2019 - 10:00am

  

  It’s show time again at Heartwood, with the award-winning Broadway musical, “Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” running July 12-20 in the Poe Theater on the Lincoln Academy campus at 81 Academy Hill Rd. This jaunty journey, rollicking with country and folk, blues, gospels and spirituals, provides a brilliantly theatrical celebration of pure Americana. “Big River” opened on Broadway in 1985, winning 7 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Original Score (music and lyrics by...

• Local bands headline Live Edge Music Festival

  Thu, 07/11/2019 - 7:00am

  

  Local Maine music is on the menu at the Live Edge Music Festival on Sunday, Aug. 11 from noon to 6 p.m. at Hidden Valley Nature Center, 131 Egypt Rd. in Jefferson. Four bands will rock the open-air Barn there, powered by solar energy and high spirits. The belly dance troupe Sirumem will perform between acts. About themselves Tricky Britches says, “Raised in Maine, cured on street corners and next to woodstoves, string-band Tricky Britches is a unique culmination of country, contra-dance,...
• Where It’s At

  It’s blues weekend in Rockland

  Wed, 07/10/2019 - 5:45pm

  

  Don’t you just love Elmore James? “The Sky Is Crying” is a personal fave ... “ The sky is crying, look at the tears roll down the street The sky is crying, look at the tears roll down the street I'm waiting in tears looking for my baby, and I wonder where can she be? ” ... And that slide guitar ... what a gifted bluesman he was. I love tunin’ in to my blues station on Pandora and playing Elmore James as I clean the house. Or garden. Or daydream ... But enough about me and Elmore James...
• Opera House at Boothbay Harbor

  Lovin Spoonful’s John Sebastian in concert July 25

  Wed, 07/10/2019 - 4:15pm

  

  Over five decades the contributions of singer-songwriter John Sebastian have become a permanent part of America’s musical fabric. His group The Lovin' Spoonful played a major role in the mid-'60s rock revolution and on Thursday, July 25, Sebastian comes to Boothbay Harbor to perform at the historic Opera House in a 7:30 p.m. concert. "We were grateful to the Beatles for reminding us of our rock & roll roots," Sebastian explains, "but we wanted to cut out the English middlemen, so to speak,...

• Fiddle and banjo duo to perform in Round Pond

  Wed, 07/10/2019 - 12:00pm

  

  The Little Brown Church in Round Pond will feature a concert by fiddler Alden Robinson and Miles Isacke on banjo and guitar on Wednesday, July 17 at 7:30 p.m. These two fixtures of the Portland area music scene will share some of their favorite tunes, served with a dash of dry humor. Called a powerhouse fiddler by the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus, Robinson has become a popular performer and dance musician throughout the country. He grew up in Bremen raised on a mix of Irish, Scottish and...
• Opera House at Boothbay Harbor

  Professor Louie & The Crowmatix July 19

  Wed, 07/10/2019 - 11:30am

  

  Enjoy a night of rompin’ stompin’ roots rock, roadhouse blues, sweet ballads and original tunes at the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor when Professor Louie and The Crowmatix with the Woodstock Horns, come to town July 19. Professor Louie has emerged in the music industry as the torchbearer of the true spirit of American Roots music. Seasoned live performer, prolific recording artist and versatile multi-instrumentalist Professor Louie also wears the hat of award-winning recording producer and...

• At the theaters

  Tue, 07/09/2019 - 10:00am

  

  HARBOR THEATER 185 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor ~ 633-0438 ~ www.boothbaycinema.org “To Catch A Thief” - special free Member Appreciation Night screening July 11. Refreshments of French wine and cheese by Eventide Specialties at 6 p.m. To become a member, join at www.boothbaycinema.org or in the lobby immediately prior to the show. Memberships are $40 for individual, $75 for a family of five. Sorry, no general admission tickets will be...

• Hallowell Community Band plays July 4 ‘Salute to Music in America’

  Tue, 07/09/2019 - 9:45am

  

  The Hallowell Community Band continued its longtime tradition of playing the evening of July 4 at Whale Park in Boothbay Harbor shortly before fireworks illuminated the Harbor. As band director David Collier introduced HCB and a snapshot of the evening’s pieces, a horn sounded from a ship making port. “That must be our sign,” Collier said as the band matched the signal and audience members laughed and applauded the uncanny timing. The celebration, “Salute to Music in America," featured 15...

• Reggae Cruise celebrates 30 years of one love

  Sat, 07/06/2019 - 8:30am

  

  This summer marks the 30th anniversary of musician David Gagne’s Reggae Cruise, Sunday evenings, rain or shine, from June to September since 1989. The cruises started on Captain David Walker’s Islander about 13 years after Gagne began playing gigs at McSeagulls and at J.H. Hawke, where Mine Oyster is now. “It was cozy, a beautiful little boat. We did it maybe two or three years on that boat and then we were hired by the folks who owned Cabbage Island … We just kept going and going and...

• Orchestra Day Camp coming up

  Thu, 07/04/2019 - 10:30am

  

  Salt Bay Summer Orchestra, an orchestra day camp for kids, is scheduled for July 29-Aug. 2 at Lincoln Academy. The registration deadline is July 15, so make your plans now. Veteran music teachers Kaity Newell and Carol Preston are teaming up to offer this five-day educational and fun event giving experienced and beginning string players a summer boost. There are two half-day programs offered for violin, viola, cello, and string bass. The “Getting Started Program” is an afternoon-only program...

• ‘An Evening of Baroque Keyboard Music’ in Edgecomb

  Thu, 07/04/2019 - 9:00am

  

  Mitch Boucher will be holding two benefit concerts this summer. The concert, “An Evening of Baroque Keyboard Music,” will consist of common forms of dance music for keyboard as well as Boucher’s own music. Two events will take place a week apart, with the first concert being Friday, July 26 at the Damariscotta Baptist Church and the second will take place on Aug. 2 at the Edgecomb Community Church. Both begin at 6:30 p.m. with a brief lecture and will conclude with a reception. A suggested...

• Heartwood goes Broadway with ‘Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’

  Thu, 07/04/2019 - 8:15am

  

  Heartwood Theater will present the Broadway musical, “Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” July 12 - 20 in the Poe Theater, 81 Academy Hill Rd., at Lincoln Academy in Newcastle. “Big River” is great summertime family fare, heartwarming and humorous, and the powerful assembly of voices in this cast does great justice to the score of country and folk, blues, gospels and spirituals. One hundred years after Mark Twain’s book was published, this musical opened on Broadway in 1985, winning...
• Lincoln Theater

  Celebrate Bastille Day with Cyrano

  Wed, 07/03/2019 - 3:30pm

  

  Damariscotta’s Lincoln Theater is please to bring the French classic, Edmond Rostand’s “Cyrano de Bergerac” to the big screen, Sunday, July 14 at 2 p.m. Come celebrate Bastille Day with this special screening captured lived from the stage of Paris’ prestigious Comédie-Française. In “Cyrano de Bergerac,” Cyrano is cursed with a prominent nose but gifted with words. He uses this talent to help the handsome Christian win Roxane’s heart, whom he also loves. However, Cyrano may be too ugly to be...
• Theater review

  ‘Treasure Island’ will shiver your timbers with delight

  Wed, 07/03/2019 - 11:30am

  

  Avast me hearties and ye shall hear A tale of buried treasure T’will make you a-feared … A tale of rum-guzzlin pirates Quick with a cutlass, ready to fight, Of a mutinous mind Tis ye they will smite! Skeleton Island’s where ye be bound, With the boy Jim Hawkins, a Doc, the captain and Squire A pirate crew and Long John Silver too Where be the gold? Where be the map? Aye, now there be the ire...

• Halcyon String Quartet to perform at St. Andrews

  Wed, 07/03/2019 - 10:00am

  

  The Halcyon String Quartet will perform on July 9 at St. Andrews Village at 1 p.m. Halcyon quartet includes local violinists Josie and Sophie Davis, violist Colin Wheatley and cellist Ju Young Lee. Collectively the musicians have performed and taught on five continents and have established long-term partnerships with education programs in the U.S. and abroad. July's concert will feature a range of music from classical chamber music to traditional folk tunes. Learn more about Halcyon at...

• Concert to raise funds to help asylum seekers in Maine

  Thu, 06/27/2019 - 7:00am

  

  Local musician John Schindler will perform his folk music at the Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor to support asylum seekers and refugees here in Maine. The concert, which will take place at 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 14, is designed as a fundraiser to support ILAP, Maine’s Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project, which provides legal support and representation of asylum seekers and refugees here in Maine. Musician John Schindler was originally from Saint Louis, Missouri, where he was influenced...

• Ringers on the Green coming to Boothbay Harbor

  Sat, 06/22/2019 - 7:15am

  

  Lincoln Arts Festival present Ringers on the Green on Wednesday, July 3 at 7:30 p.m. at the Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor. The Ringers on the Green is an ensemble of high school students representing the music ministry of The Presbyterian Church in Morristown, New Jersey. The choir rings six octaves of Schulmerich handbells and five octaves of Schulmerich handchimes. In its 47-year history, the group has performed in 40 states, Canada, Bermuda and Europe. Conductor and organist...
• Opera House at Boothbay Harbor

  Pianist-composer Paul Sullivan returns to Boothbay Harbor

  Fri, 06/21/2019 - 7:15am

  

  Grammy-award winning Paul Sullivan has enjoyed a richly varied and distinguished career as a composer and a pianist. As a soloist, with his trio, and as a member of the Paul Winter Consort, he has played concert tours in throughout the U.S. and Europe, as well as the Middle East, Central America, and Asia. He has performed among the dunes of the Negev Desert, in Leonard Bernstein’s living room, and on the stages of many of the world’s finest concert halls. He has been a guest on Marian...
• Lincoln Theater

  LCCT to present ‘A Grand Night for Singing’

  Thu, 06/20/2019 - 10:15am

  

  Lincoln County Community Theater (LCCT), the resident theater company of Damariscotta’s Lincoln Theater presents, “A Grand Night for Singing – the Music of Rodgers and Hammerstein,” opening Friday, Aug. 9 at 7:30 p.m. Shows continue Saturday, Aug. 10 at 2 and 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15 at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Aug. 16 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Aug. 17 at 2 and 7:30 p.m. This fully staged production, complete with orchestra and cast of more than 20 performers, is being created with direction and...
• Opera House at Boothbay Harbor

  Pianist Arsentiy Kharitonov returns July 12

  Thu, 06/20/2019 - 7:15am

  

  World renowned performer and national and international award-winner, Arsentiy Kharitonov is in a league of his own. On Friday, July 12 this highly acclaimed Russian pianist and composer will perform works by Busoni, Haydn, Rachmaninov, Schumann, and Scriabin at The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor. Arsentiy Kharitonov does not follow the mold of a virtuosic pianist who has played since he was a young child. In contrast, his studies began at the ripe old age of 16. With the goal of gaining...

• The Marcus and Riza Printup Jazz Quartet returns!

  Wed, 06/19/2019 - 4:00pm

  

  On Saturday, July 20 and Sunday, July 21 the Boothbay Sea and Science Center and the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library will present a special summer weekend of fundraising for children’s programming at the Bristol Marine Shipyard in Boothbay Harbor. And ticket holders may also attend a tour of The Shipyard at 6 p.m. The tour and talk will feature the Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey , which is currently undergoing restoration! Saturday, “A Summer Evening of Jazz” will feature one of New...
• Opera House at Boothbay Harbor

  Bluegrass with Mile Twelve in July

  Mon, 06/17/2019 - 12:00pm

  

  Mile Twelve is a fresh, hard-driving young band walking the line between original and traditional bluegrass. Banjo luminary Tony Trischka says, “Mile Twelve is carrying the bluegrass tradition forward with creativity and integrity.” Fast gaining recognition for their outstanding performances in bluegrass and folk circles, the group travels to Boothbay Harbor this summer to perform at the Opera House on Thursday, July 11. The Mile Twelve lineup offers five of the most promising young musicians...

• Boothbay’s Got Talent contestants announced

  Mon, 06/17/2019 - 10:00am

  

  Join us on Monday, June 24, at 6 p.m. in the Boothbay Region YMCA Gymnasium for the 2019 Boothbay's Got Talent Competition! Watch as contestants are judged on their poise, interview and special talents. The evening will also include performances by past winners. Who will be crowned the next Miss Windjammer? Don't miss a fun evening and a chance to support our local youth. General admission is $5 and the 2019 host is Roosevelt Bishop. 2019 Miss Windjammer contestants Imij Armstead Age 11 Talent...

• ‘Music on the Railway’ concert series begins June 22 at WW&F

  Sun, 06/16/2019 - 8:15am

  

  The Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway in Alna is hosting its “Music on the Railway” concert series on the fourth Saturday of June, July, and August, featuring some of Maine’s best acoustic musicians. This series takes its inspiration from public concerts that the Railway held during the early twentieth century for people from throughout the Sheepscot Valley. Concert trains leave from the Railway’s Sheepscot station located at 97 Cross Road in Alna at 5 p.m. The concerts are held rain...
• Chocolate Church Arts Center

  Hear the Gypsy jazz of the Django Festival All Stars

  Sun, 06/16/2019 - 7:15am

  

  The internationally renowned Django Festival All Stars will bring the driving, swinging sounds of legendary guitarist Django Reinhardt to the Chocolate Church Arts Center on Tuesday, July 2 at 7:30 p.m. With stunning virtuosity, the Django Festival All Stars present original compositions, as well as their interpretations and arrangements in the style pioneered by Django Reinhardt that came to be known as “hot jazz” or “gypsy jazz.” The group, whom The Wall Street Journal has called “the...

• MSMT and the Public Theater present ‘Grease’

  Thu, 06/13/2019 - 10:00am

  

  Maine State Music Theatre (MSMT) in Brunswick and The Public Theatre (TPT) in Lewiston are partnering together for the first time to bring “Grease the Musical” to The Public Theatrestage. The show, which runs June 18 - 30, will broaden the offerings for The Public Theatre, which does not typically present musicals, and allow Maine State Music Theatre to expand its reach into the Lewiston/Auburn area. “When the possibility of having The Public Theatre and Maine State Music Theater do a co-...

• Noel Paul Stookey in Bath June 22

  Thu, 06/13/2019 - 7:15am

  

  Legendary folk singer Noel Paul Stookey, who has performed for decades as a solo artist, and previously as the “Paul” of the iconic folk group, Peter, Paul, and Mary, performs at the Chocolate Church Arts Center, 804 Washington St, Bath, on Saturday, June 22 at 7:30 p.m. Stookey has shaped the musical and ethical landscape of this country and the world for sixty years, both as part of his former trio, and as an independent musician who has penned classics from “Wedding Song (There Is Love)” to...
• Lincoln Arts Festival

  Put on your dancing shoes!

  Wed, 06/12/2019 - 1:15pm

  

  Lincoln Arts Festival presents Plus Four Jazz Quartet and Molly Pitcher from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, June 23, at the Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor. Molly Pitcher has been singing everything from folk songs to Carol Orff to Mozart arias, but her real love is jazz. Molly has worked with big bands and with a variety of other jazz musicians in duos and small combos. Plus Four Jazz Quartet includes James Williams, guitar; Silas Yates, trombone; Dav Halvorson, bass, and Cy Sjofield on drums...

• Halcyon presents ‘Music on the Medomak’

  Wed, 06/12/2019 - 12:00pm

  

  On Saturday, June 22 at 7 p.m., Halcyon will present a concert that uses music and imagery to celebrate Maine’s working waterfront at Broad Bay Congregational, UCC at 941 Main Street, Waldoboro. The evening will feature music by Holst, Haydn, and Schubert accompanied by projections of photographs and paintings that capture the many ways the Medomak River supports local fisheries from clamming and lobstering to ice fishing and the alewife run. Musicians include Waldoboro violinists, Josie and...
• Lincoln Arts Festival

  Calling all singers

  Wed, 06/12/2019 - 11:15am

  

  Join the Lincoln Festival Chorus on Monday, June 17 at 7 p.m. (Registration at 6:15 p.m.) Rehearsals are at the Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor. If you are undecided about joining the chorus, you may try it on June 17 before committing to sing for the summer. (Note: Rehearsals are usually on Monday.) Membership dues are $40 per person, no charge for students. Lincoln Festival Chorus, under the direction of Artistic Director Linda Blanchard and accompanist Sean Fleming, will be...
• Opera House at Boothbay Harbor

  Grammy-winning Jerry Douglas & The Earls of Leicester in concert

  Wed, 06/12/2019 - 10:15am

  

  Dobro master and 14-time Grammy winner Jerry Douglas is to the resonator guitar what Jimi Hendrix was to the electric guitar, elevating, transforming, and reinventing the instrument in countless ways. Additionally, Douglas is a freewheeling, forward-thinking recording and touring artist whose output incorporates elements of country, bluegrass, rock, jazz, blues, and Celtic into his distinctive musical vision. On Friday, June 28, this musician, at the pinnacle of his trade, comes to Boothbay...

• Celebrate the Summer Solstice with Novel Jazz

  Wed, 06/12/2019 - 10:00am

  

  Novel Jazz marks the official beginning of summer at Skidompha Public Library, for an evening of classic jazz from the great American songbook on Friday, June 21 at 7 p.m. The band will also include a sneak preview of some of their new Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn compositions that they are featuring in their 2019 season concerts. The band is also celebrating the release of the f fourth CD, “Ellington & Strayhorn Novellas,” which features recently unearthed compositions by Duke...

• Ukulele like you never heard before

  Tue, 06/11/2019 - 5:15pm

  

  Ukulele virtuoso is an understatement. Jake Shimabukuro was incredible. So fast, such enormous sound from that little tiny ukulele! People had traveled from far outside the state of Maine to come to the June 7 concert. I met several couples who had specifically decided to take a vacation in Maine, so that they could attend the concert. And I can understand why; his musicianship was great. His soul was mighty. Oh what a night to be at the Opera House!

• Heartwood summer camp has room for more young thespians

  Tue, 06/11/2019 - 10:30am

  

  There is still time to register for Heartwood’s 17th session of Summer Camp for students entering grades 3-8, July 16-25 (enrollment for the older students’ camp is already at capacity). Heartwood’s theater camps teach performance skills and promote student confidence both on and off the stage, with a fundamental spirit of ensemble. Scholarships are available upon request, thanks to the help of many local business donations and grant support. “Kids Camp” is a popular eight-day program exploring...
• Midcoast Conservancy

  Live Edge Music Festival tickets on sale now

  Tue, 06/11/2019 - 9:30am

  

  Save the date: Sunday, August 11. Midcoast Conservancy is happy to announce the seventh annual Live Edge music festival at Hidden Valley Nature Center. It’s a fun-filled day of live music, great local food and beer, and even belly dancers — all set in the midst of HVNC’s 1,000 acres of trails, pond shore frontage and bogs. This year’s all-Maine musical lineup includes Primo Cubano, Tricky Britches, Sibylline and Paranoid Social Club — a testament to the vibrant local music scene. The festival...
• Maine State Music Theatre

  ‘Sophisticated Ladies’ and all that jazz

  Mon, 06/10/2019 - 11:30am

  

  What can one say about a musical offering that has no plot, no discernible characters, and no particular theme, except for the music of Duke Ellington and a lot of jazz and tap dance? Well, we say, “Give us more like this! A lot more!” Seriously, we don’t need a chandelier crashing down on our heads or the horror of the post-French Revolution Terreur to have a good time. We don’t need a boy meets girl romance. We don’t even need a storyline. What we need is what “Sophisticated Ladies” delivered...

• It’s time for Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festival

  Mon, 06/10/2019 - 11:00am

  

  Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festival is celebrating our 52nd festival at the Litchfield Fairgrounds, 30 Plains Rd., Litchfield. The festival grounds have a big stage that was built in 2010, Indoor bathroom facilities, four free hot showers and numerous water hookups throughout the grounds, and electrical hookups. The gates will open at 8 a.m. on Sunday, June 16. There will be several types of vendors located on the grounds. There’s always a lot of “field picking” throughout the festival,” said...

• Singing, dancing, violins and ukuleles highlight Y-Arts concert

  Thu, 06/06/2019 - 6:30pm

  

  The show started with an upbeat rendition of Toto’s “Africa,” with lots of dancing, followed by the tones of the ukuleles (and later violins) and the cute kiddies singing along to familiar songs. The 45-minute Y-Arts Spring Concert ended with, of course, more singing and dancing to “Better When I’m Dancin’” from the “Peanuts” movie. Four of the Y-Arts’ groups, the Youth Choir, Ukulele Choir, Fiddlehead Violin Studio and Kiddie Choir, put on a fine show for the crowd of nearly 100 people...

• Bay Chamber Concerts welcomes new advancement officer

  Thu, 06/06/2019 - 7:00am

  

  Bay Chamber Concerts and Music school is very proud to announce that Josie Davis, originally from Waldoboro, will be joining their staff as advancement officer. Josie brings tremendous skills and experience in the worlds of non-profit management, arts administration and as a professional musician in her own right. Josie received her undergraduate degrees in violin performance and sociology from Oberlin College and Conservatory where she was a student of David Bowlin, and then received her...

• Acoustic open mics return to Southport

  Wed, 06/05/2019 - 10:00am

  

  Oliver and Janet Cusano announce the return of Acoustic Open Mic Night at the Southport General Store beginning Tuesday, June 11 starting at 7 p.m. - weather permitting. The Cusanos plan is to hold two open mics June through August on the second and fourth Tuesdays - all to start at 7 p.m. All weather permitting. The second open mic in June will be the 25th. In July - the 9th and 23rd; and in August - 13th and 27th. Last year’s sessions saw a nice turnout with several local groups performing...
• Opera House at Boothbay Harbor

  Acclaimed Kruger Brothers to perform

  Tue, 06/04/2019 - 10:00am

  

  Since their formal introduction to American audiences in 1997, the Kruger Brothers’ remarkable discipline, creativity and their ability to infuse classical music into American folk and bluegrass music has resulted in a unique sound that has made them a fixture within the world of acoustic music. The honesty of their writing has since become a hallmark of the trio’s work. On Thursday, June 27 this critically acclaimed trio comes to Boothbay Harbor to perform at the Opera House. Born and raised...

• Community drum circle

  Tue, 06/04/2019 - 8:45am

  Friday, June 21 The Harbor Peer & Wellness Center Community Drum Circle begins at 6 p.m. at the Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor (corner of Townsend and Eastern avenues). Bring your own drum or other percussion instrument OR choose from one of the extras brought by fellow drummers. The music , fun and healing, facilitated by Kitty Hartford, continues ‘til 8 p.m. FMI: 633-6355.

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