Music

Maine State Music Theatre recently announced the titles that will be headlining a milestone season marking the company’s 60th year in Brunswick in 2018.

The first show of the season will…

Colorway

The Northampton, Mass band, Colorway, who will be closing out the live music showcase portion of the Boothbay Harbor Fest with a show at Mine Oyster on Saturday, Sept. 9. Colorway is a…

Midcoast Community Chorus (MCC) welcomes all singers, ages 13 and up, of all abilities – novice singer, new to the area, and former singers – to register for our upcoming semester in preparation…

Did you sing in high school, college, church choir, but gave it up when family and career demands intervened? If so, now is a good time to think about putting your musical talents to work again.…

Marcia Ball

Summer wraps up with Boothbay Harbor’s multi-day HarborFest featuring local chefs, tasting, art and music aplenty including three headline performances at the historic Opera House downtown. Marcia…

Over 600 music lovers and supporters of Midcoast Conservancy and Hidden Valley Nature Center attended the sixth annual Live Edge Music Festival in Jefferson on Sunday, Aug. 20.

The DaPonte String Quartet

Experience the 18th century in the glow of flickering candles for a very unique DaPonte String Quartet concert. The concert will be held at the all-original, pre-revolutionary, Old Walpole…

The Harbor Theatre

“Dunkirk” - Held over one more week!  - In May 1940, Germany advanced into France, trapping Allied troops on the beaches of Dunkirk. Under air…

The Vox Nova Chamber Choir is holding auditions for its 2017-2018 season on  Thursday, Aug. 17, 24 and 31 from 1-7 p.m. at the rehearsal hall located at  …

Come have a "crazy good time with us" at  “The All Night Strut”  Aug. 15 - Sept. 15. 

Swing’s the thing in this classy, sassy musical celebration of the 1930’s and 1940’s, conceived and…

It’s the festival with that ‘Welcome Home’ country atmosphere, the Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festival held at the Litchfield Fairgrounds. The gates will open at 8 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 20.…

Storytellers and performers share stories or songs at Newagen Seaside Inn on Wednesdays at 7 p.m.

Here’s the lineup now through Oct. 11:

Aug. 23 – Andrea Kamens; Sept. 6 – Jackson…

The Kennebec Early Music Festival will take place from Aug. 15 to Aug. 20 at Grace Episcopal Church at 1100 Washington Street in Bath, and the Linden Tree Meetinghouse at 10 Church Lane in…

The Sandy River Ramblers

The Sandy River Ramblers will appear in an intimate concert at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 13, at the River Arts Gallery in Damariscotta.

The Ramblers play bluegrass music…

Throughout the summer, Oxbow's Farmhouse Brewery located in Newcastle has been kicking off the weekends with Food Truck Fridays.  In addition to delicious, locally sourced food from food trucks…

Miriam Larici and Leonardo Barrionuevo

While it’s long been known as the “Ski Capital of the East,” Stowe, Vermont is poised for a new moniker: the “Tango Capital of the United States.” For the fourth year, The Argentine Tango Society…

The Harbor Theatre

“Despicable Me - 3” -  They’re baaack ... The mischievous Minions hope that Gru will return to a life of crime after the new boss of the…

Chocolate Church Arts Centter
Bluegrass band Cold Chocolate

Cold Chocolate will continue the Chocolate Church Arts Center’s outdoor summer shows in Waterfront Park.…

The 45th annual North Nobleboro Day is on Aug. 12 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the North Nobleboro Community Hall on Upper East Pond Rd. Along with outstanding food and chicken barbecue, auctions,…

Bath Art Walk

Everyone loves a good, old-fashioned square dance for entertainment, for exercise and for sense of community. On Friday, Aug. 18, the…

Join us on Monday, Aug. 7, 3-4 p.m., to celebrate the talents of Gene Kelly, dancer, singer and actor. 

James Pegolotti spent 40 years in the academic world. In…

Maine’s favorite folk band, Schooner Fare, will headline the music program at this year’s Olde Bristol Days. This year is the 65th annual celebration, taking place…

From his opening rendition of Roger Miller’s “King of the Road” to his final song of the night, The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun,” Marc Black presented an entertaining and informative program, “’…

The Harbor Theatre

"Spider-Man: Homecoming” - Thrilled by his experience with the Avengers, young Peter Parker returns home to live with his Aunt May. Under the…

The Tapestry Singers of Maine

Almost every Monday evening throughout the school year, approximately 50 singers gather in Damariscotta to spend two hours rehearsing a vast assortment of choral music under the direction of…

Jim Messina and his band played the Opera House on Saturday night. The group played a number of Messina’s hits from his time in Buffalo Springfield all the way through Poco, Loggins and Messina…

The DaPonte String Quartet

Mezzo soprano Kate Aldrich, a Damariscotta native who has become an international opera star, returns to her home turf for “Innerscapes,”a five-concert series with the DaPonte String Quartet. They…

Steep Canyon Rangers are playing the Boothbay Harbor Opera House on Friday, July 28 at 7:30 p.m. The Rangers, a North Carolina based modern bluegrass band, are Grammy Award and International…

Coming to the large screen at Lincoln Theater in Damariscotta, Thursday, Aug. 3 with shows at 2 and 7 p.m., is the next episode in the theater’s series deconstructing the…

 The Harbor Theatre

“Baby Driver” - After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a…

Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club

The Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club will host world famous musician Shelly Waters as its featured entertainer for the 43rd annual BHYC Regatta on Saturday, July 29.

It was 8:58 a.m. and I found myself in a closed office dialing the personal number of Jim Messina of Buffalo Springfield, Poco, and Loggins and Messina fame. Needless to say, I was nervous.

On Monday, July 31, the Adam Ezra band will perform a benefit concert

Hope Haitian Choir is a group of 15 children who love to sing and dance! They are energetic, enthusiastic, and excited about sharing their message of HOPE, in the…

Time is running out to venture “into the Woods” with Heartwood, in the Tony Award winning book and score by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine.  One of Sondheim’s most popular works, “Into the…

2017 Boothbay Region High School graduate Sam Betts received the Lincoln Arts Festival’s Annual Malama Robbins Scholarship Award on July 13.

The award is presented each year there is a…

Play review

“Once upon a time.” When read or heard, this phrase, long associated with the fairy tales of childhood, lets us know we are about to be taken to a magical, far away land. The enchanting musical “…

The Adam Ezra Group believes their mission is making music that is “capable of nothing less than changing the world.”

Oxbow Brewing Company is offering a live music series at the Darrows Barn at Round Top Farm in Damariscotta this month in support of the Damariscotta River Association (DRA).

The farmhouse…

Sultans of String

The Chocolate Church Arts Center, located at 804 Washington Street in Bath, welcomes the Sultans of String on Friday, Aug. 4 at 7:30 p.m. on the main stage. This much anticipated stop on their…

Dyer Neck Gang

On Thursday, July 20, from 6 to 8 p.m., the Dyer Neck Gang will bring their unique blend of country rock to the Wiscasset Town Common as part of the “Alive on the Common” music events.

The…

Noted musician and instrument maker R. P. Hale will return to Damariscotta on Sunday, July 16 with a program of colonial era music. This is Mr. Hale’s third appearance in…

Studio Theater of Bath (STB) is thrilled to announce auditions for its production of the longest running production of any kind in the world and in American musical theater: Tom Jones and Harvey…

One of the things Moose Mountain Jazz Band Leader Lance Maclean enjoys most about playing Dixieland Jazz is the way the music connects with audiences.

“It is not a mainstream type of music…

The American Folk Festival returns Aug. 25-27 to the Bangor waterfront ... and what a lineup!

The scheduled performers are C.J. Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band, Les Poules a Colin,…

The Strangely Possibles will kick off the Chocolate Church Arts Center’s outdoor summer shows in Waterfront Park.…

Heartwood Theater opens with the enchanting and beloved musical, “Into the Woods” on Thursday, July 13.  In their Tony Award winning book and score, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine bring…

Sharon Shannon, Irish singer and button accordionist from County Clare, will play a single performance at the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor on July 6 at 7:30 p.m.

Shannon rarely tours…

Joan Osborne has rightfully earned a reputation as one of the great voices of her generation — both a commanding, passionate performer and a frank, emotionally evocative songwriter…