Are you passionate about the environment? Do you want to help do something for the planet? Do you love expressing yourself through  art—or willing to  try for the first time? The Boothbay Region Climate Action Team (BRCAT) wants your art. 

Maine is a very special place for artists. Its ragged coast and interior woods, fields, and mountains have long provided inspiration for creative expression. Maine Art Gallery (MAG) in Wiscasset has chosen to focus its 2026 exhibition season on the ways in which imaginative individuals respond to the natural world and to the state’s place in the sustainable agriculture movement. 

Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library (BHML) is excited to announce its Storybook Ball fundraiser will be held on Sunday, Aug.  2 at the Boothbay Harbor Country Club, themed to Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream." Whimsical, romantic, and timeless, this enchanting comedy celebrates imagination, community, and the transformative power of love, the perfect inspiration for an unforgettable summer evening.

What do Oguquit Playhouse, Eartha, Damariscotta’s Norumbeg Oysters, Tucker Auto Musuem, Wild Blueberry Land, the Madawaska Festival, Nubble Point Lighthouse, Ellsworth Candlepin Bowling, Penobscot Narrows Observatory, and The Maine Solar System Model, have in common?

They are some of the historical, and culturally significant, attractions along Maine’s Route One, and they are the subjects of Bob Krist’s new film, "100 Years of Route One: A Centennial Roadtrip." The film is scheduled to air on PBS stations from Thursday, March 26 through Sunday, March 29 in various time slots.

Solas is lighting up stages across the globe as they celebrate three decades of pushing boundaries and honoring traditions in Irish music. And on Sunday, March 15 they will take the Waldo stage for a 7:30 p.m. concert.

Hailed by The Boston Globe as “the finest Celtic ensemble this country has ever produced,” and by The Wall Street Journal as “an Irish traditional band bearing all the marks of greatness,” Solas continues to captivate audiences with their spellbinding musicianship and genre-defying creativity.

Twiddle fans rejoice! Gubbulidis is the longtime musical partnership of guitarist and vocalist Mihali Savoulidis and bassist Zdenek Gubb, founding members behind jam-rock band Twiddle. Reconnecting as part of a fresh new chapter, the duo taps into the chemistry that shaped their sound for over a decade, playing out Twiddle favorites alongside explorational improvisation and genre-blending grooves, resulting in something both familiar yet brand new.

For those looking to hear Irish music this March, perhaps in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, the Opera House in Boothbay Harbor has two acclaimed Irish bands this spring. Dervish on Friday, March 13, will provide a rousing warm-up for fans of all things Irish, while Teada on Saturday, March 20, promises to bring the sound of an Irish pub session to the stage.

Eilen Jewell makes her only Maine appearance on her final tour at The Waldo Theatre on Friday, March 13 at 7:30 p.m. Hailed by American Songwriter as “...one of America’s most intriguing, creative, and idiosyncratic voices,” Eilen Jewell rises from the ashes on her captivating new album, "Get Behind The Wheel," picking up the pieces of her shattered world and finding new purpose and meaning after watching her marriage, her band, and what felt like her entire career fall apart in a series of spectacular, heartbreaking implosions.

Pokey LaFarge is returning to The Waldo for a solo performance on March 14 at 7:30 p.m. Pokey LaFarge is an American Renaissance man — an acclaimed musician, writer, actor, and designer. Fusing the rustic sounds of the past with his wry humor and eclectic music sensibilities, singer/songwriter Pokey LaFarge is "an artful ambassador for old-time music, presenting and representing the glories of hot swing, early jazz, and ragtime blues." -NPR's Stephen Thompson

For the first time Stewart Copeland’s “Have I Said Too Much - The Police, Hollywood, and Other Adventures” comes to North America with a stop at The Waldo on July 10. This will be an evening of conversation, a Q&A, photos and videos.

Yes. It started snowing during the concert by Walter Parks with Ada Dyer and drummer Steven Williams. For the 35-40 live music fans at the Feb. 20 performance it was a night to remember. Dyer's voice touched souls whether she was singing a gospel tune, rocking it out, or singing back up on a Richie Havens song. Parks played original tunes he described as Florida Swamp music (a melding of southern rock, blues and funk), and a few by his friend Richie Havens (who he toured with for 10 years in the early 2000s), on Havens' 1967 guitar, a Guild D-40 flattop.

Due to the forecasted snowfall, our highly-anticipated Within the Whale program on Feb. 21, made possible thanks to our partnership with the Boothbay Region Land Trust and Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, is officially postponed to next Saturday, Feb. 28 from 10 a.m. to noon (new time) at 60 Bigelow Drive, East Boothbay.

We look forward to experiencing Within the Whale with everyone next Saturday! 

This winter’s Noontime Series programs feature a trio of CSC members whose governmental careers total nearly a century of service. The third program in the series, “How the CIA Informs the President’s Foreign Policy Decisions: Dispelling Some Myths about the CIA and Washington, D.C.,” led by Walter Voskian, will be held at noon on Monday, March 9, at the Second Congregational Church in Newcastle.

Join sound worker Jim Doble, cellist April Reed-Cox, and multi-instrumentalist and third generation trumpeter Lady Kiah for an unforgettable deep musical dive into what lies beneath the waves...both oceanic and your subconscious Sunday, Feb. 22. Doble has been creating and using musical instruments to help inspire creativity and well-being for over 30 years. 

Lincoln Theater, in partnership with Healthy Lincoln County and the Lincoln County Gleaners, is presenting a free screening of “The Gleaners and I,” Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 6 p.m. This event, offered free to the public, invites viewers to explore the practice of gleaning through the eyes of acclaimed French filmmaker Agnès Varda, and to learn how the centuries-old tradition is being carried forward to address food insecurity locally.