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Theater review

You’ll be over the rainbow for Maine State Music Theater’s season finale “The Wizard of Oz” on stage through Aug. 24. This colorful, outstanding production rates four enthusiastic broomsticks!…

The Haitian Youth Choir of Holy Trinity Church in Port-au-Prince, Haiti will begin a 24-city U.S. concert tour with its first stop in Newcastle, Maine on Saturday, Aug. 24. The choir of 30 boys…

Salt Bay Chamberfest’s 25th season
Flutist and MacArthur Genius fellow Claire Chase

Now in the second week of its 25th annual summer musical festival, Salt Bay Chamberfest is this year presenting five evening concerts at Darrows Barn—one more than in past seasons. The season also…

The Lincoln Home
The Sandy River Ramblers
Join us at The Lincoln Home in Newcastle on Saturday, Aug. 17 at 4 p.m. for the fourth annual Lobster and More event.
 
The evening’s festivities feature Maine…
MSMT - Portland Stage Co.

Come jump and jive with the Tony Award-winning “Ain’t…

The Popham Beach Library is pleased to present the annual Fort Popham Concert featuring the Bath Municipal Band under the direction of Kathy Downing on…

HARBOR THEATER

185 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor ~ 633-0438 ~ www.boothbaycinema.org

“The Lion King” — Last week by popular…

Love is in the air for Lincoln County Community Theater (LCCT), the resident theater company at Damariscotta’s Lincoln Theater, as it  brings the Rodgers and Hammerstein (R&H) revue “A Grand…

Crickett Allen and Ren Halverson have burst onto the local music scene mixing popular covers with an occasional original from Allen’s lexicon of 100 published songs.

“Call us Georgia Heat…

Salt Bay Chamberfest’s 25th season, Aug. 1 - 17, promises a wide range of concerts and events, both ticketed and free. Music and performers celebrate the organization’s commitment to supporting…

The 47th annual North Nobleboro Day is on Saturday, Aug. 10 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the North Nobleboro Community Hall on Upper East Pond Road. Along with outstanding food and chicken barbeque,…

The Novel Jazz Septet will be in concert at the Little Brown Church in Round Pond  Aug. 7 at 7:30 p.m.  featuring music of the iconic Duke Ellington and his equally iconic musical collaborator,…

On Wednesday, July 31, the Sandy River Ramblers will bring their energetic Maine-themed Bluegrass show to the Little Brown Church, Rte. 32, in Round Pond. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m.…

Portland Stage’s collaboration with Maine State Music Theatre continues with a production of “Ain’t Misbehavin’: The Fats Waller Musical Show” from Aug. 6 to Sept. 1.

”Ain’t Misbehavin…

Lincoln Theater

Two hit Broadway musicals, captured live from their journey across the pond to London’s West End, are about to hit the big screen at Damariscotta’s Lincoln Theater. Mark your calendars because you…

Tapestry Singers is gearing up to begin a new semester in preparation for their annual concert entitled “Woven In Song: A December Tapestry.”  The concert will include a collection of pieces by…

The Pemaquid Oyster Festival, coming on Sunday, Sept. 29 from noon to dusk, will be dedicated to the memory of Charlie Herrick, who helped found the event in 2001, and dedicated himself to its…

The Boothbay Sea and Science Center (BSSC) and the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library (BHML) invite you to join them and their sponsors at the Bristol Marine Shipyard (aka The Shipyard in Boothbay…

“Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” opened at Heartwood last weekend, to full and exuberant houses. The big musical numbers leave the audience near breathless, with abundant laughter…

HARBOR THEATER

185 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor ~ 633-0438 ~ www.boothbaycinema.org

“Pavarotti” - A riveting film that lifts…

The Weight Band

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…

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…

Heartwood Regional Theater Company

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…

Chocolate Church Arts Center
Hank Barbee, The Dust Parade

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…

Alden Robinson

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…

Where It’s At

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…

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…

HARBOR THEATER

185 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor ~ 633-0438 ~ www.boothbaycinema.org

“To Catch A Thief” - special free Member…

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…

Heartwood Regional Theater Co. cast of “Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”

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…

Lincoln Theater

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…

Theater review

Avast me hearties and ye shall hear
A tale of buried treasure
T’will make you a-feared …

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Halcyon String Quartet

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…

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…

On Sunday, June 30, First Congregational Church of Wiscasset will celebrate the regular Fifth Sunday Hymn Sing. Selections this month have been chosen by the choir members. Members and visitors…

Lincoln Theater
Emily Mirabile

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…

Marcus Printup

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…

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…

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…

Chocolate Church Arts Center

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:…

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 Halcyon String Quartet

On Saturday, June 22 at 7 p.m., Halcyon will present a concert that uses music and imagery to  celebrate…

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…

Midcoast Conservancy
Primo Cubano at Live Edge Music Fest

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…

Maine State Music Theatre

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…

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…

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…

Wiscasset Elementary School will have the annual End-of-the-Year Sing-Along in the WES gym at 1 p.m. June 17. The WES Chorus will perform and all students (pre-K-fifth grade) will join them for…

Choral music fans in the Midcoast region have a chance to hear some wonderful new and old music this weekend, as the Tapestry Singers perform a concert of music composed entirely by women…

It’s a DaPonte kinda summer already! We just passed Memorial Day, the definitive beginning of the summer season. The snow birds are coming back, the guest cottages are filling, the beach…