FARMINGTON — The Arts Institute of Western Maine will present "An Evening of Romantic Music" at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, at Nordica Auditorium on the University of Maine at Farmington campus. Performing will be violin/violist Anatole Wieck and pianist Carmen Rodriguez Peralta. Th...
AUBURN — The Maine-made feature film “You Can’t Kill Stephen King” will be premiered at this year’s Lewiston Auburn Film Festival in April, festival directors said today. The film, which has already received national mainstream attention in cinema magazi...
PORTLAND — Clarinetist Dave Bennett, one the foremost interpreters of Benny Goodman’s classic musical sound, will perform with the Portland Symphony Orchestra on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 25-26. The PSO Pops! tribute to the King of Swing will begin at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2:3...
AUBURN — Poet Pearl Tibbetts Sawyer of Auburn has released her ninth book of original poetry, "A Long String of Pearls," coinciding with the recent celebration of her 90th birthday. Deeply personal, the book, her most ambitious work thus far, spans the past six decades. Sawyer...
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Acrobatics. Visual effects. Physical comedy. Ingenuity. Galumpha, a trio of performers, will bring its world-class, award-winning choreography to Sugarloaf USA on Tuesday, Feb. 21, in a performance blending imagination, beauty, muscle and merriment. Forme...
CARTHAGE — Canadian Celtic group The Cottars will perform Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 22-23, at Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center and Unity College Center for the Performing Arts in Unity, respectively. The Cottars have come a long way, starting as children performing to a hometow...
PORTLAND — Musical couples, including well-known fiddler Lissa Schneckenburger and double bassist Corey DiMario, will play songs of love in celebration of Valentine's Day on Saturday, Feb. 11, at One Longfellow Square. The "Sweethearts Night Out" concert will also feature roots music...
AUBURN — "Miss Roxanne’s Drag and Talent Show Extravaganza" will debut on Friday, Feb. 17, at UU Theater. Director Russ Perham and co-director Giselle Scherle have put together the show featuring a lineup of familiar local performers singing songs about love and romance.
AUBURN – Community Little Theatre will hold auditions for “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” at 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 13-14, at Great Falls Performing Arts Center. All roles in this musical comedy, including the students, will played by adults.
Two shows at Guthries Singer and harmonica player Tom O’Connell, above, and other members of The Juke Joint Devils will play at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, at She Doesn't Like Guthries in Lewiston. Other members of the band that plays blues dating back to the days of juke joints are g...
Primo Cubano, which plays traditional Cuban dance music and sings Spanish lyrics in rhythmic call-and-response style (making it easy to join in), will perform Saturday, Feb. 11, at Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center. Band members play tres, upright bass and guitar along with congas, bongos, mara...
BRUNSWICK — The second half of the monthlong Longfellow Days celebration (Feb. 19-26) will featured a cabaret show, poetry readings and a chapel service with a performance of Longfellow's poem "Snow-Flakes," set to music by Charles Kaufmann. Now in its ninth year, Longfellow ...
AUBURN — How many U.S. presidents and future presidents visited Lewiston and Auburn before the current campaigns? The answer, shared by local historian Douglas I. Hodgkin in his new book, “When Presidents and Hopefuls Came to Town,” is: 11. Hodgkin will discuss hi...
Registration required for free public event The Lewiston Public Library is partnering with the Machiah Center and the Maine Humanities Council to host a discussion on the book "To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1912-1918." Registration is required for this free publ...
PORTLAND — Portland Ovations will bring the Swedish folk group Vasen to the University of Southern Maine on Thursday, Feb. 16. The trio — Olov Johansson, Mikael Marin and Roger Tallroth — will perform with special guests Darol Anger and friends. The concert will begin at ...
PORTLAND — Renowned American artist Andrew Wyeth's strength of character comes through in Joyce Tenneson’s high-resolution digital image of him taken in 2004. With Berenice Abbot's photographic portrait of Edward Hopper, dressed in a suit while sitting casually near a woodstove...
LEWISTON — Stasia Minkowsky, a Lewiston native, will sign copies of her first nonfiction novel, "Skinny White Woman, on Wednesday, Feb. 22, at She Doesn't Like Guthries. A self-reflective memoir about w...
LEWISTON — Dawoud Bey, a photographer renowned for his ability to capture the individual reality overlooked in conventional portrayals of teens and other stereotyped groups, will discuss his work Wednesday, Feb. 15, at Bates College. "Dawoud is a stunning artist whose photograp...
