Oct. 19: PORTLAND, the Portland Symphony Orchestra will perform at 7:30 p.m. at Portland City Hall Merrill Auditorium. $15/$53 842-0800

Oct. 20: FARMINGTON, Paul Oxman will perform at 12:15 p.m. at UMF Olsen Student Center. Free 778-7346

Oct. 20: FARMINGTON, Former Something will perform acoustic music at 9 p.m. at UMF Olsen Student Center. Free 778-7346

Oct. 21: BATH, Muriel Havenstein, piano and Ralph Norris, saxophone, will perform at 7:30 p.m. at Chocolate Church Arts Center, 798 Washington St.442-8455

Oct. 22: FARMINGTON, Alan Shavarsh Bardezbanian Middle East Ensemble will perform at 7:30 p.m. at UMF Merrill Hall. Free 778-7573

Oct. 22: FARMINGTON, Ross Littlefield will perform at 9 p.m. at UMF Olsen Student Center. Free 778-8346

Oct. 22: FARMINGTON, Hank Washburn’s Band will perform at 7 p.m. at the Old South Church G.I. Coffeehouse.

Oct. 22: PORTLAND, the Capitol Steps will perform musical political satire at 8 p.m. at the Portland City Hall Merrill Auditorium. $31/$38 842-0800

Oct. 23: BATH, Livingston Taylor will perform at 7:30 p.m. at Chocolate Church Arts Center, 798 Washington St. $20/$25 442-8455

Oct. 23: BETHEL, Fiddle-icious, 40 fiddlers playing traditional music, will perform at 7 p.m. at Gould Academy Bingham Hall. $4/$6 824-3575

Oct. 23: BRUNSWICK, a Scottish ballad concert by Tom Spiers and Peter Shepheard will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Church, 15 Pleasant St. $10/$8 688-4515

Oct. 23: PORTLAND, the Portland Symphony Pops will perform at 8 p.m. on Saturday and 2:30 p.m. at Sunday at Portland City Hall Merrill Auditorium. $15/$53 842-0800

Oct. 24: AUBURN, Rene Austin will perform at 7 p.m. at Midnight Blues, 34 Court St. $10 783-9600

Oct. 24: BETHEL, the Edith Jones Project Jazz Ensemble will perform at 10:30 a.m. at the Bethel Inn and Country Club, On the Common. $16.95/$8.50 1-800-654-0125

Oct. 24: GORHAM, Don Roy, Franco-American fiddler, will perform at 2 p.m. at USM Corthell Concert Hall. 780-5555

Oct. 24: LEWISTON, Lissa Schneckenburger, fiddler and Maine native, will perform at 3 p.m. at the Bates College Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St. $8/$5 268-4013

Oct. 24: ROCKLAND, pianist/composer John Ferguson will perform at 2:30 p.m. at the Farnsworth Museum, 16 Museum St. 596-6457

Oct. 25: PORTLAND, KMFDM will perform at 7:30 p.m. at State Theatre, 609 Congress St. $20/$22.50 775-3331

Oct. 26: BRUNSWICK, flutist Peter Bloom and harpist Mary Jane Rupert will perform at 7:30 p.m. at Bowdoin College Chapel. Free 725-3747

Oct. 26: FARMINGTON, Sole Transmission will perform at 9 p.m. at UMF Olsen Student Center. Free 778-7346

Oct. 26: PORTLAND, La Traviata, Stanislavsky Opera Company, will perform at 7:30 p.m. at Portland City Hall Merrill Auditorium. $36/$53 842-0800

Oct. 27: CAMDEN, singer/songwriter Steve Earle and his band, the Dukes, will perform at 7:30 p.m. at the Camden Opera House. $38 236-8448

Oct. 28: PORTLAND, Rascal Flatts with Gary Allan and Julie Roberts, will perform at 7:30 p.m. at the Cumberland County Civic Center. $35.75/$27.75 775-3458

Oct. 28: PORTLAND, Albert Melton will perform on the organ at noon at First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, 425 Congress St. Free 775-3356

Oct. 29: CAMDEN, Richard Thompson will perform at 7:30 p.m. at the Camden Opera House. $34 236-8448

Oct. 29: GORHAM, Brian L. Diehl, alto and tenor trombone and Martin Perry, pianist, will perform at 8 p.m. at USM Corthell Concert Hall. $10/$5 780-5555

Oct. 29: LEWISTON, violist Scott Woolweaver will perform with the New England Piano Quartette at 8 p.m. at Bates College Olin Arts Center Concert Hall. 786-6330

Oct. 30: BATH, John Hammond will perform blues at 7:30 p.m. at Chocolate Church Arts Center, 798 Washington St. 442-8455

Oct. 30: PORTLAND, GWAR with guests, All That Remains, will perform at 8 p.m. at State Theatre, 609 Congress St. $17.50/$20 775-3331

Oct. 30: PORTLAND, Magdalena Gomez will perform at 8 p.m. at Center for Cultural Exchange, One Longfellow square. $10/$13 761-0591

Oct. 30: PORTLAND, Rich Charette will perform at a Halloween benefit concert at 2 p.m. at the Lyseth School, 175 Auburn St. $8/$10 828-1234

Oct. 31: AUBURN, James Solberg will perform at 7 p.m. at Midnight Blues, 34 Court St. $10 783-9600

Oct. 31: PORTLAND, the Organ Symphony will perform classical music at 7:30 p.m. at Portland City Hall Merrill Auditorium. 773-6128