HARRISON – The performance begins when a 10-foot cylinder slithers onto the stage and implodes. Before long, the entire audience is playing catch with gigantic inflatable props. The big blow-up shapes dance, shimmer, balloon, deflate and bounce in a rainbow of colors.Suddenly, a globulating red cube takes on a life of its own, rolling, gliding […]

ROUND POND – The White Owl Duo, a Native American Grammy Award finalist, will present a concert featuring Native American music at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 23, at the Little Brown Church. Laura Lee Perkins, who taught for 10 years in Lewiston, and Kenneth L. Green are known internationally for researching, documenting and recording American […]

LEWISTON – The Franco-American Heritage Center will present Just Us in concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 26. Just Us was the first group to perform at the center in a Christmas concert fundraiser for the Festival de Joie, a long-standing Franco-American festival dissolved in 2005.Concert proceeds will benefit the Festival FrancoFun produced in August […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Three minutes to showtime, and Cristian de la Fuente still hadn’t decided whether he would continue after tearing a tendon in his biceps. The producers of ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars,” the popular live dancing competition, had themselves in a tizzy.Tom Bergeron, meanwhile, was loving it.The affable host thrives on the […]

PARIS – William D. Andrews, author of “Stealing History,” a Maine mystery set at a busy historical society and museum, will sign copies of his book at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 24, at the Paris Hill Historical Society.Published by Maine-based Islandport Press, “Stealing History” revolves around Julie Williamson who takes a job as historical society […]

CORNISH – The Ossipee Valley Bluegrass Festival scheduled for Thursday, July 24, to Sunday, July 27, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Taking the stage will be some of the finest bluegrass and acoustic musicians and bands performing in New England.Thursday, from 6 to 9 p.m., there will be an open stage.Festivities will kick […]

FRYEBURG – Chamber music will continue at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 23, at the Bion Cram Library at Fryeburg Academy as the International Musical Arts Institute presents its second week of Music for Summer Evenings.The program will include Beethoven’s Clarinet Trio in Bb Major, Op. 11; Dvorak’s String Quartet in Eb Major, Op. 51; Beethoven’s […]

“A House Divided,” a musical drama set in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia during the last 10 days of the Civil War, will be presented at 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, July 26-27, at the New Hope Baptist Church in Farmington. The story focuses on family members who are not only divided by war (one […]

CARTHAGE – Ireland’s David Munnelly Band will bring its exuberant mix of Irish traditional and swing music to Skye Theatre and to Lakeside Theater in Rangeley. Based in County Mayo, Ireland, Munnelly and his band have exploded onto the international Irish music stage. Their bracing music mix also includes the “gypsy jazz” of Django Reinhardt, […]

Supt. Bisbee of the Auburn water system recently sent the state chemist, H.D. Evans, a sample of Lake Auburn water, and has received the following letter in reply: “The analysis shows the water to be in its usual first class condition. It is entirely free from all evidence of sewage pollution, either chemical or bacterial. […]