The Gazebo in the Park in downtown Farmington will be the site of free musical performances during the lunch hour, courtesy of the trio Seminole Wind and Sandy Waite-Haskell performing as Arizona Rose. Featured from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. will be a mix of old and new country and 1960s and ’70s tunes. Upcoming […]

PARIS – Celebration Barn Theater will present its second “Big Barn Show” fundraiser beginning at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 5. From the hilarity of Fred Garbo’s Inflatable Theater to the “World of Wonder” created by Leland Faulkner, this is a show for all ages. The roster includes the mime and dance of Karen Montanaro, storytelling […]

POLAND – The Poland Spring Preservation Society will present Two Old Friends Monday, July 7, as the next performers in its summer concert series at All Souls Chapel.Mac McHale and Emery Hutchins, original founders of Northeast Winds, will play music from Ireland, the mountains and the sea. With banjo, guitar, mandolin, concertina, bodran, octave mandolin […]

GRAY – More than a dozen artists from Maine and New England will be on hand at the Maine Wildlife Park from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, July 12, with a wide array of wildlife- and nature-themed art.Artists working in mediums ranging from watercolors, photography, wood carving, wood slab painting, rock painting, pottery, metalwork […]

BRUNSWICK – The Bowdoin International Music Festival’s newest concert series, Beethoven Mondays, continues July 7 with performances of two Beethoven violin-piano sonatas and one cello-piano sonata.This concert features the Violin-Piano Sonata in A Major, Op. 12, No. 2 with Joel Smirnoff and Constance Moore, the Cello-Piano Sonata in F Major, Op. 5, No. 1 with […]

We are all done talking about early peas and the prospects of the corn crop now have the call. First comes George A. Wentworth of Saco, who says that on his land at Old Orchard he has corn 3½ feet high and all spindled out. He probably won’t have corn out of his own garden […]

Daryl Hall of legendary Hall and Oates fame will take the stage in Discovery Park in Freeport Saturday, July 5, as part of L.L. Bean’s 2008 Summer Concert Series. On the Fourth of July, singer-songwriter Toby Lightman will bring her contemporary pop music to the park. Both outdoor concerts will begin at 7:30 p.m. and […]

LEWISTON – A group of local residents, with support from Lewiston City Councilor Tina Bailey and municipal staff, is working on a fundraiser to purchase additional playground equipment for Kennedy Park.They are in search of local musicians who would be willing to donate their time and talents for a free concert to be held from […]

LEWISTON – King’s Bridge Theatre will hold auditions for “Rehearsal For Murder,” a two-act murder mystery from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 18, and from 9 a.m. until noon Saturday, July 19, at Vineyard Auditorium.Everyone believed that the death of lovely Monica Welles was a suicide. Everyone except her fiancé, the playwright Alex Dennison, […]

ANDOVER – The Ellis River Riders horse club will offer a weekend of fun Saturday and Sunday, July 5-6. Saturday is equine demo day, with demonstrations of natural horsemanship, animal communication, equine massage, dressage riding, roping and more, beginning at 10 a.m. Many breeds, some with history, will be featured.Vendors will be on site and […]