The Rockin’ Recons, one of the 4 original bands from the PAL Hop Days of the ‘60s, will play at 8 p.m. on Saturday, July 23, at the Poland Spring Inn. Since the reforming of the group in 1987 after a 20-year hiatus, the band continues to perform. The Rockin’ Recons play a blend of […]
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Author livestream with J.R. Dawson to be hosted by Lewiston Public Library
Writer and educator J.R. Dawson will be reading from and discussing her debut novel, “The First Bright Thing,” in a livestream event hosted by the Lewiston Public Library at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 14. This virtual only event is free and open to the public. “The First Bright Thing” tells the story of Ringmaster – Rin, […]
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Three nights of comedy coming to L-A area
Headliner Charlie Nadler joins a stacked lineup of local favorites featuring Sara Poulin, Sarah Coughlin, Mike Levinsky, Mike Bunker, Adam Gropmann, and Nick Gordon at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 2, at The Great Falls Comedy Club at Craft Brew Underground in Auburn. Balderdash Academy improv returns at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 8, at […]
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Franco Center announces schedule for 2023-24 season
The Franco Center has announced its 2023-24 calendar of events which include tribute bands, La Rencontre cultural luncheons with entertainment, orchestra, choir, and piano concerts, book talks by authors, the return of its Fright Night scary walks, multiple Christmas shows, comedy shows, and a bellydancing performance. One of those comedy shows is the return of […]
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Musicians band together to create fundraising concert for Franco Center
Musicians who support the Franco Center’s mission work and the performing arts in general have gotten together to create a fundraiser concert to support the Franco Center. Several members of the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra and musician friends of the Franco Center will perform in this fundraising concert at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 10. “We […]
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Shostaks to bring Irish music to Oasis of Music
Irish music played by Anthony Shostak on uilleann pipes and his daughter Una on fiddle will launch the 2023-24 season of the Oasis of Music beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 6, at Trinity Commons in Lewiston. The Oasis of Music is a weekly music series of performances of roughly thirty minutes, running from […]
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Pair of exhibitions opens fall season at UMF gallery
Two exhibitions will be on display to begin the year at the UMF Emery Community Arts Center. “I don’t like gardening, but I do it anyway, mostly for my neighbors,” an exhibition of paintings, ceramics, book arts and works on paper by Annie Lee Zimerle and Brian Zimerle, will be on display in the Flex […]
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Scotland’s Heron Valley to perform Old South Church concert
FARMINGTON — Old South Church Concert Series organizers plan to bring Scotland’s high energy band Heron Valley at 7 p.m.. Thursday, Sept. 7, to the church at 235 Main St. Heron Valley hails from Scotland with musical roots tied to Scottish and Irish traditional music, including traditional Scots song and Scottish piping tunes. The four-piece […]
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Lakewood Theater to stage ‘Anatomies’
“Anatomies” will be staged Aug. 31 through Sept. 9 at Lakewood Theater, 76 Theater Road in Madison. Performances are set for 8 p.m. Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 and 7-9, 4 p.m. Sept. 3, and 2 p.m. Sept. 6. In haunted Edinburgh, in the 1820s, Dr. Robert Knox, of Surgeons Square, needs fresh corpses to […]