LEWISTON – Maine-based conductor Janna Hymes will lead the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra Saturday and Sunday, March 14-15, in concerts featuring Kabelevsky, Tchaikovsky and Borodin, with violin soloist Lucia Lin performing the Violin Concerto by Julius Conus.Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Franco-American Heritage Center and at 2:30 p.m. at Orion Performing Arts […]

In the Auburn Municipal Court yesterday morning Ludger Kokel was discharged of the charge of disorderly conduct without any defense being offered. From the testimony of the complainant, Mrs. Leocadie Elie of Mill Street, Kokel was to have been married to her sister, Miss Clara Elie, Jan. 10 but skipped out two days before the […]

LIVERMORE FALLS – Community Acoustic’s open-mic night will begin Saturday, Feb. 28, at the Livermore Falls Public Library.Open mic will be held from 5 to 10 p.m. every second and fourth Saturday of each month. Cover charge is $2.The Black Mountain Hobo will be the featured artist performing from 5 to 6 p.m. this Saturday. […]

PORTLAND – The Portland Flower Show, which has run for 10 of the past 12 years and is the only remaining exhibition of its kind in Northern New England in 2009, will open Wednesday, March 11.The event will begin with the Maine Home & Design gala opening award ceremony from 6 to 9 p.m. and […]

FARMINGTON – The University of Maine at Farmington will present “He and She,” a turn-of-the-century drama about the plight of the emancipated woman, March 12-15 in celebration of Women’s History Month.Rachel Crothers’ play will be staged at 7:30 p.m., March 12, 13 and 14; and at 2 p.m. March 15 in UMF Alumni Theater.Years ahead […]

CARTHAGE – New England Celtic Arts will host the Irish band Slide at Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center Wednesday, March 11, and at the Lakeside Theater in Rangeley Thursday, March 12. Both concerts start at 7 p.m.A preshow jam when people may bring your instruments and join in the musicians will start at 6:15 at […]

LEWISTON – Professor Martin Andrucki will direct the Bates College theater department production of “Alcestis,” Euripides’ tragedy about a king, doomed to die, who offers up his wife in his place.Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 6, 7, 13 and 14, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 8 and 15, in […]

LEWISTON – As part of the WRBC FM Never-Ending Concert Series, the Icelandic band FM Belfast will play Saturday, Feb. 28, at Bates College.Bates’ own Battleship and Reggaenomics will open the concert, which is free. The evening will end with a performance by DJ TäNZERMENSCH.A four-piece electronic band, FM Belfast was one of the surprise […]

LEWISTON – Sixteen-year-old Freeport resident Will Bristol, who has state and regional competition honors, will return to play at the Franco-American Heritage Center Saturday, March 7. His recital, part of the 2008-09 Piano Series, will include works by Bach, Haydn, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt and contemporary composer Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee.Now a sophomore at Merriconeag Waldorf School […]

AUBURN – Johnny Joyce, known for his loud, high-energy Boston delivery, will headline the Saturday, Feb. 28, comedy show at the Fireside Inn & Suites. Also performing will be “old timey” comedian Larry Lee Lewis and Ellen Moschetto.Joyce has been a fixture on the New England comedy scene for 15 years and has also worked […]