PORTLAND – Multiple Grammy nominee Susan Tedeschi will return to rock Portland on June 23 at the city’s newest venue, the Port City Music Hall. It will be Tedeschi’s first time back to Portland since her 2005 appearance at the State Theatre, and she’ll be celebrating the release of her latest album, “Back to the […]

PORTLAND – World-renowned male vocal group Celtic Thunder, first heard by American audiences last March on a public television special and subsequent CD, DVD and tour, will perform April 6 at the Cumberland County Civic Center.The group will launch its 30-date tour of the United States and Canada, produced by AEG Live, on March 21 […]

Friday, Feb. 13, Portland singer/songwriter Craig Hensley, above, will perform at She Doesn’t Like Guthries in Lewiston. Devoted to Southern string band styles, Hensley plays guitar, mandolin, banjo and fiddle. His original lyrics are inspired by traditional folk songs of America. Saturday, Feb. 14, the Portland band Subject Bias will perform its “Love Happens” show […]

AUBURN – Jagger Trouant will be the guest performer at the Teen Open Mic Friday, Feb. 20, at the Auburn Public Library.A regular at the Teen Open Mics for the last year, Trouant lives in Gardiner and has been performing covers and his original music since he was a young child.He will pass out copies […]

WINDHAM – In support of the December 2008 limited-edition reissue of its 1998 album, “Rooms by the Hour,” Rustic Overtones will play an acoustic in-store set Friday, Feb. 13, at Bull Moose. The 5:30 p.m. show is free.The set will feature the full band, including horns, and will primarily incorporate songs from the “Rooms by […]

Frank G. Staples of Old Orchard will be the proprietor of the Summit Spring House at Poland during the coming season. The Summit Spring House is one of the best of the inland hotels and is located a few miles from the Poland Spring House. There is a large farm in connection where many of […]

BRUNSWICK – In observance of Black History Month, Bowdoin College students and faculty will give a reading of the play “Resistance,” about an African-American who helped runaway slaves.Admission to the 7 p.m. event Thursday, Feb. 12, is free, but seating is limited.“Resistance” was written by Richard Goodman, a member of the Bowdoin College class of […]

NORWAY – Some of the area’s finest vocalists will perform songs they love to sing at the “For the Love of a Song” concert Saturday, Feb. 14, at the Norway Public Library.The 7 p.m. performance, which is free, will feature a range of music from folk to show tunes to classical.Among the singers will be […]

PORTLAND – Good Theater this month will present the premiere of “Is There Fat in That,” a one-woman cabaret show written by and starring Ellen Domingos, opening Wednesday, Feb. 18.The show takes audiences on a funny journey from Brunswick to Broadway as Domingos, a native of Brunswick, tells stories and sings of her career in […]

HALLOWELL – The Gaslight Theater will begin its 2009 season with a production of “Bell, Book, and Candle,” a comedy by John Van Druten. In this classic romantic comedy, a modern-day witch likes her upstairs neighbor but despises his fiancee.In a meeting orchestrated by her equally magical aunt, the witch decides to enchant him to […]