PORTLAND – In a musical time capsule tribute to the bygone radio days of the 1940s, guest conductor Charles Latshaw will lead the Portland Symphony Orchestra and guest ensemble Five By Design in a PSO POPS! retro concert.Titled “Radio Days,” the concert will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, and at 2:30 p.m. […]

SCARBOROUGH – In support of the release of its first album, “Low Expectations,” Boston’s Ernie and the Automatics will play an acoustic in-store set at Bull Moose at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22. The show is free. Band members will be available to sign copies of their new CD.Founded by guitarist Ernie Boch Jr. and […]

LEWISTON – King’s Bridge Theatre will hold auditions Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 14-15, for the first show to be presented by the fledgling KBT Young Actors Company for those ages 13 to 20.The show, “The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood,” is a funny, Monty Python-esque retelling of the classic story, filled with familiar characters […]

BRUNSWICK – Author and longtime New York Times foreign correspondent Chris Hedges will speak at Bowdoin College at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10, in Kresge Auditorium.A graduate of Harvard Divinity School and a foreign correspondent for nearly two decades in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans, Hedges writes and speaks extensively on […]

PORTLAND – The last show The Jazz Mandolin Project played in Maine was at the State Theater in 2005. Shortly after that, leader Jamie Masefield decided to take JMP in a new direction, steering the group away from the concert stage and putting it in front of the movie screen with a multimedia performance, “How […]

Acoustic guitarist Jim Gallant, known for his rich vocals and mastery of fingerstyle guitar, will perform Friday, Feb. 20 and 27, at Little Dan’s Barbeque and Grill on Main Street, Lewiston. He will be joined by Billy Belskis on bass. As a member of the Seacoast Guitar Society, Gallant was a featured artist in its […]

BATH – The Oratorio Chorale will offer a mid-winter concert of music spanning three eras of song: Elizabethan madrigals, popular songs of the early- to mid-1900s in the United States, and sacred and secular songs of Felix Mendelssohn, who celebrates his 200th birthday this month.Concerts, under the direction of Peter Frewen, will be presented at […]

PORTLAND – The 2009 U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships will take place March 4-7 at the Cumberland County Civic Center.The North Atlantic Figure Skating Club of Falmouth is the host club of this year’s event.Competition begins Thursday, March 5, with the juvenile free skate. The event will conclude Saturday, March 7, with the senior championship free […]

At a meeting of the Socialists of Lewiston and Auburn Tuesday evening it was decided to have J. G. Phelps-Stokes of New York, and his wife, Rose, lecture in Lewiston or Auburn, or both, on Sunday, March 14th. Mr. Stokes is known as “The Millionaire Socialist,” but this he does not admit as he says […]

AUGUSTA – The Maine Academy of Country Music will put on a benefit country music event from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 15, at American Legion Post 205. The fundraiser is for Dusty Michaud, aka “Dusty Neal,” a longtime country music entertainer who was involved in a motorcycle accident October 2008, which resulted in […]