PORTLAND — On May 17-18, Women in Harmony will present On the Road, a concert of choral music in celebration of journeys both geographical and personal. A central message of Women in Harmony’s mission is communicated in the text of Never Turning Back: “we’re gonna keep on walking forward, keep on singing proudly, work for […]

POLAND SPRING — The fourth annual Newfoundland Day will take place from 4:30 p.m. until closing Saturday, May 31, at Mell’s Hilltop Restaurant, 523 Maine St, Rt. 26, Poland Spring Resort. This fun-filled event will feature a Screeching In Ceremony, giveaways and will bring people together who are originally from Newfoundland as well as local […]

JAY — From 2-6 p.m. Saturday, May 24, Maine Country Music Hall of Famers Bob Elston and Fred Thompson along with 10-time Maine Country Music Award-winner songwriter Randall T. Pinkham Sr. will perform traditional country music at a benefit concert for the Dixfeild Food Pantry. There will be a 50/50 raffle. The show will be […]

Dana Professor of Theater Martin Andrucki directs “Little Egypt” as part of a course taking place during Short Term, the college’s intensive five-week spring semester. Mother Faye and her adult daughters, the hot ticket Bernadette and the nerdish lost soul Celeste, work together as waitresses while negotiating volatile love affairs with, respectively, the mayor of […]

Stanley is known throughout the region for his work on keyboards with the popular funk band, Sly-Chi. He will be joined by trumpet player Emma Stanley and Sly-Chi bassist Raphael Keilt-Freyre. For more information, call 207-846-9559 or visit www.317main.org.

Doors open at 6 p.m. Friday, May 9, at Mixers in Sabattus, for the 99.9 The Wolf and Cold Blue Steel Country Night benefit show to raise money for the funeral and burial expenses of four-month-old who died April 23, 2014. Saturday night is Ladies Night and Sunday is a special Retro Mother’s Day. A […]

“I am so excited to be able to bring in someone of Ellis Paul’s quality and reputation to round out Johnson Hall’s season,” said Johnson Hall’s Artistic / Executive Director Mike Miclon. Paul is one of the leading voices of the American singer-songwriter world. He was a leader in the wave of singer/songwriters that emerged […]

“Orphan train riders” was not a term that Kline had ever heard until about a decade ago, when she read an article on children without parents who came by rail to Jamestown, N.D., to be adopted, during the years of 1854-1929. The piece featured her husband’s grandfather, Frank Robertson, who had been orphaned at age […]