NORWAY — An evening of music and poetry accented by coffee and refreshments will be on tap at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21, at the Norway Grange Hall on Whitman Street. Several local performers, as well as students from the University of Southern Maine’s School of Music, will entertain guests. Coffee, water and treats will […]

LEWISTON — The Franco Center has announced its decision to postpone this month’s La Rencontre originally scheduled for Thursday, due to a messy winter storm expected to hit the region this week. The new date is Thursday, Feb. 20. The menu and entertainment will remain the same – a main course of chicken pot pie […]

country music band will perform on Valentine’s Day at 8:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14, at Mixers in Sabattus. Band members are Rick Mailhiot on drums, Jeff Levesque on multiple instruments, Kent Kramer on vocals, David Perreault on bass, and Troy Hanscom on guitar. TWM plays a new type of modern country and are considered high […]

An official Steinway artist, Fung, 30, is widely recognized for playing that is elegant and refined, yet deeply poetic and intensely expressive. His performance of Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 5 at Weill Recital Hall in New York was described in December 2011 as “stylish and articulate” by the New York Times. A native of Australia, he […]

NORWAY — The “Singing Books” show by Maine’s own Professor Paddy-Whack One Man Band/a.k.a. Rick Adam will feature around 40 illustrations from the Professor’s children’s songs and will give children of all ages a chance to see and hear the books via iTunes downloads. The free show will take place at Cafe Nomad through February […]

At 8:30 p.m. Friday Feb. 7, , in photo, will play music favorites at The Fire House Grille, 47 Broad Street in Auburn. Friday night is also “Ladies Night.” At 9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, local legend Denny Breau will perform a solo acoustic act. There is no cover charge either night.

Photography by Scott Ainsworth and paintings by Neiley Harris are on display in the main lobby at CMMC near the 60 High Street entrance. Monmouth resident Ainsworth, who grew up in Vermont, served in the U.S. Army during Operation Desert Storm and was later assigned to military bases in Germany and Texas. After his military […]

The 22 images of “Making Visible” include his recent series of sunset studies, some fascinating double exposures and his thoughtful work in the relatively new medium of iPhoneography. Though most people do take snapshots with their mobile phones, very few progress to the level of fine art that is expressed in Bartel’s photography. Born in […]

PORTLAND — The FOSSE (Figures of Speech Student Ensemble) will present an encore screening of its mixed-media puppet film adaptation of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” on Sunday, Feb. 16, at Mayo Street Arts. Doors open at 12:30 p.m. for the 1 p.m. screening of the film, which will be followed by a reception and question-and-answer with […]