LEWISTON — Award-winning dancer-choreographer Bebe Miller and her company return to the Bates Dance Festival to celebrate 25 years of dancemaking with the retrospective performance “A History” at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 26 and 27, in Bates College’s Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St. Miller’s newest work centers on the nuanced, decade-long dancing relationship […]

HARRISON — Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival will present the third concert of its 41st annual chamber music series at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 30, at Deertrees Theatre. Mahler and Brahms explores the breadth and variety of the Romantic era with music for every taste. The concert will open with the “Wagner” Adagio for Clarinet and […]

“Ricky Nelson Remembered” is a unique multimedia entertainment event featuring the live music of Ricky Nelson’s hit songs including “Hello Mary Lou,” “Travelin’ Man,” and “Garden Party” performed by Ricky’s twin sons Matthew and Gunnar. The show includes video footage of the Nelson family with interviews from celebrities influenced by Ricky Nelson. The show appeals […]

EAST DIXFIELD — Western Maine musicians Donna Whittemore of Farmington, Linda Lee of Weld, and the Oxford Hills band “The Country Trio” featuring Leroy Leblanc, Lolalee Dillingham and Del Parker will headline “Hillbilly Days” at Countryfolk Music Theatre. This youth music scholarship weekend is a two-day event July 27-28 that will bring back traditional country […]

The evening will showcase a variety of songs from opera including George Gershwin’s, Summertime from Porgy and Bess; Leo Delibe’s Lakme Duet (Flower Duet) from Lakme; George Bizet’s, Au fond du temple saint from The Pearl Fishers; Giacomo Puccini’s, O Soave Faciulla from La Boheme; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s, La ci darem la mano from Don […]

In 1910, Solas band leader Seamus Egan’s great-great uncle Michael Conway left his home in Co. Mayo, Ireland and boarded a ship for America. He was headed to the copper mines and boxing rings of Butte, Mont. aka Shamrock City named for the influx of Irish immigrants. Six years later, at the age of 25 […]

BATH — The Bath Youth Meetinghouse & Skate Park, Maine’s largest indoor skate park, has announced a summer benefit concert starring three outstanding local musical talents. The event begins at 5 p.m. Saturday, July 20, and weather permitting grilled food will be available along with snacks and drinks from the Skate Park snack bar. Georgetown […]

WAYNE — The Cary Memorial Library will present The Beet Poets of Wayne in an evening of poetry, storytelling and music at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 19. Jay Franzel writes thoughtful poems that often reflect the mystery of the natural world, but he also writes about coffee, Franz Kafka and the bridges of New York […]