PORTLAND — Conductor Robert Moody will lead the Portland Symphony Orchestra and guest pianist Conrad Tao in a concert featuring music from Higdon, Grieg, and Shostakovich. The Sunday Classical concert will take place at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26, at Merrill Auditorium. The concert opens with Higdon’s Fanfare Ritmico before Tao takes the stage to […]
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Horror Fest of heavy metal bands coming to Auburn on Oct. 11
Also appearing will be Maine’s own Ascent To Power. When Muppetz Attack, Sawtopsy, Alter The Tides, and Angel Slayer round out the lineup. This is the third year that Horror Fest has come to Maine. This year’s event will take place at Narals’ Studio 250 Club at 34 Court Street. Tickets are $8 in advance […]
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Comedy Fix at Fireside in Auburn on Oct. 17
AUBURN — “Master of the Boston Props” highlights a lineup of stand-up comedians for Comedy Fix XV. The show will take place at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17, at the Auburn Fireside Inn, with all net proceeds benefiting the Greater Androscoggin Humane Society. Comedy Fix founder Mark Turcotte will also welcome Jordan Handren-Seavey, Mark Gallagher, […]
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‘Secret Garden’ opens at Gardiner theater on Oct. 18
GARDINER — The Open Book Players will present an adapted version of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s children’s classic story, “The Secret Garden” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19, at Johnson Hall. The story introduces Mary Lennox (Skye Cotnoir), a sickly, foul-tempered, unsightly little girl who loves no one and […]
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Final Friday Art Walk of the season in Brunswick on Oct. 10
This will be the final art walk sponsored by Five Rivers Arts Alliance for the 2014 season. Highlights of this Friday’s events include the return of the One Wheelers performing around Maine and Pleasant streets. In addition, Harpswell artist Hati Modr will display her oil paintings, mostly landscapes, at the Morrell Room of Curtis library […]
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‘Dilemma of Memory: Maine Artists and the Holocaust’ exhibit in Augusta
“The Dilemma of Memory: Maine Artists and the Holocaust” features works by photographer Judy Ellis Glickman; sculptor Robert Katz; painters George Mason, Leonard Meiselman, and Robert Moskowitz; printmaker, the late Dorothy Schwartz; and poets Tony Brinkley, Mark Melnicove, Anna Bat-Chai Wrobel, Lee Sharkey, and Martin Steingesser. This exhibit was the brainchild of Meiselman and HHRC […]
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Cellist Ben Noyes, Beet Poets to perform at Trinity in Lewiston on Oct. 11
Noyes grew up in Portland, inheriting a rich musical heritage from his parents Richard and Clorinda Noyes, musicians with the Portland Symphony Orchestra. Noyes and his family are based in Portland, where he teaches, composes and performs with classical and contemporary groups of all sizes. The Beet Poets of Wayne are the concert’s opening act, […]
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Tricky Britches to play at South Paris venue on Oct. 11
SOUTH PARIS — Celebration Barn Theater will host the string band Tricky Britches at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. blends mountain music, rockabilly, and country swing. The band formed in 2009, when four friends in Portland, Maine, took their street-corner fiddle tunes and country songs on the road across the U.S. Since then they have […]
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Guitarist Seth Josel in Farmington concert on Oct. 15
FARMINGTON — The Arts Institute of Western Maine will present a concert by Seth Josel, contemporary guitarist at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15, at the Emery Community Arts Center. Originally from New York, now residing in Berlin, Germany, Josel has become one of the leading instrumental pioneers of his generation. His upcoming concert will celebrate […]