The Joan Kennedy Band will perform at 5 p.m. Friday, June 25, at the Red Barn in Augusta. Additional performances are set for 7 p.m. Saturday, June 26; 2 p.m. Sunday, July 25; 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 21; and 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 26. Kennedy, a singer and musician, is a Canadian born and raised […]
Things to Do
Events and things to do from the Sun Journal.
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Live Music Returns to the Camden Amphitheatre
The public is invited to kick off summer with an evening of big band jazz from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday, June 21. Local favorite Mondaynite Jazz Orchestra (MoJO) returns for a free community concert in the Camden Amphitheatre. Bring a chair or blanket, a picnic supper, and your dancing (or tapping) feet. If one […]
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Full-scale Wiscasset Art Walk to return June 24
Wiscasset Art Walk — a summertime celebration of art, music, performance and community, entering its ninth year — returns this month in full force with the participation of village galleries, shops, and restaurants. The village becomes a festival with sidewalk activities, community art projects, and special features. Art Walks are held from 5 to 8 […]
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Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festival slated for this weekend
LITCHFIELD — Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festival is celebrating its 54th festival at the Litchfield Fairgrounds, 30 Plains Road. After taking 2020 off due to the pandemic organizers are excited to welcome everyone back to the festival to bring the rich bluegrass music back to the Kennebec Valley. “The festival location has that ‘Welcome Home’ country […]
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‘Four Old Broads’ to be staged
“Four Old Broads” will be staged for the next two weeks at Lakewood Theater, 76 Theater Road in Madison. Performances are set for 8 p.m. June 17, 18, 19, 24, 25 and 26; 4 p.m. June 20; 2 and 7 p.m. June 23. Retired burlesque queen Beatrice Shelton desperately needs a vacation — and NOT […]
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Mark your calendar: Some of your favorite Maine summer events are back
From fairs to music festivals, many of the favorite seasonal standbys that were cancelled last year are back in business.
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Origins of intolerance under the microscope at Maine Historical Society
Visitors can choose how to experience the ‘Begin Again’ exhibition – from the perspective of someone with or without privilege.
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Art student’s work on display in Auburn
Amanda Retus is the featured artist in the Auburn Gritty’s “Art and Ale” window for June at 68 Main St., Auburn. Retus, originally from Needham, Massachusetts, has lived in Maine since 2000. “As a child, I had a dream that I was painting in Paris, France. I never forgot the feel of the brush strokes […]
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Norway center to display small landscape paintings
NORWAY — Beginning Friday, June 18, artist Michael Everett is set to exhibit a collection of small landscape paintings at the Western Maine Art Group’s Matolcsy Art Center, 480 Main St. “Condensed Looks: Big Land, Small Landscapes” is the show’s theme. Everett took up oil painting to capture his impressions of the remote places of […]