Singing classes

AUGUSTA — Free a cappella singing classes will be offered at the Augusta YMCA, on Wednesdays, beginning July 20, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Girls and women of all ages are welcome to learn the barbershop style of four-part harmony.

Classes will be taught by members of Maine-ly Harmony women’s chorus based at Togus VA on Route 17. Stop in to participate or listen. Visitors are also welcome to chorus rehearsals on Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m., Building 205, Togus VA campus. For information, call Donna at 582-5523.

ATV leader

CARTHAGE — A volunteer is needed to take over the Webb River Valley ATV club. Training and held will be provided. Without someone taking this over the ATV trails will close, the club will disband and the connect to other trails will be lost. Email smhmgo@gmail.com or call Sheila at 562-7713.

Red Hat Mommas

FARMINGTON — The Red Hat Mommas of Western Maine will meet at 9:45 Wednesday, July 27, in back of the Dixfield Post office to carpool to Farmington for a tour of the Nordica Museum. There is a $2 fee for the tour. Lunch will follow at the Homestead Restaurant. To reserve a spot, call Lorraine at 357-9786 or June at 562-4510 by Friday, July 22.

The group held their June meeting at the Dixfield Library with 21 ladies attending. Birthdays were recognized and the teapot exchange was made. They then attended the Skye Theatre performance.

Barbecue

NEW SHARON — A chicken barbecue will be held Saturday, July 23, from 11:30 a.m. until sold out, at the new Masonic Lodge on Route 2. The cost is $8 per person and will benefit the building fund.

Ducks Unlimited

RANGELEY — The Rangeley Lakes Chapter of Ducks Unlimited will hold the 8th annual banquet Saturday, July 23, at the Rangeley Inn. Social hour and a silent auction begins at 5 p.m. Dinner will be at 7 p.m. Meal choices are prime rib, baked stuffed haddock or breast of duck.

There will be gun raffles, 50/50, auction, door prize, ladies table, custom fly rods and more.

For more information, call 864-5115.

Hovey concert

FARMINGTON — Donald Hovey, tenor, will present a concert of songs and arias as part of Farmington’s Nordica Centennial celebration. The concert will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 24, in Nordica Auditorium. Donald Hovey will be accompanied by his brother, David Hovey, at the piano.

The concert is designed as a tribute to Farmington’s famed soprano, Lillian Nordica. It will feature songs and arias that are associated with Nordica’s brilliant career. Nordica included many of these songs in her concert appearances. She recorded a few of them between 1906 and 1911. She sang some of them at her Farmington concert one hundred years ago on Aug. 17, 1911. There will also be a performance of “Enduring Love,” published in 1890, the only song Nordica ever wrote.

The Hovey brothers are Farmington natives, the sons of Maurice and the late Beatrice Hovey.

Admission to the concert will be by donation.

Rock Walk

PHILLIPS — Ever wonder where the sand in the Sandy River comes from? How about the intricately shaped pools and cascades under the bridge in the center of Phillips?

The Sandy River Land Trust will host a “Rock Walk” Sunday, July 24. Walkers should meet at 4 p.m. at 5k Pizza in the center of Phillips. The walk will not be long or strenuous.

The walk will be led by Michael Field, a geologist originally from Phillips who now lives in Farmington with his wife.

For more information visit sites.google.com/site/sandyriverlandtrust or call Hope Griscom at 639-5550 or Ben Godsoe at 578-0306.

Tinpanic concert

RANGELEY — Tinpanic Steel Drum Band will perform at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 24, on the Green Lakeside at the Church of the Good Shepherd on Main Street.

Tinpanic is well-known throughout central and coastal Maine for high energy calypso rhythms and Caribbean-style music. This 14-piece steel drum orchestra inspires audiences of all ages to move with the beat, ranging from conga lines and limbos to jazz and swing. Tinpanic, under the direction of Sarah Dow, band instructor for Auburn schools, will help celebrate the sounds of summer with high energy calypsos and pop favorites.