100 Years Ago: 1922 Mrs. Hazel M. Libby of College Street, Lewiston is in New York attending different schools of design in millinery and dressmaking to get the latest ideas for her classes this fall. She writes that in New York the dresses on the street are so different, but at the better hotels and […]
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Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival to hold third concert of season
Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival will hold the third concert of its 50th Season at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 26, at Deertrees Theatre in Harrison. This week’s program includes: ARTHUR FOOTE: Nocturne and Scherzo for Flute and String Quartet SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 67 SCHUBERT: String Quintet in C Major, […]
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Marc Black to celebrate the songs of the 50s and 60s with Boppa Chua music program
Musician Marc Black brings history to life through the songs of 1950s and 60s in his Boppa Chua Program at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 2, at the Lewiston Public Library. This free, public program will take place in Callahan Hall and is directed towards adults though all ages may participate. The New York Blues […]
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Heather Pierson Duo to perform in Auburn concert series
The Heather Pierson Duo will perform at the City of Auburn’s Summer ’22 Anniversary Park Acoustic Music Series at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 9, in Anniversary Park in Auburn. Hailing from New Hampshire’s Mount Washington Valley, Heather Pierson is a pianist, singer/songwriter, and performer whose inspiring live performances with her bassist/partner Shawn Nadeau delve […]
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Local zine hosting visualiterary multimedia arts event during LA Arts Artwalk
Letterfounder Zine will host “No Words,” a visualiterary multimedia arts event featuring Tyler Jackson (a.k.a. DJ GRITZ) spinning downtempo beats and Jessy Kendall on ambient vocal experiments from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, July 29, as part of the LA Arts Artwalk at Co-Lab Create in Lewiston. Food will be provided by Mother India and Orchid. […]
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Jerry Bryant to present a musical program on traditional sailor chanteys in Norway
Jerry Bryant, of Amherst, Massachusetts, will present a musical program on traditional sailor chanteys from 7-8 p.m. on Thursday, July 28, at the Norway Memorial Library. The men who worked on square-riggers in the 19th century used rhythmic work songs, which they called chanteys (or shanties, depending on where they were from), to coordinate their […]
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Sandy River Ramblers concert planned in Readfield
The Sandy River Ramblers plan to perform a bluegrass concert at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 26, at the Union Meeting House, 22 Church Road, in Readfield. The Ramblers are, stylistically, a traditional bluegrass band, but their specialty is original songs about Maine, mostly written by bandleader Stan Keach, who is a nationally-known bluegrass songwriter. […]
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Mill Town Road Show to play in Music for Mavis series
Mill Town Road Show will perform as part of Music for Mavis Tuesdays at the Gazebo series at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 26, in Turner. The band features Jack D. Jolie, who lived on Music Row in Nashville during his teenage years writing country music and recording with his father, while taking guitar lessons […]
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Looking Back on July 19
100 Years Ago: 1922 Last night was no exception to several other nights lately when sections of Auburn were plunged into darkness by a failure of various electrical devices. For considerable time after 9:30 the lower section of Court Street was without illumination. 50 Years Ago: 1972 Demolition of the Cushman-Hollis Building at Court Street […]
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Looking Back on July 18
100 Years Ago: 1922 Winslow Rouse, well known throughout the east as the boy soprano, arrived in Bath on Saturday to spend his vacation at the Rouse Island home on Todd’s Bay in Georgetown. He sang at the White Stone Church at Bretton Woods, N.H. and last season was singing on the Chautauqua circuit. Just […]