The Rangeley Friends of the Arts (RFA) is always looking for a fresh set of hands and the jobs are many and varied – from a months-long project to a single day. Looking to get involved? Bring your talent to us – even if it’s using a screw gun. ACTORS/SINGERS/DANCERS Community Theater can’t happen without […]
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Max Ater to play concert at Johnson Hall
Maine-native Max Ater will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22, at Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center in Gardiner. Doors open a half-hour before the show. Recently signing on with Michigan-based label Prudential Records, the 25-year-old pop phenom is on the rise. Capturing audiences with his award-winning voice and music, he is quickly becoming […]
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Looking Back on Feb. 6
100 Years Ago 1920 A person intimately in touch with the French society Institute Jacques Cartier said Tuesaday afternoon to the Lewiston Journal: “Despite all official denials and the report, I understand, is emphatically denied by the college authorities, I have good reason to believe that a Bates College block is likely to be sold […]
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Maine native pens debut novel
PORTLAND — An indie company for indie writers, 46 Series Entertainment, has announced the publication of “The Probability of Time,” the debut novel by Maine native Tim Koster. Koster was born and raised in Portland and graduated from Deering High School in 2004. Throughout his childhood, he was an avid storyteller and fell in love […]
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Annual country music competition to be held at Silver Spur
MECHANIC FALLS — The Pine Tree State Country Music Association will hold the 2020 annual competition on Sunday, April 5, at the Silver Spur. There are categories with several age divisions for bands, vocalists, vocal groups, duets, solo artists, gospel and bluegrass vocalists and instrumentalists. The deadline for registration is Thursday, March 20. There will […]
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Portland Symphony Orchestra POPS! presents music of Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and more
PORTLAND — The Portland Symphony Orchestra presents “A Whole Lotta Shakin’: From Swing to Rock” at 7: 30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23, at the Merrill Auditorium. PSO Music Director Eckart Preu conducts the orchestra with special guest clarinetist Dave Bennett. Bennett is a virtuoso clarinetist who also plays electric […]
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UMA presents a performance of ‘An Authentic Mess: Dispatches from the Beauty Battlefield’
AUGUSTA — The Cultural Events Committee of the University of Maine at Augusta will present a free performances of “An Authentic Mess: Dispatches from the Beauty Battlefield,” at noon Wednesday, Feb. 19, at the Michael Klahr Center at the University of Maine at Augusta. The event is free and open to the public. Another performance […]
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Pianist Zane Omohundro to perform at Oasis of Music
LEWISTON — Solo jazz piano and improvisation with standards and originals are slated for the Oasis of Music beginning at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12. Pianist Zane Omohundro says his program “should touch on jazz, blues, Latin, and maybe a few other genres.” Omohundro has spent his life around pianos. At the age of 7, […]
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Author Matthew Cost to give presentation around his new book
AUBURN — The Auburn Public Library welcomes historical fiction novelist Matthew Cost to share from his newest release, “I Am Cuba: Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution,” at 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, in the Androscoggin Community Room. The free-to-the-public presentation includes images from the Cuban Revolution of 1953 to 1959 detailing the events. Cost […]
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Victoria Fitzpatrick featured artist in Art and Ale Window at Gritty’s in Auburn
AUBURN — Wicked Illustrations is displaying Victoria Fitzpatrick’s work in the Gritty’s Art and Ale window during February. Through painting, she likes to focus her work on the connection between art and emotion. She takes pride in being a mom and a USAF veteran. “After my time in the military, I lost my sense of […]