AUGUSTA — Lithgow Public Library, 45 Winthrop St., will host an Open Mic Night at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4. Sign-ups for mic slots will start at 5:45 p.m. Spoken word performances will be allowed five minutes; musical performances will be allowed two songs or eight minutes, whichever comes first. Time slots will be given […]
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Celtic music to fill Chocolate Church
BATH — Richard Wood and Gordon Belcher will present their blazing Prince Edward Island Celtic at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18, in the Annex of the Chocolate Church Art Center, 804 Washington St. Audiences will be taken on ride jigs and reels, strathspeys and hornpipes, and beautiful airs. Wood’s fiddle and infectious melodies complement Belcher’s versatile […]
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Looking Back on Jan. 9
100 years ago: 1919 (This item is from an ad in the Lewiston Journal) WANTED: Girls from 17 to 24 years of age with high school education, who desire permanent position to learn telephone operating. Seven dollars a week paid while learning. Frequent increases and two weeks vacation with pay. Apply, Hannah B. Leader, Chief […]
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The Harlow seeking submissions for annual juried art show
HALLOWELL — The Harlow art gallery is seeking submissions for Art2019, the 24th annual juried show and second annual juried show being held at its new location at 100 Water St. Art2019 is open to all Maine artists and to any artist with a strong connection to Maine. It will be held from May 10 through […]
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USM-LAC to host French sing-along
The public is invited to participate in the free monthly French sing-along at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18, at the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College, 51 Westminster St., Lewiston. Les Troubadours will lead a selection of local Franco favorites, such as “C’est Dans le Temps du Jour de L’An” and “Mon Dieu Bénissez la […]
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Gaslight Theater announces auditions
HALLOWELL — The Gaslight Theater announces auditions for its first production of the year, “A Rollicking Evening of One Acts.” The frivolous and funny one acts include “A Terrible False Deception” by Rafe MacPherson and a few others. Auditions will be held at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13, and at 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 14, at […]
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Looking Back on Jan. 8
100 years ago: 1919 (This item shows a vast difference in the 26th president’s funeral and the more recent 41st president’s funeral.) The body of Theodore Roosevelt was laid to rest today in a family cemetery plot witnessed by members of the family and a Congregational delegation and a group of two hundred neighbors, among […]
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CLT's 'Lend Me A Tenor' opens Jan. 11
AUBURN — There will be laughs aplenty at the L/A Community Little Theatre (CLT) when “Lend Me A Tenor” opens Friday, Jan. 11. Twenty-five years after it last produced this show, CLT is proud to bring back this Ken Ludwig tour de force under the direction of Mitchell Clyde Thomas. “I chose ‘Lend Me a Tenor’ […]
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Somali musician featured at this week's Oasis of Music
LEWISTON — Local singer Hadith Bani-Adam will bring his traditional and newer songs, accompanied by the instrument the oud, to this week’s Oasis of Music beginning at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 9, at Trinity Church, 247 Bates St. Bani-adam, a native of Somalia, learned to play and sing at a young age the poetic love songs […]
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Emily Flynn and Jordan Payne Hay at next La Rencontre
LEWISTON — The next La Rencontre at L/A’s Gendron Franco Center will feature two popular local singers Performing show tunes. Emily Flynn, Jordan Payne Hay and Paul G. Caron will present the program at the next La Rencontre (the gathering), starting at 11:25 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 10. The cost of the meal and the programs is […]