Actor and comedian Bill Murray met German cellist Jan Vogler on a trans-Atlantic flight. The two struck up a friendship and soon had the idea to work together on a project: New Worlds. On the album and in live performance, Murray as both brings his charm and wit to songs by Foster, Gershwin and Bernstein. […]
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Swingin' Bears hosting an evening of square dancing fun
PARIS — The Swingin’ Bears Square Dance Club will host an evening of dance, featuring Denise Carbonell and Al Hipkins, from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, March 10, at the Oxford Hills Middle School, 100 Pine St. Carbonell, of Sanford, is the caller for the Alfred Square Dance Club and will call a Mainstream and […]
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Steve Dunphey, Tattooed Lies at Pedro O'Hara's
Steve Dunphey will perform at Pedro O’Hara’s, 134 Main St., Lewiston, from 8 to 11 p.m. Friday, Feb. 23. There is no cover. Tattooed Lies will appear at Pedro O’Hara’s, 134 Main St., Lewiston, from 8 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 24. No is no cover.
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LOLS, Portland Jazz Orchestra among March performances at One Longfellow Square
PORTLAND — One Longfellow Square has announced its March performances. Richard Shindell: Thursday, March 1. Originally from New York, now dividing his time between Buenos Aires, Argentina and New York’s Hudson Valley, Shindell is a writer whose songs paint pictures, tell stories, juxtapose ideas and images, inhabit characters, vividly evoking entire worlds along the way. Tickets are […]
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Looking Back on February 23
100 years ago, 1918Rabbits will win the war! That is the latest slogan of the food enthusiasts and a corporation of local business men headed by F. C. Tibbets and Grant Rogers, of Auburn, have set about to prove it. Under the name of the Androscoggin Food and Fur Co., several of the prominent professionals […]
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'Monk Night' in Fryeburg with Bradley Jazz Collective
FRYEBURG — The Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center’s “Bradley Backstage” concert series presents The Bradley Jazz Collective at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 2. The band, comprised of esteemed local musicians Craig Bryan (drums), Al Hospers (bass), Mimi Rohlfing (vocals), Mike Sakash (saxophone) and Jed Wilson (piano), will perform the music of jazz legend Thelonious […]
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Poet Richard Blanco in residence at Colby's Lunder Institute
WATERVILLE — Acclaimed poet and artistic visionary Richard Blanco, whose stirring words celebrated the 2013 Inauguration of President Barack Obama and whose creative spirit has been recognized around the world, will be in residence at the Colby College Lunder Institute for American Art starting this month. Blanco, the spring semester artist-in-residence for the institute’s inaugural […]
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Looking Back on February 22
100 years ago, 1918Fred M. Furbush Jr., 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred M. Furbush of Washington street, Auburn, was saved by a chance of good luck yesterday from death by drowning or freezing. He was trying out his father’s snowshoes when he attempted to cross what appeared to be a sheet of ice. […]
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Portland folk singer to appear at New Gloucester coffeehouse
NEW GLOUCESTER — Connor Garvey, folk singer-songwriter, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 3, at the New Gloucester Village Coffeehouse. Garvey is a folk singer-songwriter from Portland, whose unique sandy tenor and masterful blend of rhythm and melody draw comparison to Paul Simon and contemporaries Josh Ritter and Jason Mraz. The combination of songwriting […]
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3 Ravens at Chocolate Church
The folk trio 3 Ravens will come to roost with musical tales told in imaginative ways at the Chocolate Church Arts Center Annex at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 3. The Annex is at 804 Washington St., Bath. The trio members are Max Cohen, Lui Collins and Donna Hebert, who will appear as part of the […]