New England Celtic Arts will present Quebec’s internationally acclaimed Celtic ensemble Bonhomme Setter at the Green Church Concert Series in Mexico on Tuesday, Oct. 18; at Old South Church in Farmington on Thursday, Oct. 20; and One Longfellow Square in Portland on Saturday, Oct. 22. Curtain is at 7 p.m. at all locations. Jam sessions […]

AUBURN — Bangor Daily News staff editorial cartoonist George Danby will be at the Auburn Public Library at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17. The presentation is part of the library’s Pulitzer Prize Centennial Campfire Initiative series, sponsored by the Maine Humanities Council. Danby’s cartoons have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, […]

100 years ago, 1916The William Tell club will go into camp next Saturday. It is expected that a large representation of the club will go on the annual hunting trip this year. R. J. Hodgson of Lewiston, who is just now acting in the role of commissary, is giving close attention to his duties and […]

BRUNSWICK — Five Rivers Arts Alliance announces downtown Brunswick’s Second Friday Art Walk will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Oct. 14. Participating venues will display orange flags.

LEWISTON — The Dolard & Priscilla Gendron Franco Center will kick off its performance season with the annual Gala and Benefit Concert at 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15. There will be a pre-concert reception with complimentary hors d’oeuvres from 12 local restaurants. The entertainment, “Songs of the Silver Screen,” will showcase popular Hollywood movie themes […]

LEWISTON — Photographs by Alana Ranney and members of the Maine Professional Photographers Association are on display through the end of October in Central Maine Medical Center’s main lobby hallway at the 60 High St. entrance. A member of the Maine Professional Photographers Association since 2011, Ranney started photographing the world around her after taking […]

WINDHAM — Portland musician Sean Slaughter will appear with his band Master Stroke in a Queen tribute concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, at the Windham Performing Arts Center, 406 Gray Road. The Windham Chamber Singers will be special guests. Slaughter, veteran of the Portland music scene, has put together an all-star lineup that […]

POLAND — Poland Spring Resort will host a Leaf Peeping Musical Extravaganza at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, in the Maine Inn dining room. Folk artists Dave Rowe, the Squid Jiggers, and the Half Moon Jug Band will perform. Rowe, of Auburn, is the son of a member of the popular folk trio known as […]

100 years ago, 1916It has been suggested that Lewiston have a Municipal ice rink on the Athletic Park the coming winter and that funds for defraying the expense connected with the plan be raised by public subscription or by the sale of season tickets to those interested in ice skating. Other cities have done it […]

RUMFORD — The River Valley Growth Council and Pennacook Art Center invites the public to a reception for a new art show from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, in the River Valley Technology Center lobby, 60 Lowell St. The show displays paintings, drawings and photographs by local artists. Phillip Kane will play classic […]