CASCO — Loon Echo Land Trust’s Acoustic Sunset Concerts Series on top of Hacker’s Hill Preserve on Quaker Ridge Road in Casco,  returns Aug. 17 for the fifth season.  This month’s concert will feature the songs and instrumentation of folk favorites, Dennis O’neil and Davey Armstrong.   The duo’s foot stompin’ good time music is sure to […]

PARIS — My Tempered Soul is hosting a benefit rock concert on Saturday, Aug. 20, from 2 to 8 p.m., at the  Four Seasons Function Center,  187 Main St., South Paris. All profits will go to the Wounded Heroes Program of Maine. This event is open to all ages and donations will be collected at the […]

100 years ago, 1916The Republican State and county candidates of Oxford County concluded a three day tour of the county at Rumford with a big meeting at the Majestic theatre. The meeting was preceded by a old-fashioned torch-light procession from the Republican headquarters to the meeting place in which about 250 Republicans from Rumford and […]

LEWISTON — Maine Event Comedy will debut at the 24th Annual Great Falls Balloon Festival at 7:15 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, on the Main Stage at Simard-Payne Memorial Park in Lewiston. The show will feature five of New England’s funniest comedians including Jerry Caruso, Mark Reilly, Dawn Hartill, Peter Ouellette and host Mark Turcotte. The featured comedian, Jerry Caruso, is […]

CHESTERVILLE — In the most honest sense of the word, Michael Cooper is very simply, an artist.  Combining the craft of mime, mask-making, storytelling and movement,  Cooper transforms himself and the space around him, creating characters, animals, and stories seemingly out of the very air. Cooper not only brings his beautiful handmade masks to life, but he brings his […]

AUBURN — Ben Roberts will host Cafe LA’s fourth free comic showcase of the summer at 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18. Peter Ouellette of Lewiston will warm up the crowd as a tune-up for The Great Falls Balloon Fest, at which he will be featured on Aug 20. Owen Kane, another local and active comic, […]

  LEWISTON — Lewiston comedian Mark Turcotte will host Third Thursday Comedy Showcase at Bear Bones Beer on Thursday, Aug.18 at 8 p.m. The show will feature ‘Big’ Bob Glancy, who’s performed at the Comedy Cellar in New York City, along with fellow Maine comedians Mike Gray, Kevin Ryan, Jake Jacobson and Regan Sweeney.   Glancy has performed in Boston, […]

WEST PARIS — On Thursday, Aug. 18, at 6:30 p.m., the West Paris Library will host an opening reception. talk, and slidewhow for an exhibit of 30 photographs and pen-and-ink illustrations  by Sharon Garvey entitled “Moonlight and Indian Pipes.” The illustrations appear in Edward B. Garvey’s book, “The New Appalachian Trail.” Sharon and her husband, […]

PARIS — At 8 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 20, Celebration Barn Theater will present “BrouHaHa,” a funny and poetic escapade from Washington, D.C.’s award-winning Happenstance Theater.   In this newly devised, clown-esque piece, Happenstance Theater’s ensemble pares down to the raw essentials: Each performer plays one character, with one costume, carrying one case. This troupe of eccentrics is on the precipice at the end […]

A perfect showfor live theater MONMOUTH — Theather at Monmouth has staged a visually delightful production of “The Illusion.” It’s an unusual theatrical experiment by a 17th- century playwright presented in Tony Kushner’s “freely adapted” version from 1989. Kushner is a noted American playwright whose exquisite way with words gives this show a singular radiance.  […]