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Ward Hayden & The Outliers plan Brownfield concert
Ward Hayden & The Outliers (formerly Girls Guns & Glory) will perform at 8 p.m. Friday April 23, at Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Road, in Brownfield. The band was formed as a way to break from the music so commonly found on popular radio airwaves. Hayden’s foray into country music and early […]
Palaver Strings Beehive Chamber Series: “Beyond the Offbeats” to be staged at Johnson Hall
Palaver Strings Beehive Chamber Series: “Beyond the Offbeats,” will perform a livestreamed concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 24, from the Johnson Hall stage, at 280 Water St. in Gardiner. The concert will feature viola duo Elizabeth Moore and Lysander Jaffe. Moore, viola co-artistic director and programming director, grew up in midcoast Maine and was […]
Looking Back on April 20
100 Years Ago: 1921 Rehearsals for the “1921 Minstrel Elks” production are being held every evening this week at 7:30 o’clock In the Elks Home, corner Ash and Middle streets. The production is fast rounding into shape and promises to be the biggest of its kind this year. 50 Years Ago: 1971 A candy sale […]
‘Lucky’ book signing planned in Lewiston
Event part of fundraising efforts for Christy Gardner’s service dog program, Mission Working Dogs
John Gawler to perform at Oasis of Music
John Gawler will perform at the Oasis of Music from 12:30-1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 21, at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston. Gawler is well-known to Maine audiences as an elder of the Gawler Family, singers and players of traditional and contemporary music, who perform internationally and have recorded several CDs. […]
Rumford’s Tom Fallon publishes new book ‘Creation Now With Words’
RUMFORD — Rumford author, editor and poet Tom Fallon has published a new book, “Creation Now With Words,” that in his own words “injects an avant-garde direction into the Maine literary scene.” Fallon, an octogenarian and former millworker, is well known in Maine literary circles for his experimentation with words. “Creation Now With Words” is […]
Oshima Brothers to perform in Boothbay Harbor
The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor will host the Oshima Brothers at 7 p.m. Friday, April 23, at 86 Townsend Ave. in Boothbay Harbor. The Oshima Brothers’ magnetic sibling sound and contagious joy result from a lifetime of making music together. Raised in a musical family in rural Maine, the brothers have honed a harmony-rich blend […]
Looking Back on April 19
100 Years Ago: 1921 Babe Ruth jammed out his second home run of the season yesterday thereby breaking up the Yankee-Red Sox game in New York. The score was tied until the Cave Man broke loose. Meusel also followed suit pasting one likewise with two men on. 50 Years Ago: 1971 Members of four 4H […]