Tough End String Band to perform Johnson Hall Free Waterfront Concert

Johnson Hall Free Waterfront Concert to feature Unfinished Blues Band

Photos: Salvaging wood from Maine’s oldest opera house

Renovations to Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center, considered the state's oldest opera house, began this month. A crew from Barn Boards & More, a local wood salvaging business, was pulling up and saving the tongue-and-groove floor boards from the theater Thursday to reuse as flooring or make into tabletops. By December 2023, the three-story performing arts venue in Gardiner is expected to reopen to the public with a 400-seat theater, a large lobby and concession area, full-service box office, green rooms for performers, and an elevator. Local hotel owner Benjamin Johnson turned the former livery stable into a performance hall in 1884, and it became an opera house in 1888. All photos by Kennebec Journal photojournalist Joe Phelan.

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Gardiner’s Johnson Hall secures additional $150,000 from city

Contribution to help inch historic opera house closer to fundraising goal that has jumped in recent months.

Johnson Hall in Gardiner prepares for start of renovations at historic opera house

With the building at 280 Water St. closed for about the next 18 months, Johnson Hall's Waterfront Concert Series is to be held this summer and in 2022-23 at other venues in Gardiner.

Johnson Hall to host ‘The Alewife Review’

Maine Event Comedy presents Carolyn Plummer at Johnson Hall

Theater group to present ‘Twain By the Tale’

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Friends of beloved musician Martin Swinger planning central Maine concert, parade in his memory

The concert, called "Music in the Rafters: Celebrating the Music and Magic of Martin Swinger," is set for Sept. 19 at 6 p.m. at Johnson Hall in Gardiner.