BLISTERED FINGERS BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL
The Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festival will celebrate its 65th festival Thursday through Sunday at the Litchfield Fairgrounds, 30 Plains Road in Litchfield.
Live music is planned for the big stage Thursday, Friday and Saturday, a gospel sing-a-long and jam is set for 10 a.m. Sunday, along with 24 hours of field picking with informal jams throughout the festival grounds.
A variety of food, arts and crafts vendors will be available.
Don’t forget the Blistered Fingers Kids Academy, a free and relaxed informative three-day music program for ages 6-18. Students can bring their own instruments and participate in the program.
Performers include: Nothin’ Fancy, The Gibson Brothers, Dave Adkins & Mountain Soul, Special Consensus, Larry Efaw & The Bluegrass Mountaineers, Katahdin Valley Boys, Beartracks, Ironwood Drive Band, Back Woods Road, Robinson’s Gospel Sing and Jam, and the host band, Blistered Fingers.
Ticket prices vary; BlisteredFingers.com.
UNDER THE OAKS FESTIVAL
Under the Oaks Festival is set for Friday and Saturday at the Sandy River Music Festival, Narrow Gauge Amphitheater, 123 Narrow Gauge Square, Farmington.
The two-day music festival, hosted by GoldenOak, will feature live music, workshops and camping along the Sandy River.
GoldenOak, Caroline Cotter and Randy Miles perform Friday.
GoldenOak, The Ballroom Thieves, Alisa Amador, Oshima Brothers, Heather Maloney, High Tea and Bee Parks & the Hornets perform Saturday.
Tickets cost $35-$60; whistlestopconcertseries.com.
SILENT FILM FESTIVAL: UP IN MAINE
The Augusta Colonial Theater’s 4th annual Silent Movie Festival: Up in Maine, featuring three shot-in-Maine films, is set for 1-3 p.m. Saturday at Farber Forum at Jewett Hall, 46 University Drive, Augusta.
Ed Lorusso has once again scoured the archives, found these films, and carefully restored them. Jeff Rapsis will provide live music on the keyboard.
The films include: “Jean Rescues” (1911), “Three and a Girl” (1920) and “God’s Country and the Law” (1921).
WINDSOR FAIR
The Windsor Fair, slated for Aug. 29 through Sept. 7, is held annually at 82 Ridge Road, Windsor.
The fair celebrates Maine’s agricultural heritage through livestock exhibitions, horse shows, agricultural displays, harness racing, pulling events, live entertainment, midway rides and a variety of food vendors.
Educational opportunities are available for children and adults while showcasing the state’s farming traditions, local businesses and community spirit.
‘THE SECOND TO THE LAST CHANCE LADIES LEAGUE‘
The Lakewood Theater is set to stage Jones Hope Wooten’s “The Second to Last Chance Ladies League” at various times Aug. 27-Sept. 5 at 76 Theater Road in Madison.
In this uproarious comedy, four best friends, each yearning to change her life before it’s too late, return to their beloved Laurelton Oaks, a wedding venue they know well, in one of their cases, all too well. With Deedra’s purchase of the stately venue the others rally around her, and the business is ingeniously reimaged as “Occasionally Yours,” an events center for all kinds of fresh, new celebratory gatherings.
With these women so involved in each other’s lives, what could possibly go wrong?
Tickets cost $30-$52 for adults or $23 for children 4-17; lakewoodtheater.org.
‘UNABASHEDLY‘
Don’t miss the chance to see “Unabashedly” at various times Aug. 28 through Sept. 6 at the Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St., Waterville.
An ancient myth states we are each connected to our one by a red thread, which stretches, bends and twists but never breaks, eventually drawing us together. Dave, a young editor at a major city newspaper, feels someone tugging at his thread. But Helen, a new beat reporter, is a nonbeliever. Will the thread hold, and even if it does, what if you don’t like this One once you’ve reeled them in?
Tickets: $32-$34; operahouse.org.
SIGRID SIBLEY with SETH GALLANT
Johnson Hall’s Homegrown Series plans to feature Sigrid Sibley and Seth Gallant at 7:30 p.m. Saturday on the Logan Stage at 280 Water St., Gardiner.
Sibley, of Poland Spring, was raised on a small homestead with backyard chickens, fruit trees and a busy family garden. She began songwriting at age 14, finding roots in bluegrass, Americana and traditional music. Her songs draw on common folk themes, as well as her love for nature, agriculture, and life in Maine.
Gallant grew up in a mill town in rural western Maine to a family that played music on the front porch at almost any occasion. Traditions of folk, country and Acadian music would shape the songs he writes and performs today.
Tickets cost $15; johnsonhall.org.
Looking for more? Check out the online calendar listings for other entertainment offerings.
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