The Bacon Brothers will perform a concert at 8 p.m. Sunday, July 31, at the Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St., in Waterville. Bound by blood and a mutual love of American roots music, The Bacon Brothers have spent the past quarter-century in a creative whirl, funneling their shared DNA into a genre-bending sound. They […]
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Theater at Monmouth to stage ‘Eurydice’
“Eurydice,” by Sarah Ruhl and directed by Dawn McAndrews, is planned for July 28 through Aug. 19 at Cumston Hall, at 796 Main St. in Monmouth. Stage times are 7:30 p.m. July 28, 29, Aug. 6, 11, 17 and 19; 7 p.m. Aug. 14; and 1 p.m. Aug. 3, 7, and 13. On her wedding […]
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‘The Newsroom’ best show of the summer, says J.P. Devine
When we hear the name Aaron Sorkin, we think of the Broadway play that was written by Sorkin called “A Few Good Men.” The movie version, starring Jack Nicholson, followed up by winning four Oscars. Sorkin became one of America’s top writers, a reputation that brought him to television’s “The West Wing,” with Martin Sheen […]
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The Adam Ezra Group to make Somerset Abbey debut July 17
For this special online only column, I picked a similar theme and day of performance! Like my chat with Tinsley Ellis, who’s appearing at the NABF on this Sunday the 17th, Adam Ezra and I go ‘way back having conducted many interviews together over his long career which began with his band’s first album in […]
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Jonathan Edwards heading to Madison for July 29 show
I have been a fan of this man ever since his self-titled debut album arrived from Capricorn Records back in 1971 (a couple of years after I began my music journalism gig) … there was a freshness and freedom present there that captured my interest at that time and it is still present in his […]
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Lithgow Library plans concert series
Lithgow Library’s summer concert series sponsored by The Friends of Lithgow Library returns. Free concerts are set for 6:30 p.m. Monday through July on the library’s front lawn, 45 Winthrop St in Augusta. In case of rain, concerts will move into the Library Community Meeting Room. The Blenders will perform July 17. The band is […]
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Jerry Bryant to present a musical program on traditional sailor chanteys in Norway
Jerry Bryant, of Amherst, Massachusetts, will present a musical program on traditional sailor chanteys from 7-8 p.m. on Thursday, July 28, at the Norway Memorial Library. The men who worked on square-riggers in the 19th century used rhythmic work songs, which they called chanteys (or shanties, depending on where they were from), to coordinate their […]
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Sandy River Ramblers concert planned in Readfield
The Sandy River Ramblers plan to perform a bluegrass concert at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 26, at the Union Meeting House, 22 Church Road, in Readfield. The Ramblers are, stylistically, a traditional bluegrass band, but their specialty is original songs about Maine, mostly written by bandleader Stan Keach, who is a nationally-known bluegrass songwriter. […]
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Mill Town Road Show to play in Music for Mavis series
Mill Town Road Show will perform as part of Music for Mavis Tuesdays at the Gazebo series at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 26, in Turner. The band features Jack D. Jolie, who lived on Music Row in Nashville during his teenage years writing country music and recording with his father, while taking guitar lessons […]
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Mike Levine Trio plans July 22 performance in Denmark
A Mike Levine Trio with vocalist Wendy Pederson concert is set for 7 p.m. Friday, July 22, at the Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Main St. in Denmark. The group has been performing throughout Maine for the last 14 years. They cover a lot of musical ground reaching into The Great American Songbook, blues, pop, Latin […]