Magic lessons offered at 49 Franklin in Rumford

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April 1, 2024

Magic lessons offered at 49 Franklin in Rumford

Stab a borrowed bill and immediately restore it, vanish coins and bring them back, suspend a toothpick in mid-air. These are a few of the many magic tricks you can learn at 49 Franklin’s School of Magic and Showmanship. Lessons include Close-up and Parlor Magic intended to perform tableside in the home, restaurant, or at […]
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April 1, 2024

Hammered dulcimer performance planned for Oasis of Music

Hammered dulcimer player Keith Prairie will perform at the Oasis of Music beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 3, at Trinity Commons in Lewiston. Folk music got its hooks into Prairie early on playing guitar and singing in high-school. For decades his fans have enjoyed his rich voice and mastery of the hammered dulcimer and […]
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March 27, 2024

Opening reception planned for exhibit of astro-photography on display in RFA gallery

The Rangeley Friends of the Arts plan to host an artist reception celebrating the works of regional photographers Ben Pearson and Nick Leadley from 5:30-7 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, at the Lakeside Contemporary Art Gallery, located in the lobby of the RFA Lakeside Theater, 2493 Main St., in Rangeley. The exhibit continues through Tuesday, […]
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March 26, 2024

Gaslight Theater presents production of ‘Four Old Broads’

The Gaslight Theater will present “Four Old Broads” by Leslie Kimbell over two weekends in April at Hallowell City Hall Auditorium. Things have not been very pleasant at Magnolia Place Assisted Living home so our Four Old Broads decide to outsmart the “evil” nurse, Pat, to solve the mystery of wrong pills, “the dark side” […]
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March 26, 2024

Louise Bichan brings lively fiddle tunes to The Gem in Bethel

Photography and music, inspired by nature and stories of connection
Published
March 26, 2024

Windham Chamber Singers to take stage at Franco Center

The Windham Chamber Singers will perform at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 3, at the Franco Center in Lewiston. The WCS group gained international attention in 1996 by winning the Prize of Vienna at the 25th International Youth and Music Festival in Vienna, Austria. Their accomplishments have been recognized on NBC Nightly News and National […]
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March 26, 2024

Local author to give Underground Railroad presentation at Auburn church

Christian history author Mark Alan Leslie will give a presentation on the Underground Railroad at 2 p.m. on Monday, April 1, presented by The Auburn Art Club at the United Methodist Church in Auburn. Leslie wrote in a recent press release, “Mainers were crucial to helping runaway slaves escape to Canada in the 1800’s, defying […]
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March 26, 2024

UMF presents first-ever campus student production of ‘The Sacred Prostitute and Other Plays’

Students at the University of Maine at Farmington will present the first-ever campus student production of “The Sacred Prostitute and Other Plays” by Mina Loy. This next stop on the world premiere tour will take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, April 4-6; and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 7, in the Performance Space in […]
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March 26, 2024

Studio Two — early Beatles tribute band — to play at Franco Center

Studio Two will return with their early Beatles tribute music at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 5, at the Franco Center in Lewiston. Band members include Stephen Murray who portrays John Lennon, Joshua Jones as Paul McCartney, Robert Murray as George Harrison, and Dylan Verge as Ringo Starr and they are experienced musicians of today’s […]
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March 26, 2024

Author Matthew J.C. Clark to be featured in UMF Visiting Writers Series

The celebrated Visiting Writers Series will present nonfiction writer Matthew J.C. Clark as the popular program’s final reader of the 2023/24 season. Clark will read from his work at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 4, in The Landing in the Olsen Student Center at the University of Maine at Farmington. The reading is free and […]