Award-winning blues, R&B and Americana vocalist Shemekia Copeland, touring in support of her latest Alligator Records release “America’s Child,” will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 9, at the Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St. in Waterville. “America’s Child” is Copeland’s most compelling work yet, with music swelling beyond blues and into spirited Americana, with […]
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Lucky Clark On Music: Sandy River Ramblers
Band to perform March 10 at Jewett Auditorium
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OFF RADAR: ‘Li Bai Rides a Celestial Dolphin Home’
Tom Sexton’s poetic cosmos spans Eastport to Anchorage, and beyond
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J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘Birds of Passage’
In Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego’s “Birds of Passage” we get it all: gringos, grease guns and greed. Think the “Godfather’s” Corleone family in Northern Colombia. For Sicilians we get the Wayuu, an enormous tribe with all the bells and whistles of a Brooklyn mob family in simpler clothes and family rituals, omertà like codes […]
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Facsimile Cabinet of Women Origin Stories will make it’s U.S. debut at the Colby Museum of Art
Theaster Gates’s Facsimile Cabinet of Women Origin Stories will make it’s U.S. debut Tuesday, March 12, at the Colby Museum of Art, 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, in Waterville. The exhibit, on view through Sept 8, will feature nearly 3,000 images from the Johnson Publishing Company archive contained within a room-size storage and display cabinet designed […]
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Orchestra to pay tribute to David Bowie March 9
The Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s annual Pops concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 9, at UMaine’s Collins Center for the Arts, 2 Flagstaff Road in Orono. This year, the orchestra is joined by tribute artist David Brighton and his band for Space Oddity: The Ultimate David Bowie Experience, conducted by Jeffrey L. Patterson. The […]
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Sebascodegan Gallery Artists featured at Damariscotta gallery
“A Bright Spot,” an exhibit by eight Sebascodegan Gallery Artists, will be featured March 12 through April 30 at Damariscotta River Grill, 155 Main St. in Damariscotta. The cooperative group of Maine artists have shown in a former church on Sebascodegan Island during the summer for the last 29 years. The “Art at the Grill” […]
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Heron Valley to perform March 8
Scottish Celtic band to take the stage at Chocolate Church Annex.
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R. Kelly curses, screams, cries in TV interview denying sexual abuse
CBS’ Gayle King proves unflappable during an emotional interview with R&B star R. Kelly that aired on ‘CBS This Morning.’
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Bonanza of barred owl sightings in Maine elicits delight, awe
Many people are reporting sightings on social media, and a Maine Audubon naturalist cites the boom in the rodent population for the abundance of owls whose call sounds like ‘who cooks for you.’