Bath concert features Half Moon Jug Band

BATH — The Half Moon Jug Band is the musical act for “Summer Saturdays at Six” on Saturday, Aug. 10, at 6 p.m. at Bath’s Waterfront Park.

The Half Moon Jug Band plays festivals all over the northeast like New Year’s Portland; the Maine Festival; the Old Port Festival; the Prescott Park Folk Festival; the Winthrop Performing Arts Center; the Maine Lobster Festival; Burlington’s strange 3rd of July Fireworks extravaganza; and the Fryeburg, Deerfield and Cornish fairs. For more information, visit www.halfmoonjugband.com.

Admission to Summer Saturdays at Six is free. This evening concert series is a free family friendly event for locals and visitors to enjoy live music, dancing, warm evenings and the recently updated Waterfront Park.

For more information on Summer Saturdays at Six or the Outdoor Concert Series at the gazebo, head to visitbath.com.

Free music, salads at Fuego Diablo

POWNAL — Fuego Diablo offers its Dog Days and Salad Days of Summer Dance Party on Saturday, Aug. 17, from 5:30-9 p.m., at 52 Loring Lane.

There will be live acoustic performances from all genres. People are invited to bring an instrument or a voice and join in, or just come and enjoy the music. Storytellers and poets also welcome. Organizers are “featuring toe-tapping, knee-slapping, get up out of your chair wiggle music this month. Songs about dogs, vegetables or summer will be in high demand so tune up, get yourself a little ditty and come on over.”

Performance slots will be open for individual acts plus a jam session for anyone who wants to drop in and play later in the evening. The menu this month will feature salads from around the world made with veggies from the Fuego gardens.

Music begins promptly at 6:15 p.m.

The evening is free and open to all ages and abilities.

This month’s fun will be held outdoors, weather permitting. Please bring chairs and bug spray. No sound system this time around. In the event of wet weather, we will once again be inside where seating is limited.

Please check our Facebook page on the day of the event for weather updates.

For more information, visit www.facebook.com/fuegodiablopownal or call 408-3185.

7th Outdoor Festival in Brunswick Aug. 17

BRUNSWICK — The seventh annual Brunswick Outdoor Arts Festival is scheduled to take place on Saturday, Aug. 17, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Downtown Brunswick. This event, hosted by the Brunswick Downtown Association, is designed to celebrate and foster an appreciation of the arts.

More than 90 juried artists and artisans will be displaying and selling their artwork along the sidewalks of Maine Street and the Town Mall. Downtown Brunswick will be teeming with examples of art ranging from painting to sculpture, mixed media to graphics, drawing to photography, and fine arts to fine crafts. Thousands of visitors fill the sidewalks of Maine Street and the adjacent town mall to enjoy the Brunswick Outdoor Arts Festival each year.

The event will include performances by Maine State Music Theatre and roving musicians, as well as a variety of children’s events and art demonstrations such as woodworking, basket weaving, spoon carving, face painting, hula hooping, juggling, jewelry making, quilting, stone sculpting, henna tattoos, and more.

From noon to 4 p.m., David Bullard will present a number of singer songwriters at the Gazebo on the mall.

A stage will be set up in front of the Bank of America building on Maine Street and will feature the following bands:

— 10 a.m.-noon, JimmyJo & the Jumbol’Ayuhs (Cajun)

— Noon-2 p.m., Sean Mencher (rockabilly)

— 2-4 p.m., Backwoods Road Band (bluegrass/country)

For a full listing of current festival artists, visit www.brunswickdowntown.org/BOAF.