• In June 2010, Saco artist Diane Bowie Zaitlin attended a residency at Great Spruce Head Island in Penobscot Bay. In “Point of Departure” at the Saco Museum, she provides a view of her creative process and the power of influence. The exhibition will be on view beginning Saturday through Sept. 4. A public reception […]
Bob Keyes
Bob Keyes writes about the visual and performing arts for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. He appreciates that his job requires him to visit museums and attend plays and concerts across Maine, and most enjoys interviewing artists in their studios. He’s a New Englander by birth, and has lived in Maine off and on, most recently since 2002. He lives in Berwick with his wife, Vicki, and their son Luke.
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Bob Keyes: Bowdoin student joins Freedom Rides observance
As a youngster, Anna Nutter remembers piling in the car the very afternoon that school let out and making the long family drive from Texas to Maine. Her mother, who grew up here, couldn’t wait to escape the broiling Houston heat and return home to the cool breezes of a Maine summer. Along the way, […]
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Honk if you love the bassoon
Janet Polk, principal bassoonist for the PSO, surely does — for its distinctive sound and shapely profile — and she’s on a mission to get the rest of us to love it too.
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‘Take Heart’ puts best foot forward
New weekly series presents exemplary works by Maine’s poets
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John Prine masters the love song at Merrill
PORTLAND — With all the talk of royalty and weddings, it seems appropriate to anoint John Prine as the king of the love song. Certainly, the highly regarded American songwriter has mastered the art of emotional devastation in verse, but does anyone write a better song of devotion? His brilliance was on display Friday night […]
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Prine thrills fans with marathon show
The veteran singer-songwriter performs 25 songs for more than two hours.
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Sacred roots
The Choral Art Singers tackle a Carol Barnett piece that combines a classical, choir-based Mass with the down-home sounds of bluegrass.
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Benefit to aid Brunswick fire victims
The early-morning fire on April 17 destroyed the building and displaced residents of 11 apartments.
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Arts Planner
• “The Thinking Heart: The Life and Loves of Etty Hillesum” will be presented at First Parish Portland, 425 Congress St., on Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 1. “The Thinking Heart” is an ensemble work in two voices, with cello. It is an original arrangement of the diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum, taking the form […]
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Black beauty
Reflections of the outdoors constantly change the ebony landscape created by Lauren Fensterstock in the Ogunquit Museum of American Art.