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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PublishedMarch 28, 2010
One-woman show plays on April Fools’ Day
PORTLAND — It’s somehow appropriate that Karmo Sanders performs Thursday at the St. Lawrence Arts and Community Center in Portland. Thursday is April Fools’ Day. Sanders is better known as the “Marden’s Lady.” You may know her from her TV commercials, but those offer only a glimpse of her zaniness. For nearly three years, Sanders […]
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PublishedMarch 21, 2010
Arts Dispatches
PORTLAND Photographer donates image to support cancer cure group Award-winning photographer Donald Verger has donated a pink rose image valued at $1,000 to support the Pink Tie Ball, an annual event of the Maine affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The event was held Saturday at Holiday Inn by the Bay. Verger is […]
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PublishedMarch 21, 2010
Niche carver
Wayne Robbins has the skills to whittle most anything, but he chooses to focus on the great whales for their ‘absolutely graceful’ mien.
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PublishedMarch 21, 2010
Keyes: Weekend lineup’s got serious Punch
This week, it’s all about the mandolin, that wonderful teardrop-shaped stringed instrument that gives bluegrass and acoustic music its high notes. Few people are more adept at coaxing beautiful sounds from the instrument than Chris Thile, a 29-year-old plucker from California. Thile is best known for his work in the bluegrass band Nickel Creek, but […]
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PublishedMarch 21, 2010
Arts Planner
This week Musicians from the Portland Chamber Music Festival will perform a benefit concert in support of St. Luke’s Soup Kitchen at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Cathedral of St. Luke, 143 State St., Portland. New York Philharmonic double-bassist William Blossom, who performed last year with the Portland Chamber, will bring his Cicada Chamber Players […]
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PublishedMarch 9, 2010
PSO announces 2010-11 season
Among the guests will be Edgar Meyer, a Grammy Award-winning bass player and composer who will join the PSO for its season-opening gala Oct. 3.
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PublishedMarch 7, 2010
Arts Planner
This week • Michael Trautman’s Big Time Vaudeville Show makes it final appearance of the season at 7 p.m. Saturday at Merriconeag Waldorf School, 57 Desert Road, Freeport. The performance will include appearances by Jones & Boyce and Dos Eckies. Jones & Boyce are Brian Jones and Susan Boyce, a song, dance, and comedy team […]
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PublishedMarch 7, 2010
Arts Dispatches
PORTLAND Hurt flutist Galway cancels guest spot in NPR’s concert Flutist Sir James Galway, who was scheduled to appear as a guest as part of a concert and recording of the NPR show “From the Top” at 7 p.m. March 24 at Merrill Auditorium, will not be part of the performance because of an injury. […]
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PublishedMarch 7, 2010
Sculptor goes diving for sunken treasure
WESTBROOK – Sometime after ice-out this spring, Portland artist Aaron Stephan will hop in a truck with a buddy and travel north to Moosehead Lake and the headwaters of the Kennebec River. They will scavenge for old-growth logs left over from the logging boom, buried in the mud in the depths below the surface. Hundreds […]
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PublishedFebruary 28, 2010
Arts Planner
This week • Beginning Friday, the Addison Woolley Gallery presents ”Ghana: An African Portrait Revisited,” an exhibition of photography from the sub-Saharan country. The show opens with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday as part of the Portland First Friday Art Walk. The exhibition will remain on view through March 26. The gallery […]
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