My wife loves the Boss. She got one of my college friends to perform “Thunder Road” at our wedding, not long after the “Hava Nagila.” In the COVID years, “Born to Run,” the title song from the groundbreaking 1975 album played on repeat while our then-3-year-old ran laps around our small ranch house. Next Friday, […]
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Canada’s Lonesome Ace Stringband to play Boothbay Harbor Opera House
The Lonesome Ace Stringband arrives in the Midcoast on Friday to perform at the historical Boothbay Harbor Opera House. The band brings grit, skill and abandon to Americana music, bridging old-time, bluegrass and folk traditions into a hybrid of original material. The trio’s sound is anchored in the fiddle and clawhammer banjo of John Showman […]
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U.S. Air Force Academy Band to present free concert in Topsham
The U.S. Air Force Academy Band will present a free concert, “The Spirit of America,” at 7 p.m. Friday, April 11, at the Orion Performing Arts Center. The concert will feature patriotic favorites and highlight the contributions of service Members, as well as favorites in the genres of jazz, pop, classical, country and more. Two […]
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UUCB welcomes blues great to Concerts for a Cause
UUCB Concerts for a Cause presents blues great Guy Davis at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 12, at Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick to raise money for the Brunswick Area Teen Center and Maine Family Planning. A self-taught “Renaissance man,” Davis first heard the banjo at a summer camp run by John Seeger, the brother of […]
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From the Chocolate Church: The Ultimate Eagles Experience to rock the stage in Bath
When I was a teenager, I almost exclusively listened to classic rock. I consumed it all, from the popular to the obscure, and everything in between. That may have also been because I am a child of analog times. I grew up in Boston, which had the excellent, pure classic rock station WZLX. And April […]
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‘The hottest band in the Celtic realm’ coming to Johnson Hall Opera House
Celtic band Altan has brought its music all over Europe and Ireland, the U.S. and Canada, Japan, Australia and even North Africa. This month, Altan comes to Maine to perform on the Reehl Stage at Johnson Hall Opera House on March 28. Hailed as “the hottest band in the Celtic realm” by The Boston Globe, […]
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Amalgamation of American music styles to perform at Rockland library
Singer-songwriter David Dodson presents a Reading Room Concert at the Rockland Public Library at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 27. Dodson writes songs that run the gamut of American styles — folk, rock, blues, jazz and country. They cover a variety of topics and range from poignant to hilarious. He has shared the stage with K […]
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From the Chocolate Church: Experience sounds of southeastern Europe and beyond at Bath arts center
On March 15 at the Chocolate Church Annex club and cabaret space, we have a particular offering which might reveal my music nerdom. Music, in the wide variety of its forms, makes me love humanity. It makes me feel connected to life and the beautiful way our species, at its best, makes sense of being […]
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Women singing for social justice next up in Concerts for a Cause series
The UUCB Concerts for a Cause series presents the Portland-based choral group Women in Harmony at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 15, at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick, 1 Middle St. All proceeds from the concert will be split between the Brunswick Area Teen Center and Maine Family Planning. Women in Harmony is an affirming […]
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From the Chocolate Church: ‘Both Sides Now,’ the music and love between Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell
The relationship between two giants of 20th-century music told through story and song.