BRUNSWICK The Bowdoin International Music Festival is now in the fifth week of its 53rd season. Program highlights include Beethoven and Brahms; works by Maine composer Robert Sirota and performances by Jeffrey Zeigler, Phillip Ying, Kurt Muroki, Steven Doane, and the Jupiter String Quartet. July 21: Ravel, Sirota, and Schubert “Every culture has its images […]

Concerts are held every Sunday through Aug. 27 from 6-8 p.m. at Mailly Waterfront Park unless otherwise noted, and food will be sold by a variety of vendors. • July 16, Scott Davis Big Band, jazz musicians • July 23, Intergalactic Yurt Band, 3 to 6 p.m. — Americana/roots/bluegrass; Cilantro, 6 p.m. — classics from […]

BOWDOINHAM Bowdoinham’s summer concert series continues this season with free concerts Sunday evenings in Mailly Waterfront Park along the Cathance River. The concerts run from 6-8 p.m. Sundays until Aug. 30 and feature a variety of musicians and music genres — everything from blues to reggae to rock- ’n roll. Organized by Watersong Music of […]

HALLOWELL The Harlow Gallery invites artists working in the comic book industry and artists inspired by comic book art and themes to submit work to be considered for POW!, a juried art show on view Sept. 8 through Oct. 21. The deadline for email submissions is 11 p.m. Aug. 1. Eligibility & Criteria: Submissions are […]

BOOTHBAY Have you always wanted to carve stone, or work with wood or metal? This summer Boothbay Railway Village is offering stone-carving, barrel-making, and blacksmithing workshops as part of the Artisan Days Program of craft demonstrations. Create a relief sculpture that can be used as a bedwarmer with sculptor and art teacher Anne Alexander. Participants […]

BATH Arrowsic artist Katherine Mead-von Huene will be the featured guest artist at Centre St Arts Gallery, at 11 Centre Street in Bath, from July 17 through Sept. 8. An opening reception will be Friday, July 21, from 5-7 p.m. at the Gallery. Meadvon Huene writes: “As a child, drawing gave me an alternate world, […]

BRUNSWICK — “Prints, Poems, and Prayer Flags: Celebrating Life Together” is the current show in the Morrell Meeting room at Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick. Nancy Marstaller fills the room with prints, drawings, paintings, collage,and prayer flags. Scattered among the art are poems that inspired her. Marstaller started making prayer flags several years ago, as […]

BRUNSWICK — Local artist Margaret Leonard will be showing her artwork at The Mix on Maine Street from July 14 through Aug. 9. A special artist reception will take place during Brunswick’s 2nd Friday Art Walk on Friday, July 14 between 4:30-7:30 p.m. There will be live music by Chain of Fools, light refreshments and […]

BRUNSWICK The Bowdoin International Music Festival is now in the fourth week of its 53rd season. Program highlights include Brahms and Ravel; works by contemporary composer Andrew Norman; and performances by Anne Akiko Meyers, Kurt Muroki and Almita Vamos. There will also be a unique performance featuring collaboration between the Jupiter and Ying String Quartets. […]

BRUNSWICK First Parish Church, UCC in Brunswick has announced its 32nd Annual Summer Organ Concert Series. Beginning Tuesday, July 18 and continuing through Aug. 15, this weekly series of five noontime concerts will feature local and international organists. All concerts will be on the church’s 1883 Hutchings, Plaisted & Company pipe organ, which was restored […]