ALNA Saturday, December 20, is Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway’s annual Victorian Christmas celebration. Train rides and all the day’s other fun events are free. The first train departs Sheepscot Station at 10 a.m. and travels to Alna Center where riders can disembark to visit Santa Claus, ride behind a horse-drawn wagon or sleigh (depending […]
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Sounds of Christmas Joy
FREEPORT — “Sounds of Christmas Joy” – Holiday music by the Coastal Winds, Freeport’s community concert band. Tuesday, December 16 at 6 p.m. at the Harraseeket Inn Casco Bay Room, 162 Main St., Freeport. Hors d’oeuvres and cash bar. Suggested admission is a non-perishable food item for the Freeport Community Services Food Pantry. For more […]
‘Holiday in Lights’ at Franco Center
LEWISTON —You won’t want to miss “Holiday in Lights”, with Mitch Thomas and Friends. The annual concert will take place on Saturday, December 20 at 7:30 p.m. at the Franco Center in Lewiston. Thomas, a local pianist/singer/songwriter who is the Center’s executive director and directs and performs at Community Little Theatre, will present several seasonal […]
PFL to host cartooning workshop
BATH — Cartoonist and professional illustrator Vance Bessey will offer a cartooning demonstration and workshop for teens at Patten Free Library today, Friday, December 12 at 3:30 p.m. The workshop is free, open to teenagers (seventh grade to 12th grades), and will be held in the Library’s Community Room. No pre-registration is required. “This workshop […]
Singing Santas on Bailey Island
HARPSWELL — The Nor’easters Barbershop Chorus of Brunswick, will be presenting an a cappella Christmas Concert on Friday, December 12, at 7 p.m. at the Lincoln County Assembly of God Church, 672 Main St. Damariscotta. In addition, In the Mix and Frost on the Pumpkins barbershop quartets as well as the Assembly of God music […]
Coig rocks Chocolate Church
BATH The Chocolate Church hosted Coig, a Celtic band from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, on Friday, December 5. The lively young musicians — Chrissy Crowley on fiddle and viola, Colin Grant on fiddle, the “Swiss Army Knife” Darren McMullen on guitar, mandolin, mandola, banjo, bouzouki, baritone guitar, flute, whistles, and vocals, Rachel Davis on fiddle, […]
Literacy and the Candy Cane Train
BATH Imagine being the parent of a preschooler and not being able to read your child a bedtime story. Or a prescription bottle. Or fill out a job application. Or negotiate a simple website. Or read this newspaper story. Statewide, some 150,000 adults are thought to have reading and writing deficits, some very severe. The […]
Whats up at the Chocolate Church?
COIG CÒIG brings Irish music for Christmas BATH The Chocolate Church Arts Center welcomes CÒIG as part of International Christmas of Music series tonight, Friday, December 5 at 7:30pm. The concert will showcase this exciting ensemble consisting of five solo acts. Irish music enthusiasts will enjoy the musical stylings and songs of these Cape […]
Scurvy Dicks 2014 Buccaneers Ball
BATH ARR! Scurvy Dick and the Yardarms return from the 2014 Carribbean Tour to perform at their annual Buccanneers Ball at Byrnes Irish Pub on Saturday, December 6 at 7 p.m. Scurvy says, Get ye there early, mateys, for the best seats! There will be drink specials, swag giveaways, nipple rings, pirate beatnik poetry, and […]
Studio Theatre presents 2nd annual Twisted Christmas
BATH A nice and naughty evening of entertainment! Leave the kiddos at Grandmas or find them a play date Studio Theatre of Bath president April Purinton calls Twisted Christmas A festive evening full of stress-busting, mood-lifting unpredictable comic relief for grownups. Songs, skits, audience participation and classic Christmas themes with a twist make this a […]