The DaPonte String Quartet summer concert series will feature performances in some of Maine’s most beautiful landscapes, culminating with a special two-day Festival at Bates College’s Olin Arts Center, with guest artists Frank Glazer and George Lopez on piano. To help audiences get in the Fourth of July spirit, Summer Series 1, entitled “Made in […]

BRUNSWICK —”Merrymeeting Singers Celebrate Spring” is the theme of a concert of choral music to be presented on Saturday, May 17 at 7:30 p.m. The concert will take place at the new Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick, on the corner of Pleasant and Middle Streets, which replaces the old church destroyed by fire. A wide […]

BATH — The Cosmopolitan Club of Bath announces the Return of the May Breakfast, to be served on Saturday, May 17, 7-10am at 894 Washington Street. Originally started in 1934, the May Breakfast was a very popular community event in Bath and a significant fundraiser for the women’s club. After declining lack of attendance and […]

BATH — For the 17th straight year Bath has been named a “Tree City USA” by the Arbor Day Foundation. City Arborist, Tom Hoerth, will accept the award for the City at a Maine Forest Service celebration in Farmington on May 20th. On Wednesday, May 21st the Bath Community Forestry Committee will award its annual […]

DAMARISCOTTA MILLS Join us on Memorial Day weekend to celebrate the return of the alewives. The seventh annual Damariscotta Mills Fish Ladder Restoration Festival will be held on Memorial Day weekend, May 24, 25, and 26. “We are holding the festival to celebrate the return of the alewives and the restoration work completed to date,” […]

BATH ArtVan, that beloved, iconic movable artistic feast for the eyes, is celebrating its tenth birthday by hiring a Director of Operations and Development, and allowing founder and Executive Director Jamie Silvestri to get back to doing what she loves … using art as therapy. The Van brings arts to the children and teens who […]

The mass of frigid air known as the Polar Vortex is expanding south and east, bringing more of the US into a deep freeze. Forecasters say up to 187 million people could feel the effects of the cold weather.

The DaPonte String Quartet returns to the classics with their next program, “Vienna, Vienna,” inspired by the city whose name is synonymous with the greatest in classical music. It features string quartets by Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Beethoven. Performances are May 15-18 in Thomaston, Damariscotta, Portland and Topsham. Mozart’s “Spring Quartet” is an appropriate way to […]

TOPSHAM The Midcoast Symphony Orchestra will perform the final concert series of this season under the baton of Conductor Rohan Smith, on Saturday and Sunday, May 10 and 11, 2014. This concert will mark the inaugural concert for the Symphony’s new side-by-side program, for which young music students have been invited to join the Midcoast […]