BOOTHBAY — On Saturday, July 13, the ninth annual Books in Boothbay: Maine’s Summer Book Fair will be held at the Boothbay Railway Village, with 40 Maine authors attending. Four authors have been selected to read from their works and answer questions as part of this literary event, the largest one-day book fair in Northern […]

WATERVILLE — Annie Ross was a founding member of Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, considered by some to be the greatest jazz vocal ensemble of all time. Now, at 82, Ross will be accompanied by her pianist, Tardo Hammer. She was one of the early practitioners of a singing style known as “vocalese,” which involves the […]

ROCKLAND — The North Atlantic Blues Festival is an annual two-day blues music festival featuring national blues performers, and is considered to be one of the most prestigious on the East Coast. Among the headliners expected this weekend are Popa Chubby, Mavis Staples, and Sugar Ray and the Blues Tones. The festival runs Saturday and […]

FREEPORT — The Moscow Magic & Comedy Show has opened at the Theater of Awesome on Depot Street and will continue every Thursday through Aug. 29. This family friendly performance features professional magician Vladimir Zinczenko and features illusions, comedy, juggling, ventriloquism and audience participation. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. Advance ticket sales are recommended […]

BOWDOINHAM — A Cyanotype Photography Class taught by Jane Page-Conway will be held at Merrymeeting Art Center, 9 Main St. on Wednesday, July 24, from 2 to 4 p.m. and Thursday, July 25, from 10 a.m. to noon. There is a limit of eight students per session. Any age is welcome. Children younger than 8 […]

NEWCASTLE — Heartwood Theater will premiere “The Legend of Jim Cullen,” a story based on real events from northern Maine in 1873. The legend hums with original music, performed by several talented musicians, including a young fiddle player from California — Avery Merritt, 17, who is considered a true protege on the violin. Opening July […]

BRUNSWICK — The Saltwater Celtic Music Festival, one of the nation’s leading showcases of Celtic music, will welcome a singular lineup of local, national and international musicians for two days of traditional and contemporary Celtic music on July 20-21 at Brunswick’s Thomas Point Beach. In only its third year, Maine’s Saltwater Celtic Music Festival has […]

GEORGETOWN — John W. Neff and Howard R. Whitcomb will lead an illustrated lecture and sign their book, “Baxter State Park and Katahdin,” July 16 at 7 p.m. at Georgetown Historical Society, 20 Bay Point Road. In an illustrated lecture Neff and Whitcomb will share their vast knowledge of the Katahdin region’s history and the […]

DANA WIELUNS LEGAWIEC, David Greenham and Xander Johnson, from left, in a scene from the Bath Shakespeare Festival’s “Twelfth NIght” production, which opens July 20. BSF, a fully professional theater, will present Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” outdoors in City Park on Saturdays and Sundays from July 20 through Aug. 4. The “curtain” rises at 7 p.m. […]

BRUNSWICK E ach summer, the Bowdoin International Music Festival brings renowned instructors — all of whom are gifted artists in their own right — performers, soloists, and young classical musicians and students who are not yet working in their fields to Bowdoin College for a six-week intensive session of chamber music study, collaboration and performance. […]