BRUNSWICK — The Bowdoin International Music Festival will celebrate the Independence Day holiday today with an all-American program featuring Sen. Angus King as narrator on Aaron Copland’s A Lincoln Portrait. The works of Charles Ives, George Gershwin and Samuel Barber will also be presented. Festival Director Lewis Kaplan on violin, and pianist Peter Basquin will […]

BOWDOINHAM — The Merrymeeting Arts Center announces its fall 2013 show, “Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address,” featuring Lincoln portraits by the late Carlo Pittore to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg and the address. The show will open on Nov. 4 at the center adjacent to the river on Main Street. Area […]

BRUNSWICK — PeaceWorks is sponsoring an exhibit at Curtis Memorial Library in collaboration with the 9th annual Peace Fair. The show, “Peacemakers from Americans Who Tell the Truth: Portraits by Robert Shetterly,” can be seen in the library’s Morrell Community Room from July 12 through Aug. 3. A gallery talk at 6 p.m. on July […]

BATH Bath Shakespeare Festival, a fully professional theater, announces its inaugural season with performances of Twelfth Night, which will take place in Bath’s City Park from July 20 through Aug. 4. The performances are presented in conjunction with Patten Free Library. This production will feature professional actors from Maine and across the country, staged with […]

BRUNSWICK — Santa Febased duo Round Mountain will play a CD release concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 29, at Frontier Cafe, 14 Maine St. at Fort Andross. Tickets for the all-ages show are $10, $12 at the door. “The Goat,” the group’s fourth album, showcases their unique sound that has been spanning alt-folk and […]

WISCASSET — Online submissions are now open for the “Coastal Spirits” exhibit July 23 through Aug. 25 at the Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset. Artists may submit up to three artworks of any size to be selected by American Watercolor Society signature member Tony vanHasselt. The deadline is July 8. Online entry is quick and […]

Trio to perform Saturday BATH — The Carper Family will bring its retro-acoustic sound to Bath on Saturday, June 29, with a show at Chocolate Church Arts Center. Born in 2010 at Austin, Texas’s legendary Hole in the Wall Bar, the Carper Family has brought together three of Austin’s most talented young country and bluegrass […]

WISCASSET — A reception coinciding with the opening of “Maine and America in the 20th Century” will be held at the Wiscasset Bay Gallery, 5-7 p.m. Saturday, July 6, catered by Mae’s Café and Bakery of Bath. The event is free and open to the public. Featured in the exhibition is a dramatic and richly […]

STANDISH — Maine art and history collide Saturday, June 29, and Sunday, June 30, during the fourth annual Art at Marrett at the 1789 Marrett House in Standish. Saturday hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sunday hours are 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Marrett House is located at 40 Ossippee Trail East (Route 25). For information, visit www.HistoricNewEngland.org.