CARTHAGE — Musicians who have played with the Franklin County Fiddlers over the past 18 years will come together Thursday, Dec. 22, at Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center for a “Home for the Holidays” concert. Steve Muise, who teaches orchestra in the Mt. Blue Regional School District and directs orchestras at the middle and high […]
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Celtic Christmas concert will feature Kilmore carols
CARTHAGE — Irish-born artists Aoife Clancy and Robbie O’Connell and virtuoso accordion player Jimmy Keane will perform a Celtic Christmas concert on Wednesday, Dec. 14, at Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center. They will also take the stage at Unity College Center for the Performing Arts in Unity on Thursday, Dec. 15. The concert program extends […]
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Skye, Unity will host ‘A Cape Breton Christmas’
CARTHAGE — New England Celtic Arts will present the Barra MacNeil family’s “Cape Breton Christmas” at Unity College Center for the Performing Arts in Unity on Saturday, Dec. 3, and at Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center on Sunday, Dec. 4. Good fellowship is the tone for concert celebrating the joys and peace of Christmas. “Once […]
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Friends of Maine Mountains appeals Carthage wind project
CARTHAGE — Protecting Mount Blue State Park and Webb Lake is at the forefront for Chris O’Neil, chairman of Friends of Maine Mountains. The group filed an appeal with the Maine Bureau of Environmental Protection last week opposing Patriot Renewables LLC’s wind project in Carthage. The Quincy, Mass., firm doing business as Saddleback Ridge Wind […]
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Gaelic singer thrives on audience interaction
CARTHAGE — Singer Lewis MacKinnon and fellow band member Brian England of Jug in Hand Band fame will give a concert all about audience participation and fun at Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, Nov. 30. The two will also perform at Unity College Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday, Dec. 1. Curtain […]
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Need to see the proof
I would like to thank officials at the Land Use Regulation Commission for taking the first step to deny First Wind’s 27-turbine Bowers Mountain project northwest of Grand Lakes Stream. Tourism has propped Maine up for more than a century and will continue to do so only as long as state officials remain responsible stewards […]
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Wind turbines kill birds
Angus King’s presentation in Bethel (Oct. 12) of “information” about industrial wind turbines was more than a little self-serving. Several errors have already been pointed out. I’d like to address another, namely his assertion that “house cats kill more birds than wind turbines do.” His statistic is drawn from wind industry records — as an […]
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Scottish performers team up to play Skye, Unity
CARTHAGE — Legendary Scottish performers Alan Reid and Rob van Sante will take the stage at Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, Nov. 2; and at Unity College Center for the Performing Arts in Unity on Thursday, Nov. 3. Reid was a member of Battlefield Band from its inception in 1969 until his departure […]
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Maine master fiddler Frank Ferrel will play
CARTHAGE — Maine fiddler Frank Ferrel, considered to be one of the leading North American fiddlers performing today, will take the stage at Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, Oct. 26. Ferrel, performing with Maritime keyboard-style pianist Janine Muise Randall, will also appear at Unity College Center for the Performing Arts in Unity on […]