The Hyperion Trumpet Ensemble, which features some of the best trumpeters in Maine, will perform at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 10, at The Hill Arts in Portland. Members are graduates of music schools across the country. In addition to frequent solo performances, they have performed with the Portland, Bangor, Cambridge, and Midcoast Symphony Orchestras, […]
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LA Arts hosts recital featuring Jenna Guiggey and Scott Wheatley
Jenna Guiggey and Scott Wheatley will present a recital of art song that highlights several important movements in art history, tracing those movements through compositional styles in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 2, at LA Arts Gallery in Lewiston. The evening culminates in a performance of Ashi Day’s […]
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Coig presents an evening of Celtic holiday music at 49 Franklin
The Celtic supergroup Còig, of Nova Scotia, presents an evening of Celtic holiday music with lively instrumentals, stirring vocals and festive favorites from their Christmas albums, “Carols” and “Carols Too” beginning at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 6, at 49 Franklin in Rumford. An exceptional show from start to finish, Còig brings various influences into […]
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Debra Spark, Rachel Thurston and Jen Ward will participate in Lovell Speaker Series
The Lovell Speaker Series welcomes Debra Spark with Rachel Thurston and Jen Ward for a Zoom-only talk and panel discussion at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 16, presented by the Charlotte Hobbs Library in Lovell. Debra Spark, author and co-editor of “Breaking Bread,” Rachel Thurston of the Lovell Area Food Pantry, and Jen Ward of […]
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Stand-Up Comedy Series continues at Johnson Hall
Johnson Hall’s “On the Road” Stand-Up Comedy Series presents a stand-up showcase hosted by Mark Turcotte featuring Crystal Bernard, Kevin Brady, Julie Nye, Uzair Malik, and Cory Nicholson at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 18, at The Blind Pig Next Level in Gardiner. A welder by day and comic by night, Bernard performs throughout New […]
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Elvis tribute concert coming to Franco Center
An Elvis tribute concert featuring Robert Washington will begin at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 17, at the Franco Center in Lewiston. Facebook fans of World Champion Elvis Impersonator Robert Washington, who is sometimes known as The Black Elvis, say that Washington is “the best Elvis Impersonator on the planet.” Washington is the first black […]
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UMF Visiting Writers Series features author Jensen Beach
The Visiting Writers Series presented by the UMF Creative Writing program will welcome fiction writer Jensen Beach as the program’s third reader of the season at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 16, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center at the University of Maine at Farmington. The reading is free and open to […]
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Mollyockett Chorus to perform for benefit concert
The Mollyockett Chorus, renowned a cappella singers, will perform a benefit concert at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 17, at the First Unitarian Universalist Church in Norway. Each year the chorus adopts a theme for selecting the songs they will sing that season. This year’s theme is “Your Flight Has Been Delayed” – songs we […]
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Concert of Hope planned to lift spirits and bring harmony to a hurting community
In the wake of the devastating shootings in Lewiston, Prince of Peace Parish will host a Concert of Hope, an interfaith collaboration of healing, hope and music, from 2-4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 12, at Holy Family Church in Lewiston. The program will feature choirs from several churches in the Lewiston-Auburn area, including a special […]
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Mark LaFlamme: Why I went to the dark side
Seven or eight years ago, I was one of those purists who swore he would never betray the old-fashioned print book by reading on an electronic gadget.
But then I discovered samples and my life changed forever.