In celebration of 40 years of bluegrass music and family reunion, the Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival will be held Aug. 29, 30, 31, and Sept. 1. Established in 1979 with the goal of bringing traditional Bluegrass Music to coastal Maine, the event has grown into a much anticipated Labor Day weekend tradition for fans […]
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Skowhegan Craft Brew Festival set
The Skowhegan Craft Brew Festival is set for 2-7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31, on Water Street in Skowhegan. The festival will feature only Maine-crafted beer, wine, cider and spirits. With 33 breweries, wineries and distilleries on tap. In addition to Maine libations the festival will feature local food trucks, corn hole games, and two music […]
Artists will paint during Wiscasset Art Walk
The Wiscasset Art Walk is set for 5-8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29. Wiscasset Village will be humming with exhibitions and accomplished artists painting live during the evening. Sylvan Gallery, 49 Water St., is celebrating 19 years as a fine art gallery representing a select group of contemporary, award-winning New England artists. For this anniversary exhibit, […]
‘The Vultures’ to be staged at Lakewood Theater
“The Vultures” will be staged Aug. 29 through Sept. 7 at Lakewood Theater, 76 Theater Road, in Madison. Performance times are 8 p.m. Aug. 29, 30, 31, Sept. 5, 6 and 7; and at 2 p.m. Sept. 4. The story takes place at Westmount Estate, on the 20th anniversary of the death of publishing magnate […]
Carol Wiley Art exhibit on view through Sept. 4
River Arts in Damariscotta will present Carol Wiley in a solo show “Figures and Shapes” at the gallery located at 241 Route One. This West Gallery show runs through Sept. 4. Three summers ago at the West Gallery, Jefferson Maine artist Carol Wiley had a solo show featuring the many ways she paints the human […]
Maine Outdoor Film Festival set for Stonington
Opera House Arts will host the Maine Outdoor Film Festival celebrating creativity and the great outdoors under the stars in Stonington on Thursday, Aug. 29, at the Stonington Ball Field, 40 School St. The films begin after sunset at approximately 8 p.m. Food trucks and vendors will line the street starting at 6:30 p.m. Admission […]
J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘Luce’
The cast is first rate, each one an enigma., J.P.Devine writes.
UMF Emery Center to open with ‘Myth & Mirth’ Aug. 26
FARMINGTON — The Emery Community Arts Center on the University of Maine at Farmington campus will open “Myth & Mirth,” its first Flex Space Gallery exhibit of the academic year. The exhibition will be on display from Monday, Aug. 26, to Friday, Nov. 8, at the center on Academy Street. A public reception will be […]
Lucky Clark On Music: Marcia Ball
Singer, songwriter, pianist to perform Aug. 31 at the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor.