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Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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NEA grants nearly $1 million to 10 Maine arts groups
Creative Portland and the Telling Room are among the organizations in southern Maine to receive funding.
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Maine author Richard Ford wins lifetime achievement award from Library of Congress
A 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner for ‘Independence Day,’ the Boothbay resident will receive the award at the Library of Congress National Book Festival in August.
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Schoonerfare concert set for May 18
Schooner Fare will return to the Chocolate Church at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at 804 Washington St. in Bath. Steve and Chuck Romanoff perform energetic concerts laced with a Maine brand of universal humor. The band also writes and performs topical songs, country ballads and maritime masterpieces that have made their name synonymous with […]
Posted inLifestyle, On Music Lucky Clark
Lucky Clark On Music: Masanobu Ikemiya
Famed pianist to close out 2018-19 ‘Concert at Jewett’ season May 19 in Augusta.
Posted inLifestyle, Movie Review J.P. Devine
J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘Wild Nights With Emily’
Parts of “Wild Nights” will shock you, others will draw a tear, J.P. Devine writes.
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Henderson to perform Friday at Strand Theatre
Jarlath Henderson will perform at 7:3o p.m. Friday, May 17, at Strand Theatre, 345 Main St. in Rockland. The multi-instrumentalist and masterful balladeer from Northern Ireland is best known as a remarkable player of uilleann pipes and whistles. The three-time ‘All-Ireland Champion’ piper revives traditional songs, like murder ballads and love songs with a somber […]
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OFF RADAR: ‘Red Stone Fragments’
A new collection by Belfast’s former poet laureate Thomas Moore
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Kennebec Valley Chordsmen to perform May 18 in Unity
The Kennebec Valley Chordsmen Barbershop Chorus of Waterville will hold its second spring celebration concert at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at the Unity College Center for the Arts, 42 Depot St., in Unity. The Chordsmen, local quartets Maine Stream and Buck and a Quarter, as well as others will perform. The songs will cover […]
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L.C. Bates exhibit on view through September
Atmospheric Water opened last week at L.C. Bates Museum on U.S. Route 201 in Hinkley. The exhibit, on view through October, will showcase representations of the Maine landscape as it is affected by water. Leaving aside depictions of the ocean, lakes, rivers and streams, this exhibition will consider the many forms water takes as atmosphere […]