ROCKPORT — Dave Grohl, drummer and lead singer of the Foo Fighters, would be proud of these kids. As he once famously ranted about reality shows like American Idol and The Voice…
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Mamm Slam high school finalists to rock it out against six other Maine bands May 10
Live Music
This year's North Atlantic Blues Festival will be held on Saturday, July 12 and Sunday, July 13. Joe Louis Walker headlines the annual two-day blues music event, which features national blues…
Bay Chamber Concerts and Music School is hosting an open house and faculty recital in Rockport Village on Sunday, May 4. The Music School will be open from 1 to 2:30 p.m. for tours of the studios…
Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
Grammy Award-winning musician and songwriter Rodney Crowell will be coming to the Opera House in Boothbay Harbor on May 10 in support of the release of his newest album, “Tarpaper Sky.” His new…
First time in island history a symphonic band fills the air with music
VINALHAVEN — History of sorts was made Friday, April 4, when the University of Maine at Orono Symphonic Band visited Vinalhaven. Christopher White, band director, said it was the first time the…
Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
The multiple Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin comes to Maine this spring to help kick off the season at Boothbay Harbor’s historic Opera House on Saturday, April 12.
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Thursday, Friday evening shows at Strom — a whole lot of energy
CAMDEN — Thursday evening, March 27, and Friday evening, March 28, Camden-Rockport Middle School will Broadway music, The Spirit of Broadway, at the Strom Auditorium at Camden Hills…
ROCKLAND — All the cool kids are wearing grass skirts and coconut bras this weekend. So, if you’ve been following the new…
Waldo’s Hunt for Funk
WALDOBORO — Students at Medomak Valley High School and Middle School are tuning their instruments and gearing up to play with the Portland Jazz Orchestra for a special and unique concert that…
Live Music
The DaPonte String Quartet greets the spring with “Voices of Angels,” a program filled with unusual offerings, running March 20-23 in Thomaston, Damariscotta, Portland and Topsham.
In…
Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
Carlos Núñez is a vibrant, energetic and joyous musician in concert.
Some might say it's because he is Spanish.
Some might say it's just part of the act.
Núñez says when he is on…
KISS takes its place
It was a surprise to turn on the radio in my car this morning and hear KISS FM come across the speaker. I thought I had been listening to Midcoast 102.5. After pushing a couple of buttons, I…
Hurley’s Honk!
BELFAST - The Colonial Theatre was officially closed, but in the old cinema in the rear of the building, a dozen people stared up at the big screen. Still images of awkward-looking…
K2 Music's first themed night a success
The ukulele came to Hawaii from Portugal. Pronounced, OO-KOO-le-le in Hawaiian, it translates to “jumping fleas,” as the fingering on the small neck resembled jumping fleas as described by the…
Upcycled and sustainable Maine product with design input from local musicians
CAMDEN — At first glance, the little faces Chris Gray has carved into his handcrafted guitar picks reveal big personalities. Are they pensive? Wincing? Smiling? Hard to tell, but whatever they’re…
The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
They call themselves The Boneheads.
By their own admission they are hard to classify and sometimes even harder to pin down. But, on Friday, Jan. 31, four of Maine’s favorite musicians return…
Guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casady founded Hot Tuna as a side project from their band, Jefferson Airplane, but the iconic blues roots band Hot Tuna has now long outlasted the mother…
Bay Chamber Concerts and Music School
The Bay Chamber Concerts and Music School's new date for the free Odeon Winter Concert is Tuesday, Jan. 7 at 6:30 p.m. at the Rockport Opera House. Music students in all three ensembles, Odeon…
ROCKPORT — Photographer Marti Stone is a familiar face around the Midcoast, as she captures images of people and events for a variety of clients, including Penobscot Bay Area Chamber of Commerce,…
ROCKPORT — It took just a little bit of preaching and some moving solos for the Rev. Chantel Wright and her Songs of Solomon Gospel Choir to move the packed house inside the Rockport Opera House…
Now in its 17th year
THOMASTON — The the Thomaston Baptist Church will present The Living Christmas Tree. Dec. 7, 8 and 9. This is the 17 year the Living Tree has performed at the church.
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At Highlands Coffee House
THOMSASTON — This past Sunday the Mike Whitehead Group, featuring Jason Dean on drums, Spike Hyssong on stand up bass, Steve Lindsay on keyboard and Whitehead on trumpet and flugelhorn, set up the…
Swing & Sway's Holiday Show
ROCKPORT — Swing and Sway Dance Studio, at 143 Maverick Street in Rockland, will present Dancing Through the Decades, a Holiday Dance Performance, Sunday, Dec. 1, at 2 p.m. in the Strom…
‘Amped up’ folk featuring Toughcats with The Ghost of Paul Revere and Darlingside
ROCKLAND — If you’ve never heard of the term “holler band” you’re not alone. It’s a self-termed genre coined by The Ghost of Paul Revere, one of the three slated bands to appear at the…
Community Sing! is a new monthly opportunity for all Midcoast singers to gather with friends and neighbors for the sheer joy of singing together.
No preparation, practice or training is…
Bebop is his passion
Rockland — WRFR radio is 93.5 in Rockland and 99.3 in Camden. The low-power station is an eclectic mix of radio broadcast that is personality- and sponsor-driven. Ronald Van Heeswijk, a Camden…
4th annual Harvest Hoot Sept. 7
CAMDEN — Great fall weather is in the forecast for the 4th annual Harvest Hoot at the Camden Snow Bowl Saturday, and there’s going to be a ton of things to do for all ages, including meeting…
Video: Poet, new to Belfast, performs spoken word and jazz
BELFAST - From the hills of San Francisco, the verdant landscape of northern Vermont, the concrete Coltrane district of Philadelphia; from these and other far-flung places, Toussaint St. Negritude…
Belfast punk band Jim Dandy gears up to drop new self-produced album
BELFAST — The room or garage set aside for band practice should never be spotless, according to musicians. If it is, that’s a sure sign that the music is going to be too sanitized. A little too…
DOWNTOWN ROCKLAND
ROCKLAND – Music on Main happens every Wednesday night from 5 to 7 p.m. and it is brought to you - free of charge - by the folks at Rockland Main Street Inc.
This is a 10-week series…
North Atlantic Blues Festival builds a loyal and fierce following
ROCKLAND — The sun’s yellow orb climbs towering into the sky, beating down ruthlessly on the ocean of spectators amassed in Rockland’s Harbor Park for the 20th annual North Atlantic Blues Festival…
Rock out with Mavis Staples, Holmes Brothers, Eddie Taylor Jr., and more...
ROCKLAND — The stage is set for a glorious weekend of great weather, which will be made that much sweeter when the amplifier swtiches are flipped on and blues music fills the air in Rockland.
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Whom to see, where to go, what to hear
ROCKLAND - When the gates to the annual North Atlantic Blues Festival shut down each night at 7 p.m., the action on Rockland's Main Street is just heating up. On Friday and Saturday night, July…
Commercial use predates residential use, but town still trying to find peace
CAMDEN — For two years running, condominium residents in the Knox Mill on Washington Street have been complaining about the music noise emanating at night from the Smokestack Grill.
This…
What’s next? Ballet parking…
Camden– Rockport Dance Conservatory owner/director Kari Cameron needed a hook to get people to stop for her carwash at Key Bank in the…
WESLEY HILLS, N.Y. — You may or may not recognize the name. Jay Siegel sang with a band in the late 1950s and early 60s called The Tokens. You may or may not recognize that name either, but the…
Sen. Angus King: 'It’s just a great feeling in the room'
ROCKPORT — The cast was enormous; the crowd was 10 times the number of the cast, but both groups were equally enthusiastic. So began the fifth annual…
A sample of three bands that wowed the crowd
BELFAST - The streets of Belfast are flooded with people looking to get their music fix... of every type. The fourth annual celebration of Belfast's Free Range Music Festival is currently ongoing…
Hail To The Rad Kids
CAMDEN — She goes by the nickname Peytonius Maximus and she rocks. No, literally, she rocks out in an all-female band as the drummer and she just won a category in Hardy Girls Healthy Women’s…
"It's still surprising when the musicians sign up and people start buying passes"
BELFAST - Organizers of the Belfast Free Range Music Festival on Friday…
Unlike traditional Scottish highland bagpipes, these are softer, more melodious
HOPE — From inside the newly-built, rustic shop across the street from the Hope General Store, Chris Pinchbeck plays Irish music on his iPod while he works on a couple sets of Scottish smallpipes…
Where to eat, drink and enjoy Irish entertainment this weekend
St. Patrick's Day is on a Sunday this year? Well, that's just all kinds of wrong for employers expecting bright-eyed bushy-tailed workers Monday morning, now isn't it? Regardless, there will be…
Tricky Britches: 8 p.m. tonight
THOMASTON — Over the last three years, something has been subtly shifting in the Midcoast. It hasn’t been overtly noticeable to everyone, but if you grew up here in the 1980s, raged in the decade-…
We've got dance parties, whiskey tastins' and the big Oscar Night blowout
Every once in awhile we get one of those bad mama jama type of weekends where there are so many fun things happening, you can't actually attend them all. Here is your "fabahlus" (the correct way…
Our reviewers have some of the best suggestions on what to read, what to see and and what to hear each month. Let Lacy Simons, of hello hello books, Jim Dandy and Tiffany Howard, of Opera…
Behind the scenes at WERU Community Radio
ORLAND - For almost 25 years, WERU Community Radio has worked diligently to give its listeners the very best in volunteer powered and listener supported radio.
The station broadcasts an…
Juke Rockets singer wants those Memphis blues again
BELFAST — Carlene Perkins Thornton of Liberty had been singing lead vocals with the Juke Rockets for a little over a year when the band won a statewide competition last fall and a trip to the 29th…
John Orlando brings Motor Booty Affair to Camden Opera House Feb. 8
John Orlando is the one-man force behind Grand Banks Entertainment, a new independent events and entertainment company based in Camden. He is responsible for bringing Motor Booty Affair to the…
Hail To The Rad Kids
CAMDEN — Three years apart, alternative ed students Chloe Isis, 14, and Clio Berta, 17, have music in common. When they sing together, they can take your heart rate down to a nice, soothing level…
