Out and About for the Mid Coast for the Lakes Region of Maine Mar. 31-Apr. 6

Out and About for the Bangor Lakes Region of Maine Mar. 31-Apr. 6
Out and About for the Bangor Lakes Region of Maine Mar. 31-Apr. 6
March 30, 2016
Out and About for the Belgrade Lakes Region of Maine Mar. 31-Apr.6
March 30, 2016

Out and About for the Mid Coast for the Lakes Region of Maine Mar. 31-Apr. 6

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“Mudboots & Blacktie Gala,” Hyde School, Bath

Apr. 1-2, Friday-Saturday, 7pm, “Grit & Grace: Just Be You! Dance Show,” get ready to cheer, sing, clap, and even jump up and dance when you spend a memorable evening in the company of local choreographer-director Kea Tesseyman and her Kinetic Energy Alive dance company. Featuring 26 dancer, both professional and amateur, whose ages range from 6 to 60 years-old, jazz-funk, jazz-contemporary, hip-hop, contemporary, and old-school funk, $15/advance, $17/door, Camden Opera House, 29 Main Street, Camden. FMI: 207-975-4450, www.kineticenergyalive.com.
Apr. 1, Friday, 7pm, “Hot Country Nights,” musical revue and comedy show in the “Hee Haw” style, a great show featuring classic and modern country music, interspersed with jokes and stories, $10/adults, $5/students and seniors, Crooker Theater, Brunswick High School, 116 Maquoit Road, Brunswick. FMI: 207-576-4284, www.brunswick.k12.me.us.
Apr. 2, Saturday, 1pm, “Chekhov’s ‘Three Sisters’: Performance and Panel Discussion,” the renowned Russian playwright Anton Chekhov wrote plays to be performed. Their exceptional artistry demands they also be studied. A staged reading performance of a new translation of Three Sisters by Stepan Simek, Lewis and Clark University, directed by Dmitry Troyanovsky, Brandeis University, free, Kresage Auditorium, Visual Arts Center, Brunswick. FMI: www.bowdoin.edu.
Apr. 2, Saturday, 5pm, “Mudboots & Blacktie Gala,” an evening of entertainment with music by The Hollowbody Electric Band for our largest fundraiser of the year. Mudboots and Black Tie celebrates our unique “mud season” as a Gala that encourages semi-formal attired while acknowledging the Mainer style may also necessitate some creative footwear. Dinner, dancing and fun, $50, Hyde School Dining Hall, 161 High Street, Bath. FMI: 207-442-8455, www.chocolatechurcharts.org.
Apr. 3, Sunday, 2pm, “Poetry of the Sea,” in celebration of Maritime Month, Gordon Bok and Carol Rohl will present selections of maritime poetry, stories and music, free, Camden Public Library, 55 Main Street, Camden. FMI: 207-236-3440, www.librarycamden.org.
Apr. 3, Sunday, 3pm, “Spring Benefit Concert by Jay Zoller,” Thomas Aberg is a prolific Swedish composer and organist. His organ works, which comprise most of his compositions, are known by their rhythmic joy, simplicity, and humor. Community members have the unique opportunity to hear works by Thomas Aberg when organist Jay Zoller brings the organ at St. Andrews Episcopal Church on Glidden Street in Newcastle in special Spring Organ Concert for the benefit of Spectrum Generations Coastal Community Center. Solo organ performance will feature the following compositions: Toccata e Ostinato, Fantasy A-Minor, In the Garden: Frosty Morning, Sonatina No 1 (by Carson Cooman), Toccata #5, In Modo Elegiaco and Sinfonietta, donations, Specturm Generations Coastal Community Center, 521 Main Street, Damariscotta. FMI: 207-563-1363, www.spectrumgenerations.org.
Apr. 3, Sunday, 3pm, “Sweetest in the Gale: To Sing above as Angels Do,” the Oratorio Chorale and Artistic Director Emily Isaacson present, “Sweetest in the Gale,” the Chorale’s women’s chorus, in a concert titled “To Sing above as Angels Do.” Soprano soloist Mary Sullivan and pianist Derek Herzer will join the chorus in music by women composers from 12th-century Hildegard von Bingen to contemporaries Meredith Monk and Libby Larsen, $20/advance, $25/door, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 27 Pleasant St, Brunswick. FMI: 1-800-838-3006, www.oratoriochorale.org.

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