Wildflower Walk, Holt Pond, Bridgton

May 18, Friday, 9am-12pm, Wildflower Walk, join botany enthusiast Ursula Duve as she shares her love and knowledge of Maine wildflowers at Holt Pond, call Merry Jewett to register, free, Holt Pond Preserve, Grist Mill Road, Bridgton.  FMI:  207-647-8580, www.mainelakes.org.
May 18-20, Friday-Sunday, 11am-6pm/Friday, 10am-6pm/Saturday, 10am-4pm, Northern New England Home, Garden and Flower Show, artisans, displays, power equipment, plants, food, $9/general, $4/6-16, free, under 6, Fryeburg Fairgrounds, Fryeburg.  FMI: 207-935-2845, www.HomeGardenFlowerShow.com.
 May 18, Friday, 7pm, “Annie Junior,” musical based on “Little Orphan Annie, presented by musical theater students, $10/general, $8/students and seniors, $5/children under 5, Schoolhouse Arts Center, Route 114, Standish.  FMI:  207-642-3743, www.schoolhousearts.org.
May 19, Saturday, 12pm, Metropolitan Opera Encore Series in HD: Wagner’s “Ring Cycle,” “Gotterdammerung,” follows the journey of Siegfried, son of Siegmund and Sieglinde, from naïve fearless boy to supreme hero, $18/general, $15/seniors, $10/students, Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center, Bradley Street, Fryeburg.  FMI:  207-935-9232, www.fryeburgacademy.org/pac.
May 19, Saturday, 6pm, “Palette,” Silent and Live Auction, wine tasting, appetizers and chocolate fountain, $25, Fiddlehead Center for the Arts, One Gray Center, Gray.  FMI: 207-657-2244, www.fiddleheadcenter.org.
 May 19, Saturday, 8pm, Tom Rush, came up in the Boston/Cambridge folk scene of the early ‘60s playing folk-blues, $37.50, Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dugway Road, Brownfield.  FMI: 207-935-7292, www.stonemountainartscenter.com.
May 20, Sunday, 5:30pm/family dance, 7pm/folk dance, International Folk Dance, traditional music and dance from the Balkans, Israel, France and Greece, instruction then dance, $5, Mallett Hall, Route 9, Pownal.  FMI:  207-688-2293, www.mainetoday.com.