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Annual Native American Festival, Bar Harbor

July 5-7, Thursday-Saturday, 8pm/Thursday-Saturday, 2pm/Saturday, “Urinetown,” rated PG, Urinetown takes place in a world where a drought has caused water to be rationed to the point that there is a ban on private toilets and everyone must pay for the “privilege to pee.” Love sparks between a worker at one of the filthiest low-income amenities and the wealthy daughter of the man who runs the Urine Good Company, which controls the fee-based facilities. A revolution is started, and a battle ensues between those arguing for regulated conservation of the available resources and those fighting for personal freedoms, $20, Boothbay Playhouse, Route 27, Boothbay. FMI: 207-633-3379, www.boothbayplayhouse.com.
July 5, Thursday, 8pm, Anna Polonsky and Orion Wolf, four-hand piano masterpieces and works for two pianos, composers include Schubert, Schumann, Ravel and Dutilleux, presented by the Bay Summer Chamber Summer Music Festival $30-40, $8/18 and under, Rockport Opera House, 6 Central Street, Rockport. FMI: 207-236-2823, www.baychamberconcerts.org.
July 6, Friday, 7:30pm, VoXX, “If Music Be…” a cappella vocal ensemble performs works that span for medieval to contemporary, $10, Pascal Hall, 86 Pascal Avenue, Rockport. FMI: 207-236-4272, www.voiceoftwenty.com.
July 7, Saturday, 10am-4pm, Annual Native American Festival and Basketmakers Market, meet artists while learning about and purchasing Wabanaki baskets, carvings, beadwork, dolls and other handmade items, Native music, dance, storytelling, craft demonstrations and food, free, College of the Atlantic, 105 Eden Street, Bar Harbor. FMI: 207-266-8086, www.maineindianbaskets.org.
July 9, Monday, 7:30pm, Monday Sonatas, presented by Bowdoin International Music Festival, works by Beethoven, Bach and Schubert, $30, Bowdoin College, Studzinski Recital Hall, South Street, Brunswick. FMI: 207-725-3100, www.bowdoin.edu.
July 10, Tuesday, 7:30pm, Kayla MacMillan, Evans is gifted with what Jazztimes calls “a ‘stunning’ crystalline voice” both powerful and emotive, a quality that is magnified and multiplied exponentially when you see and hear the magic of her performance. The creator of three unforgettable and critically acclaimed albums –2007’s fight or flight?; 2010’s The Good Girl and Nina, recently awarded Canada’s highest honour – a JUNO Award, the nation’s equivalent to the Grammy – for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year, $10, Chocolate Church Arts Center, 804 Washington Street, Bath. FMI: 207-442-8455, www.chocolatechurch.com.
July 11, Wednesday, 7pm, Adele Myers and Dancers, a “live for $5 Wednesday night series” presentation, professional and adaptive, dancers are visually stunning in their deft athleticism and sensitive interpretation, the group’s theatricality adds a nutritious layer of thought-provoking substance, $5, Stonington Opera House, 1 School Street, Stonington. FMI: 207-367-2788, www.operahousearts.org.

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