Out and About for the Belgrade Lakes Region of Maine Apr. 18-24

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April 18, 2013
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April 18, 2013

Out and About for the Belgrade Lakes Region of Maine Apr. 18-24

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Presented by Monmouth Community Players, Monmouth

Apr. 18-20, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30-9pm, Dance New Works Festival, over the course of four shows, emerging playwrights, choreographers, actors, dancers, and designers demonstrate what the future of live performance could look like. This year’s showcase features a world premiere by Theater and Dance Professor Annie Kloppenberg, free, Strider Theater, Runnals Building, Colby College, 4000 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville. FMI: 207-859-4524, www.colby.edu.
Apr. 19-20, Friday-Saturday, 7:30pm, “Fiddler on the Roof,” musical presented by Monmouth Community Players, $12-14, Cumston Hall, Monmouth. FMI: 207-933-9999, www.monmouthcommunityplayers.com.
Apr. 19, Friday, 8-10pm, Country Blues with Paul and Annie, Paul Rishell, nominated for 2013 Blues Music Awards: Acoustic Artist of the Year and Acoustic Album of the Year and harmonica virtuoso Annie Raines have recorded six albums together and have received multiple awards, doors open ant 7pm for general seating, full cash-bar and snacks, $30, Win Arts Productions and Maple Hill Farm Inn, 11 Inn Road, Hallowell. FMI: 1-800-671-1282, www.winartsproductions.com.
Apr. 19, Friday, 8:30-11:30pm, Lazy Lightning presents the music of the Grateful Dead, founded in the early 1990’s by Camden native Rodney Sturdee, whose guitar playing eerily channels the fretwork of the lat Jerry Garcia, Lazy Lightning’s take on the Dead’s mix of tight song-craft and loose improvisation, songs from each era of the Grateful Dead’s 30 years as America’s greatest live touring act, $5, Franco-American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar Street, Lewiston. FMI: 207-783-1585, www.francocenter.org.
Apr. 20, Saturday, 7:30-9:30pm, Acteon: Collegium Chamber Singers and Players, Collegium enters the world of French Baroque musical theater with its presentation of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s miniature opera Acteon. A cautionary tale for all those who hunt or go to the beach, the opera inventively interprets the myth of Actaeon, the mythological hunter who, caught gazing upon Artemis as she bathed, was changed into a stag and subsequently devoured by his own hounds, grand choruses, moving solos, and abundant instrumental music, free, Lorimer Chapel, Colby College, Waterville. FMI: 207-859-5670, www.colby.edu.
Apr. 20, Saturday, 7:30-9:30pm, The Fortepiano-Steinway’s Ancestor, Harvard and Yale graduate and Fulbright Scholar David Kim will present a lecture/recital on “Steinway’s Ancestor”-the fortepiano. Music presented will be works of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven-including the “Moonlight” Sonata Op. 27 #2, $10/adults, free/18 and under, Emery Community Arts Center, Main and Academy Streets, UMF, Farmington. FMI: 207-491-0768, www.umf.maine.edu.

Apr. 24, Wednesday, 7-8:30pm, African Children’s Choir, this choir melts the hearts of audiences with their charming smiles, beautiful voices and lively African traditional Spirituals and Gospel favorites, free, Calvary Pentecostal Church, 160 Old Point Avenue, Madison. FMI: 207-696-3316, www.africanchildrenschoir.com.

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