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“Moonlight Canoeing,” Holden

July 18-21, Thursday-Sunday, 6pm/Thurs-Sat, 4pm/Sun, “The Tempest,” presented by Ten Bucks Theatre, full of contrasting themes, comedy and drama, reality and illusion, freedom and domination, natural beauty and inhospitable terrain, revenge and the capacity to forgive, bring blankets, folding chairs and a picnic as this show is “under the stars,” Indian Trail Park, Rt. 9, Brewer. FMI: 207-884-1030, www.tenbuckstheatre.org.
July 18, Thursday, 7:30-8:30pm, Ray Cornilis Organ Concert, Ray Cornilis from Portland, Maine, performs music of Fanny Mendelssohn, J.S. Bach, and Denis Bedard, donations accepted, St. John’s Catholic Church, 207 York Street, Bangor. FMI: 207-974-9380, www.hookopus288.org.
July 19, Friday, 7pm, Moonlight Canoeing, float along the lake shore as waning day becomes moonlit night, loons, eagles and bats may grace your trip, canoe rentals available with life jacket and paddles, advance registration required, $10/members, $15/nonmembers, $5/canoe rental, Fields Audubon Center, 216 Fields Pond Road, Holden. FMI: 207-989-2591, www.maineaudubon.org.
July 20, Saturday, 8am/events begin, Bradford Days, community event featuring a full day of events including softball tournament, 5K race, parade, children’s games, craft fair, concessions, horse show, fireman’s muster, live band, and pig scramble, Free live Elvis impersonator from 7-9pm, fireworks top it off, free, Bradford Community Center, East Road, Bradford. FMI: 207-327-2121, www.bangordailynews.com.
July 22, Monday, 7-9pm, Summer Evening Musicale, Kneisel Hall Young Artists, reception follows, free, All Souls Church, 10 Broadway, Bangor. FMI: 207-942-7354, www.kneisel.org.
July 24, Wednesday, 7am-7pm, Governor Baxter Day: Bangor to Katahdin, celebrate the connections between Bangor and the Katahdin Region, learn about the art and literature linking the regions, support the Plants of Baxter State Park project, explore historic Bangor, and enjoy the “wild” areas in the greater Bangor area, $8-$25, various venues, Bangor. FMI: 207-763-3014, www.friendsofbaxter.org.
July 24, Wednesday, 7-8pm, Timbered Lake, an acoustic duo, features a synthesis of spoken word and song composed by poet-singer Crow Suncloud and singer-songwriter Diana Ramsdell Newman. Diana’s guitar joins with Crow’s indigenous hand drums and other percussive instruments, to accompany inspirited, relevant, soaringly harmonic lyrics informed by respect for the earth and for experiential knowledge, reclamation of stewardship values, and promotion of individual and community healing, free, Bangor Public Library, 145 Harlow Street, Bangor. FMI: 207-947-8336, www.bpl.lib.me.us.

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