Out and About for the Mid-Coast Lakes Region of Maine Dec. 5-11

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Out and About for the Bangor Lakes Regions of Maine Dec. 5-11
December 5, 2013
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Out and About for the Mid-Coast Lakes Region of Maine Dec. 5-11

Out and About for the Mid-Coast Lakes Region of Maine Dec. 5-11

“20th Annual Sparkle Weekend,” Freeport

Dec. 5-11, Thursday-Sunday, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., “John Mort-Open Studio, ‘Flight’,” Millennium artist Jon Mort will present his startling, large-scale graphite figures and exquisitely intimate still life drawings, free and open to the public, Fieldstone Castle, 129 Marshall Pt. Rd., Port Clyde. FMI: 207-372-8658, www.jmort@risd.edu.
Dec. 6-8, Friday-Sunday, 10:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m., “20th Annual Sparkle Weekend,” Freeport USA presents one of Maine’s most popular holiday celebrations. The weekend kicks off Friday night with a Parade of Lights down Main Street, Freeport’s Talking Christmas Tree, Holiday Movie Marathon, A Reading of the Polar Express aboard the Amtrak Down-easter, Tuba Christmas Concert, Visits with Santa, Horse Drawn Wagon Rides, Musical Holiday Light Shows, a Crooked Playhouse Village, Holiday Ornament & Craft Projects, Complimentary Gift Wrapping and more, free and open to the public, downtown Freeport, Freeport. FMI: 207-865-1212, www.kelly@freeportusa.com.
Dec. 6, Friday, 5:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m., “Artwalk Rockland,” established to promote the City of Rockland as an arts destination to those who appreciate, respect and support the arts, the 23 members of AIR offer distinct, original works by established and emerging artists in a variety of media, free and open to the public, downtown Rockland, Rockland. FMI: 207-594-4454, www.artwalkinrockland.com.
Dec. 7, Saturday, 7:30 p.m.-9:45 p.m., “WFCP Home Time Radio 2013,” This special 10th edition of the homegrown hit features favorites from Radios past. Live music from the 1940s to early 60s, classic radio bits mixed with original comedy plays written by the ensemble, family-friendly entertainment, $10 in advance, $15 door, Freeport Performing Arts Center, 30 Holbrook Street, Freeport. FMI: 207-865-2220, www.fcponline.org/tix.htm.
Dec. 8, Sunday, 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. (doors open at 1:30 p.m.), “Black Nativity in Concert,” Black Nativity was born in December 1961 at the 41st Street Theater in New York City, where six gospel singers, with accompaniment from a piano and a B-3 Hammond organ, performed the work by poet and playwright Langston Hughes. The show closed after 50 performances. Anthony Antolini—then a student, now Senior Lecturer in Music at Bowdoin, attended one of those performances as a Bowdoin sophomore, Years later, Antolini discovered that fellow Midcoast musician Aaron Robinson shared his interest in gospel music and retrieved from his collection a treasured and rare LP recording of that early show and gave it to him, Robinson fell in love with the music, started doing research, wrote down the arrangements (which had never been published) and then performed Black Nativity in concert several times beginning in 2001 at Immanuel Baptist Church in Portland, now Robinson has passed his arrangements – with additional spirituals – to Antolini, who has been rehearsing the 60-member chorus since September, free and open to the public, Studinski Recital Hall, Bowdoin College, Brunswick. FMI: 207-789-4141, www.lrussel@bowdoin.edu.
Dec. 8, Sunday, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m., “Handel’s Messiah,” Penobscot Bay Singers will perform Handel’s Messiah with a chamber orchestra conducted by Richard M. Dostie and featuring soloists Luette Saul, soprano, Suzy Dowling, mezzo, George Eisenhauer, tenor, and John Davis Adams, bass, suggested donation up to $15, Searsport Union Hall, 1 Union Street, Searsport. FMI: 207-548-6372, www.searsportunionhall.gov.
Dec. 10, 3:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m., “An Evening of Spanish Food and Wines,” four courses of traditional tapas style dishes including— Mussels with saffron cream sauce, Salmon with sofrito and lemon confit, Fried Manchego Cheese with caramelized onions, Chicken with Romesco sauce, Baked Leeks with Ham and Braised Chorizo and Kale, each course is offered with exceptional Spanish wine pairings, $40.00 per person for dinner $55.00 per person for dinner and wine pairings, Natutilus Seafood and Grill, 95 Searsport Ave., Belfast. FMI: 207-218-4218, www.jenatnautilus@gmail.com.

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