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“Atlantic Music Festival,” Waterville

July 17, Thursday, 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m., “Atlantic Music Festival Art Song Concert,” The Opera Workshop is proud to present the first Art Song Recital of the season, during the course of the season, the Opera Workshop will feature a series of concerts, with a wide range of timeless selections from opera repertoire, art songs, and more, sung by members of the Opera Workshop, free event, Atlantic Music Festival, 4000 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville. FMI: 888-704-1311, www.atlanticmusicfestival.org.

July 17 – 19, Thursday – Saturday, 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m., “Bates Dance Festival presents Camile A. Brown & Dancers,” Camille A. Brown & Dancers, known for high theatricality, gutsy moves and virtuosic musicality, presents their newest work “Mr. TOL E. RAncE.” drawing on the legacy of blackface minstrelsy in America, this evening-length dance theater work examines images of black performers (“Amos and Andy,” “The Jeffersons”) and contemporary media (rappers, reality TV), $25/$18/$12 (adults/seniors/students), Bates College, Schaffer Theatre, 329 College Street, Lewiston. FMI: 207-787-6161, www.bates.edu.
July 20, Sunday, 12:00 p.m. -3:00 p.m., “Colby College Museum of Art Summer Community Day,” the Museum will host its annual summer Community Day from noon to 3pm., there will be curatorial tours, art-making activities, FREE ice cream from the Stone Fox Farm Creamery Ice Cream truck, as well as “Works of Songs and Art,” a very special performance/workshop by local musicians Edith & Bennett in conjunction with the exhibitions “Lois Dodd: Cultivating Vision” and “Bernard Langlais,” free event, Colby College Museum of Art, 5600 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville. FMI: 207-859-5600, www.colby.edu.
July 20, Sunday, 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m., “Salon at The Bar,” Several hundreds of years back, small gatherings began taking place in the drawing rooms of the intellectual, not only a venue for social visits and communication, these gatherings, or salons as they came to be called, became the birthplace of a fruitful exchange of ideas, an exchange from which inspiration was born, in the 21st century, AMF continues its own Salon Concert Series, producing a veritable grab bag of musical surprises from a variety of chamber and solo favorites, provoking a meaningful exchange: of ideas and emotions; from artist to artist, as well as from artist to audience, free event, 4000 Mayflower Drive, Waterville. FMI: 888-704-1311, www.atlanticmusicfestival.org.
July 22, Tuesday, 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m., “Atlantic Music Festival: Piano Institute Concert 1,” The artists from the Piano Institute and Seminar, led by director Sang Woo Kang, returns to the concert stage performing keyboard masterworks, free event, Atlantic Music Festival, 4000 Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville. FMI: 207-888-704-1311, www.atlanticmusicfestival.org.
July 22 – 23, Tuesday – Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. -8:30 p.m., “Yankee Brass Band Maine Tour,” one of the premier recreation 19th-century bands playing period horns and music, is in Maine in 2014. Concerts are as follows: Tuesday, Colby College Chapel, Waterville: Wed, Sail, Power and Steam Museum, Rockland; Thurs., On the Green at Paris Hill; Fri.,Willowbrook Village Museum, Newfield; Sat., Bethel Historical Society. Concerts start at 6:30 except Sat. which is at 2pm.There will be rain locations, most are free, Colby College, Waterville. FMI: 207-775-3665, www.colby.edu.
July 17, Thursday, 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m., “Johnathan Brown,” with melodic ties to the Tennessee hills and 1960s juke joints, Nashville (and TV’s Nashville) guitarist Jonathan Brown brings his finger-style playing to Lewiston for a Concert on the Quad, Bates College – Historic Quad, 136 Central Avenue, Lewiston. FMI: 207-786-6400, www.bates.edu.

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