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Schoolhouse Arts Center, Standish

Sept. 12 and 13, Friday and Saturday, 7:30pm, “Red ‘N Gold Cabaret,” featuring a number of soloist performing classics, showtunes and standards including “All I Ask of You,” “All That Jazz,” “Sunday Kind of Love,” “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” “Indian Summer,” and many more, café style seating, free popcorn, snack bar, BYOB, $12, Denmark Arts Center, 50 W Main Street, Denmark. FMI: 207-452-2412, www.denmarkarts.org.
Sept. 12, Friday, 8:00 p.m., “Asleep at the Wheel,” Woohoo Buckaroo…Ray Benson and the hardest workin’ band in show biz is back for another night of country western swingin’, toe tappin fun. They have won 9 grammy awards and there are no signs of slowing down. Keeping the music of Bob Wills and alike, alive and well in one of the best live shows money can buy. Don’t miss it….we never do!! $50 pp, Stone Mountain Art Center, 695 Dug Way Road, Brownfield. FMI: 207-935-7292, www.stonemountainartcenter.com.
Sept. 13, Saturday, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., “Pie & Arts Benefit at Norlands,” step into the past with mansion tours, a Victorian fashion show, concert, and pie sale. Enjoy a slice of homemade pie while listening to music on the front lawn. Musical guests include Neil James on the violin and the rockin’ Every Other Sunday band at 1:30pm. Enjoy a Victorian Fashion Show at 3:00pm. Take a guided tour of the 1867 Washburn family mansion. The event also includes a poster display of artwork created by third grade students from Jay, Livermore, and Livermore Falls. A children’s craft activity includes making simple and fun reverse prints using paper and paint. Whole pies for sale ($12) and slices served up with real whipped cream for a donation. Proceeds benefit Norlands’ programs, Washburn – Norlands Living History Center, 290 Norlands Road, Livermore. FMI: 207-897-4366, www.norlands.org.
Sept. 13, Saturday, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., “The Kienbusch Legacy: A Family of Artist,” you are invited to attend the upcoming Pace Galleries exhibition opening on Saturday, September 13th from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. The Kienbusch Legacy: A Family of Artists will feature works by William Kienbusch (1914-1980), Julia Patience Little (1926-2012), Millicent Clarke Kelley (1918-2011), David Little, and Carl Little. David and Carl Little will lead a tour of the show, light refreshments will be served, free, Leura Hill Eastman Center, 18 Bradley Street, Fryeburg. FMI: 207-935-2001, www.fryeburgacademy.org/pac.
Sept. 13, Saturday, 2:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m., “Fur Fest,” join the Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland (ARLGP) for a live music bash and day of comedy, food, drinks and FUN at the first annual Future Fund Fur Fest! Bands play as follows: Brad Strause 3:00pm, Manifesto 4:30pm, The Wallhangers 6:00pm, Music ranges from Americana to Rock, and Comedian Sean Curtis will perform in between sets and throughout the event, cash bar, $15, free/12 and under, Memory Lane Music Hall, 35 Blake Road, Standish. FMI: 207-854-9771, www.arlgp.org.
Sept. 13, Saturday, 4:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m., “Lasagna Dinner,” East Otisfield Free Baptist Church will hold its first fall dinner, menu will be lasagna, meatballs, sausage, salads, rolls, punch and cake, seatings at 4:30 and 6:00, gluten free options available, donation appreciated, East Otisfield Free Baptist Church, 231 Rayville Road, Otisfield. FMI: 207-743-7417, www.eofbc.org.
Sept. 13 – 14, Friday – Sunday, 7:30 p.m./Friday & Saturday, 5:00 p.m./Sunday, “The Mousetrap,” the Mousetrap is a murder mystery play by Agatha Christie, which opened in the West End of London in 1952, and has been running continuously since then. It has by far the longest initial run of any play in history! The scene is set when a group of people gathered in a country house cut off by the snow discover, to their horror, that there is a murderer in their midst. Who can it be? One by one the suspicious characters reveal their sordid pasts until at the last, nerve-shredding moment the identity and the motive are finally revealed. Don’t miss the shuddering suspense and brilliantly intricate plot where murder lurks around every corner! $14/adults, $12/students & seniors, Standish Schoolhouse, 16 Richville Road, Standish. FMI: 207-642-3743, www.schoolhousearts.org.

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