Out and About for the Mid Coast Lakes Region of Maine Jan. 15-21

Out and About for the  Bangor Lakes Region of Maine Jan. 15-21
Out and About for the Bangor Lakes Region of Maine Jan. 15-21
January 14, 2015
Out and About for the Belgrade Lakes Region of Maine Jan. 15-21
January 14, 2015

Out and About for the Mid Coast Lakes Region of Maine Jan. 15-21

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“Winter Family Fun Day,” Lake St. George, Liberty

Jan. 17, Saturday, 7:30pm, “Dyer Neck Gang,” modern country music from these four Maine musicians guaranteed to warm up a winter’s night, bring your dance shoes, $10/advance, $15/day of, The Opera House, 86 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor. FMI: 207-633-5159, www.boothbayoperahouse.com.
Jan 17 -18, Saturday – Sunday, 7:30pm/Sat., 3pm/Sun., “Vox Nova Chamber Choir Concert: Agnus Dei: Soul’s Crossing,” a concert of choral music with bona fide gravitas featuring works by Egil Hovland, Francis Poulenc, Krysztof Penderecki, Frank Martin, Ola Gjeilo, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, Eri Whitacre and Stephen Paulus, $20, Saturday @St. John the Baptist, 39 Pleasant St., Brunswick/Sunday @ Studinski Recital Hall – Bowdoin College, 2 South Campus Drive, Brunswick. FMI: 207-200-3995, www.voxnovachamberchoir.com.
Jan. 17, Saturday, 7:30pm, “Recital of German Lieder-Mary Sullivan, Oratorio Chorale,” featuring artist-in-residence Mary Sullivan in a “Night of Beauty, Night of Song,” with Sctoo Nicholas at the piano. Selections include works by Schumann, Brahms, and Wolf, and selections by Alban Berg, Richard Strauss, $15, $7.50/students, Unitarian Universalist Church, 15 Pleasant Street, Brunswick. FMI: 207-577-3931, www.oratoriochorale.org.
Jan. 18, Sunday, 1-2pm, “Ice Carving Demonstration,” with master ice carver Tim Pierce, in preparation for Winterfest, open to all. Dress warmly (this is an outdoor event) freet, Camden Public Library, 55 Main St., Camden. FMI: 207-236-3440, www.camden.lib.me.us.
Jan. 18, Sunday, 8am- 3pm, “Winter Family Fun Day at Lake St. George State Park & Youth Ice Fishing Derby,” learn how to fish, all equipment and bait will be provided, plus BBQ lunch and a warming hut, $1.50 for ages 12-64; all others are free, Lake St. George State Park, Liberty. FMI: 207-589-4255, www.libertymaine.us.
Jan. 18, Sunday, 1pm, “State Street Traditional Jazz Band,” 1920s Louis Armstrong era jazz, proceeds to benefit senior citizens center, $5, Golden Oldies Senior Center, 314 Front Street, Richmond. FMI: 207-737-2161, www.richmondmaine.com.
Jan. 19, Monday, 7:30pm, “Concert with Bernice Johnson Reagon & Toshi Reagon,” Toshi Reagon is a singer, songwriter, producer and activist living in Brooklyn, New York, for the past year she has traveled nationally and internationally celebrating the release of her latest collection of music Have You Heard on Righteous Babe Records, she tours as a solo performer and with her band BIGLovely, for more than forty years Bernice Johnson Reagon, from the acclaimed African American women’s a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey In The Rock, has been a major cultural voice for freedom and justice; singing, teaching-speaking out against racism and organized inequities of all kinds, perhaps no individual today better illustrates the transformative power and instruction of traditional African American music and cultural history than Bernice Johnson Reagon, who has excelled equally in the realms of scholarship, composition, and performance, $25, Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall, Brunswick. FMI: 207-725-3433, www.bowdoincollege.edu.

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