Out and About for the Sebago Lakes Region of Maine June 25-July1

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Out and About for the Sebago Lakes Region of Maine June 25-July1

On Golden Pond Sebago

at the Norway Grange

June 25-27, Thursday-Saturday, 7pm/Thurs, 3:30pm/Fri, 2pm/Sat, “The Maine Festival of American Music: Its Roots and Traditions,” provides a rare opportunity to experience Shaker music and history in the context of the wider world of classical and folk music, while also celebrating American musicians, composers, historians and craftsmen. The Shakers host the festival with all concerts taking place in their 1794 Meeting House, one of Maine’s most beautiful and acoustically superb venues for vocal and instrumental performances, with performances by Matthew Szemela, Kevin Siegfried and the Portsmouth Singers, Chris Moore, Maine Shape Note Singers, and the Portland String Quartet, free-$20, Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, 707 Shaker Road, New Gloucester. FMI: 207-926-4597, www.maineshakers.com/maine-festival-of-american-music.
June 25-28, Thursday-Sunday, 7:30pm/Thurs.-Sat, 2pm/Sun, “On Golden Pond,” Ethel and Norman Thayer return to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. Directed by Jane Whitney Riseman. With Tom Littlefield, Sally Jones, Kathryn Gardner, Dan Rennie, Michael Newsom and Owen Orlando, $10/adults, $8/seniors and students under 18, Norway Grange, 15 Whitman Street, Norway. FMI: 207-739-6200, www.ohmpaa.com.
June 25, Thursday, 7:30pm, “Jed Wilson,” pianist extraordinaire, jazz, folk, rock and soul, Wilson has performed extensively with singer/songwriter Heather Masse; had a host of appearances across North America, including multiple appearances on NPR’s “A Prairie Home Companion,” light refreshments, $10/adults, $5/15 and under, Lovell Brick Church, 502 Christian Hill Road, Lovell. FMI: www.lovellbrickchurch.org.
June 26-28, Friday-Sunday, 7:30pm/Fri. and Sat, 2pm/Sun, “The Addams Family – A Musical,” is a wacky and hilarious look at the Addams family values when little Wednesday Addams finds love in the arms of Lucas Beineke, all hell breaks loose, $16/adults, $12/12 and under,, Lake Region Community Theatre, Lake Region High School Auditorium, Route 302, Naples. FMI: www.lrctme.org.
June 26, Friday, 5-8pm, “Summer Kickoff Party,” celebrates the start of our 11th season with food, musical performances and be the first to see the Rufus Porter Percussion Cap Revolving Rifle on loan to us from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, we are currently developing all new interactive exhibits centered around the theme of Yankee Ingenuity, tying into our participation in the Yankee Ingenuity Museum Trail, tickets are $20 for members and $25 for nonmembers, Rufus Porter Museum, 67 North High St., Bridgton. FMI: 207-647-2828, www.rufusportermuseum.org.
June 27, Saturday, 9am-3pm, “Raymond Garden Tour,” begin for a self-guided tour of 9 private landscapes and a Raymond Historic Landmarks, enjoy a summer day discovering the many distinctive ways gardening is interpreted in the heart of the Sebago Lake Region, tour begins at the Raymond Village Library, $15/advance, $20/day of, Raymond Village Library, 3 Meadow Road, Raymond. FMI: 207-655-483, www.raymondvillagelibrary.org.
June 27-28, Saturday-Sunday, 9:30am-4:30pm/Sat, 9:30am-12pm/Sun, “The Ancient Ones!” this group of re-enactors, in full period dress, will set up a real Living History Camp from the late 1700s – 1800s They will put up a canvas tent & have demonstrations going on all day long, including fire starting, cooking, trading, tomahawk throwing, flint knapping, flintlock muskets, weaving, & the like. Come to see what day-to-day life really looked like 200 years ago! $7.50/adults, $5.50/children and seniors, Maine Wildlife Park, 56 Game Farm Road, Gray. FMI: 207-657-4977, www.maine.gov/ifw/education/wildlifepark/events.htm.

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