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Out and About for the Belgrade Lakes Region of Maine July 3-8

black fly follies belgrade

at Cumston Hall, Monmouth

July 3, Friday, 7:30pm, “The Fuse,” is an event to benefit the Liberty Festival and Great Falls Balloon Festival, enjoy dancing to live music from The Veggies and Cold Blue Steel along with a cash bar and food vendors, advance tickets are $10/person ($12/person at the gate), the event of rain, The Fuse will move indoors to the Franco American Heritage Center on Cedar Street in Lewiston, Veterans Memorial Park, Main St., Lewiston. FMI: 207-212-8227, www.libertyfestival.org.
July 3, Thursday, 7:30pm, “Black Fly Follies,” Monmouth’s annual variety show featuring the talents of our summer company. This 16th Annual Variety show will features feats of magic, murder, and a sprinkling of mayhem while introducing audiences to the artists and plays of the 2015 season, Cumston Hall, 796 Main Street, Monmouth. FMI: 207-933-9999, www.theateratmonmouth.org.
July 3-4, Friday-Saturday, 8pm, “The Bikinis,” Jodi and Annie, sisters from Paramus, New Jersey; Karla, their slightly manipulative first cousin from Philly; and their best friend Barbara, from Staten Island. In 1964 they won the Belmar Beach Talent Contest, wearing only their bikinis. And now, to raise money for the good folks at Sandy Shores Mobile Home Beach Resort, the girl group from the sixties everyone loves is bringing back the sun, fun, and all the great songs they sang down on the boardwalk at the Jersey Shore. About first love, flower power, and disco, THE BIKINIS is a nonstop celebration of song filled with hits like IT’S IN HIS KISS, YELLOW POLKA DOT BIKINI, UNDER THE BOARDWALK, THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKIN’, CHAPEL OF LOVE, AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH, INCENSE AND PEPPERMINTS, LOOK WHAT THEY’VE DONE TO MY SONG, MA, WHERE THE BOYS ARE, LAST DANCE, I WILL SURVIVE, IT’S RAINING MEN and many more! A nostalgic show anyone of any age will enjoy. This beach party will have you will be dancin’ in the aisles! $22/advance, $23.50/door, Lakewood Theater, 76 Theater Road, Madison. FMI: 207-474-7176, www.lakewoodtheater.org.
July 4, Saturday, sunrise-well into evening, “Belgrade Small Town Celebration,” music, wide variety of yummy foods, kids games, specials throughout the Belgrade Lakes Village shops, frog jumping contest and ending the day with a fireworks display over Long Pond, downtown Belgrade. FMI: www.maine.info/July4.php.
July 4, Saturday, 10am-evening, “Augusta Fourth of July,” Old Time Independence Day Celebration 10am-7:30pm at the Fort, parade at 4pm, concert featuring the Cahoots & Emerald Sky at 5pm, fireworks start at dusk, Riverfront, Downtown, Augusta. FMI: 207-626-2350, www.augustamaine.com.
July 4, Saturday, 6-11pm, “19th Annual Lewiston/Auburn Festival,” celebrate our independence with live music beginning at 6 p.m. at Veterans Park in Lewiston and Great Falls Plaza in Auburn, dozens of food offerings and merchandise vendors, this year’s entertainment line-up is not to be missed! Lewiston funny man Mark Turcotte will MC events at Veterans Park, including: The Skidmarks, OCD, 4Play and Denny Breau. At Great Falls Plaza, Maine Blues Festival presents Return of the Blues featuring Blue Steel Express and guests along with The Rhythm Kingz, Blues in the Works and other surprise guests, Veterans Memorial Park, Main St., Lewiston. FMI: 207-212-8277, www.libertyfestival.org.
July 5, Saturday, 7:30pm, “Broadway Under the Stars,” Broadway music director, Paul Staroba (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder), leads an all-star cast of Broadway veterans in this one-night only Broadway-themed concert under the stars and lights at The Bowl-In-The-Pines, $18/adult, $9/student, Bowl in the Pines, 8 Goldenrod Lane, Sidney. FMI: 207-465-3025, snowpond.org.

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