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Out and About for the Sebago Lakes Regions of Maine July 27-Aug.2

Out and About for the Sebago Lakes Regions of Maine July 27-Aug.2

“Ossipee  Valley Music Festival,” Ossipee Fairgrounds, Hiram

July 27-30, Thursday-Sunday, 8am/gates open, “Ossipee Valley Music Festival,” Maine’s ultimate celebration of Americana, Roots, Bluegrass, Jazz, Folk and Country Music over four days in Hiram Maine (45 minutes West of Portland). Nosh from the farm to table food-trucks, and sample 10 local beers, ciders and wines in the beer tent. Workshops, yoga, barn dances, and tent camping are all included in the ticket price! 40+ national headliners and regional showcase performers, and lots of campfire jamming-bring your instrument, $25-$145, 291 South Hiram Road, Hiram. FMI: 207-625-8656, www.ossipeevalley.com.
July 27-29, Thursday-Saturday, all day events, “Casco Old Home Days,” full of activities, entertainment, and the ever exciting midway! Make sure you plan to be here for all the great shows and fun activities. Events include fireworks, chicken barbecue, parade, road races and more, Downtown, Casco. FMI: cascodays.com.
July 27, Aug. 1-2, Thursday, Monday and Tuesday, 7pm, “The Ladies Room: A Musical Comedy,” it’s funny fun in The Ladies Room, a new Musical Comedy now playing at The Footlights Theatre in Falmouth, Maine. If you love to laugh and have fun, this is the perfect summer entertainment for you and your family of friends! It’s 80 minutes on non-stop comedy, music and surprises in the air conditioned Footlights Theatre, $15, pay-wht-you-can/Thursdays, The Footlights Theatre, 190 US Route 1, Falmouth. FMI: 207-747-5434, www.thefootlightsinfalmouth.com.
July 29, Saturday, 8am, “Tough Mountain Challenge,” if you want to run 10 miles in the company of 10,000 other people and wait in half-hour lines at obstacles, you’ll find plenty of events where you can do just that. If you want to suffer for hours and risk life and limb, you can find those races too. But if you’re looking for something different – something as fun as it is tough without the ego and the crowds – welcome to the Tough Mountain Challenge, Sunday River, 15 South Ridge Road, Newry. FMI: 800-543-2754, www.toughmountain.com.
July 29, Saturday, 7pm, “Broadway & Beyond,” Singers Emily Ann Cain, Kelly Caufield and Matthew Small, along with pianist Dr. Laura Artesani, will perform “Broadway & Beyond” as part of the organization’s Music with a Mission series. The upcoming concert will mark Cain’s first appearance with the ensemble in four years, but Caufield and Small are returning for their fifth straight summer concert. This original “Broadway & Beyond” team of friends has joined forces to perform musical theater, pop, standards and more for nearly two decades, often in support of worthy causes, including Special Olympics Maine and others. These New England-based entertainers relish the opportunity to connect with one another — and their audiences — through music, $10-$12, North Windham Union Church, 723 Roosevelt Trail, Windham.  FMI:  www.mwamconcerts.com.
July 29, Saturday, 7:30pm, “The Wondertwins’ to hip-hop, with love,” this award-winning duo presents a technically masterful and artistically sensational kaleidoscopic view of vaudeville, robot, tap, and mime, $8-$14, Celebration Barn Theater, 190 Stock Farm Road South Paris. FMI: 207-743-8452, www.CelebrationBarn.com.
August 1, Tuesday, 7:30pm, “Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival,’ Shubert: 1828; Bach: Trio Sonata from The Musical Offering; Schubert: Notturno for Piano Trio; Harbison: November 19, 1828 for Piano; Schubert: Quintet for Strings, $25, free/21 and under free, Deertrees Theatre, 156 Deertrees Road, Harrison. FMI: SebagoMusicFestival.org.

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