Out and About for the Mid Coast Lakes Region of Maine Sept. 28-Oct.4

Out and About for the Bangor Lakes Region of Maine Sept 28-Oct. 4
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Out and About for the Mid Coast Lakes Region of Maine Sept. 28-Oct.4

“Midcoast Maine Tour de Farms,” Morris Farms, Wiscasset

Sept. 28, Thursday, 5-8pm, “Wiscasset Art Walk,” It may be the final Wiscasset Art Walk of the 2017 season, but unexpected happenings will make the evening fresh and fun! Enjoy art, music, camaraderie, and food trucks. Start your evening with a wine tasting at Treats, 80 Main St., and then step outside to Middle St. for fresh oysters, shucked just for you by O’Oysters. In the mood for something more savory? Try a Mexican specialty from Taco the Town just across the street. Wander the sidewalks and enter through the welcoming open doors of fine art galleries and specialty boutique shops. Talk with gallery owners who will gladly introduce you to their art and shop owners who will help you make perfect gift selections. Sip and munch while listening to superb music in the galleries played by master musicians Jonathan Waldo, on his hand-made classical guitar, and Suki Flanagan playing harp. Be sure to stop into Trifles, 55 Main St., and ask proprietor Matthew Robinson to show you Oleg Konstantinov’s Articulated Animals, palm-sized creatures with moveable joints all hand made of sterling silver, free, Downtown Wiscasset, Main Street, Wiscasset. FMI: 917-327-1449, www.wiscassetartwalk.org.
Sept. 28, Thursday, 7pm, “Novel Jazz Septet,” performing classic jazz out of the Great American Songbook, the performance will feature special guest, Ralph Norris (tenor and baritone saxophone), Barney Balch (trombone), Dave Clarke (guitar), Herb Maine (acoustic bass), Michael Mitchell (trumpet), and Bill Manning (drums), $7-$15, Skidompha Public Library, 184 Main Street, Damariscotta. FMI: 207-563-5513, www.skidompha.org.
Sept. 29-Oct. 1, Friday-Sunday, 7pm/Fri. and Sat, 2pm/Sun, “The Fantasticks,” the Fantasticks, which has book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt, is the world’s longest-running musical and the longest-running legitimate show in any category in American theater history. The Fantasticks is an exquisitely crafted, primal theater ritual; a beloved experience that audiences of all ages come together to share again and again. This simple musical fable of a boy, a girl and the pain of growing up is told by eight actors on a bare wooden stage that is as full of theatrical magic as any in American musical history. The modest tale is told through a score that is as wry as it is rhapsodic. The Fantasticks is a symphony of the human experience which sparkles from its first note to its last as its characters exchange their illusions for a few precious grains of truth, $12/advance, $15/door, Chocolate Church Arts Center, Curtis Room Annex, 798 Washington Street, Bath. FMI: 207-358-0031, www.studiotheatreofbath.com.
Sept. 29-Oct. 1, Friday-Sunday, 7:30pm/Fri. and Sat, 2pm/Sun, “The Servant of Two Masters,” Carlo Goldoni’s classic commedia dell’arte tale of mistaken identities, characters in disguise, and absurd situations updated to the modern era. Truffaldino arrives in Venice with one master, quickly acquires another, then must serve them both while maintaining the illusion he serves only one. When both servants end up at the same inn, Truffaldino’s powers of improvisation are put to the test, and the results are hilarious! Directed by Dan Burson. Starring Zachariah Stearn, Annie Collins, Peter Havas, David Vincent, Noah Bragg, Courtney Pomerleau, Elliot Nagler, Mika Gallati, Rose Humeniuk and Sabrina Small, $12-$15, Freeport Performing Arts Center, 30 Holbrook Street, Freeport. FMI: 207-865-2220, www.fcponline.org.
Sept. 30, Saturday, 7:45am-4pm, “Midcoast Maine Tour de Farms,” Enjoy an early fall bike ride while supporting local farmers and producers. Ride 56, 42 or 17 miles through the beautiful Midcoast countryside, stopping at farms and orchards along the way to sample and purchase their products. We’ll courier your purchases back to the starting point; we’ll have cycling/farming activities for kids at the Morris Farm while their parents ride; and we’ll serve up a local foods barbecue after the ride, $25-$75, The Morris Farm, 156 Gardiner Road, Wiscasset. FMI: 207-882-4080, www.morrisfarm.org.
Sept. 30, Saturday, 10am, “Fall Festival at the WW&F Railway Museum,” enjoy a day of games, fun, and happenings at our annual Fall Festival! Board our train at Sheepscot Station at 97 Cross Rd, Alna just minutes from downtown Wiscasset, and travel up the line to the location of the festival. There will be face painting, a pumpkin patch, hay rides in the back of a Model AA truck, games and fun for the whole family! Once again we welcome the Bluegrass Music Assoc of Maine to the festival – for a bluegrass pickin’ party! Enjoy some old fashioned music. Trains regularly depart from Sheepscot at 10:30 AM, 10:55, 12 noon, 12:25, 1:30, 1:55, and 3:00 (the last regular train); however depending on how busy it gets we may run trains more frequently than that, $5-$8, Wiscasset, Waterville, & Farmington Railway Museum, 97 Cross Road, Alna. FMI: 207-882-4193, www.wwfry.org.
Oct. 1, Sunday, 4pm, “Jonathan Paull Benefit Concert,” Celebrating 45 years of non-profit community theater and children’s programming, The Theater Project is pleased to announce a benefit concert with Jonathan Paull and his band with an acoustic music program by some of Boston’s finest musicians. With musical influences steeped in folk, rock, and jazz traditions and fueled by fingerstyle guitar, the group will perform songs from their upcoming album, No Fear, and their first two releases, After the Storm and Heart and Mind. Together, they weave sentiments and stories that speak to all of us – promising a moving and memorable evening of friendship and music. Appetizers and drinks will be served along with a sneak preview of our 2017-2018 season and a chance to win season tickets, $25, The Theater Project, 14 School Street, Brunswick. FMI: 207-729-8584, www.jonathanpaullmusic.com/tour.

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