“Millay without Borders,” Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland

Feb. 23, Friday, 6-10pm, “Belfast Winter Whoopla: Ice Ball,” dinner and dance, includes hors d’oeuvres, one signature cocktail, entrée, dancing and dessert, $60, Wentworth Center, 139 Searsport Avenue, Route 1, Belfast. FMI: 207-338-5900, www.belfastmaine.org.
Feb. 23, Friday, 7pm, “Guest Speaker: Gene Lagomarsino-Hunting-Alaska’s Remote Brooks Range,” join Gene Lagomarsino as he takes us on a remote float hunt above the Arctic Circle in Alaska’s beautiful Brooks Range. This multi-media show will provide you with an inside look at how challenging the logistics for a trip like this are and will prepare you for your next big hunt through tips Gene has garnered from a lifetime outdoors. Even if you’re not a hunter you will certainly enjoy the scenery along this previously unexplored river in a region that only the most experienced explore. *Please sign up online at llbean.com under the Outdoor Schools tab to ensure your reservation, free, L.L. Bean, 95 Main Street, Freeport. FMI: www.llbean.com.
Feb. 23, Friday, 7:30pm, “Primo Cubano,” Primo Cubano plays traditional Cuban dance music dating back to the turn of the 20th Century. Son is the most popular style to come out of Cuba and is the primary contributor to the blend of Latin styles today known as Salsa. It was first a music of the country people and eventually migrated to Havana, where it was urbanized and began to draw a wider audience. Guitarist Paul D’Alessio came into contact with this music on a trip to Cuba in 2004. He began learning to play Son music on a guitar-like instrument native to Cuba called the tres and subsequently formed Primo Cubano, “Cuban Cousin”. Trumpeter Marc Chillemi has also spent time in Cuba and has played in various other Latin groups. He also plays percussion and sings on the choruses, or coros, to which the lead singer, or sonero responds with an improvised lyric. Lenny Hatch has loved the congas since he first heard Mongo Santamaría play Watermelon, and he has been playing them in addition to the bongó and other percussion instruments for over 20 years now. Eric Winter has been singing all his life and began studying Spanish at the age of 12. He has become particularly interested in Cuban music in the last few years. Eric also plays maracas and is the newest addition to Primo Cubano. Keeping it all together is Duane Edwards on the bass fiddle. Evenings with Primo Cubano on stage are a mix of concert and irresistible dance, $10-$15, The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, 86 Townsend Avenue, Boothbay Harbor. FMI: 207-633-5159, www.boothbayoperahouse.com.
Feb. 24, Saturday, 12:30pm, “Met Opera Live: Puccini’s La Boheme,” the world’s most popular opera returns in Franco Zeffirelli’s classic production, with a series of exciting casts. Angel Blue, Ankta Hartig, and Sonya Yoncheva share the role the fragile Mimi, with Dmytro Popov, Russell Thomas, and Michael Fabiano alternating as the poet Rodolfo. Alexander Soddy and Marco Armiliato share conducting duties, $27/adults, $15/18 and under, The Strand, 345 Main Street, Rockland. FMI: 207-594-0070, www.rocklandstrand.com.
Feb. 24, Saturday, 2pm, “Millay without Borders,” celebrating Edna St. Vincent Millay’s 126th birthday with an event entitled Millay Without Borders. The special reading of the poet’s works as well as works by participating poets will take place in the Farnsworth auditorium from 2 to 3 p.m. Celebrate the 126th birthday of Pulitzer Prize poet Edna St. Vincent Millay in Rockland with Maine poets reading the poet’s letters and poems about her travels as well as their own poems. Millay was a “travelin’ woman.” From her girlhood excursions on Penobscot Bay and visits to her father in inland Kingman to her 1913 departure from Camden to New York City, Millay spent much of her life traveling, visiting Albania by horseback and the Orient by steamship, living in England and France, and traveling by train across the country to perform her poems to large, adoring crowds. Wherever she went, however, she always came home again to Steepletop in upstate New York and to her beloved Ragged Island in Casco Bay. This event is presented in collaboration with the Millay House Rockland and the UMaine Humanities Center. It will be followed by a reception, $10, $8/members, Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum Street, Rockland. FMI: 207-596-6457, www.farnsworthmuseum.org.
Feb. 24, Saturday, 7:30pm, “Windborne,” polyphonic vocal music, Windborne picks up the torch of protest folk song for the next generation…old songs for new struggle. They have studied polyphonic vocal music for over 15 years from traditional singing masters from cultures around the world, Windborne is able to shift from radically different genres like no band you have ever heard, as comfortable with an improvised Corsican couplet song, as an English ballad. Don’t miss the stunningly powerful vocal harmony that will flood the room as the four Windborne singers present Song on the Times, their project of working class movements for peoples’ rights from the past 400 years, sung for today struggles, $15/advance, $17/door, Chocolate Church Arts Center, 804 Washington Street, Bath. FMI: 207-442-8455, www.chocolatechurcharts.org.
Feb. 27, Tuesday, 7pm, “Pops Concert with Coastal Winds and the Pine Tree Academy Band,” under the direction of Brendan Drueger, presenting a concert of pops favorites, free, Pine Tree Academy, 67 Pownal Road, Freeport. FMI: 207-865-4747, www.pinetreeacademy.org.