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Out and About for the Sebago Lakes Region of Maine June 13-19

Out and About for the Sebago Lakes Region of Maine June 13-19

“Maine Blues Festival,” Downtown, Naples

June 14-16, Friday-Sunday, all day events, “Maine Blues Festival,” based on the Pub Crawl format with 10 different stages and 41 different bands, rain or shine event, shuttle buses available, $16/advance, $20/day of, free/12 and younger, Downtown, Causeway, Naples. FMI: www.mainebluesfestival.com.
June 15, Saturday, 10am-6pm, “The Wicked Maine Outdoor Fest,” join other outdoor enthusiasts from across Maine and away at this experiential and educational celebration of all that the Maine outdoors has to offer. Located at the popular Cumberland Fairgrounds, The Wicked Maine Outdoor Fest will showcase businesses, brands, vendors, and experiences whose focus is to help people enjoy and experience the great outdoors. There will be something for everyone, no matter what your age or outdoor skill level. The festival will include hands-on activities like archery, rock climbing, axe throwing and more, live music with Sons of Alfond, Joseph Gallant and other local talent, food trucks, craft beer and wine garden, shopping with local Maine artists and craftsmen, $10, free/under 12, Cumberland Fairgrounds, 175 Blanchard Road, Cumberland. FMI: 888-922-4763, www.wickedmaineoutdoorfest.com.
June 15, Saturday, 11am-2pm, “Maine Wildlife Authors,” children’s book authors Tamra Wight (“Cooper & Packrat”), Melissa Kim (“Wildlife on the Move”) & Hope Rowan (“Ten Days in the North Maine Woods” and “Ten Days in Acadia”) will give presentations about wildlife, talk about their books, and lead a variety of family-friendly activities centering on wildlife writing, photography, mapmaking, and the outdoors. Make take-home turtles, go on a park-wide nature-based scavenger hunt, create your own wildlife map, follow a story walk, play animal bingo, and more, $5.50-$7.50, Maine Wildlife Park, 56 Game Farm Road, Gray. FMI: 207-657-4977, www.maine.gov/ifw/wildlife-park/index.html.
June 15, Saturday, 7pm, “Lakeside Laugh Lab-Uncensored,” Brownfield’s own Jake Jacobson hosts a lineup of New England’s hardest working comedians. Highlights include: Lewiston native Mark Turcotte, loveably irreverent, his Maine Event Comedy shows have single handedly turned Maine into a thriving home for comedy. When Boston’s Shawn Carter is not headlining comedy clubs and colleges he’s busy running the rooms that are creating the next generation of Boston comics. Smart and subtle, Portland’s Ali Simpson is an up and comer to watch. She’s taking New England by storm and leaving her mark on the club and festival scene, $12-$15, Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Main Street, Denmark. FMI: 207-452-2412, www.denmarkarts.org.
June 15, Saturday, 7:30pm, “Heather Maloney,” she has toured nationally as a headliner as well as in support of acts like Lake Street Dive, Shakey Graves, Gary Clark Jr., Colin Hay, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and many more. The New York Times called her music “utterly gorgeous, visceral” and SPIN Magazine described her as “stunning, breathy, and starkly memorable”. “Soil In The Sky” is out on 6/14 via Signature Sounds. The artist holds the center. The Massachusetts-based “writer song-singer” found music in the midst of three years at a meditation center, honing a sound moored in days of silent reflection and reverence for storytellers like Joni, Rilke and Ken Burns. On “Soil in the Sky,” she takes us to the midwest’s existential crisis, a barstool scooching against fate, a make-my-day reckoning with society’s old guard. They’re roads less traveled and she keeps good company. Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith lends a distinctive duet to “We Were Together,” a rare love song from Maloney that nods to a Walt Whitman poem; Maloney and Rachel Price form a harmonic Voltron on “Enigma,” a triumphant uppercut to oppressive power structures. The album is sonically rounded out by an all-star cast of players including longtime collaborator Ryan Hommel, Griffin Goldsmith, Jared Olevsky, Reed Sutherland, Dave Eggar and Jay Ungar, BYOB event, $20/advance, $25/door, Hayloft at Dragonfly Barn, 95 Sanborns Grove Road, Bridgton. FMI: 207-749-6160, www.facebook.com/events/660848461009695/.
June 15, Saturday, 7:30pm, “Women Wonder,” a spellbinding and impressive array of dance, mime, and comedy with Karen Montanaro, Molly Gawler, Jackie Reifer, Shana Bloomstein, and Vicki Angel. For one special night, five incredible women share the stage to weave their talents into one unforgettable evening, $8-$16, Celebration Barn Theater, 190 Stock Farm Road, South Paris. FMI: 207-743-8452, www.CelebrationBarn.com.
June 16, Sunday, 3pm, “Concert: Monteverdi’s Vespro Della Beata Vergine,” a towering masterpiece for brass sextet, chamber orchestra, and voices, Vespro della Beata Vergine is at once intimate and resplendent, devotional and theatrical, pious and sensual. At Portland Bach Experience, hear the work as Monteverdi imagined it: sung one-on-a-part with twelve soloists and performed on period instruments Anchored in the Baroque tradition and centered around our world-class artists, the Portland Bach Experience uses distinctive programming, dynamic interpretations, and authentic connections that make the sounds of the past the music of now, $40, The Episcopal Church of Saint Mary, 43 Foreside Road, Falmouth. FMI: 207-781-3366, www.smary.org.

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