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Out and About for the Sebago Lakes Region of Maine June 20-26

Out and About for the Sebago Lakes Region of Maine June 20-26

“Rally for Norlands-Civil War Reenactment Weekend,” Washburn-Norlands Living History Museum, Livermore

June 20-22, Thursday-Saturday, “The Maine Festival of American Music: Music as a Form of Worship,” The festival provides a rare opportunity to experience Shaker music and history in the context of the wider world of classical and folk music, while also celebrating American musicians, composers, historians and craftsmen. The Shakers host the festival with all six concerts taking place in their 1794 Meeting House. Kevin Siegfried & The Portsmouth Singers/Thursday, 7pm, $20/adult & free/student; Don Roy Trio & Arnott Fiddlers/Friday, 7pm, free; Shaker Song/Saturday, 1:30pm, free; The Portland String Quartet/Saturday, 7pm, $20 & free/student, Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, 707 Shaker Road, New Gloucester. FMI: 207-926-4597, www.maineshakers.com/maine-festival-of-american-music/.
June 21 and 23, Friday and Sunday, 7pm/Fri, 3pm/Sun, “The Thirty Years’ War,” The 30 Years War changed the map of Europe and the minds of its citizens forever. In this multimedia concert, take a journey through one of the most devastating periods in European history through the letters, poems, speeches, and songs written at the time. This illuminating concert, featuring acclaimed countertenor Reggie Mobley, the celebrated Dark Horse Brass Consort, and the Portland Bach Experience Choir, demonstrates the triumph of the human spirit and the heart’s capacity for love and hope in the face of darkness. Experience: The Concert: Hear the world’s finest artists perform the musical gems of the Baroque era in the picturesque stone chapel of St. Mary’s Church, $40, Episcopal Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, 43 Foreside Road, Falmouth. FMI: 207-781-3366, stmaryschola.org.
June 21, Friday, 8pm, “Vance Gilbert,” Vance is a folkie trapped in a vaudevillian body. He has a voice that could have been on the opera stage, a wit that could have been on a comedy stage and a songwriting talent that has thrust him onto the folk stage for decades. His new album, Bad Dog Buffet is described as, wry, aching, hysterical, evocative, provocative, fun, beautifully sung and consummately played all at once. And that is Vance too. Like all great artists, Vance truly happens live with his jaw-dropping, diverse, funny, devastating, and gorgeous live performances, credit cards not accepted on site for food or beverage, $20 +$4/handling fee, Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dug Way Road, Brownfield. FMI: 207-932-7292, www.stonemountainartscenter.com.
June 22-23, Saturday-Sunday, 9am/gates open each day, “Rally for Norlands: Civil War Living History Weekend,” Rally for Norlands features a wide variety of living history demonstrations, exhibits, and engaging activities remembering the activities of the Civil War. Visit civilian and infantry encampments, watch battle scenarios, and enjoy fashion shows, horse-drawn wagon rides, blacksmithing demonstrations, music, one-room schoolhouse, tours of the 1867 Washburn family mansion, storytelling, a gala country dance, and more. Plenty of hands-on history activities are planned for all ages. This family-friendly event is organized by the 3rd Maine Company A and 15th Alabama Company G to benefit Washburn-Norlands Living History Center, Maine’s premier living history museum, $13/per person, $7/12 and under, free/5 and under, Washburn-Norlands Living History Museum, 290 Norlands Road, Livermore. FMI: 207-897-4336, www.norlands.org.
June 22, Saturday, 7pm, “Neptune’s Car,” music in a down-to-earth style that is so good the prestigious Great American Song Contest called their “Fly Fishing the Big Hole” “…vivid, focused and engaging,” and added, “It’s a pleasure to hear songs of this caliber.” Holly’s light soprano blends perfectly with Steve’s warm tenor. Vibrant lyrics and compelling melodies nestle in inviting arrangements, telling us stories rich in detail, from a miner’s life in “A Blue Sky Turned to Rust,” to “Emily Dickinson,” told with lyrics as beautiful as the poet’s work. Whether they’re playing an intimate house concert or on the main stage at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, you’ll love their welcoming presence and song variety. They’ve shared the stage with Bill Staines, Anne Hills, Archie Fisher, and many others. Their songs have charted on the Folk-DJ list – in 2015. If you’re looking for watertight harmonies, tasty guitar, and solid songs, look no further than Neptune’s Car, $8-$15, Denmark Arts Center, 50 West Main Street, Denmark. FMI: 207-452-2412, www.denmarkarts.org.
June 22, Saturday, 7:30pm, “Arthur Migliazza,” Award winning Blues and Boogie Woogie pianist Arthur Migliazza began playing the piano professionally at the age of 13. It was through his love of Blues music and his dedication to the piano that he came under the wing of such mentors/teachers as Henry Butler, Ann Rabson and Mr. B. Arthur has been inducted into the Arizona Blues Hall of Fame, was a finalist at the 2010 and 2014 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN, and in his 20+ years of performing has been privileged to play on some of the worlds greatest stages, including Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow as part of the sold out Kings of Boogie Tour, the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto, Benaroya Hall in Seattle, as well as on National Public Radio in the US. “Boogie-woogie is the speed metal of traditional blues and jazz piano. The roots of the rolling, rapid-fire stylealso called barrelhouse; its origins are in honky-tonks, gin mills, and rent parties stretch back to the turn of the last century and are intertwined with its comparatively sophisticated cousin, ragtime. One of boogie-woogie’s greatest living young practitioners is New York piano man Arthur Migliazza…” Peter Aaron, Chromogram Magazine, March 2017, $30/online $35/door, The Hayloft at Dragonfly Barn, 95 Sanborns Grove Road, Bridgton. FMI: 207-749-6160, www.facebook.com/dragonflybarnmaine.
June 22, Saturday, 7:30pm, “Avner the Eccentric’s Exceptions to Gravity,” Avner Eisenberg in Exceptions to Gravity is a reminder of the theatrical power that can reside in a single charismatic performer who touches the heart. A master of the art of physical comedy, Avner weaves a spell of poetic simplicity in a show of hilarious predicaments. Avner has appeared on and off Broadway with his hit show Exceptions to Gravity. He played the endearing Holy Man, The Jewel, in the Michael Douglas film, The Jewel of the Nile, and performed as a ventriloquist on Broadway in Ghetto. His dummy was nominated for a Tony Award. Avner’s show defies the barriers of language and culture and has toured extensively in the US and abroad. “I laughed for two solid hours. The show only lasted an hour and a half.”—Joel Siegel, ABC-TV, Avner Eisenberg in Exceptions to Gravity is “a reminder of the theatrical power that can reside in a single charismatic performer who touches the heart…”—Patriot Ledger, $8-$16, Celebration Barn Theater, 190 Stock Farm Road, South Paris. FMI: 207-743-8452, www.CelebrationBarn.Com.

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