“Erica Brown and the Bluegrass Connection,” Frontier Theater, Brunswick

Jan. 18, Friday, 7pm, “Guest Speaker: Sandy Scott-Command of Situation and Self-Search and Rescue in the White Mountains,” search and rescue missions are on the rise in New Hampshire’s White Mountains and elsewhere. Growing enthusiasm for going out – and the now common presence of cell phones and other locator devices – means search professionals are making more calls to the volunteers who supply the expertise and muscle needed to execute these often dangerous rescue missions. Using recent White Mountain incidents as narrative examples, Sandy Stott will consider the people who do this search and rescue work and, particularly, the command of situation and self that such work asks. Stott is a journalist, teacher, hiker and recent author of Critical Hours: Search and Rescue in the White Mountains, one of Outside Online’s “Best Books for Spring ’18,” free, L. L. Bean, 95 Main Street, Freeport. FMI: 207-552-7899, www.llbean.com.
Jan. 18-20, Friday-Sunday, 7pm/Fri. and Sat, 2pm/Sun, “Alice, An Original Musical,” adapted from Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Alice Through the Looking Glass” by Kathleen Connelly, with musical score by Rudy Gabrielson and Henry Garrou. Presented by the Royal River Community Players of Yarmouth under the direction of Jesica Garrou. More than forty Yarmouth and North Yarmouth actors bring new life to this classic with the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, the Walrus and the Carpenter, Humpty Dumpty, Alice, of course, the Red Queen and the White Queen, and an amazing Caterpillar. Uplifting songs and dances, $15, Harraseeket Grange Hall, 13 Elm Street, Freeport. FMI: 207-420-7452, thelittleboxoffice.com/royalriver.
Jan. 18, Friday, 7:30pm, “Camden Opera house Blue Café presents Wayne Delano,” local, award-winning saxophonist Wayne DeLano kicks off another round of performances at the Camden Opera House Blue Café! Wayne DeLano has won over seven international outstanding performer awards at jazz festivals in the U.S. and Europe. He has toured with Maynard Ferguson, Joe McBride, Woody Herman, and Chaka Kahn and has performed with countless jazz legends including Michael and Randy Brecker, Phil Woods, Freddie Hubbard, James Moody, and others. Guitarist David Clarke has toured as far as the Philippines, Japan, and Hawaii, before returning to mid-coast Maine in the mid 1980’s. David continues to play in as many as 10 local bands! Don’t miss your chance to see and hear these talented musicians up-close and personal, bar by 40 Paper, free, donations welcome, Camden Opera House, 29 Elm Street, Camden. FMI: 207-236-7963, www.camdenoperahouse.com.
Jan. 18, Friday, 8pm, “Erica Brown and the Bluegrass Connection,” a five-piece band featuring some of the finest musicians in New England. They incorporate music from the traditional bluegrass repertoire, French Canadian fiddle music as well as original songs, $15, Frontier Theater, 14 Maine Street, Mill 3, Fort Andross, Brunswick. FMI: 207-725-5222, www.explorefrontier.com.
Jan. 19, Saturday, 6:30pm, “VoXX presents ‘A History of Sacred Choral Music’,” the a cappella vocal ensemble VoXX will welcome the new year with four performances of its annual January concert series titled “A History of Sacred Choral Music.” This winter, the program will focus on western European music drawn primarily from the Roman Catholic and Anglican traditions through the centuries, $15, Belfast United Farmer’s Market, 18 Spring Street, Belfast. FMI: 207-323-6149, www.belfastmarket.com.
Jan. 19-20, Saturday-Sunday, 7:30pm/Sat, 2:30pm/Sun, “Una Voce Chamber Choir ‘Through the Long Night’,” the program explores night and the coming dawn as meditative spaces of eerie beauty, spiritual introspection and sensuous dreams, $15/advance, $20/door, $15/13-18, free/12 and under, Bowdoin College Chapel, 255 Maine Street, Brunswick. FMI: 207-725-3000, www.bowdoin.edu.
Jan. 20, Sunday, 2pm, “VoXX presents ‘A History of Sacred Choral Music’,” the a cappella vocal ensemble VoXX will welcome the new year with four performances of its annual January concert series titled “A History of Sacred Choral Music.” This winter, the program will focus on western European music drawn primarily from the Roman Catholic and Anglican traditions through the centuries. Concert starts at 2 p.m. Pre-concert talk at 1:30 p.m., $15, Phippsburg Congregational Church, 10 Church Lane, Phippsburg. FMI: 207-389-1770, www.voiceoftwenty.com.