BAR HARBOR — And now for something completely different — and potentially, great fun. Nathanael Lee and fellow Mount Desert Island High School graduate Thomas Van Gorder are launching a two-man comedy performance with Charles Ludlum’s, zany thriller “The Mystery of Irma Vep,” at the Criterion Theatre, Oct.11-13. The play is described as a “penny …
BAR HARBOR — Graham Nash, a two-time inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (once with Crosby, Stills and Nash and once with the Hollies) will perform Tuesday, Oct. 1 at 8 p.m. at the Criterion. Tickets begin at $51. Visit criteriontheatre.org
BAR HARBOR — A full moon performance and release party for Timbered Lake’s new album “World Undivided” will be held Saturday, Sept. 14 at 9:15 p.m. at the Lompoc Café. In 2003, singer/songwriter/guitarist Diana Ramsdell Newman joined poet/singer/indigenous percussionist Crow Suncloud to become the indie/folk duo Timbered Lake. Through their repertoire of original songs, the …
BAR HARBOR — Singer-guitarist Robert Cray will play at The Criterion Theatre on Tuesday, Oct. 3, at 8 p.m. For his latest project, Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm, the Blues Hall of Famer travelled to Memphis with his friend, renowned Grammy Award winning producer Steve Jordan, to make a classic Soul album with Hi Rhythm, …
SOUTHWEST HARBOR — Coddiwomple, an ensemble including Brian Kupiec, Mark Kanter and John Wixon, will play Saturday, Sept. 7 at Coda in Southwest Harbor. Kupiec said the Coddiwomple project is “a mindfully aimless musical meander across all sorts of genres and decades. The journey is the destination, and it’s a hoot.” Music starts at 7 …
BAR HARBOR — Classical guitarist Kevin Morse and trumpeter Mark Tipton will perform Saturday, Sept. 21st at 7:30 p.m. at the Bar Harbor Congregational Church. The program will include classical duo arrangements for trumpet and guitar, solos for guitar and trumpet, as well as selections from a list of jazz standards. Admission is $20. Morse …
BAR HARBOR — The Harvard Din & Tonics, the university’s signature à cappella vocal ensemble, will perform at St. Saviour’s Episcopal Church on Sunday, Sept. 1 at 6 p.m. The Din & Tonics were founded in 1979 by a group of Harvard undergraduates intent on giving their services to local charitable organizations. The group’s repertoire …
BAR HARBOR — The Portland-based rock band Rustic Overtones will perform at the Criterion Theatre on Saturday, Aug. 31 at 8 p.m. “Concertgoers can expect a night full of energetic live music inspired by indie rock that is influenced by soul, garage punk, jazz, and psychedelic music of the 60’s and 70’s,” said organizers. Opening …
BAR HARBOR — Michael Bauer will play the final organ recital in the Friends of Music at St. Saviour’s Episcopal Church Organ Recital Series Aug. 30 at 12:15 p.m. The organ at St. Saviour’s, built and installed by the Visser-Rowland Organ Co. in 1976, is one of the finest in Downeast Maine. Bauer will play …
Paula Poundstone has always loved the sound of laughter, which might help explain why she became a stand-up comedian. “When I was little, my mother would send us up to bed because her friends were coming over to play canasta, and my sisters found the sounds of the ladies downstairs annoying, but I just loved …
