ELLSWORTH — For several decades now, the Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Maine has been providing theater-goers with the musical equivalent of comfort food to help see us through the dreary mid-winter months. And really what could be more delicious in this season of hard-packed snow and treacherous ice than to enjoy our friends and …
BAR HARBOR — David Mallett and his band are set to take the stage at the Criterion in Bar Harbor Saturday, Jan. 26 at 7:30 p.m. Mallett, a native of northern Maine, has performed his indelible brand of folk music in all corners of the world — from the Newport Folk Festival to the airwaves …
BAR HARBOR — Mike Perlman’s play “The Summoning of the Flamingo of Love,” is set to be performed at The Criterion Theatre Feb. 8 and 9 at 7 p.m. An absurdist comedy, the play tells the story of young Johan, the Magical Prince of the Magical Swans, and his quest to find his Magically Magical …
BASS HARBOR — The Winter Concert Series continues at the Barn with Saturday’s headliner Big Tree, a trio featuring Southwest Harbor-based songwriter and performer Bowen Swersey with bassist Jarly Bobadilla and fiddle phenomenon Gus LaCasse, with special guest Curtis Russet or Shirt Tail Kin. Swersey is a prolific songwriter, poet and novelist whose first play, …
SOUTHWEST HARBOR — A Traditional Music Session will be held at the Silent City Coffee house behind the Southwest Harbor Library on Wednesday, Jan. 16, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. and the first and third Wednesday of February. This event is free of charge and all are welcome to play and listen. For more information, call Ray …
Violin, piano concert set ELLSWORTH — Violinist Tracey Jasas-Hardel and pianist Anastasia Antonacos will perform Friday, Jan. 18 at 1 p.m. at the Moore Community Center. This free, professional concert is organized by the Ellsworth Community Music Institute and sponsored by Machias Savings Bank. While continuing study at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins …
Updated 12/31/18 BAR HARBOR — A concert with Acadia National Park composer-in-residence Rachel Panitch planned for Jan. 5 at the Jesup library has been cancelled due to the partial government shutdown. The planned concert was an official National Park Service outreach event, and part of the visitor services that have been discontinued during the shutdown. …
BAR HARBOR — Phoebe Durand-McDonnell and Celeste Mittelhauser will play a short concert featuring Baroque harp and voice on Thursday, Jan. 3 at 7 p.m. at the Jesup Memorial Library. The duo performs as Biea Duette. They traveled together to the Czech Republic last summer to study Baroque music. Durand-McDonnell, who is from Bar Harbor, …
NORTHEAST HARBOR — Mount Desert Island High School senior Gus LaCasse will headline the First Friday Coffeehouse Friday, Jan. 4. at the Northeast Harbor Library. The evening begins at 7 p.m. with an open mic session, hosted by Blue Gene. All performing artists are welcome to participate by signing in on the clip board near …
MOUNT DESERT — A performance featuring the poetry of Paul Weiss and the original music of the folk duo Timbered Lake is planned for Friday, Dec. 21 at 7 p.m. in the Mellon Room of the Northeast Harbor Library. The two-hour program is called “Lit From Within.” It will honor the winter solstice, which falls …
