Down East - Events Feed

Portland Flower Show

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:51:52 -0500

Start: Mar 11 2010 - 1:50pm

End: Mar 14 2010 - 1:50pm

The only flower show in northern New England offers sixteen garden exhibits, lectures from Down East Books’ authors, a marketplace with more than a hundred vendors, a bookstore, the Children’s Discovery Garden, and delicious food.

Le Vent du Nord

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:09:17 -0500

Start: Mar 12 2010 - 8:00pm

End: Mar 12 2010 - 10:00pm

Since their founding in 2002, Le Vent du Nord has quickly become one of the most recognizable and esteemed bands of the Québec traditional music. A direct predecessor of Cajun music, this genre blends fiddle, accordion, and step dancing.

Carrie Underwood

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:55:54 -0500

Start: Mar 15 2010 - 12:54pm

End: Mar 15 2010 - 12:54pm

Underwood can thank her sorority sisters at Sigma Sigma Sigma for urging her to sing publicly and American Idol for getting her noticed.

St. Lawrence String Quartet

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:18:42 -0500

Start: Mar 16 2010 - 7:30pm

End: Mar 16 2010 - 7:30pm

This Canadian string quartet marks its twentieth anniversary performing John Adams’ new String Quartet, composed especially for the quartet by the world-renowned New England native, as well as other works from the ensemble’s vast repertoire.

Head-To-Tail Whole Hog Dinner

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:21:04 -0500

Start: Mar 18 2010 - 6:00pm

End: Mar 18 2010 - 11:00pm

Vignoll hosts its third annual Whole Hog Dinner. This unique dinner celebrates authentic Italian dining at its finest, by featuring some of the most flavorful – though less traditional – cuts of the hog, as well as perfectly matched accompanying wine and beer selections.

An Evening of Chamber Music

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:46:42 -0500

Start: Mar 19 2010 - 12:42pm

End: Mar 19 2010 - 12:42pm

Curtis Institute of Music, the Philadelphia school that educates and trains exceptionally gifted young musicians for careers as performing artists, performs Barber’s String Quartet op. 11, Dvorak’s Piano Quintet in A Major, and two new works by the Curtis students.

Maine Boat Builders Show

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:48:37 -0500

Start: Mar 19 2010 - 1:47pm

End: Mar 21 2010 - 1:47pm

This is a gathering of the finest fiberglass and wooden custom boatbuilders on the East Coast, as well as numerous manufacturers of boating equipment, sailboats, powerboats, canoes, kayaks, and rowboats

Downtown Bangor Artwalk

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:46:24 -0500

Start: Mar 19 2010 - 5:00pm

End: Mar 19 2010 - 9:00pm

The Downtown Bangor Arts brings photographers, painters, musicians, fiber artists, installation artists, potters, and more to show original works of art at sixteen with well over forty artisans.

Dayton Contemporary Dance Company

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:58:52 -0500

Start: Mar 20 2010 - 12:57pm

End: Mar 20 2010 - 12:57pm

Dayton Contemporary Dance Company presents the work of three of the most creative geniuses in American dance: Donald McKayle’s masterwork Rainbow ’Round My Shoulder, about a group of men on a prison chain gang; Tony-nominated choreographer Donald Byrd’s J Lawrence Paint (Harriet Tubman Remix), inspired by the paintings of Jacob Lawrence; and hip-hop inflected dance maker Rennie Harris’ Jacob’s Ladder.

The Midcoast Symphony Orchestra

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:07:33 -0500

Start: Mar 20 2010 - 1:05pm

End: Mar 20 2010 - 1:05pm

The Midcoast Symphony Orchestra is an ensemble of seventy musicians who perform a wide range of music from classical to more modern melodies. The concert includes Tom Vignieri’s An American Hymn, E. Grieg’s Piano Concerto, op. 16, in A Minor, and V. Kalinnikov’s Symphony no. 1 in G Minor.

Maine Jewish Film Festival

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:13:35 -0500

Start: Mar 20 2010 - 5:34pm

End: Mar 25 2010 - 5:34pm

The Maine Jewish Film Festival provides a forum for the presentation of films to enrich, educate and entertain a diverse community about the Jewish experience. http://www.mjff.org/

As If Stories

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:42:19 -0500

Start: Mar 20 2010 - 7:00pm

End: Mar 20 2010 - 8:30pm

As If Stories is a live-performance of readings by Maine actors of short stories by Maine writers. The inaugural performance features two stories about love and personal firsts: “The Blender” by Martha Fenton, read by Beverly Mann, and “Ernie’s Ark” by Monica Wood, read by Larason Guthrie.

Caribbean Night with Pan Fried Steel Drum Band

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:56:35 -0500

Start: Mar 20 2010 - 7:30pm

End: Mar 20 2010 - 10:00pm

The first day of spring marks the return of this party loving band of twenty-five steel drum performers to the Opera House. Join us as we say goodbye to winter and welcome spring and the summer ahead. Dig out your Hawaiian shirt and flip flops and get ready to limbo.

The Midcoast Symphony Orchestra

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:09:02 -0500

Start: Mar 21 2010 - 1:07pm

End: Mar 21 2010 - 1:07pm

2010 Half-Hull Model Class

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:32:05 -0400

Start: Mar 22 2010 - 2:00pm

End: Mar 22 2010 - 5:00pm

Learn the fine old art of half-hull modeling. For centuries, shipbuilders designed ships by carving a model of half of the hull, which allowed them to examine every curve and feature before beginning construction. Classes meet Monday and Wednesday, 2-5 pm; Mar 22, 24, 29, 31; Apr. 5, 7, 12, 14.

Propellers & Propulsion

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:06:28 -0500

Start: Mar 23 2010 - 8:00am

End: Mar 23 2010 - 12:00pm

Accutech Marine Propellers, Inc. will cover the properties of propellers: how they are made, repairs and computer tuning, and shaft failures.

Tao: The Martial Art of Drumming

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:20:26 -0500

Start: Mar 24 2010 - 12:00am

End: Mar 24 2010 - 12:00am

Athletic bodies and modern costumes meet explosive Taiko drumming and innovative choreography.

Kotzschmar Organ Summer Concert

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:54:39 -0400

Start: Mar 24 2010 - 10:54am

End: Mar 24 2010 - 10:54am

Christoph Bull accompanys a classic silent movie, The Lodger, on Portland's Kotzschmar Organ.

Kotzschmar Organ Summer Concert

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:56:32 -0400

Start: Mar 24 2010 - 10:56am

End: Mar 24 2010 - 10:56am

Isabelle Demers, a doctoral candidate at the Juilliard School of Music, performs a classical pipe organ concert on Portland's Kotzschmar Pipe Organ.

Kotzschmar Organ Summer Concert

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:09:25 -0400

Start: Mar 24 2010 - 11:08am

End: Mar 24 2010 - 11:08am

German pipe organ virtuoso Felix Hell performs a classical pipe organ concert on Portlan's Kotzschmar Pipe Organ.

Kotzschmar Organ Summer Concert

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:10:30 -0400

Start: Mar 24 2010 - 11:10am

End: Mar 24 2010 - 11:10am

Australian organist Thomas Heywood performs a classical pipe organ concert on Portland's Kotzschmar Pipe Organ.

Blue Grass at Billy's Tavern

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:14:19 -0400

Start: Mar 24 2010 - 11:13am

End: Mar 27 2010 - 11:00pm

Come dance or kick back and enjoy Country Chorus, the midcoast's best bluegrass band.

From the Top

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:01:48 -0500

Start: Mar 24 2010 - 1:00pm

End: Mar 24 2010 - 1:00pm

From the Top, one of the most popular and fastest-growing classical music programs on radio and television, brings its serious music, light-hearted skits, and informal interviews of talented and passionate young musicians live to the Portland stage.

Punch Brothers

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:14:34 -0500

Start: Mar 26 2010 - 1:13pm

End: Mar 26 2010 - 1:13pm

Mandolin wizard Chris Thile changed the mandolin forever through his evocations of its roots in bluegrass music. From that base he applied the instrument to jazz and classical performances.

Midcoast Model Festival

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:50:07 -0500

Start: Mar 27 2010 - 1:48pm

End: Mar 28 2010 - 1:48pm

Car, planes, boats, and trains — and a whole lot more.

Sarah Blacker

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:48:07 -0500

Start: Mar 27 2010 - 8:00pm

End: Mar 27 2010 - 11:00pm

Bostonian singer-songwriter Sarah Blacker to Portland for a follow-up from a very successful North Star Cafe show. Blacker is a prolific songwriter with more than four hundred songs to her credit. Her debut release, The Only Way Out is Through, released in 2009, presented eleven songs in a breathtaking, captivating way.

Bassekou Kouyate

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:54:23 -0500

Start: Mar 28 2010 - 12:52pm

End: Mar 28 2010 - 12:52pm

Bassekou Kouyate and his band Ngoni Ba from Mali weave crisp bluesy riffs and funky ostinato patterns along with wild rocking solos

Portland Symphony Orchestra

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:13:05 -0500

Start: Mar 28 2010 - 1:11pm

End: Mar 28 2010 - 1:11pm

The Sunday Classical series brings together mandolin wizard Chris Thile and the PSO for Thile’s own Mandolin Concerto, Copland’s Appalachian Springs, and Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night).

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:58:38 -0500

Start: Mar 28 2010 - 2:30pm

End: Mar 28 2010 - 4:00pm

Bassekou Kouyate and his band Ngoni Ba weave crisp bluesy riffs and funky ostinato patterns along with wild rocking solos. Add the lilting melodies from Bassekou’s wife, Ami Sacko, and the driving West African rhythms of a percussionist, and you’ve got one of the hottest new bands from Mali.

Cinque Terre Wine Dinner

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:11:35 -0500

Start: Mar 29 2010 - 6:00pm

End: Mar 29 2010 - 10:00pm

SOPO Wine Co. and local importer Vinilandia host a winemaker dinner at Cinque Terre that features representatives from the Scagliola and Nicolis families, two of Italy’s longtime premier winemakers. The Scagliola and Nicolas families produce highly acclaimed wines in the Piedmont and Veneto regions of Italy.

Mozart's Requiem with the Portland Ballet Company and the Choral Art Society

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:15:04 -0500

Start: Mar 30 2010 - 7:30pm

End: Mar 30 2010 - 7:30pm

Continuing the collaboration between the Portland Ballet Company and the Choral Art Society, they present Mozart's profound masterpiece, The Requiem, with new dance choreographed by Kennet Oberly. The performance features the Portland Ballet Company dancers, the CAS Singers and CAS Camerata, and musicians from the Portland Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Robert Russell.

Celtic Crossroads

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:58:56 -0500

Start: Apr 2 2010 - 8:00pm

End: Apr 2 2010 - 10:30pm

Great, young Irish talent in an extraordinary Celtic stage show of music, dance, and stories. Celtic Crossroads presents Irish music like never before with seven world-class musicians playing more than twenty instruments on stage.

Michael Perkins Benefit Furniture Sale & Auction

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:12:16 -0500

Start: Apr 3 2010 - 7:00pm

End: Apr 3 2010 - 10:00pm

Help Feed Our Neighbors! Brunswick furniture designer Michael Perkins is auctioning off a lifestyle collection of more than thirty pieces of custom furniture to benefit the Midcoast Hunger Prevention Program. Musical guests include fiddler Hope Hoffman and guitarist Jim Tolles. Celebrity auctioneer, Lori Voornas, of WJBQ 97.9FM's morning show, will be auctioning items throughout the evening.

Maine Maritime Museum's Volunteer Recruitment Open House

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:30:10 -0400

Start: Apr 7 2010 - 4:00pm

End: Apr 7 2010 - 7:00pm

If you’ve been thinking about volunteering in the midcoast, you owe it to yourself to check out the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath. Located on the banks of the Kennebec and a few minutes from historic downtown Bath, the museum requires more than a hundred volunteers to staff its tours for the thousands of visitors who come to the City of Ships each year.

Importance of Not Knowing Yourself: Protecting the Mystery of Who and What You Are

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:01:48 -0500

Start: Apr 7 2010 - 7:00pm

End: Apr 7 2010 - 9:30pm

Understanding yourself is not nearly as important as appreciating how deep, complex, and rich your soul is. Loving your soul, with all of its gaps, leads to self-acceptance and self-forgiveness, doorways to a creative life. We move in the wrong direction when we aim only for self-improvement and believe that one day everything will be perfect, or should be. An alternative is to appreciate the place of failed work, failed relationships, and failed plans, and to cultivate the fool and the ignoramus. You will never know enough or accomplish all that you feel you need to do.

Flavors of Freeport

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:13:39 -0500

Start: Apr 9 2010 - 6:00pm

End: Apr 11 2010 - 11:00am

An entire weekend devoted to food, wine, beer, vodka, art, music, entertainment, decorating, and more. Sample delectable dishes from Freeport's best restaurants and B&Bs; learn a little about beer, wine, and vodka from local purveyors and distillers; and bid on art items from Freeport Art Guild members.

Flavors of Freeport

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:32:16 -0500

Start: Apr 9 2010 - 6:00pm

End: Apr 11 2010 - 5:00pm

Freeport is a community of artists, entrepreneurs, and professionals from Maine and away. The Destination Freeport committee invites visitors and members of our community to a wonderful weekend filled with fabulous food, distinguished drink, great music, and the excellent hospitality of Freeport. From a Gala tasting of twenty of Freeports finest food etablishments to an all ages block party, there is something for everyone. Come Friday and stay all weekend.

The Diary of Anne Frank

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:19:13 -0400

Start: Apr 10 2010 - 7:00am

End: Apr 18 2010 - 2:00am

The Theater At Monmouth, in collaboration with the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine, presents The Diary of Anne Frank. Experience the striking story of a young girl's courage and love of life in the hardest of times.

Midcoast Independent Schools Host Open House

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:33:21 -0400

Start: Apr 10 2010 - 10:00am

End: Apr 10 2010 - 1:00pm

Finding the right school for a young child can often be a difficult and time consuming process. With a variety of choices and too little time to gather the necessary information, it can sometimes be a challenge to find the right program to fit your child’s needs. With this in mind, the local Independent Schools Association hosst its annual Open House throughout Camden and Rockport, where six participating schools hold joint open houses at the same time, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

CD Release Concert featuring Dave Peloquin and Bob Webb

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:40:06 -0500

Start: Apr 10 2010 - 7:30pm

End: Apr 10 2010 - 9:30pm

Mining old phonograph records for gold is the current joy of two Maine musicians, Dave Peloquin, of Windsor, and Bob Webb, of Phippsburg. They have been singing traditional folk songs for more than forty years. Two years ago, they discovered their common interest in the earliest commercial recordings of folk and "country-western" artists. The result of their collaboration is a compact disc, Sounds Like Old Times, which will be debuted at the gallery concert.

Jay Ungar and Molly Mason

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:57:43 -0500

Start: Apr 10 2010 - 8:00pm

End: Apr 10 2010 - 10:30pm

Jay and Molly are extraordinary musicians. If you didn't know them before, you certainly did after Ken Burns' The Civil War hit the airwaves. Their performance of Jay's haunting composition "Ashokan Farewell" — the musical hallmark of the PBS series — earned the couple international acclaim.