May Editors' Picks

DANCE
BLACK MOON RISING
Photograph Courtesy Collins Center for the Arts
Luna Negra, Spanish for black moon, is a high-energy, Chicago-based dance theater company that showcases the Latino culture through Afro-Caribbean and Latino dance forms. Combining all kinds of media and art with contemporary dance, this decade-old group salsas into Orono on May 5 at 7 p.m. $27. Hutchinson Concert Hall, Maine Center for the Arts, UMaine campus, Orono. 207-581-1755. www.ume.maine.edu/~mca [1]

MUSIC
GRAB YOUR GUITARS
Photograph by Jennifer Baum
A fingerpicking frenzy. That’s what Muriel Anderson, the first female winner of
the National Fingerpicking Guitar Championship, brings to Waterville this May. Anderson joins other world-class guitar players for the fifth annual Knock on Wood Guitarfest. Guitar playing of all kinds will be on display at the 7:30 p.m. concert, while full-day attendees can brush up on their strumming and picking skills at a handful of workshops. May 2. $15-$25. Waterville Opera House Studio Theater, 93 Main St., and Colby College, Waterville. 207-873-7000. www.guitarfest.org [2]

ART
WAXING ARTISTIC
Photograph Courtesy New England Wax
May flowers remind us of the busy bees pollinating the state. This year you can see another bee-produced beauty at the Dyer Library and Saco Museum. Heat Stroke: New England Wax Artists Working in Encaustic features work from New England Wax, a regional association of artists who work in encaustic, a beeswax-based painting medium. The show features seventy-seven works by twenty-five artists from throughout New England, including eleven from Maine. Through May 30. $2-$4. 371 Main St. 207-283-3861. www.dyerlibrarysacomuseum.org [3]