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NEW YEAR A New Year, a Notorious Year
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Kay Stephens, a Maine freelance writer, has covered both mainstream and underground events, people and scenes. She helps small Maine businesses in the creative fields get media exposure through www.kaystephenscontent.com To get daily A & E updates, follow through Facebook: facebook.com/ killerconvo and Twitter: http://twitter.com/thekillerconvo
Nathaniel Bernier, owner of Wild Rufus Records, previously retail and now online, has immersed himself in music for 35 years, hosting several radio shows, deejaying at clubs and parties, writing music reviews and interviewing artists. He lives on the coast of Maine and continues to live through music. wildrufus. com; wildrufus.blogspot.com
Shannon Kinney Shannon Kinney of Dream Local has more than 15 years of experience in the development of successful Internet products, sales and marketing strategy.
Daniel Dunkle Daniel Dunkle writes the weekly humor column, “Stranger Than Fiction,” and “Down in Front” blogs and movie reviews. He is Associate Editor for The VillageSoup Gazette. His column appears in the editorial pages. Follow him on twitter at twitter.com/#!/DanDunkle.
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13 PIE SCENE Friends Don’t Let Friends Drive After Pie 14 YANKEE CHEF Having Some Fun 16 ART SCENE: Q&A With Artist Louise Bourne
Tiffany Howard and Jim Dandy Tiffany Howard and Jim Dandy co-own Opera House Video, an independent video rental store in downtown Belfast featuring an extensive collection of new releases, foreign films, documentaries, classics and television series. Each takes turns writing the movie review. Find them on Facebook.
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Richard Ruggiero A graduate of Siebel Institute for Brewing Studies in Chicago, Ruggiero worked as a consultant across the east coast setting up a microbrewery on Long Island, N.Y. called James Bay Brewing Company. In 1995 he relocated to Rockland, Maine to build Rocky Bay Brewery which closed in 2007. He is now the brewmaster at the new Shag Rock Brewing Company in Rockland, located at Amalfi’s Restaurant on the water.
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After 30+ years in the record business in Los Angeles including long stints at Warner Bros. & DreamWorks Records, Marc consults and manages artists & has started an independent music label that concentrates on singer - songwriters. It’s called Mishara Music and is based here in Midcoast Maine. Marc writes about the national and local music business. Visit marc online at misharamusic.com & marcrescue. wordpress.com Write him at marcrescue@gmail.com or here at thescene@villagesoup.com.
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usan Guthrie wins The White Hot Spotlight, which focuses on one’s creative passions. Susan is a photographer who lives in Belfast. Her work has been featured in a dozen juried shows in Maine, including the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, and elsewhere in New England. A bit of her work is in private collections, including Kepware Technologies of Portland. She is represented by VoxPhotographs.com, also of Portland.
Q: Where is your favorite place to shoot and why? A: I shoot mostly in Waldo County and never seem to run out of light, inside or outside. What drives me in my work is the love of capturing light and bringing it into a form that continues to spread that light. Especially interesting to me is how humankind’s ordinary, practical creations can become sudden scenes of great beauty when combined with a vigorous, living sky.
PHOTO BY: SUSAN GUTHRIE
The winner of “How Well Do You Know Midcoast Maine” gets The White Hot Spotlight on The Killer Convo as a way to profile artists in the area.
Q: Here are two of your photographs: “Chicken Barn and Wires” and “Roof Elephant.” What kind of mood are you going for with shots like these? A: These wild skies fill me with a delightful excitement of the Kundalini kind, although some may see them as slightly spooky or foreboding.
Q: What drives you as an artist? A: It took half a century, through hard, even desperate, times, but I never stopped picturing myself living in an old house, filled with love, on the beautiful coast of Maine and expressing myself through art. Of course, it didn’t hurt that I met the love of my life, Larason Guthrie, a world-class organic architect, and that he has loved and encouraged me for almost two decades. We share so many interests as well as a deep, glowing love.
Q: Do you live by a quote or motto? A: My favorite quote is: “Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill
Q: Expound upon that for others going through a similar journey as yours... but who are on the brink of losing enthusiasm. A: No matter how many disasters I have seen my way through since leaving an abusive home at 14, after two lost husbands and associated houses, plus a dramatic business crash, as well as career swings (going from a Who’s Who executive to a cleaning lady in a year), I never lost faith in myself nor my tenacious love of life, usually not longer than 24 hours, that is. My exuberant character does seem to require much humbling and I have embraced it at every turn. Susan’s work can be found at: VoxPhotographs.com mainephotoalliance.org Want a chance to win a shot at The White Hot Spotlight? Like The Killer Convo on Facebook (www.facebook.com/killerconvo) and look for the monthly photo contest: “How Well Do You Know Midcoast Maine?” PHOTOS COURTESY OF VOXPHOTOGRAPHS.COM
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A new year, a notorious year Welcome, 2012. But, what do you portend? The masses are curious, some anxious. We hear something about Mesoamerican calendars and apocalyptic change. According to information gleaned at Wikipedia, 2012 will be a leap year, and the United Nations General Assembly declared 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives, highlighting the contribution of cooperatives to socio-economic development, in particular recognizing their impact on poverty reduction, employment generation and social integration. Not to mention It has also been designated as the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All. Calamity thinkers point to Dec. 21, 2012 as a big end-of-the-world day, or a day we enter a black hole, or collide, even, with an asteroid; spiritualists say the date indicates beginning of deep human transformation. However and whatever the new year brings, we stand ready.
We have our own thoughts about Year 2012. Here are a few predictions, hopes and anticipatory statements. In Year 2012, some say: The recession will continue. Kim Kardashian with get back with Chris Hughes. Iraq will be a bloody mess. North Korea’s new leader will produce a dance video that will go viral. Pot will be legalized. A stem cell shake that delays aging process will be formulated. Al Gore’s Internet will crash. The entire World Wide Webaverse will crash. We say: Love will prevail!
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veryone has heard the expression, “It was right under my nose the whole time.” For Anastasia Glassman, a Midcoast creative who describes her artwork as “the collision of many interests,” the very tools and items she worked with every day in her catering company, Swan’s Way, were in fact, the raw materials right under her nose destined to be the art pieces in her ongoing December show at Pascal Hall. Several years ago, Glassman pulled out one of her battered baking pans and discovered there was a beauty in the patina of the scorched underside. So, she used them as the background for a series of plant photographs. With a pile of well-used baking pans sitting in her studio, Glassman eyed them in a new way. She saw them as blank canvases for a series of collages she wanted to make, using a collection of old tools and scraps of metal she had amassed over the years. Attached with heavy-duty magnets on the underside of each sheet, the result is both raw and energetic. And it’s not just the magnets that will be drawing a crowd for this show. Here is the Story Behind The Baking Sheets and three of her pieces currently on display. PHOTOS BY: ANASTASIA GLASSMAN
It was the patina of the full-size sheet pans that compelled me, but then I went to a real grungy, used restaurant equipment store and found several of these ‘contiguous’ bread pans in the back of the place. I found the pans very graphic. I have used them both ways: by attaching the shapes on the outside bottom of the pans, the shapes seem to be floating; attaching them on the inside frames the shapes and confines them.
After I sold Swan’s Way (my restaurant) in Camden, I bought land in Lincolnville and built my house. On the property was an old granite quarry. The bonus was there were lots of remnants from its days as a working quarry. Lots of cable and gears. The metal for the piece on the wall is from the old forge.
I was experimenting with ways to not have a traditional wooden frame. On some pieces the wooden frame gives the piece a sense of completion and stature. But here, the T-squares keep the rustic, rough quality that is more appropriate to the work. You don’t want to confine it. Keep it volatile.
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Glassman’s artwork kicked off with an opening on Dec. 18. (See by appointment. Call Pascal Hall 236-4272). For more information about the individual pieces, email Anastasia at swansway@midcoast.com
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interfest returns to the Camden Amphitheater for the 10th annual community celebration of winter on Saturday, Jan. 28, starting at noon. The event is presented by the Camden Public Library and the Winterfest Committee, along with local sponsors. The parks will be filled with food, music, and art for children of all ages. The Winterfest Committee invites community members to try their hand at ice carving. This year, the committee hopes to attract both professional and aspiring artists. Any group, individual, organization, or business that would like to create a glowing, but ephemeral, ice carving, should contact Anita Brosius-Scott at 236-9878 or anita@scottsnet.com. The committee urges early sign-ups as ice is limited. The Winterfest Committee provides ice-carving tools or take one’s own. There will be an ice-carving demonstration and workshop with master carver Tim Pierce on Jan. 15. The cost for a block of ice is $50. In addition to the one-day winter celebration, the Winterfest committee has again collaborated with the Friends of the Amphitheatre Ice Rink to
Hockey Molly Bhudda was carved in memory of Molly Fitch at the eighth annual Wintefest in 2010 at the Camden Ampitheatre PHOTO BY: LYNDA CLANCY
Working on a peace sign ice carving in 2011 for Ashwood Waldorf School are, from left, Ian McBride, Savannah Berryman-Mave, Emma Cloyd and Abigail Matlack. PHOTO BY: KIM LINCOLN
present outdoor skating to Camden all winter long. The free public ice rink will be constructed in the Camden Amphitheatre. If the weather cooperates, the rink will be constructed before Christmas, and filled and frozen by New Year’s Day. Ice skate rental will be available at Maine Sport in the Camden downtown. With or without snow, families are encouraged to go and play, skate, and enjoy Camden’s downtown public parks. Winter indoor crafts and face painting are offered free of charge to the younger set in the Picker Room of the Camden Public Library. The warm rotunda of the library hosts live music by All That Jazz, and there will be live music outdoors organized by John Orlando of Grand Banks Entertainment. On Atlantic Avenue, a merry band of culinary volunteers serve a variety of delicious hot soups and light snacks donated by local restaurants. For more information: winterfest.mycamdenmaine.com.
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ast month, I wrote about how, if you don’t like what you hear on the radio, you can change it by hosting your own radio show on WRFR in Rockland (wrfr.org).
the booking the donations can be as little as $12 to sometimes $50 for more established artists. The average for a talented but up-and-coming artist is perhaps $15.
So now let’s talk about what you can do if you love live music but none of the local venues book the acts you’d like to see.
All the donation money is given to the artists. The hosts do not receive any income. That way, there are no taxes, fees or royalties (ASCAP or BMI, etc.) due and that keeps the process simple and easy for the hosts.
It’s simple: If you love live music and want to be involved with artists you can host a House Concert. As the economy has tightened up and club gigs for so many acoustic musicians have gone away the House Concert has become a staple for traveling artists. There are nationwide networks that have developed to pair up artists and hosts and it has become even a more important booking than clubs for many singer-songwriters. I spoke to Jeff Robertson from concertsinyourhome.com, one of the networks that helps pair up artists and hosts to learn more about this wonderful idea. At the simplest level, the now established normal practice is to invite an artist to play acoustically (no sound system needed) for a group of friends in your home. The host provides a guest bedroom for an overnight stay, usually dinner and breakfast the next morning, a place to perform and an invited audience, somewhere usually in the range of 20 to 35 guests. The artist will play two sets of music, perhaps 45 minutes each with a break between. Depending on the schedule, the dinner can be before the performance or after. It can even be a potluck and a time where the artist and the guests get to mingle. The house concerts are invitation only, not advertised; instead of ticket sales the guests make a donation to the artist. Depending on the artist and
The Concerts In Your Home website was started by a traveling musician, Fran Snyder, more than four years ago as a way to make the touring process so much easier for artists and people wanting to book their own house concerts. Checking the website — they have three hosts listed for the state of Maine at the moment — I’m sure they would love to have more. Barnaby Bright (a husband and wife duo on my Mishara Music label, barnabybright.com, whose latest CD has been chosen by Amazon.com as one of their “Amazon Picks: the 100 Best Albums of 2011”) have been working with the network for a while (in 2010 they were voted second most popular artist on the site) and Nathan says: “We love doing house concerts. For one, at this level it’s all acoustic. We use two guitars, a banjo, a harmonium, baritone ukulele, tenor ukulele, clarinet, and an assortment of rhythm instruments. “In an intimate acoustic setting we don’t have to worry about hooking everything up to a sound system that often doesn’t work correctly. The direct contact with the audience makes for a great listening situation. “The house concert also makes touring viable for artists. You can actually make more money and avoid tacky hotel rooms and noisy clubs and make deep personal connections with people, the best way to build a fan base. It’s also
Music picks this month: Sara Willis’ Album Picks from ‘In Tune By Ten’ on MBPN Sara really loves Kathleen Edwards new album “Voyageur”. She says the album has spectacular songwriting and working with producer Justin Vernon (aka Bon Iver) has given this album a deeper richer sound to match Kathleen’s songs and singing. She also said it was impossible to choose an album of the year but suggested, under protest, that these five albums spent more time in her personal player this year than many others: 1. Dolorean, The Unfazed 2. Blitzen Trapper, American Goldwing 3. Beirut, The Rip Tide 4. Tedeschi Trucks Band, Revelator 5. Raphael Saadiq, Stone Rollin’
Denis Howard’s Album Picks from WERU Denis mentioned that there’s been a resurgence around the WERU shows for airplay on “Boogie 4 Stu - A Tribute To Ian Stewart” by Ben Waters. When it first was released earlier this year it was overshadowed by so many other releases but now has been rediscovered by the staff. If you don’t know, Ian Stewart was the longtime keyboard player for the Rolling Stones who was asked by their first management and record company to step down from being an actual member of the band because they felt a piano player didn’t fit the look and marketing for the band in those British Invasion days. But he worked with the band for the rest of his life and if you ever saw them in concert and there was a piano player on stage... that was Ian. Denis said the first record that came to mind as album of the year at WERU was the Gillian Welch release “The Harrow And The Harvest”. It’s a record that’s made the best of lists all over the country for 2011, and deservedly so.
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Marc Ratner Continued f rom Page 10 our audience. We reach people who don’t ever go to clubs, would never go to clubs, but love our music. Artists sacrifice a lot to play music – often no kids, no fancy houses, no safe careers – it’s a way to enjoy how the other half lives and share some special moments together. We’ve made lifelong friends this way.� I also spoke to an artist agent (as their popularity grows artists are represented by booking agents to arrange their touring dates), Amanda Case at AIC Entertainment, who has been booking artists for 25 years. She loves house concerts and often books them for the acts she represents. She says most agents work with the more established house concert hosts, some who have been doing it for 15 years or more and have moved beyond the starter website networks and deal with agents and more established artists directly. The artists, “concerts-in-your-home� people and agents are all looking for the committed music people who want to book house concerts on a regular basis. The key is that they love music, love meeting the artists, are willing to share their home for performances in an intimate environment and have a network of friends that will support the shows by attending.
Some even grow from presenting in their the living rooms to presenting at various public venues. The “Concertsinyourhome� website can connect you to other websites that can help you make that move. And don’t just think houses. Bob Tassi, skipper of the schooner Timberwind (schoonertimberwind.com), which sails out of Rockport Harbor, had two boat concerts last summer. One was for three days and the other a fourday cruise, during which there were a number of performances over the sailing trip and the guests had time to bond with the artist. Bob worked for years in the music business in Nashville and says that this is a way for him to help support artists and also distinguish the Timberwind from the other wonderful vessels that sail the Midcoast. He plans on doing three more music performance sailing trips this coming summer. There are no rigid rules for doing a house concert. If you love live music and want to get involved there’s a way to do it. Check out the websites I’ve listed or email me. I’d be glad to help you further the availability of live music on the Midcoast. I wish you all a musical new year! Marc
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A Conversation in Poetry Edited & Introduced by Wesley McNair, Maine Poet Laureate In today’s poem Elizabeth Tibbetts of Hope proves that warmth and love are possible even in a cold Maine winter.
Coming Home By Elizabeth Tibbetts
Oh, God, the full-faced moon is smiling at me in his pink sky, and I’m alive, alive(!) and driving home to you and our new refrigerator. A skin of snow shines on the mountain beyond Burger King and this garden of wires and poles and lighted signs. Oh, I want to be new, I want to be the girl I saw as they traveled down to pick at her hem. She was younger than I’ve ever been, with hair cropped, ragged clothes, and face as clear as a child’s. She read as though she were in bed, eyes half closed, teeth glistening, her shimmering body written beneath her dress. She held every man in the audience taut, and I thought of you. Now I’m coming home dressed in my sensible coat and shoes, my purse and a bundle of groceries beside me. When I arrive we’ll open the door of our Frigidarie little box, set eggs in their hollows, slip meats and greens into separate drawers, and pause in the newness of the refrigerator’s light while beside us, through the window,
Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry is produced in collaboration with the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. Poem copyright Š 2002 by Elizabeth Tibbetts. Reprinted from In the Well, Bluestem Press at Emporia State University, 2002, by permission of Elizabeth Tibbetts. Questions about submitting to Take Heart may be directed to David Turner, Special Assistant to the Maine Poet Laureate, at 207-228-8263 or poetlaureate@mainewriters.org.
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Captain Lindsey House will serve its signature Cornish meat pasties, too. Rockland businesses have added healthy pies to the list. Last year, Fiore Oil served up a beautiful pie with healthy olive oil and in the past Rheal Day Spa served a “Not Too Sweet” Sweet Potato Pie (chosen for the antioxidant qualities of sweet potatoes and gluten free) and a Refined Sugar-free, Lavender, Honey and Yogurt Pie, defying all preconceived notions about “pie-ling” on calories from pies! Each of the participating venues will serve both a savory and sweet pie, including a number of unusual galettes, tarts, pot pies, pizza pies, even a grilled pie and quiches, too. Over the past seven years, nearly $40,000 has
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Yellow Field Cape Rosier, oil on linen, 30 x 40
Artist Louise Bourne Captures the Light Did you grow up in Maine and study art here? What brought you to Blue Hill / the Maine Coast? My mother’s mother’s family was from Castine for many generations. My mom became a summer person, and we spent as much time each summer in Castine as we could. The light bouncing off the water and reverberating everywhere, the sound of lobsterboats in the early morning, all forms of rock and water, the brogue of the voices, and the color of damp moss are probably my deepest memories. These things are all woven into family love and being compelled to create. But I am not a native Mainer. The rest of the
year, my family lived near New York City and later in Washington, D.C., where I regularly went to museums. The whole world of making images and sculptures felt familiar, exciting and reassuring to me from a young age. I loved the beautifully illustrated children’s books my author mother was able to borrow from the bookstores where she worked. I spent my senior year of high school at the Chewonki Foundation in Wiscasset, and tried liberal arts college, but transferred to the Portland School of Art, now Maine College of Art. I came to the Blue Hill Peninsula to work at Horse Power Farm, and was lucky enough to become the kindergarten teacher at the Bay School. This area has been my home base, throughout travels and getting an MFA from University of Michigan, ever since.
Who are your mentors?
Solitaire, oil on linen, 30x40
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My teachers at PSA were incredible. Margot Trout, Ed Douglas, Johnnie Ross, Joe Guertin, Veronica Benning. They were so dedicated to this language they were teaching us: the language of drawing, color, design, and working the three-way process of the observed motif, the easel and one’s eyes and heart. It was much more demanding than college. I learned how to work in art school. Other mentors are the artists I’ve seen in museums and books. I remember the absolute magic, as a little girl, of seeing a Monet garden path painting.
Tulips, oil on linen, 24x24 From across the hall, it was a clearly represented image; close up it was paint. I loved the paint. I love and look most at: Italian early Renaissance painting, Rembrandt — who can only be appreciated in real life — Vermeer, Chardin, Morandi, Bonnard, the California painters: Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn (my teacher Ed Douglas’ teacher) and Joan Mitchell. I’m sure Robert McCloskey’s iconic “Time of Wonder” influenced me, and I’m sure I’m leaving a lot out.
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Ten years ago you were creating ceramic tile installations, how did that work develop and inform your current painting process? I did the tile murals and some handbuilt ceramic pieces because I loved the architectural qualities — the way the imagery bonds to the structure, sort of like fresco does. I saw the murals as a way to do large, narrative work with a kind of imagery that didn’t interest me to do in regular painting. During that time, there were a lot of “One Percent for Art” projects, so I could make money doing them. I liked working with the school communities that commissioned the murals. It was really good at the time, but I grew tired of the technical challenges and wanted to get back to painting from observation with oils. At the same time, I stopped getting the commissions, so it all worked out. I’m very grateful to the Maine Arts Commission for that program, as it gave me great opportunities and supported me. To tell you the truth, I don’t know how those projects affect my current work.
You are showing pastel drawings now, are these studies for paintings? The fall of 2010, I was invited to a oneweek artists retreat on Islesboro, and was accepted to do a two-week residency at the Heliker Lahotan Foundation on Great Cranberry Island. I wanted to take a different media with me so I’d get away from the norm. So, I brought the oil pastels. I’m used to mixing the color I want on my palette. With pastels, I had to find the stick closest to what I want, and then do the mixing on the paper. That was a huge difference to me, and took awhile to get used to, and was frustrating and fun all at the same time. I like how it’s easier to make and retain drawing-like marks with the pastels than with paint, while still dealing entirely with color relationships. I had a large one-person show at the Newton Free Library Gallery in Newton, Mass., last June. I worked with a curator who suggested showing the works on paper along with canvases, so I framed the pastels. And now I show them. Though the pastels certainly feed canvas paintings, I don’t see them, nor the watercolors I do, as studies for
I have to be sure to take time each summer to lie on rocks that are so hot from the sun my skin can barely stand it, then go swimming in the bay, then lie on the rocks again. It’s like taking Nature in through the skin to the bone.
Volly, oil on panel, 12x12
other works. I feel like once something has been resolved, no matter what the medium or size, then why replicate it? I see all the work as a continuum. One thing leads to something else. For me, painting is about getting the right color in the right place. It’s a response to situations of color light and all the intricacies of color interaction. I get my stimulus from direct observation, though I may work in the studio from memory and from drawings, watercolors, and other paintings. It sounds like such a dry definition of
painting, but through this language, so much emotion, sensuality, narrative — so much of the human experience — resonates. If I think about trying to convey those things — emotions — it doesn’t work; if I think of what color where; the experience and the end product are better. It’s endlessly fascinating. I mean, you can have no idea what to paint one day, but put a yellow pear in a yellow bowl, or a red apple on a blue striped cloth, and whammo! There’s a whole series of intriguing relationships to deal with and a series of paintings emerges that leads to something else.
Can you tell us about the painting on the cover, “Open?”
Thrumbcap, oil pastel on paper, 9x12”
“Open” is part of what I call, for lack of a better word, the Gray Series. While at the Heliker Lahotan Foundation on Great Cranberry, the drama of the October ocean/sky got me interested in less color and more grays and blacks. Later in the month, I saw a show of early 1900s photographs at the Philips Collection, in D.C., particularly those of Alvin Coburn. I fell in love with the creamy paper and the cooler gray of the ink printed on top. Back in my studio, I started making paintings using my memory of this palette. I made the first painting directly from a large charcoal drawing done on Great Cranberry. The others are from small sketches I did while sitting outside in the snow. I’d always mixed my own blacks, but had fun experimenting with different premixed blacks. Straight blacks are so yummy and greasy, and they vary so much when you add white: some are warm; some cool. Then I can further tweak with other colors. I love using the drama of the black and the subtleties of warm and cool grays. (Q&A Continued Page 24)
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his feature highlights all the crafties in Maine who don’t necessarily have a physical shop or an online presence other than Etsy (etsy.com), which is like an online open craft fair that allows users to sell vintage items, handmade items that are modified, as well as unique (sometimes downright wacky) handcrafted art. Meet Bar Harbor artist Jennifer Steen Booher, of the Etsy Shop Quercus Design. A self-described hoarder of quirky objects, Jennifer said: “I’m part magpie, part squirrel, part scientist, and part historian. I find things, hoard them, take them apart, and research them. Sometimes I reassemble them, and sometimes I make new things from the bits.” Jennifer’s original fine art photograph might strike a chord. If you were a child in the 1970s, you will instantly remember these vintage Fisher Price Little People. Said Jennifer: “These are my very own Fisher Price people, with the marks of my milk teeth where I gnawed the
mom’s ponytail. I’ve been an artist as long as I can remember, although I’ve danced between media over the years. For a long time I made assemblages, and hoarded all sorts of odd bits and pieces to use in them. I’ve also been beach-combing since I moved to Mount Desert Island in 1997, and, being a curious sort, have gradually been learning more about the marine life and the flotsam that I find. “Back in early 2010, I had to photograph my overflowing collection of sea glass in order to sell off some of it. I quickly became fascinated with arranging the pieces, then obsessed with improving my photography skills to capture all the detail and texture that I find so intriguing. I was trying to achieve a scientific level of clarity and documentation. By the end of the year I had begun to develop a very modern style of still life around my beachcombing finds. “I’ve begun to apply the techniques to my other collections to document things that intrigue me: It is a very personal obsession, and there may not be any overarching meaning to it. On
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‘Rainbow People’ PHOTO BY: JENNIFER BOOHER the other hand, these photographs appeal to a lot of other people, and I suspect that my formal, organized and clinically-lit objects are triggering memories for all of us. There’s often a physical start of recognition when people see them. Almost everyone who has been to a beach has gathered a handful of odds and ends that gave them pleasure. Most people have a small stash of their childhood toys for
the same reason. Oddly enough, in spite of my attempts to develop a quasiscientific documentation, I think these photos end up being as much about nostalgia for the viewer as they are about my own curiosity.” To learn where to get this photograph, visit Jennifer’s Etsy shop at quercusdesign.etsy.com or visit her blog, quercusdesign.blogspot.com
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t’s about awakening reverence for the Earth,” said Camden artist and playwright Kathryn Oliver, founder and codirector of Terra Diddle Collective. Oliver, an artist who has worked in several mediums ranging from painting to theater, said she draws inspiration from the universal images, stories and elements of myth. She noted that her stories, like those of myth, are about the eternal struggle between light and darkness. She and the other collaborators in the Terra Diddle Collective have recently brought these ideas to performances of “The Earth Maiden,” a story told through a combination of music, dance and stunning visual elements including large puppets.
Recent performances have included 30 children and 14 adults at the Rockport Opera House. Oliver said the story of “The Earth Maiden” mirrors the dark times we are in and the state of the planet. She said the story reminds us that life is sustained through the health of the Earth by evoking a being, “The Earth Maiden,” which is filled with love. Oliver said people have strong responses to this kind of material and some even told her they wept during the performance. The puppets employed in the performances are made with silk and fabric and are manipulated by the players with bamboo sticks. Oliver noted that silk naturally PHOTO BY: AMY WILTON
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moves in a way that brings the puppet to life. Set pieces and puppets have also been designed using material the collective received from Moss, Inc. Oliver likes bringing puppets into the performances because watching them is, for many, an uncommon experience. “It’s so delightful to have giant, imaginative images come forward,” she said. Kristi Williamson, a theater teacher, singer/ songwriter and choreographer, has worked with Oliver in these creations. Williamson studied musical theater at Syracuse University, according to the Terra Diddle Collective website. Oliver explains that the name of the collective PHOTO BY: AMY WILTON
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is taken from an English phrase meaning that what you see is not all there is. “In art we lift the veil,” she said. The artist momentarily takes the viewer out of the hard-edged limitations of the factbased world and shows them the vastness of the imaginative landscape, she explains. The very format of the performances helps in this effort. Instead of merely engaging sight with a piece of visual art or hearing with a musical performance, these shows of dance, music and bright color offer a full-sensory experience, she explained. In addition, in using both children and adults in the performances, they become multi-generational pieces. The collective will be performing at the Camden Opera House on Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, first at 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 14, and then for a matinee at 2 p.m. Jan. 16. Tickets are available at HAV II in Camden or by contacting Oliver at Kathryn@kathrynoliver.com or 593-2677. Terra Diddle Collective partners with fiscal sponsor Waldo Arts Mission, a 501(C)3, to help make workshops/performances affordable and cover production costs; and is underwritten by business sponsor Camden Real Estate. For more information, call 593-2677; send email to kathryn@kathrynoliver. com; or visit terradiddlecollective.com. For information on how to help support this effort, visit kickstarter.com/projects/kathrynandkristi/terradiddle-collective-community-transformational.
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WINTER: FIVE WINDOWS ON THE SEASON January is all about Adam Gopnik’s “Winter: Five Windows on the Season.” I started reading this as we shifted out of that final, unexpected burst of warm weather in December, and so far it’s been a good way to prepare my mind for the oncoming season. Gopnik, a “New Yorker” regular, tells the story of winter in five parts: Romantic Winter, Radical Winter, Recuperative Winter, Recreational Winter, and Remembering Winter. Just a little way into Romantic Winter, I was already looking at the season with a little more of a long view: how recently in human history, for example, it is that we’ve been able to look out at winter, create reliable barriers of warmth to escape the harsh season? And did you know there was a mini-ice age from about 1500-1800? The cold we think of as cold now is nothing compared to what it was just a few hundred years ago, and that makes me extra grateful for monitor heaters and wood stoves and heating pads. Oh, and whiskey.
Beginners reviewed by Tiffany Howard From Mike Mills, the director of the enjoyably offbeat film Thumbsucker (2005) comes Beginners, a heartfelt dramedy about life and death, love and sex, family and humanity. Ewan McGregor plays 38-year-old artist Oliver Fields who, in the wake of his father’s death, embarks on a relationship with French actress Anna (Melanie Laurent). This love story unfolds as Oliver remembers his father, Hal (Christopher Plummer), who, following the death of his wife of 44 years, reveals to his son that he is gay and, in his last years, has lived a vibrant and happy life. Hal’s transformation inspires Oliver to examine his own hopes and fears when it comes to love. Based on the director’s actual experience with his father, the film is crafted with an earnest tenderness often missing from mainstream movies and is further elevated by the strong performances of its lead players, particularly Plummer. If nothing else melts your heart in this moving film, surely Arthur will, the lovable Jack Russell terrier Hal leaves Oliver; he is both adorable and wise beyond his species!
Wilco — The Whole Love The first track opens with eerie delight, flowing robes of graceful musical prowess; the CD enters the room to swim in my audio canal. I am hooked from its very beginning, like a young brook trout getting his first glimpse at a Mickey Finn. I have to have it! And more! The building bass line, the doping drum track, the glistening guitars, the controlled mayhem that ends this seven-minute track has totally staked its claim on my brain. And like a gambler with a hot hand, I’m all in. Fuzzy guitar fun follows with a track called “I Might.” Frankly, I might suggest you’ll love this record! Keyboards mince the air in a glorious array of brightly beaming sound, bringing further overlay to an already amazing landscape, putting more stones on the wall. The album is seemingly less scattered than some of Wilco’s efforts. This one is more along the lines of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, which left the listener gleefully bullied by sonic sullenness. I won’t say any more, urging you, the reader, the listener, to decide for yourself. Wilco fan or not, this is fun rock ‘n roll that will leave you with a yearning for so much more! It’ll urge you to find the whole love. Rock on!
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Going for Baroque: An elegant reincarnation of a vintage instrument By Laurie Schreiber
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he Northeast Harbor Library’s French double-manual harpsichord is one of the finest examples of its kind, according to Northeast Harbor resident Edith Dunham, who is one of the area’s most knowledgeable people on the subject. “If you wanted to go out and buy one of the best harpsichords around, this is definitely one of the best. The library is very lucky,” said Dunham. Dunham has a master’s degree in early music from the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Mass. Dunham grew up with a harpsichord in her childhood home and, she said, she has always loved Baroque music. With two small children, she said, she has not had a chance to practice or perform much, except that she recently began to air out the Northeast Harbor Library’s harpsichord during the library’s monthly, off-season First Friday Coffeehouse. “The thing I like about the harpsichord is the Baroque music,” she said. “I don’t like classical or Romantic music. You can’t play Beethoven on harpsichord.” Donated to the library about 10 years ago by a resident, David Hibbs Donnan, the instrument was built in 1990 by the Boston, Mass., manufacturer Hubbard and Broekman. The partnership broke up, said Dunham, and Hubbard remains as one of the main harpsichord builders in America. “Harpsichords are still built all the time,” she said. “This one is modeled after an 18th century French harpsichord. ‘Double-manual’ means it has two keyboards. That was very common.” The instrument’s sound is made when the player depresses a key. The key lifts a “jack,” which used to be a long strip of wood but is now generally made of plastic. The jack plucks a long string, whose vibrations are enriched by a soundboard.
Edith Dunham says the French double-manual harpsichord at the Northeast Harbor Library is one of the finest of its kind. It features a painting of the house of the original owner, David Hibbs Donnan, who donated the instrument to the library. PHOTO BY: LAURIE SCHREIBER Dunham demonstrated the workings of the jacks, which are associated with how individual strings are struck by the keys on the twin keyboards. Each jack, about 2 inches long and slender as a reed, was outfitted with tiny quills, which pluck the string; and felt, which dampen the vibration when the key reaches its resting position. The strings can be struck individually or in “choirs,” and their tonal qualities and volume can be affected depending on whether one or both keyboards are used. “The keyboards have different sounds,” she said. “You have options.” Three strings are associated with each note — two 8-foot-long strings and one 4-foot-long string. The 4-foot string is an octave higher than the 8foot string.
“So you could play them all at once to have a loud sound, or you could pull out the top keyboard so the top keyboard is only playing the front eight and the bottom keyboard is playing the back eight, and that’s a slightly different sound,” she said. “You move a little lever to bring the four into action. Usually you play the four with both of the eights. The two eights would be coupled, and then you add the four. Adding the four adds volume and richness to the sound. It’s for lively, usually fast, triumphant pieces.” Each keyboard might have a different feel or mood, she said. “I choose the front eight on that harpsichord because the action is better and it’s easier to do trills,” she said.
probably the only musician to use it regularly. “To me, with Romantic music, it seems like the emotion is being forced on you,” she said. “It‘s not like you’re in the woods and you’re looking at a beautiful tree and thinking, ‘Wow, look at the wood and the moss and all those details.’ Instead, Romantic music is like being in kind of a schmaltzy garden. It’s too forced. With Baroque music, it seems like it allows you to have your own feelings about music. And also, in Baroque music, there’s more freedom in how you want to play it. There are no indications on the music about how to play it. If you look at a classical piece by Beethoven, it will tell you the tempo exactly. It will say ‘soft’ here then swell and get loud there — really specific ways of playing.”
Donnan had the instrument built for his wife, Libby. Its decoration is distinguished by a large painting of their home on the underside of the lid. Also eye-catching is the gold nameplate of the manufacturer, embedded in the soundboard and surrounded by a wreath of flowers. “Lots of new harpsichords are being made all the time,” Dunham said. “There’s an early music festival in Boston every other year and they have a whole floor of a hotel with new harpsichords. There’s definitely a strong early-music niche. Boston is really good for early music. San Francisco is really good for early music.”
Embedded in the soundboard, the gleaming nameplate of the harpsichord manufacturer Hubbard and Broekman is surrounded by paintings of flowers, seagulls, dragonflies and other details. PHOTO BY: LAURIE SCHREIBER
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The library’s harpsichord is maintained by Bill Dowling of Great Cranberry Island, who once built harpsichords. Dunham said that, so far, she is
Tuning pins are embedded in a frieze of flowers. PHOTO BY: LAURIE SCHREIBER
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Making the best of the winter blues
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orkin’ up a sweat at the Midcoast’s many summer music festivals is a dim memory come mid-winter, but the annual Dam Jam helps revive the vibe just when it’s needed most. This year’s blues jam, a spin-off of the Dam Blues Fest, is set for Saturday, Jan. 7 from 3 to 8 p.m. at the Wells Hussey American Legion Post 42, Main Street/Business Route 1. “Every year it grows bigger and better,” said organizer Paul Sidelinger about both the winter jam and the summer fest. The Dam Blues Fest and Pub Crawl is held on the first Saturday of August and brings national and regional blues musicians to Damariscotta for a full day of music followed by an evening of club shows. The need to keep the blues alive year-round is addressed not only by the Dam Jam, but also by third-Sunday-of-the-month blues shows at the downtown Damariscotta River Grille, beginning its third year this month. While the Midcoast has quite a contingent of adult blues fans, the Dam Jam is aimed at encouraging the genre’s next generation of followers. Net proceeds from the Dam Jam are earmarked for a local student who plans to continue his or her musical education. Sidelinger admits he tends to lean towards blues players, but that he knows he needs to stretch that a bit. This year’s recipient is Lincoln Academy senior Nick Phinney, who started playing the tuba in fifth grade and the bass guitar in seventh. A firstand second-chair veteran of the All State and District III competitions, Phinney toured Western Europe last summer with the John Philip Sousa International Honors Band. He also performed the blues with last year’s Dam Jam break-out act, the Ben Chute
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The Dam Jam funds can be used for college application fees and/ or music lessons. Last year’s winner was teen Ben Chute, an aspiring guitarist from Nobleboro; his eponymous band made its first ever public performance at the 2011 Dam Jam. Kevin Kimball, co-founder of the Maine Blues Festival, was in the audience and invited the young combo to perform at that June’s Maine Blues Festival in Naples. It was their first paying gig but not their last. The band also played the Dam Blues Fest, as well as some
The Ben Chute Blues Band will open this year’s Dam Jam, followed by Jacks and Aces, whose rhythm section is held down by Zack Pomerleau. Pomerleau “won” the 2010 Dam Jam; shortly thereafter, he and his band won the Maine Blues Society’s annual Road to Memphis contest and went on to represent Maine at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tenn.
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States and has opened and played with some of the best. The Racky Thomas Band has been a torchbearer for the blues since its formation in 1995. The crowd-pleasing band is known for its authentic and energetic interpretations of traditional blues and the down-home feel of its original compositions. Thomas also has been pursuing a solo acoustic career highlighting his Delta country blues influences … one of the things that keeps drawing him back to Damariscotta, however, is a pursuit of a different sort. “He’s a great guy, and Damariscotta is one of his favorite stops. The secret to getting these performers to come here? I take ‘em all lobstering, and we hit a swimming hole where they can swing from a rope,” said Sidelinger.
Boston bluesman Racky Thomas heads back to Damariscotta this month for the fourth annual Dam Jam.
One regular Dam Blues performer, JP Soars, whose band, along with Thomas’, played the 2011 fest, even tried his hand at emptying a lobster trap last summer, but
a close call with a master claw put an end to that. “He decided, as a guitar player, maybe he should keep his fingers away from lobsters,” said Sidelinger. Admission to the fourth annual Dam Jam is $10 for adults, $5 for students, at the door. Damariscotta River Grille, King Eider’s Pub, Newcastle Publick House, the Narrows Tavern and Annie O’Rourke’s will supply their delicious wares; and Geary’s Brewing of Portland will bring some great tasting brews to town. There will be CDs, Tshirts and other merchandise for sale, as well as door prizes, a 50/50 raffle, meet-andgreets and more. Sidelinger said the American Legion Hall is a great facility for this event. “It’ll be a blast. All you need is a blues attitude and some dancing shoes,” he said. For more information about the Dam Jam and the upcoming fifth annual Dam Blues Fest, visit dambluesfest. com.
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You teach painting privately and at Maine Maritime Academy, where you received a faculty grant to travel to Rome this year. How has this trip influenced you? Yes, I teach a drawing class at Maine Maritime Academy, and college-like classes from my studio. I feel so lucky to have students. It’s great to go through the learning process, the eye opening, with people. Yes, and MMA paid for me to go to Rome for a week in October. Incredible. So much beauty and so many astonishing structures and surfaces, spanning all the ages of human history. What is there not to love of Michelangelo? The trip also raised interest in Raphael and his predecessors. I’ve never been a big Caravaggio fan, but a St. Matthew cycle of three paintings blew me away for the color light, empty spaces and facial expressions. The older stuff that I knew I’d love — the transition from Medieval to Renaissance in some of the churches — most got my heart. But I was not prepared for The Belvedere torso — the most phenomenal sculpture I’ve ever seen. It’s got the impact of the David though it’s only a torso. I feel trite writing about this, because it’s such a sensual experience. I certainly have some painting ideas from the trip, but since I’m not doing them yet, I hesitate to talk about them. I’m not sure what influence Rome will have except that Painting by Louise Bourne I want to return!
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ometimes a story will literally cross my path when least expected. That’s exactly what happened one recent evening sitting at Rock City Café when a young guy in his mid-20s with a flop of curly hair and a nerved-up expression motioned to one of the Rock City employees: “Is it okay? Now?” I could tell he was about to make an announcement to the patrons of the café, which I thought had been preplanned — as if he were the hired entertainment. But it soon became clear that something was about to happen. With soft-spoken reticence, he announced over the bustle of quiet conversation and spoons clanking on cups that he was about to do a spokenword poem in the alley if anyone cared to see it. Maybe three people got up to follow him. I shrugged. “I’m in.” Right time, right place. Spoken word is a form of poetry, kind of like a stage performance, usually around some kind of social commentary. It’s the kind of impromptu street performance you see regularly in the cities or at slam poetry events, but it’s rarely done on the sidewalks of small towns.
In a sweatshirt and jeans, the poet, Matthew Wellman, stood under a spotlight in the dark alley while a friend stood apart, holding a flip cam to film him. “This is my first public performance of this poem,” Wellman explained rapidly, still nervous. “Okay,” he cleared his throat. “Here goes.” Suddenly, the shrinking violet dropped into fourth gear. The words that exploded out of his mouth were not vile, nor obscene. They were compelling and topical; yet, the frustration in his delivery, the way his eyes screwed tight as he dropped a boatload of verse might have appeared to unwitting passersby as though they’d stumbled across a ranting raving lunatic in the alley. It was the way his whole demeanor changed that blew people’s doors in. Gesticulating as he rhymed, his fist pumping, then carving downward like a hip-hop artist, he was here to tell us something. And you can bet your boo-tocks we were listening. Information concentrate! It gives the means to replicate! All the emotions we used to need past the points of what the mind can see. Because a tactical advantage is often in need when the human mind can’t keep pace it would seem. So! We created systems to streamline the flow; it’s to ease the burdensome evolution of binary codes. Digital IDs are the foundation for civil integrity a combination of information and facial recognition technology. The origins of this poem developed out of a class assignment. A student at The University of Maine in Rockland, Wellman had been taking a future studies class that required him to write an paper about any issue involving the future. Wellman, who’d grown up in Maine singing with Boy Singers of Maine and performing in several high school and college bands, decided he’d let the words jump off the paper if his professor would allow it. He wanted to write more than an essay; he wanted to discuss an issue that was very personal to him and he wanted the outcome of his efforts to be felt by an audience, not just read by a single professor. Information Concentration was born. “Between my future studies class and my American government course, all the information just smashed together in my head and the poem just came right out,” he said. “I found in writing it, I was able to express myself in the same way as I’d always done writing music.” The poem took about a month to write. “I’ve never felt more alive than when I put everything into it,” he said. When not in performance mode, Wellman is back to his soft-spoken self, polite and humble. “It was very intense for me,” he said. “I began to get excited about performing it in front of my class at ‘Expressions Night,’ sort of a Talent Night for the university. I had to get out of my head to do it but after, the reaction from the audience was a lot of smiles. Wide eyes. A couple people said to me: ‘You need to perform this in a bigger venue.’ ”
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Evident from the first stanza, the poem tackles a relevant theme: how absorbed are we by our technological gadgets? And likewise, have they absorbed our humanity? “I wanted to express a frustration with what seems to be an endless technological progression,” Wellman said. “It’s supposed to make us more inter-connected, more social, more human. But it’s almost as if we’re disappearing into something that connects us as much as it isolates and diminishes us. From the point you’re born, you don’t have a choice to abstain from technology. Everybody wants to feel together and connected and yet, one of the hardest things to do is to completely cut yourself off from it. It’s not a legitimate option for the average person. I only know of a few people who refuse to engage in any sort of technological connection and for them it’s like a religious calling. I feel like by artificially creating the world the world we live in socially, that we’re leaving behind something that is a fundamental part of being human.”
“Between my future studies class and my American government course, all the information just smashed together in my head and the poem just came right out. I found in writing it, I was able to express myself in the same way as I’d always done writing music.” — Matthew Wellman
While he notes the irony of ultimately promoting this piece relies on the very technology that spurred it, Wellman’s plea, particularly to his own generation, is to be more aware, and less apathetic about how much one allows technology to be all-consuming. “After this, I plan to do a series of four spoken pieces starting with Information Concentrate and really memorize it and do this out on the street,” he said. And, with a knowing shrug, “it will probably end up on YouTube.” To see Wellman do the spoken word poem, Information Concentration live, check out his video on The Killer Convo facebook.com/killerconvo.
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• Here Comes the Sun Party, 12 to 2 p.m. Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens on Barters Island Road in Boothbay will celebrate the lengthening days at a free event that’s a popular longstanding tradition. Warm up by the fireplace in Kerr Hall; roast marshmallows on the terrace; and enjoy free s’mores, hot dogs, and hot and cold beverages. Support the Boothbay Region Food Pantry by bringing donations of food or a monetary gift. To kick off a year devoted to birds, bring suet or an orange for The Birds’Tree. Donald Duncan may be on hand to play the bagpipes. This event will be canceled if it’s raining or snowing or temperatures are below zero. FMI: Bob Boyd, 592-7347.
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Monday
• Transition Cafe, 5 p.m. Casual discussion about how folks in and around Belfast will transition from oil dependence to local resilience. Belfast Co-op, 123 High St., Belfast. • Amateur Radio Association meeting, 7:30 p.m. Waldo County Amateur Radio Association meets the
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Tuesday
• Children’s Art Time, 4 p.m. Art instruction with Catinka Knoth. Children’s Room, Rockland Public Library.
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Wednesday
• Songbirds Demo Class, 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. Trish Jonason, boardcertified music therapist and owner of Coastal Music Therapy, leads parent-child music group for infants and children to age 5 in Room 22 of Lincoln Street Center for Arts and Education, 24 Lincoln St., Rockland. Free. FMI: 691-7900.
Concerts Thurs 5 7:30 to 9 p.m. Alexis P. Suter Band — Unity. Blues powerhouse and her white-hot band perform at Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts, 42 Depot St. Cost: $15. FMI: 948-7469.
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Musike for the Nywe Yeare Midcoast vocal ensemble VoXX: Voice of Twenty will present its seventh annual Musike for the Nywe Yeare concerts in January to celebrate the turning of the year. Titled Palestrina and Friends, the group’s 2012 program will feature a core of works by the great Renaissance composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, complemented by a set of moving anthems in remembrance; a variety of pieces by some of England’s master composers (including Byrd, Purcell and Tavener); and a carefully chosen selection of lesserperformed holiday carols. As is usual for VoXX, the repertoire will be widely varied, sung by various combinations of voices and will range from early to contemporary. Three performances will be given: Friday, Jan 20 at 7 p.m. at Belfast United Methodist Church, 23 Mill Lane (snow date Jan. 27); Saturday, Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. at St. Denis Catholic Church, 298 Grand Army Road, Whitefield, with reception to follow (snow date Jan. 28); and Sunday, Jan. 22 at 3 p.m. at Camden’s High Mountain Hall, 5 Mountain St./Route 52, with reception to follow at Peter Ott’s (snow date Jan. 29). Admission will be $10 at the door. For more information, call 236-9413; send email to info@voiceoftwenty.org; or visit voiceoftwenty.org.
Sat 7 2 to 6 p.m., Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival – 2 shows. Rockland Congregational Church, 180 Limerock St., presents seventh annual re-enactment of ancient celebrations to mark the end of the 12 days of Christmas including singing, dancing, pageantry and live animals at 2 and 4:30 p.m. Cost: $15 reserved; general admission $10, $5 children younger than 12. Tickets can be purchased weekdays between 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. by calling the church office at 594-8656 or stopping in. Two shows also on Jan. 8.
Mon 9 5 p.m. Transition Cafe. Casual discussion about how folks in and around Belfast will transition from oil dependence to local resilience. Belfast Co-op, 123 High St., Belfast.
Fri 13 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Ana Egge. Alt-folk troubadour performs at Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts, 42 Depot St. Cost: $15. FMI: 948-7469.
Sun 15 4 to 6 p.m., Simple Gifts Concert. Midcoast Community Chorus and MC3! (Midcoast Community Children’s Chorus) perform a variety of songs at the Strom Auditorium of Camden Hills Regional High School, Route 90, Rockport. Cost: $20, $25 reserved; $15 general admission. FMI: mccsings.org. General admission tickets at HAV II, Camden; Grasshopper Shop, Rockland; and the Green Store. For credit card sales and reserved seating, call 975-0582.
Fri 20 7 to 9 p.m. ‘Musike for the Nywe Yeare’ — Belfast, Whitefield and Camden. Vocal ensemble VoXX: Voice of Twenty presents Palestrina and Friends, its seventh annual concert to celebrate the turning of the year, at Belfast United Methodist Church, 23 Mill Lane. Cost: $10 at door. FMI: 236-9413. Snow date Jan. 27. Also 7 p.m. Jan. 21 at Whitefield’s St. Denis Catholic Church (snow date Jan. 28); and 3 p.m. Jan. 22 at Camden’s High Mountain Hall (snow date Jan. 29).
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• Maine Women’s Network, 5:15 to 7:30 p.m. Mimi Bornstein, artistic director of Midcoast Community Chorus, will speak at monthly MWN meeting at The Haven Event Center, Route 90, Rockport. Cost: $30; $22 members, includes full buffet and dessert, time for networking and the presentation. Guests and nonmembers always welcome; online pre-registration required by Dec. 28 at mainewomensnetwork.com.
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Thursday
• Songbirds Demo Class, 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. Trish Jonason, boardcertified music therapist and owner of Coastal Music Therapy, leads parentchild music group for infants and children to age 5 at The Playroom, Route 90, Warren. Free. FMI: 691-7900. • Author Talk, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Teacher and writer Robert Klose, author of “The Three-Legged Woman & Other Excursions in Teaching,” will talk about teaching at what he describes as the poorest college in America in the Friends Community Room of Rockland Public Library, 80 Union St. Free. Handicap accommodation with 48-hours notice; call 594-0310. • Goose River Snowmobile Club, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Meeting held the first Thursday of the month at Lion’s Den,
Lions Lane, Camden. Potluck dinner at 6:30 p.m., followed by meeting at 7 p.m.
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Friday
• Cena Comune Potluck Supper, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Penobscot School, 28 Gay St., Rockland, hosts Italian students and speakers and friends of Italian culture for a fun evening of language practice and good company. Bring favorite Italian food or drink to share. FMI: 594-1084.
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Saturday
• Monthly Flea Market, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thompson Community Center, 51 South Union Road in Union, holds monthly flea market with more than 80 tables to shop. TCC Thrift Shop too, and snack bar is open for breakfast and lunch. FMI: 975-0352. • Dam Jam, 3 to 8 p.m. Fourth annual blues music jam hosted by the Dam Blues Fest at the Wells Hussey American Legion Post 42, Main Street/ Business Route 1, Damariscotta. Cost: $10; $5 students. Net proceeds go to local music student Nicholas Phinney. Lineup includes Jacks and Aces, the Ben Chute Blues Band and returning Boston bluesman Racky Thomas and
guests. Door prizes, 50/50 raffle, Tshirts and dancing space. • Trekkapalooza 2012, 7 to 10 p.m. Seventh annual battle of the Mainebased bands at the Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., Rockland. Cost: $12 advance; $15 at door. Sponsored by Trekkers, a nonprofit youthserving organization. Advance tickets at Trekkers office, Buttermilk Lane in Thomaston (594-5095), and Oceanside High School, East and West.
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Sunday
• Bath Antiques Show, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., 50 dealers display a wide variety of antiques. Admission: $4. Bath Middle School, 6 Old Brunswick Road, Bath. • Illustrated Lecture, 1 to 3 p.m. Farnsworth Director of Education Roger Dell delivers an illustrated lecture on the beginnings of American mass culture and its pervasive transatlantic influence in conjunction with the upcoming Camden Conference at the Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., Rockland. Cost: $8; $5 co-sponsor Farnsworth Art Museum members. FMI: camdenconference.org. • International Folk Dancing, 4 to 6 p.m. Dancers of all levels invited to
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learn and share line and circle dances from around the world on the second floor of Watts Hall, 170 Main St./Route 1. Free/donations. FMI: 542-2283. Second and fourth Sundays through May. • Full Moon Hike, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Full Moon Hike at Hidden Valley Nature Center, 131 Egypt Road, Jefferson. Please meet promptly at the gate, wearing appropriate footwear (Bean boots, hiking boots, or snowshoes) and dress warmly. Be sure to include a headlamp or flashlight in case the moon is not fully visible. Bring your favorite drink for an after-hike gathering at the Welcoming Center. Reservations are highly recommended. Snowshoes are available for rent. Cost: $5 donation. FMI: 586-6752.
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Monday
• Free Mama & Baby Group — Belfast, 9:30 to 11 a.m. Open to babies who are not yet walking and their caregivers. Toys provided. Every second and fourth Monday of the month, 9:30-11 a.m., Morningstar Midwifery, 111 High St., Belfast. FMI, call 338-0708. • Traditional shape note singing, 7 to 9 p.m. Four-part unaccompanied singing using “Sacred Harp” and “Northern Harmony” tune books in First Church Fellowship Hall, between Church and Court streets with the entrance on Spring Street, Belfast. FMI: 338-1265 or 594-5743. Second Monday each month.
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Tuesday
• Collapse of the Soviet Union Talk, 7 p.m. Penobscot School, 28 Gay St., Rockland, presents Louis Sell in Collaboration with the Camden Conference. Sell will present ‘The Collapse of the Soviet Union and its Implications for the US’, a community outreach event in conjunction with the Camden Conference. Free of charge, donations graciously accepted. • Cribbage Night, 7 p.m. Cribbage Night held at the Appleton library second Tuesday of the month. All skill
Eat Well Cooking Series For Parents and Kids Five classes will be held on Tuesday evenings, once per month, at the Picker Family Resource Center at Pen Bay from 5:30-7 p.m. Classes are free and you may register for one or more session. The dates are: January 17, February 21, March 20, April 17, and May 22 Topics covered include: how to stretch food dollars; new ideas and recipes for healthy meals; how to prepare healthy snacks; how to make favorite recipes healthier; tips for a fit lifestyle; and more. A healthy meal will be shared at each session. Come join us to have fun and to learn more about eating well for life. For more information, or to register, call Donna Ames RN, Zing! program coordinator at: 593-5639.
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levels and ages welcome to join the fun. No charge. FMI: 785-2210.
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Thursday
Ongoing events •
“Freud’s Last Session”, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Reading of Mark St. Germain’s play about C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud at Skidompha Library, Elm Street entrance, downtown Damariscotta. Cost: $5-$8 suggested donation. Part of Thursday Nights series of informal theater readings, lectures and discussion. • Nat Hussey Concert/Talk, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Recently-moved-from-Matinicus singer/songwriter performs and talks about harvesting lobsters by hand at Waterman’s Community Center, Main Street, North Haven. Cost: $10.
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• Round Top Coffee House, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Doors open 6:30 p.m. for musicians, poets and other performers to sign up for 6:45 to 8:15 p.m. open mic; featured performers play 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Damariscotta River Association’s Round Top Farm, Business Route 1, Damariscotta. Cost: $6; $3 senior citizens; free for children. FMI: 563-1393. Second Friday of each month.
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Wednesday
• Tour the Grades Classroom Tour, 8:15 to 10:30 a.m. Ashwood Waldorf School, 180 Park St. See Ashwood classes in action during this tour of four grades. This event for adults includes an overview of the Waldorf curriculum and a question and answer session with the school director. Space is limited, please call the office at 236-8021 or email info@ashwoodwaldorf.org to register or for more information.
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Saturday
• Penobscot School Open House, 5 to 7 p.m. Join the language school as it kicks off its spring semester. Raffle, trivia games, meet the faculty, and more. Penobscot School, 28 Gay St., Rockland. • Musike for the Nywe Yeare, 7 to 9 p.m. Vocal ensemble VoXX: Voice of Twenty presents Palestrina and Friends, its seventh annual concert to celebrate the turning of the year, at St. Denis Catholic Church, 298 Grand Army Road/Route 126, North Whitefield. Cost: $10 at door. FMI: 2369413. Snow date Jan. 28. Also 3 p.m. Jan. 22 at Camden’s High Mountain Hall.
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Sunday
• International Folk Dancing, 4 to 6 p.m. Dancers of all levels invited to learn and share line and circle dances from around the world on the second floor of Watts Hall, 170 Main St./Route 1. Free/donations. FMI: 542-2283. Second and fourth Sundays through May.
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Thursday
4:30 to 9 p.m. American Legion Bingo, 335 Limerock St., Rockland, hosts bingo every Monday night. Doors open 4:30 p.m., games start at 6:30 p.m. Full kitchen and free coffee. FMI: 594-2901. Live Music, 6 to 8 p.m. Fresh Restaurant, 1 Bayview Landing, Camden, hosts local singer/ songwriter Paddy Mills every Monday and Thursday. FMI: 236-7005, info@freshcamden.com. 7 to 10 p.m. Monday Night Blues, upstairs music room of Time Out Pub, 275 Main St., Rockland. FMI: 593-9336.
Tuesday 10 a.m. Children’s Story Hour, Children’s Story Hour. Reading, arts and crafts. Free. Gibbs Library, 40 Old Union Rd., Washington. 4 p.m. Children’s Art Time, Art instruction with Catinka Knoth. Children’s Room, Rockland Public Library. 7:30 to 9 p.m. Dancing 4 Fun, Weekly night of freestyle, any style, no partner needed, all kinds of music dancing takes place in second-floor Studio Red dance studio in Odd Fellows building, 16 School St., downtown Rockland. Free/ donations. FMI: 354-0931; dancing4fun.org. 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Open Mic, Good music, good company and fun every Tuesday night at Cuzzy’s, 21 Bay View St., Camden.
Wednesday 10:30 a.m. Children’s Story Time, Children’s Room, Rockland Public Library. Also on Saturdays. 5:30 to 6 p.m. Making Change, A support group for young people from ages 13-29 who are considering or committed to recovery from substance abuse and other addictions. This group meets every Wednesday from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Waldo County General Hospital Education Center, 118 Northport Avenue, Belfast. Free food. FMI call Tim at 567-3813, Marian at 338-4594 or Jeffrey at 322-9490. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Open clay studio, Every Wednesday from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Work on your own projects using our wheels, slab roller and kiln. Non-instructional but a studio monitor is present for technical questions and advice. $15 per person, per session. More clay can be purchased as needed. Waterfall Arts, 256 High St., Belfast. FMI, call 338-2222 or visit waterfallarts.org. 6 to 7 p.m. Meeting: Mount Desert Island Toastmasters, MDI YMCA, 21 Park St., Bar Harbor. Public is invited. Toastmasters is more than a club to improve business and public speaking skills - it’s a source of fellowship with like-minded individuals who not only want to improve themselves, but learn about interesting topics through others, while supporting each another’s growth. Visitors are welcome to check out this supportive group. FMI: contact Kim Harty at 2883511 or email mditoastmasters@aol.com. 7 to 9 p.m. Quiz Night. Quiz Master Rick Nardone, who ran the quiz night for seven years at The Rhumb Line in Gloucester, Mass., hosts weekly evening of fun competition at Billy’s Tavern, 1 Starr St., Thomaston (behind the business block). Play as a single or bring a team; fun and prizes 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Open Mic Night, Weekly performance night at Gator Lounge of The Navigator Motor Inn, 520 Main St., Rockland.
9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Toy Library, Toy Library at St. Peters Episcopal Church, White Street, Rockland, provides a non-sectarian community program for preschool children, toddlers and infants, fostering creative play in a safe, nurturing environment and promoting cooperation and goodwill among participating children, their parents or other caregivers. The Toy Library follows the RSU 13 vacation calendar as well as storm cancellations. Also 9 a.m. to noon Fridays, FMI: info@midcoasttoylibrary.org. 5 to 9 p.m. Midcoast Chess Club, Meets every Thursday at Tim Horton’s, Camden Street, Rockland. FMI: call Frank, 975-2433 or fcollemer@myfairpoint.net. 7 to 10 p.m. Live Music, Simon and McFarland play jazz and blues Thursday evenings at Billy’s Tavern, 1 Starr St. behind the business block, Thomaston. No cover charge. FMI: 354-1177.
Friday 1 p.m. Bridge Group, Refresh your bridge game. Play every Friday in Room 4 at the Thompson Community Center, Route 131, Union. FMI: 7854602. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday Night Film Series, Friends of the Thomaston Public Library. Room 28 of Thomaston Academy Building, 60 Main St./ Route 1. Free/donations. FMI: 354-2453. Doors open 6 p.m. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Free ballroom dancing, Weekly evening of practicing all the favorite dances on a newly refinished large hardwood floor with an excellent sound system at East Belfast Elementary School, Swan Lake Avenue. Free. FMI: 505-5521. Bring clean dancing shoes.
Saturday 8:30 to 11 a.m. Free Bird Walk. The Natural History Center, 6 Firefly Lane, Bar Harbor. Join local ornithologist Rich MacDonald on a weekly bird walk. Open to people of all ages, physical abilities and skill levels. A limited number of loaner binoculars are available. Call to sign-up at 801-2617 or 266-9461. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Washington Grange Farmers’ Market, Every Saturday. FMI: 845-2140.
Sunday 8 a.m. Winter Bird Walk, Penobscot Watershed Eco Center, 160 Main St., Bar Harbor. Acadia Birding Festival director Michael Good will lead free birding walks every Sunday. Walks will focus on specific areas around Bar Harbor, looking for winter birds and migrants. If the snow is good, a trip to Cadillac Mountain is planned and will be announced during the month of December depending on snow quality. Dress appropriately for cold weather and bring binoculars. FMI: call 288-8128 or 479-4256 or visit downeastnaturetours.com. 2 to 4 p.m. Music Jam at the Museum, Musicians, bring instruments and voices and make music together informally at Sail, Power and Steam Museum at Sharp’s Point South, 75 Mechanic St., Rockland. Coffee and cookies provided. Every Sunday. 3 to 6 p.m. Traditional Bluegrass Jam, Billy’s Tavern, 1 Starr St., Thomaston, hosts traditional bluegrass jam every Sunday. Musicians encouraged to bring their instruments and join in; listeners welcome too. FMI: 354-1177.
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• Tea and Puppets Playgroup, 9:30 to 11 a.m. Ashwood Waldorf School, 180 Park St. Free playgroup with tea party and puppet show for children 18 months through 3 years old and their parent. Offered as an opportunity to experience the Parent/ Child program at Ashwood. Space is limited; register at 236-8021 or info@ashwoodwaldorf.org.
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• Take a Peek at My Sicily, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Join Penobscot School, 28 Gay St., Rockland, for a three-hour tour of Sicily, including a video presentation and a mini language lesson in Italian. Lunch is included. $20. • Monthly Contra Dance, 8 to 11 p.m. Live music and calling at Simonton
Corner Hall, corner of Park and Main streets, Rockport. Cost: $8; free for children. FMI: 832-5584. All dances taught, beginners welcome. Usually fourth Saturday of the month.
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• Peopleplace Infant/Toddler & Parent Playgroup, 3 to 5 p.m. Join Peopleplace’s playgroup! Every
Monday anytime between 3-5 p.m. we host a two-hour facilitated playtime for infants, birth to 22 months and their parent or caregiver. Peopleplace also offers an After Care Program for Preschool & Kindergarten age older siblings to enjoy at the same time. The group is going on now and space is available! Cost: $10 each Monday. FMI: 2364225, office@peopleplacecoop.org, peopleplacecoop.org.
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