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December 2019
Holiday Potluck & Carol Sing
Bring an ample main, side or salad to share and come to the Opera House on this winter’s eve for a night celebrating community and the holiday season, and listen to the joyful music presented by Kevin Kiley on piano and a talented group of vocalists. Doors open at 5:30, dinner around 6 pm, music around 6:45. All ages. Please bring serving utensils and a plate and eating utensils as well. Free, donations welcome.
Find out more »Coig – Celtic Holiday Concert
One of Atlantic Canada’s premiere traditional groups, with the fiery Celtic style as its musical core, Còig easily shifts between century old tunes of past generations to original and contemporary compositions, featuring the band’s range of over a dozen instruments (vocals, fiddles, piano, guitar, banjo, mandolin, viola, bouzouki, whistles, and more). This holiday season they bring the best of a Celtic Christmas to the Opera House stage. With driving tunes, haunting songs, and infectious energy, Còig is an unparalleled musical…
Find out more »Celebrate New Year’s Eve at The Elm: Featuring The Al Corey Big Band
Dance the night away to the classic sounds of the Big Band Jazz Era ABOUT THE AL COREY BIG BAND: Since 1944, The Al Corey Big Band has been dazzling audiences of all ages with their unique take on popular hits from the Big Band Jazz Era that includes the sounds of Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Woody Herman, Count Basie, and many more. A larger than life legend to all who knew him, Al Corey passed away in…
Find out more »January 2020
The Literary Salon: Poetry with Strings Attached
Camden Opera House’s new Literary Salon series debuts in the Tucker Room with Poetry with Strings Attached. Maine poets Kristen Lindquist and Paul Corrigan read original poems that celebrate the people and landscape of Maine, interspersed with related musical pieces performed by violinist/guitarist Susan Ramsey and cellist Ruth Fogg. Local student Katharine Kemper will open for the quartet with a brief poetry recitation. Free/donations to Community Arts Fund; Zoot Coffee drinks. Snow date: Jan. 19.
Find out more »MaineMadeMusic: Wayne DeLano Quartet
The MaineMadeMusic series and Jazz in June presents the Wayne DeLano Quartet, with opener Tom Luther, at the Camden Opera House. General admission no-fee tickets are $14 in advance, $16 day-of-show, available at camdenoperahouse.com, by calling 236-3154 and at box office an hour before show time.
Find out more »February 2020
Winterfest Concert: Rustic Overtones
The annual Winterfest Concert brings Rustic Overtones back to the Camden Opera House, plus local openers Drive by Todd. No-fee tickets are $20 in advance, $25 day-of-show, available at camdenoperahouse.com, by calling 236-3154 and at door an hour before show time.
Find out more »The Blue Café: Cold Chocolate
The popular Blue Café series returns with acoustic duo Cold Chocolate, performing in the Camden Opera House’s intimate third-floor performance space. Doors open 7 p.m.; seats limited. Free/donations to Community Arts Fund; cash bar by 40 Paper Bistro and Bar. A Valentine’s Day treat!
Find out more »Valentine’s Dance
Valentine's Dance at Madison American Legion Hall, 20 S. Maple Street. Dance the night away with your sweetheart in your arms to the music of Dirty Little Secret. Open to the public 21+ event
Find out more »Dar Williams
Opening Act: Lindsay Mower Dar Williams has been called "one of America's very best singer-songwriters" by The New Yorker. She's released ten studio albums and authored four books including her latest, What I Found In A Thousand Towns. Known as much for her staunch progressive ideals as her raw acoustic energy, Williams has been captivating audiences with her sheer elegance and honesty in her folk-pop songwriting since the '90s. Williams' growth as an individual over her two-decade-long career has gone…
Find out more »The Ghost of Paul Revere
State Theatre and Waterville Opera House present The Ghost of Paul Revere Opening Act: Tricky Britches "We grew up listening to Radiohead and The Beatles and Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd," says Griffin Sherry, guitarist/singer in The Ghost of Paul Revere. "Everyone assumed we were a bluegrass band because we were playing these traditional instruments, but we weren't writing traditional music. We were just writing songs with the instruments we had." The result is a sound that the Portland, Maine-based…
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