7 pm doors – 8 pm show If you’re wondering what Australian singer, songwriter and one-of-a-kind guitar virtuoso Daniel Champagne did after his 44-city US tour over the summer of 2022, he proceeded immediately to Canada for 30 mostly sold-out shows and then to New Zealand for another 30 mostly sold-out shows. There’s a Christmas […]
8 pm show If you’re wondering what Australian singer, songwriter and one-of-a-kind guitar virtuoso Daniel Champagne did after his 44-city US tour over the summer of 2022, he proceeded immediately to Canada for 30 mostly sold-out shows and then to New Zealand for another 30 mostly sold-out shows. There’s a Christmas break, and then a […]
5 pm OLS members are invited to a pre-show reception at Friends & Family prior to the Micromassé show in Congress Square Park on Thursday, September 28th. Join us for a toast as we celebrate the last show in our inaugural Square to Square series, then enjoy the free concert in the Park! Website | […]
6pm - 8pm Join us for a FREE community outdoor concert at Congress Square Park featuring the Micromassé! Sponsored by Dead River Company, with support from Norway Savings Bank and Coffee By Design. Micromassé is a trio of accomplished musicians offering a fresh new sound that is nostalgically analog, worldly and explosively modern. Combining the […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show Merging evocative folk, melodic pop and an edgier roots rock sensibility, singer/songwriter/guitarist Jonatha Brooke began releasing music in the early 1990s, first as a member of the duo the Story and more enduringly as a solo artist. After four major label releases, she started her own independent label, […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show “I started off that record scared to death,” Kim Richey recalls of making Glimmer with producer Hugh Padgham back in 1999 in New York and London. A disastrous haircut, unfamiliar musicians, and oversized budgets didn’t help matters. “It wasn’t the way I was used to making records.” The […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show “Find me somewhere out on the road / Take me into your heart and into your home,” Caroline Cotter sings in the first song on her third album, Gently as I Go. The new music takes listeners around the world and deep into human emotions, reminding them that home can be […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show Headliner: Lloyd Legacy Sharp Featuring: Mike Gray Also Appearing: Cindiana JonesCindiana Jones has been performing stand-up for over a decade, mostly in Portland, Maine. She usually doesn’t leave this area because it is a liberal haven aside from the occasional aberration. As a comic who also owns a […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show ON SALE TO THE PUBLIC THURSDAY, JULY 27 AT 10AM. “The trio of Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstein, and Bill Stewart is the best organ trio of the last decade.” – The New York Times “An authentic organ trio with all the size and scope of Mount Everest, and […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show Louise Bichan is a USA-based Scottish musician and photographer who uses both mediums to tell stories old and new. Growing up in the culturally rich Orkney islands gave Louise a solid grounding in music: she started playing fiddle at the age of 7. Since then she has honed […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show Comprised of Holly McGarry and Chris Bloniarz, this upstate NY based band can frequently be found performing across the country. Honeysuckle has performed at Newport Folk Festival, Lollapalooza, Mountain Jam, Americanafest, Otis Mountain Get Down, and Audiotree. Awards include Americana Artist of the Year (2019) and Folk Artist […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show Tricky Britches formed in 2009, when four friends in Portland, Maine, took their fiddle tunes and country songs on the road across the US. Since then they have released three albums of original material: Comin’ in Hot (2016), Good Company (2013), and Hard Fought Day (2011). They have […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show Performing regularly at One Longfellow Square since 2006, the Portland Jazz Orchestra is Maine’s premier concert jazz ensemble. Under the direction of Dr. Chris Oberholtzer, this 19-piece jazz ensemble performs a variety of instrumental and vocal big band literature. PJO enjoys playing works written by members and area […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show Late one Sunday night in October 2003, Session Americana had its first jam around a table in the back of Toad in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Looking back, the group has had a natural, almost inevitable evolution from a loose bunch of friends sitting around swapping songs in a bar, […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show On his second album, The Fatalist, Carl “Buffalo” Nichols does things with the blues that might catch you off guard. There’s 808 programming, chopped up Charley Patton samples, washes of synth. There’s a consideration of the fullness of the sonic stage and the atmospherics of the music that […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show Ben Cosgrove is a traveling composer, pianist, and multi-instrumentalist based in northern New England. He performs regularly all over the country, presenting a unique variety of original instrumental music that explores themes of landscape, geography, and environment while straddling a line between folk and classical music. His “electric […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show The award winning and highly acclaimed band Le Vent du Nord are a leading force in Québec’s exciting and progressive Francophone folk movement. The group’s vast repertoire draws from both traditional sources and original compositions, while their highly rhythmic and soulful music, rooted in the Celtic diaspora, is […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno play old-soul roots music, fluidly melding a backbone of Appalachian traditional music with fresh iconic melodies and the tightly wound vocal harmonies of indie folk. A bittersweet nostalgia lies at the heart of Imaginary People, the new album from Viv & Riley, coming […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show “Mama’s Broke may seem traditional, but their tales of modern life have too much bite to be nostalgic; they are new and unique voices in modern, rootsy Americana that must be heard.” – Folk Radio UK Mama’s Broke, based out of New Orleans and Halifax, craft a sound […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show Reed Foehl's New England upbringing had the usual trappings of life in a rural outpost in those parts in the 1970s and 1980s - Red Sox and Bruins games on the family television, family walks in the woods in the Fall, and family trips into town for cultural […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show While it may come as a surprise to hear that the newly-formed vocal super-group, säje (rhymes with beige), received a GRAMMY® nomination for “Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals” for their first original composition “Desert Song”, a John Lennon Songwriting Contest Grand Prize Award for their second composition “Wisteria”, […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show LIVE at One Longfellow Square! The PJO is recording their next CD/release as a live show from OLS! This show will feel like a live studio recording – the audience will be part of the process and will get to see some of what happens behind the scenes. […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show Already being hailed as “the next Woody Guthrie,” Nashville resident Crys Matthews is among the brightest stars of the new generation of social justice music-makers. A powerful lyricist whose songs of compassionate dissent reflect her lived experience as what she lightheartedly calls "the poster child for intersectionality," Justin […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show Beth Nielsen Chapman's diverse body of work spans fifteen albums and seven #1 hits, including compositions that have been recorded by Elton John, Bonnie Raitt, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bette Midler, Willie Nelson, Neil Diamond, the Indigo Girls, and Keb Mo’ and her music has been featured in film and […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show A Stephen Kellogg performance is like watching Ted Lasso live. Whether you have heard of him before or not you will leave the show inspired, restored and having experienced an offering like no other. For more than two decades, this wordsmith, Tedx speaker, stand up comic, family man […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show This show has been rescheduled from April 14, 2023. All tickets will be honored for the rescheduled date. Whether it's a song, a style, an idiom or an image, Duke Robillard will render it with mastery, power, nuance and an unerring grasp of its essence. Born Michael John […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show The USM Jazz Combo concert will consist of performances by USM's instrumental jazz combos and vocal jazz ensemble. This concert will be stylistically diverse and will feature some of the strongest jazz musicians at the USM Osher School of Music. The groups performing at this memorable show are […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show Melissa Ferrick is a Professor of the Practice at Northeastern University in the Music Department at the College of Arts Media and Design. Ferrick teaches courses on songwriting (focusing on lyric, melody, and intent), creative entrepreneurship, demo recording and production, live performance, the intersection of psychopathology and creativity, nonprofit […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show Tom Rush is a gifted musician and performer, whose shows offer a musical celebration…a journey into the tradition and spectrum of what music has been, can be, and will become. His distinctive guitar style, wry humor and warm, expressive voice have made him both a legend and a […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show Nashville Recording Artists, Breakin' Strings is a Maine based bluegrass band. They play with a lot of soul and truly break strings in the process. This band was formed back in 2005 and has gone through many changes in that time. Since then, they have become a Nashville […]
6 pm doors – 7 pm show Heather Pierson is a New Hampshire based singer/songwriter, pianist, song leader, and performer with a passion for cultivating joy, both onstage and off. With a toe in each of the realms of New Orleans jazz, blues, and folk, her multi-genre songwriting places her in a category all her […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show Even though Roomful of Blues’ lineup has changed over the years, the band has always been one of the tightest, most joyful blues ensembles in the world. Currently an eight-piece unit led by guitarist Chris Vachon, the band has never sounded fresher or stronger. In 2010, singer Phil […]
7 pm doors – 8 pm show The USM Jazz Combo concert will consist of performances by USM's instrumental jazz combos and vocal jazz ensemble. This concert will be stylistically diverse and will feature some of the strongest jazz musicians at the USM Osher School of Music. The groups performing at this memorable show are […]
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