On Sunday, June 24 at 2 p.m., the Friends of Colonial Pemaquid will host the rescheduled Memorial Day performance of Ellsworth-based Maine St. Andrew’s Pipes and Drums at Colonial Pemaquid State Historic Site in New Harbor (Bristol).

Bands for Books, the annual fundraising event of the Friends of the Wiscasset Library, will be celebrating its fifth year this fall. The event, a combination cocktail party, dance, and silent auction, will take place on Monday, Sept. 3 — Labor Day — from 5-7 p.m. It is returning to its original home at the picturesque Marianmade Farm on the Sheepscot River at 155 Federal St., Wiscasset.

On Friday, July 6 at 7 p.m., six classical musicians will present a “Farm to Fiddle” concert celebrating local agriculture and classical music in Midcoast Maine, a region that is home to dozens of family farms.

Alison Brown doesn’t play the banjo. Brown plays music on the banjo. In the instrumental food chain, the five-string banjo is one of the more dominant beasts: loud, brash, and very hard to tame. In 1945, Earl Scruggs made the biggest leap in harnessing its raw power, bringing a revolutionary precision of touch and depth of tone. Thousands of three-finger-style banjo players have since made their marks, but none has cut such a path or moved so far along it as has Brown.