This season, The Peace Gallery offers an abundance of classes and events, including the gallery’s annual Damariscotta Pumpkinfest and Regatta raffle Oct. 11-13 for Jacques Vesery’s collectible hand-carved wooden pumpkin. Single tickets are available for $5; $20 for five. Ticket sales fund the gallery’s mission to support veteran artists and the local community.

The fourth-Sunday-of-the-month Oyster Creek Fiddlers’ contra dance series will resume in New Harbor from 3-5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 28 at the Willing Workers Hall, at 2617 Bristol Road.

Saltwater Artists Gallery, at 3056 Bristol Road in New Harbor, will host Elizabeth Miller for a rug hooking workshop from 2-6 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 28.

Pemaquid Art Gallery exhibiting artists will be active participants at the Maine Open Lighthouse Day event on Saturday, Sept. 13 at Pemaquid Point Lighthouse Park.

Already hailed as “the next Woody Guthrie,” Nashville musician Crys Matthews is a prolific and award-winning lyricist and composer who blends Americana, folk, blues, and bluegrass into performances steeped in traditional melodies punctuated by honest, original lyrics.

A cappella music will fill the air once again on Saturday, Sept. 13 at 2 p.m. at Water of Life Lutheran Church, at 618 Route 1 in Newcastle.

As part of Damariscotta’s Carpenter Quilts summer retreat, quilters brought their creations to Pemaquid Point Lighthouse Park for a spontaneous demonstration of “Quilts in the Wild.”

Jud Caswell will perform at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 20 at The Little Brown Church, located at 1431 Route 32 in the center of Round Pond.

An outrageously original, award-winning indie film that’s taking the cult cinema world by storm is coming to Lincoln Theater for two showings only on Friday, Aug. 16 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Since their first jam around a table in the back of bar in Cambridge, Mass. in 2003, Session Americana has had a natural evolution from a loose bunch of friends sitting around swapping songs, to a hot-ticket weekly residency, to a touring collective.

A new “Art at the Grill” show opening Monday, Aug. 11 at the Damariscotta River Grill will feature seasoned artists Sandra Leinonen Dunn, Susan Tilton Pecora, and Kimberly Skillin Traina. Three distinct styles and mediums explore a number of themes, each capturing a unique viewpoint depicting the natural beauty of Maine.

This year’s Salt Bay Chamberfest’s chamber music festival, titled “Earth Song,” will launch on Tuesday, Aug. 5 with a paean to Mother Earth featuring Passamaquoddy singer Lauren Stevens, Mohawk composer Dawn Avery, and the all-female, traditional Wabanaki drumming group Cipelahq Ehpicik (Thunder Women).