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.

Heartwood Regional Theater Company enthusiastically presents an original new work, written and directed by Griff Braley, on stage June 29 through July 7. “Down Along the Cove” has been in development for several years, with three separate actor workshops, subsequent rewrites, a preview audience in May, and final rewrites. Rehearsals begin this week, in the final stage of creation.

Wiscasset Elementary School fifth-grade student Tucker Davenport and his parents agreed to sell a still-life drawing that he created in art class earlier this year. The drawing was on display at Maine Art Gallery’s student art exhibit during the month of May.

The Lincoln Home, the retirement and assisted living facility in Newcastle, has recently reached a mutually beneficial agreement with Pemaquid Watershed Association to display some beautiful artwork from the PWA collection for the benefit of Lincoln Home residents and visitors while at the same time assisting PWA to further its mission. The agreement is initially for six months.

The Waldo Theatre will be one of the stops on Saturday, June 9 at ArtWalk Waldoboro, which is held on the second Saturday of each month in June-October, from 4-7 p.m.

The Mondaynite Jazz Orchestra will play Saturday, June 16 at 6:30 p.m. at A.D. Gray School in  Waldoboro for Waldoboro Day. This community jazz orchestra will perform a variety of musical styles — traditional big band, Latin, funk, and blues. Vocal numbers will also be included.

“Art is Fun,” an exhibition of works by international artist Philippe Guillerm, opens with a reception on Saturday, June 9 from 4-7 p.m. at 882 Main Street, Waldoboro.

The Saltwater Artists Gallery, on Pemaquid Point Road in Bristol, is pleased to welcome a new oil painter, Alice de Mauriac. She lives full time in Pemaquid after spending several years living abroad in Saudi Arabia, Finland, Norway, Austria, Denmark, and Switzerland, then in Rochester, N.Y., where she continued to paint.

On Saturday, June 16, at 4 p.m., a gathering of artists across disciplines will present a participatory outdoor performance called “(stillness) 18” at the Joseph A. Fiore Art Center, located at 152 Punk Point Road in Jefferson, celebrating connection to nature and invoking a deepening sense of place.