Jim Messina’s consummate legacy of musical prowess spans five decades, three acclaimed rock supergroups, a vibrant solo career, and a dizzying array of game-­changing producing and engineering credits, including The Doors, Lee Michaels, and Herb Alpert. He is an indisputable expert in the fine art of making hit music. On Saturday, July 22, Messina and his band will come to Boothbay Harbor to perform at the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor.

This week is special. Not only do we have an encore broadcast of a play from London, we have an afternoon live concert — with the shades up and hopefully the sun streaming in. Follow this up with a romantic comedy, this time in Hebrew. Why not?

Guy Davis once said, “I like antiques and old things, old places that still have the dust of those who’ve gone before us lying upon them.” Blowing that dust off just enough to see its beauty is something Davis has excelled at for more than 20 years of songwriting and performing.

“The Boat Show,” a themed art show that opened Friday, June 30 and runs through Sunday, July 23 at Kefauver Studio & Gallery in Damariscotta, is totally focused on boats and things having to do with boats, as the name of the show implies. It features 22 artists, including gallery owner and painter Will Kefauver.

Every once in a while, an artist comes along whose work captures something about the world in such a refreshing, enlightening way that one is forced to simply stop and look and just say “wow!” The paintings of Bremen artist Michael Blaze Petan fit into this exclusive category. Petan’s must-see “My Neck of the Woods” show currently hangs on the walls of the West Gallery at River Arts in Damariscotta through Wednesday, July 12.

St. Paul’s Union Chapel, at 1075 Dutch Neck Road in Waldoboro, is pleased to announce its first musical gathering of the summer at 8 p.m. on Saturday, July 8, featuring the Ale House String Band, consisting of Oren Robinson, April Reed-Cox, and Brian Dunn.

On Thursday, July 13, Heartwood Regional Theater Company will open the enchanting and beloved musical, “Into the Woods.” In their Tony Award winning book and score, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine bring everyone’s favorite storybook characters together in this timeless yet relevant piece. One of Sondheim’s most popular works, “Into the Woods,” is a musically sophisticated epic fairy tale about wishes, family, and the choices we make.

A feast of approximately 80 pieces of artwork – from photographs to paintings to pottery to assemblage pieces – populates the current member show at River Arts gallery in Damariscotta. While this may sound like a lot to digest – and, in a sense, it is – the number of pieces on display at the gallery is less than would have been displayed in the past, thanks to the keen organizational eye of Alice de Mauriac and her husband, Julio Sanchez-Banos, who began hanging all of the River Arts shows last fall.

The University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center is known as the hub of research and innovation, and for one week in the summer, it is also an art studio.

Gold/Smith Gallery will feature the art show “Insect and Man,” by Paolo Tesi, from July 1-26. On July 7, from 5-7 p.m., a long-distance interview live from Pistoia, Italy will be held with Tesi via the internet.