The Lincoln County News
The only weekly newspaper locally owned, printed, and published in Lincoln County.

The Lincoln County News

Serving Maine and Lincoln County for over 140 years

The Sweet Remains

at

The Sweet Remains

The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
86 Townsend Avenue
Boothbay Harbor
05/31/2025 | 7:30 pm

The Sweet Remains is the rare all-independent band to have nearly 60 million Spotify streams and counting! They’re also unusual on today’s music scene as a band headed by 3 gifted singer-songwriters, each of whom contribute to the writing and 3-part harmonies that define the band’s sound. Their songs easily appeal to fans of modern folk-rockers like Ray Lamontagne and John Mayer. However, it is their lush harmonies, that distinguish tSR from the throngs of guitar-toting troubadours and harken back to super-groups of the 60’s and 70’s like CSN, the Eagles, Simon & Garfunkel.

Advance discount tickets $25, available only from the box office at 207-633-5159 (open Wed – Fri from 10-2). Regular tickets $30 online at boothbayoperahouse.com, and on the day of show if available.

If you haven’t already seen it, or even if you have, you might want to check out this film featuring the band…Inspired by Rich, Greg & Brian’s real-life experiences together as a band, “The Independents” tells the story of 3 solo-artists who meet at a
crossroads and discover harmony… Made over several years in between the band’s tours and other releases, The Independents debuted at the Santa Barbara Int’l Film Festival where The Hollywood Reporter hailed it “An extremely engaging film. An unconventional and sharply written script which subverts all the cliches of the star-is-born story.” It then won the jury prize for BEST FEATURE FILM at the Omaha Film Festival — and has gone on to win audiences and plaudits at top festivals all over the U.S.

Only Mostly Dead @ Coveside

at

Only Mostly Dead @ Coveside

Coveside Restaurant
98 Coveside Rd
South Bristol
06/01/2025 | 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Enjoy ‘Only Mostly Dead’ on the deck at the Coveside. Maine artists Cam King (guitar), James Taylor (bass) and Josh Bowden (drums) jam with veteran keyboardist ‘Old Otto,’ playing, yes, MOSTLY Grateful Dead, but spicing it tunes from Steppenwolf, Rolling Stones, Al Green, CSN, the Meters and more. Come get your feet moving and spirits lifted Sunday, on the deck, at the incomparable Coveside. …Maybe have a Dark-and-Stormy with that lobster BLT?

Seedy Folk with Featured Guest: Catherine Beatrice

at

Seedy Folk with Featured Guest: Catherine Beatrice

Oxbow Brewing Company
274 Jones Woods Road
Newcastle
06/02/2025 | 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

The Seedy Folk concert series at Oxbow, Newcastle continues on the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month. On June 2nd, we’re excited to welcome local singer/songwriter Catherine Beatrice as our featured guest. She is a captivating performer who brings a huge voice as well as some amazing songs to the stage!

Come on out to Oxbow Brewing in Newcastle for some folk, country, roots and blues music with Catherine and Nolle Bond on Monday, June 2nd at 5pm!

BRAF Blooms with Spring Exhibit Opening Reception

at

BRAF Blooms with Spring Exhibit Opening Reception

Boothbay Region Art Foundation
1 Townsend Ave.
Boothbay Harbor
06/06/2025 | 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Art enthusiasts are warmly invited to an opening reception on Friday, June 6th, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM. This will be a wonderful opportunity to meet the exhibiting artists, mingle with fellow art lovers, and enjoy the inspiring artwork in a festive atmosphere. Light refreshments will be served.

Slavery and Abolition in 19th-Century Maine

at

Slavery and Abolition in 19th-Century Maine

Alna 1789 Meetinghouse
1789 Alna Road
Alna
06/07/2025 | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Author Carol Gardner will discuss her narrative history, The Divided North: Black & White Families in the Age of Slavery from 4:00-5:30 pm on Saturday, June 7 at the Historic 1789 Alna Meetinghouse, 1789 Alna Road. The Divided North follows two Maine families throughout the turbulent 19th century. The Rubys and Gordons were neighbors in Portland, Maine. Yet they were worlds apart, separated by family culture and race: the Rubys were Black and the Gordons were White. Their experiences as antislavery activists, operatives on the Underground Railroad, shipmasters, and slave captains offer a surprising portrait of life in the “Free North” when slavery enthralled the nation. The talk is sponsored by the Fund to Support Historic Alna: http://www.historicalna.org.

Le Vent du Nord

at

Le Vent du Nord

The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
86 Townsend Avenue
Boothbay Harbor
06/07/2025 | 7:30 pm

The award winning and highly acclaimed band Le Vent du Nord is a leading force in Quebec’s progressive francophone folk movement. The group’s vast repertoire draws from both traditional sources and original compositions, while enhancing its hard-driving soulful music (rooted in the Celtic diaspora) with a broad range of global influences. “Featuring button accordion, guitar and fiddle, the band’s sound is defined by the hurdy-gurdy, which adds an earthy, rough-hewn flavor to even the most buoyant dance tunes.” — Boston Herald. Since its inception in August 2002, Le Vent du Nord has enjoyed meteoric success, performing well over 2,000 concerts over 4 continents and racking up several prestigious awards, including a Grand Prix du Disque Charles Cros, two Junos (Canada’s Grammys), a Félix at ADISQ, a Canadian Folk Music Award, and “Artist of the
Year” at the North American Folk Alliance Annual Gala. Generously sponsored by an anonymous fan of the band! Advance discount tickets $30, available only from the box office at 207-633-5159 (open Wed – Fri from 10-2). Regular tickets $35 online
at boothbayoperahouse.com, and on the day of show if available.

Alison Brown Band

at

Alison Brown Band

The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
86 Townsend Avenue
Boothbay Harbor
06/13/2025 | 7:30 pm

One of the most multi-faceted minds in roots music, Alison Brown is a GRAMMY-winning musician, GRAMMY-nominated producer, former investment banker (with an AB from Harvard and an MBA from UCLA), and co-founder of The Compass Records Group which is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2023.  Although Alison began her musical career as a teenager in the Southern California bluegrass scene, she has built a reputation as one of today’s most forward thinking and innovative banjo players.

She is known for taking the instrument far beyond its Appalachian roots by blending bluegrass and jazz influences into a sonic tapestry that has earned praise and recognition from a variety of
national tastemakers including The Wall Street Journal, CBS Sunday Morning, NPR, and USA Today. We are thrilled to welcome Alison and her band back to the Opera House this summer. Advance discount tickets $35, available only from the box office at 207-633-5159 (open Wed –
Fri from 10-2). Regular tickets $40 online at boothbayoperahouse.com, and on the day of show if available.

Seedy Folk with Featured Guest Doug Kolmar

at

Seedy Folk with Featured Guest Doug Kolmar

Oxbow Brewing Company
274 Jones Woods Road
Newcastle
06/16/2025 | 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

The Seedy Folk concert series at Oxbow Brewing, Newcastle continues on the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month. On June 16th, we’re excited to welcome award-winning singer/songwriter Doug Kolmar as our featured guest. Alongside an impressive list of solo releases, Doug also performs in the Folk/Americana group, Arcadia Band and is the President of the Maine Songwriters Association.

Come on out to Oxbow Brewing in Newcastle for some folk, country, roots and blues music with Doug Kolmar and host Nolle Bond on Monday, June 16th from 5-7pm.

John Waters: The NAKED TRUTH

at

John Waters: The NAKED TRUTH

The Waldo Theatre
916 Main Street
Waldoboro
06/20/2025 | 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

TICKETS HERE: https://our.show/the-waldo-theatre/johnwatersjune20th

Legendary filmmaker, writer, actor, and artist John Waters returns to The Waldo with an all-new show, The Naked Truth! Ok, John Waters is finally coming clean, so to speak, and his all-new, secret-sharing, one-man crackpot comedy show dares to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the filthy truth. Over-sharing? You bet. Too much information? Maybe so, but airing his dirty laundry makes Waters feel clean. He’ll talk to you straight even when he’s definitely not.

Waters knows the truth isn’t always pretty and he doesn’t shy away from the social horrors of our present times–-whimsical motion pictures, the humiliation of the human body and the unwanted nudity of fellow travelers in the airport. Yet Waters knows he’s not perfect either. He too has flaws. No matter what he preaches, he does judge others and in his show he names names and assigns blame. He stylishly blows up prejudice, humorously overthrows theocracy, and falls off the soapbox of self-righteous sexual politics and climbs right back on with a revolutionary horniness for a woke poke. Yessiree, Waters tells you the truth. The Naked Truth. Shut up and listen. Famed the world over for his trash epics including Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Polyester, Serial Mom, Cry Baby, Hairspray, and coming soon to the big screen, the film adaptation of his brilliantly twisted first novel, Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance. The recipient of numerous honors and accolades, most recently the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opened “John Waters: Pope of Trash,” the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to his contributions to cinema. He was also awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and American Cinema Editors selected
Waters to receive the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award in 2024. Dreamland News : John Waters

Behind Closed Doors Tour of Castle Tucker

at

Behind Closed Doors Tour of Castle Tucker

Castle Tucker
2 Lee Street
Wiscasset
06/21/2025 | 9:45 am – 11:30 am

The popular Behind Closed Doors Tours of Castle Tucker return on Saturday June 21. Peek into the nooks and crannies of Castle Tucker on this leisurely in-depth tour that includes rooms and stories not included on the general tour. This unique mansion towering on a hill overlooking the Sheepscot River is entirely authentic, filled with the original furnishings and decoration of the Tucker family who lived here for over 140 years. Castle Tucker is located at 2 Lee Street in Wiscasset. The tour begins at 10:00 am and concludes at 11:30 am.

Advance ticket purchase is required. Space is very limited. Admission is $15 for members of Historic New England, $25 for nonmembers. Buy tickets today at https://my.historicnewengland.org/24947/closed-doors-621. Built in 1807, Castle Tucker was the dream home of Judge Silas Lee and his wife Tempe. The couple entertained often and enjoyed an elegant lifestyle
in their new home. In 1858, Richard Tucker, Jr. and his young wife Mollie moved into the house, immediately turning it into a fashionable Victorian home for their family of five children, who went on to live extraordinary lives outside Wiscasset. Hear the stories of this talented and unusual family, passed down through the collection of personal letters saved by their granddaughter. Little was changed in the house after 1900, so visitors see the house as it was when the Tuckers lived here, including the 1858 parlor and a kitchen with four generations of cooking technology still in place where it was used.

The next dates for this tour are July 5, July 26, August 2, August 16 and September 27.

Behind Closed Doors Tour of Castle Tucker

at

Behind Closed Doors Tour of Castle Tucker

Castle Tucker and Nickels Sortwell House
2 Lee Street
Wiscasset
06/21/2025 | 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Peek into the nooks and crannies of Castle Tucker on this leisurely in-depth tour that includes rooms and stories not included on the general tour. This unique mansion towering on a hill overlooking the Sheepscot River is entirely authentic, filled with the original furnishings and decoration of the Tucker family who lived here for over 140 years. Advance ticket purchase is required. Space is very limited. Admission is $15 for members of Historic New England, $25 for nonmembers. Buy tickets today at
https://my.historicnewengland.org/24947/closed-doors-621.

Built in 1807, Castle Tucker was the dream home of Judge Silas Lee and his wife Tempe. The couple entertained often and enjoyed an elegant lifestyle in their new home. In 1858, Richard Tucker, Jr. and his young wife Mollie moved into the house, immediately turning it into a fashionable Victorian home for their family of five children, who went on to live extraordinary lives outside Wiscasset. Hear the stories of this talented and unusual family, passed down through the collection of personal letters saved by their granddaughter. Little was changed in the house after 1900, so visitors see the house as it was when the
Tuckers lived here, including the 1858 parlor and a kitchen with four generations of cooking technology still in place where it was used. The next dates for this tour are July 5, July 26, August 2, August 16 and September 27. FMI, visit https://www.historicnewengland.org/visit/events.

Summer Solstice Celebration

at

Summer Solstice Celebration

Du Jardin Beauty
127 Suit 2 Elm Street
Damariscotta
06/21/2025 | 4:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Join us at a FREE, private event to honor the Summer Solstice on Sat. June 21st from 4 to 6:30pm.
Shop our guest vendors, enjoy a Tarot Reading and complimentary Herbal Cocktails or Zero-Proofs.
Tickets required, & available @dujardinbeauty.com

Millennium Magic Chorus

at

Millennium Magic Chorus

Carousel Music Theater
196 Townsend Ave
Boothbay Harbor
06/21/2025 | 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Join us on June 21 at 7 PM for an unforgettable performance by the Millennium Magic Chorus and their special guests. Tickets for the Millennium Magic Chorus concert are available for $25 each at http://www.carouselmusictheater.org. Your ticket purchase supports the chorus as they travel to compete at the international competition this fall.

Get your tickets now and be prepared to be swept away by their enchanting harmonies and captivating melodies!


 Printed & published by
The Lincoln County Publishing Company
^