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2025 Gingerbread Spectacular

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2025 Gingerbread Spectacular

The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
86 Townsend Avenue
Boothbay Harbor
12/12/2025 | 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Three days of holiday magic inside the Opera House. Plan your season to include a visit to check out the 2025 confectionery creations – gingerbread castles and cabins, farms and cottages, and dozens of surprises both large and small. Community members and bakers from afar always dazzle us with their creativity, while competing for the coveted honor of “Most Spectacular!” This event also features live music, and a wonderful holiday bake sale by The Friends of the Opera House. Free, open daily: Friday, December 12 from noon-6:00pm.

Saturday, December 13 from 10am-4:00pm. Sunday, December 14 from 11am-3pm.

Those interested in designing and building an entry for this year’s Gingerbread Spectacular are asked to contact the Opera House at 207-633-6855 for rules and entry dates.

Sponsored in part by support from the First National Bank, Boothbay Harbor! Thank you.

2025 Gingerbread Spectacular

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2025 Gingerbread Spectacular

The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
86 Townsend Avenue
Boothbay Harbor
12/13/2025 | 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Three days of holiday magic inside the Opera House. Plan your season to include a visit to check out the 2025 confectionery creations – gingerbread castles and cabins, farms and cottages, and dozens of surprises both large and small. Community members and bakers from afar always dazzle us with their creativity, while competing for the coveted honor of “Most Spectacular!” This event also features live music, and a wonderful holiday bake sale by The Friends of the Opera House. Free, open daily: Friday, December 12 from noon-6:00pm.

Saturday, December 13 from 10am-4:00pm. Sunday, December 14 from 11am-3pm.

Those interested in designing and building an entry for this year’s Gingerbread Spectacular are asked to contact the Opera House at 207-633-6855 for rules and entry dates.

Sponsored in part by support from the First National Bank, Boothbay Harbor! Thank you.

The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor

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The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor

The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
86 Townsend Avenue
Boothbay Harbor
12/14/2025 | 11:00 am – 3:00 pm

Three days of holiday magic inside the Opera House. Plan your season to include a visit to check out the 2025 confectionery creations – gingerbread castles and cabins, farms and cottages, and dozens of surprises both large and small. Community members and bakers from afar always dazzle us with their creativity, while competing for the coveted honor of “Most Spectacular!” This event also features live music, and a wonderful holiday bake sale by The Friends of the Opera House. Free, open daily: Friday, December 12 from noon-6:00pm.

Saturday, December 13 from 10am-4:00pm. Sunday, December 14 from 11am-3pm.

Those interested in designing and building an entry for this year’s Gingerbread Spectacular are asked to contact the Opera House at 207-633-6855 for rules and entry dates.

Sponsored in part by support from the First National Bank, Boothbay Harbor! Thank you.

Seedy Folk with Featured Guest: Andrew Rothlisberger

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Seedy Folk with Featured Guest: Andrew Rothlisberger

Oxbow Brewing Company
274 Jones Woods Road
Newcastle
12/15/2025 | 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Seedy Folk is excited to welcome Andrew Rothlisberger to Oxbow Brewing in Newcastle on Monday, December 15th. Andrew’s songs feature huge melodies that will be lodged in your head for days. Make sure to make it this one, you’ll be glad you did. At the taproom at Oxbow Brewing on Monday, December 15th from 5-7pm.

Holiday Potluck & Carol Sing

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Holiday Potluck & Carol Sing

The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
86 Townsend Avenue
Boothbay Harbor
12/17/2025 | 6:00 pm

Doors open at 5:45, potluck dinner begins at 6:00, followed by holiday music presented by pianist Kevin Kiley and his holiday voices. This is a free community event and no tickets are required, but please bring a potluck dish ample enough to share with neighbors and new friends while celebrating the season! If not available to attend the potluck, please arrive at 6:30 for the music!

Sons of Serendip – Holiday Concert

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Sons of Serendip – Holiday Concert

The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
86 Townsend Avenue
Boothbay Harbor
12/20/2025 | 7:30 pm

Billboard charting classical-crossover quartet, Sons of Serendip, won the hearts of fans and judges alike as finalists on America’s Got Talent with their ethereal and emotionally stirring interpretations of pop music, arranged with a unique blend of vocals, harp, piano, and cello. With 4 successful albums and soulful live performances, Sons of Serendip has lifted audiences both nationally and internationally.

Notable performances include collaborations with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and Cynthia Erivo.

We can think of no finer way to celebrate the holiday, and to close out the 2025 concert season than with these 4 unforgettable talents.

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.

St. Cecilia Chamber Choir Presents Lessons and Carols for the Christmas Season on Dec. 20 and 21

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St. Cecilia Chamber Choir Presents Lessons and Carols for the Christmas Season on Dec. 20 and 21

Damariscotta Baptist Church
4 Bristol Rd
Damariscotta
12/21/2025 | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

St. Cecilia Chamber Choir will present its popular annual Lessons and Carols Christmas concerts on Saturday, Dec. 20 at 4:00 p.m. at Bowdoin College Chapel in Brunswick, and Sunday, Dec. 21 at 4:00 p.m.
at Damariscotta Baptist Church. Linda Blanchard is St. Cecilia’s artistic director, assisted by organist Sean Fleming. Advance tickets are strongly encouraged for these concerts. “You were as good as ever!” “The whole thing was just beautiful!” “I’m so glad we came!” are a few of the audience comments from recent concerts.

A beautiful new setting of the Gerard Manley Hopkins poem “The Bethlehem Star” by former King’s Singers member Bob Chilcott will be featured. The John Rutter favorites “Sing We To This Merry Company” and “Past Three O’Clock” will be performed, as well as Richard Francis’ ever-popular “People, Look East” based on Eleanor Farjeon’s Christmas poem. The Choir will sing a jazz-influenced setting of the Thomas Hardy poem “The Oxen” by former Swingle Singers music director Jonathan Rathbone. And “Drop Down, Ye Heavens” by the phenomenal organist Anna Lapwood. Also featured will be works by Stanford, Archer, and Taylor Scott Davis. A professional string quartet will accompany the group on select pieces. As a special treat, Eric Whitacre’s “Glow,” composed for the “World of Color – Winter Dreams” show which premiered at Disney California Adventure Park in California, will be performed.

With audience sing-along caroling using several of David Willcocks’ arrangements, this concert is sure to be a treat for the whole family.

Tickets are $25 for the Bowdoin Chapel concert and $20 for the Damariscotta Baptist Church concert. Admission is free for students and children. Tickets are available online at ceciliachoir.org, and at Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shop in Damariscotta. For more information, please email info@ceciliachoir.org, or visit
facebook.com/stceciliachamberchoir and ceciliachoir.org.


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