September News From The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor
September 2010 Box Office 207-633-5159 Can You Pick Out the Irish Born Musician in This Picture? On Friday, September 3 at 8 PM “simply the best contemporary Irish rock band [...]
September 2010 Box Office 207-633-5159 Can You Pick Out the Irish Born Musician in This Picture? On Friday, September 3 at 8 PM “simply the best contemporary Irish rock band [...]
Since forming in 1998, The Elders have set the American music scene on its ear, thanks to a skillful mix of amped-up roots rock, augmented with powerful vocals, blazing instrumentals and top-notch song writing. The line up consists of a group of wicked-fine Kansas City musicians with a passion for Celtic music, and a charismatic Irishman with a love of all things American. This combination makes for cross-pollination that is high octane and progressive, yet rooted in tradition.
Grammy-winning pianist Paul Sullivan returns to the Opera House stage this year. He travels the world as a member of the Paul Winter Consort and then comes home to Maine. Join us as we embrace this Maine musician who brings the world of music to our stage.
The Tardy brothers, last appearing on stage at the Opera House in their enormously popular show, Audiobody, return this summer with their amazing 90 minute juggling act. Come see why they’ve been invited to perform at the White House. All ages are welcome.
Jon Pousette-Dart captained the Pousette-Dart Band through four albums for Capitol Records between 1976 and 1980, a run that acquainted a generation with his formidable gifts as a singer, songwriter, arranger, guitarist and all-around musical adventurer. During this time, the Pousette-Dart Band became one of the busiest touring groups in the U. S., working with such acts as the Byrds, Bonnie Raitt, Little Feat, James Taylor, Yes, the J. Geils Band, Eddie Money, Peter Frampton, Journey and Billy Joel.
FREE ADMISSION Multi Cultural music including Inanna, Cajun music by the Lost Bayou Ramblers, and Reggae music with EastWave Radio. Local Food and Healing Arts. Learn all about the exciting Permaculture movement and its relationship to healing.
Ellis Paul is one of the leading voices in American songwriting. He was a principle leader in the wave of singer/songwriters that emerged from the Boston folk scene, creating a movement that revitalized the national acoustic circuit with an urban, literate, folk pop style. For more than 2 decades Ellis Paul has brought his brand of folk to audiences around the country, but he once lived in Boothbay Harbor. Welcome him home with us.
Opening Act: Liz Longley
Livingston Taylor picked up his first guitar at the age of thirteen, beginning a forty-year career that has encompassed performance, songwriting and teaching. Born in Boston and raised in North Carolina, Livingston is the fourth child in a very musical family that includes Alex, James, Kate and Hugh. Livingston recorded his first record at 18 and has continued to create well-crafted, introspective and original songs that have earned him listeners worldwide.
Boothbay Harbor native Tim Sample returns to his roots on this evening for a night of classic Maine humor. Stories well told by one of the best!
The subdudes are an American rock group from New Orleans. Their music is a blending of blues, gospel, funk, and R&B with harmonic vocals. These bayou rockers bring their unmistakably American sound back to the Opera House stage where we welcome back everyone’s favorite group from 2009, for another acoustic evening in the old House. If you missed their last show here, do not miss this one!
“You can’t deal me the aces and think I wouldn’t play,” says Suzy Bogguss with a twinkle in her eye as she discusses her latest studio album Sweet Danger. It’s a line from one of her signature songs, but it’s also the philosophy with which the Illinois-born singer manages her career, and the stepping-off point for a collection of her strongest songwriting and most evocative vocals to date.
This astounding one-man theatrical performance based upon lessons learned at the Pierre Monteau School of Conducting is bound for NY. See it now. David Katz, playing multiple roles, brings a depth of character to the stage. Both exhausting and uplifting. No other work of theater so vividly conveys the power of great music to open hearts and touch the soul.
An Evening of Classical Guitar with Jeff Rojo & Brian Cullen
April Verch and her band return to the Opera House this season on Sunday, May 16.