As the sun neared the horizon on the longest day of the year, a lovely ruckus unfolded at Range Pond State Park in Poland. The event, Vigorous Tenderness, was a museum-like aural experience set in the great outdoors to mark Wednesday’s summer solstice. Story and photos by Staff Photographer Ben McCanna.
The 2022 Music in the Park summer concert series is set to begin Friday, May 27, in Kennedy Park in Lewiston. The concerts will begin at 7 p.m.,and continues after each Art Walk L/A on final Fridays through September. Bring a lawn chair or blanket and enjoy some free. The first concert will feature performances […]
With hundreds of miles of forbidding, rocky coastline and thick forests covering more than three-quarters of its total area, Maine is an anomaly in densely populated New England. Its biggest urban center, Portland, is home to a mere 66,000 souls, not even enough to crack the top 300 cities in the U.S. by population. Maineâs proximity to cities like Boston and New York, coupled with its remoteness, has led to a huge influx of hikers, hunters, naturalists, writers, and artists over the generationsâa diverse population brought together by the promise of physical and spiritual sustenance. More recently, a small but fervent community of musicians based in and around Portland has quietly built one of the strongest regional black metal scenes in the country.