Deertrees Theatre Announces 2021 Summer Concert Series
Events include Beatles for Sale, Mark William, Sebago Long Lake Music Festival and more.by BWW News Desk
Historic Deertrees Theatre, Maine s Most Enchanting Playhouse , announces its 85th anniversary summer concert season.
The quintessential performing arts venue, providing entertainment to the Greater Maine region since 1936, presents diverse music offerings for the summer of 2021.
The season also boasts its hallmark theatre series in its broadly scheduled summer, from June through early September, detailed at deertrees-theatre.org.
This summer, Deertrees Theatre s open-air doors and windows inspire the sounds of live music to enrich summer nights, echoing through the hills of the magical lake village of Harrison, Maine. The acoustically perfect theatre and idyllic setting are an ideal balm to soothe and uplift weary souls. Plato once said, Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imaginati
Swett wrote the tribute in celebration of the Pine Tree State’s Bicentennial in 2020.
The 64-year-old grew up in North Norway and said that although he traveled around the country a lot as a young adult, he always came back to Maine.
“Growing up in rural Maine, I couldn’t wait to get out of here,” he said. “I put about 20,000 miles on my thumb” hitchhiking or driving “whatever car I could afford at the time,” in the late-70s.
“I always loved that small town feeling, and so Maine, the older I got, the more it meant to me. Each time I came back, (there was) more a part of my roots that I could feel.”