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Shimabukuro’s wholly unique approach to the ukulele started early. As a youngster growing up in Honolulu, Shimabukuro started playing the instrument at the age of four by studying the likes of musical masters such as Eddie Kamae, Ohta-San and Peter Moon. His records have topped the Billboard World Music charts, and as a live performer he has become one of the hottest tickets around. He’s played with world-renowned orchestras and at the Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center and the Sydney Opera…

Called “dreamy & daring” by Rolling Stone magazine, Caitlin Canty is an American singer/songwriter whose music carves a line through folk, blues, and country ballads. Her voice was called “casually devastating” by the San Francisco Chronicle and NPR Music describes her songs as having a “haunting urgency.” Tonight marks her first appearance at the Opera House and we look forward to hearing this rising star. Advance discounted tickets $15 available directly from the box office. Regular tickets $20, online and…

Using minimal instrumentation, heartfelt lyricism, and harmonies so natural they seem to blend into one beautiful voice, these siblings draw on a deep energy to create an unforgettable performance.  They’ve just finished a successful national tour with I’m With Her – come listen tonight to these rising stars. Advance discounted tickets are $15 and available only directly from the box office at 207-633-5159. Regular tickets $20 online and at the door. Opening Act: The Oshima Brothers - to listen to…

It’s hard to imagine a band just coming into their own after 20 years of success, but that’s exactly what makes a true anomaly. This multi-national, Celtic juggernaut grows stronger with each live performance, and as you can imagine, after two decades and over 2000 shows, it is a true force to be reckoned with. The band attributes their continued success to their fanatic audience, and it’s a well-diversified crowd for sure. The country-music folks adore the storytelling, the bluegrass-heads…

Since their formal introduction to American audiences in 1997, The Kruger Brothers’ remarkable discipline, creativity and their ability to infuse classical music into folk music has resulted in a unique sound that has made them a fixture within the world of acoustic music. The honesty of their writing has since become a hallmark of the trio’s work. In their ever-expanding body of work – Jens Kruger (banjo and vocals), Uwe Kruger (guitar and lead vocals), and Joel Landsberg (bass and…

Tonight  these musicians pay tribute to the music of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys. Grammy-award winning bluegrass from a group that is playing at the top of the heap. You’d need to search far and wide to find a finer group playing old time bluegrass. A great kick-off concert to the summer season in Boothbay Harbor. Advance discounted tickets $35 available only from the box office at 207-633-5159. Regular tickets $40, available online and on…

Mile Twelve is a fresh, hard-driving young band beautifully walking the line between original and traditional bluegrass. Fast gaining recognition for their outstanding performances in bluegrass and folk circles, Evan Murphy, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, Nate Sabat, BB Bowness and David Benedict write captivating songs and daring instrumental pieces from diverse influences. Banjo luminary Tony Trischka says, “Mile Twelve is carrying the bluegrass tradition forward with creativity and integrity.” The band won the 2017 International Bluegrass Music Association Momentum Award for Newcomer Band…

“His sumptuous tone, technical mastery, broad dramatic range, and elegant phrasing place him in the top ranks of keyboard players today. Above this, and trumping most of the musical gymnasts of the day, there is genuine poetry here, the ring of truth, and a rare sincerity issuing from a deep place in the pianist’s heart,” says Fanfare Magazine. This remarkable artist, a graduate of St. Petersburg’s Rimsky-Korsakoff Conservatory of Music, is first prizewinner of the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition…

Grammy-winning Paul Sullivan has enjoyed a richly varied and distinguished career as a composer and a pianist. As a soloist, with his trio, and as a member of the Paul Winter Consort, he has played concert tours in most of the United States and Europe, as well as the Middle East, Central America, and Asia. He has performed among the dunes of the Negev Desert, in Leonard Bernstein’s living room, and on the stages of many of the world’s finest…

Professor Louie & The Crowmatix began as the studio backing band for musical productions for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees, The Band. Rick Danko christened the group Professor Louie and these days this GRAMMY-Nominated Woodstock, NY group plays 150 shows a year in the US and worldwide. They have performed at the Thunder Bay, London & Windsor Festivals in Canada, The Tondor Festival, Falcon Ridge Festival and BB Kings in NYC among other venues. Professor Louie has performed three…

Over four decades the contributions of John Sebastian have become a permanent part of America’s musical fabric. His group The Lovin’ Spoonful played a major role in the mid-’60s rock revolution, where their first 7 singles made the Top 10. This was unprecedented, and unthinkable at the height of Beatlemania. At first they’d taken older material from blues, country, folk and jug band sources – what we now term “roots music” – and made it sound modern. Then, in a…

Join us for this midsummer’s eve celebration of the music of Broadway and beyond with Kevin Kiley on piano surrounded by talented vocalists from New York and beyond. On stage tonight – Devin Dukes, Arthur Francesco, Marques Ruff and Jennifer Zimmerman. Get your tickets early for this popular summer event! Kindly sponsored by Jill Tupper.Advance discounted tickets $15, available only by calling the box office at 207-633-5159. Regular tickets $20.

Tom Rush’s distinctive guitar style, wry humor and warm, expressive voice have made him both a legend and a lure to audiences around the world. His shows are filled with the rib-aching laughter of terrific story-telling, the sweet melancholy of ballads and the passion of gritty blues. He helped shape the folk revival in the ’60s and the renaissance of the ’80s and ’90s, his music having left its stamp on generations of artists. Tonight he is joined by rising star…

It’s difficult to impart the roots-steeped, road-trippin’ essence of the Adam Ezra Group into a single word, but frontman Adam Ezra nonetheless keeps one in mind as something of a mantra: community. Community is epitomized by a belief that has long doubled as a mission statement for the group: namely, that making music together is itself a form of grassroots organizing, capable of nothing less than changing the world. For their most recent release, Hurricane Wind (2017), the Adam Ezra…

Quality is timeless. Just ask The Hot Sardines. In the talented hands of the New York-based ensemble, music first made famous decades ago comes alive through their brassy horn arrangements, rollicking piano melodies, and vocals from a chanteuse who transports listeners to a different era with the mere lilt of her voice. On French Fries & Champagne, The Hot Sardines’ new album, the jazz collective broadens its already impressive palette, combining covers and originals as they effortlessly channel New York…

JigJam is a multi-award winning quartet from the heart of the midlands in Ireland. Blending the best of traditional Irish music with Bluegrass and Americana in a new genre which has been branded as 'I-Grass' (Irish influenced Bluegrass), their onstage energy along with their virtuosic musical ability has captivated audiences throughout the world. Jamie McKeogh, Cathal Guinan and Daithi Melia all hail from Tullamore, Co.Offaly with Co. Tipperary born Gavin Strappe completing the quartet. All four members grew up immersed…

Sons of Serendip is a musical group of four friends, who through a series of serendipitous events, came together in graduate school at Boston University. Micah Christian, a former teacher from Randolph, Massachusetts, is the lead vocalist of the group; Cordaro Rodriguez, a former attorney from Charlotte, North Carolina, is the pianist and guitarist; Kendall Ramseur, a former cello instructor from Charlotte, NC, is the cellist and vocalist; and Mason Morton, who is a former teacher from Atlanta, GA, is the harpist…

Over the course of 25 years and ten albums, the Subdudes have quietly become one of America’s national music treasures.The New Orleans-formed group is a living encapsulation of American music, a vibrant cauldron of sounds that stirs together meaty grooves and jazzy dynamics, soulful R&B swagger, easy vocal harmonies, cheeky rock ‘n’ roll attitude and folky social consciousness — not to mention some of the sharpest musicianship and ensemble playing you’ll ever hear from any five musicians.Led by singer/guitarist Tommy…

Bob Milne has been called the finest interpreter of ragtime music in the world. His boogie-woogie piano playing is something that must be seen and heard to be believed.  The Library of Congress has called him “a national treasure.” The Department of State calls him a musical ambassador. We just keep calling him to come back and play, and again this August this story-telling master of the keyboard will enliven our stage. Our piano is exhausted by the time Bob…

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”says the Boston Herald.…

Guitarist Chris Thomas King is a Grammy and Country Music Award-winning blues artist and actor, based in New Orleans. His latest album is titled “Hotel Voodoo” and he is currently appearing on stage in Lackawanna Blues, in Los Angeles (Spring 2019 run). His recently published book is titled “The Blues: The Authentic Narrative of my music and culture therewith” and Opera House audiences can expect an honest evening of blues from one of the genre's kings. On screen he played…

New addition to the schedule. John Doyle and Mick McAuley teamed up originally with the Irish super group Solas, and while they are now pursuing solo careers, tonight they join forces again. Don't miss this opportunity to catch two of Ireland's, and the music world's, greatest talents!  Tickets on sale May 25, 2019.

Thanks to hauntingly beautiful and utterly unique songwriting, and stunning live performances, Darlingside has become one of the fastest growing indie folk bands both in the US and UK. It's no wonder they've been invited to play the veritable who's who list of tastemaker festivals....  Newport Folk, Cambridge Folk, Glastonbury, New Orleans Jazz, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, XPonential, Cayamo Cruise, Edmonton Folk, Calgary Folk, Vancouver Folk, Moon River, and many others. In just three years, the band has risen from unknown…

"A welcome ray of sunshine...Ball is a killer pianist, a great singer and songwriter. Potent blues, sweet zydeco, soulful, fast and furious Texas boogie...heartfelt, powerful and righteous" says Billboard. Singer/pianist Marcia Ball has been blending Texas blues, Louisiana swamp ballads and New Orleans second-line rhythms into her distinctive roadhouse roots-rock for 30 years. This Texas-born, Louisiana-raised musical storyteller has earned worldwide fame for her ability to ignite a full-scale roadhouse rhythm and blues party every time she strolls onto the…

Twice winners of Scotland’s Traditional Music ‘Live Act of the Year’, the band has been on a meteoric journey that has taken them from the remote Isle of Tiree on to international tours that have included performances in Central Park NYC, The Ryder Cup Louisville and the Shanghai Expo, China. Skerryvore create a unique fusion of folk, trad, rock and Americana that represents all the different personalities and upbringing of the band members who hail from different regions of Scotland.…

Singer/songwriter and Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist Seth Glier has consistently honed his craft over the course of his young career. He has shared the stage with artists as diverse as James Taylor, Ani DiFranco, Edwin McCain, Martin Sexton, Emmylou Harris and Ryan Adams, and has quickly become known for his passionate live sets and powerful command of both piano and guitar. Acoustic, modern-pop, Glier’s music is sometimes hard to classify but he has been an audience favorite at the Opera House since…

Rhiannon Giddens is an acclaimed American artist of folk and traditional music, played on fiddle and banjo; Francesco Turrisi is an Italian pianist and percussionist well versed in jazz, early music and Mediterranean music; at first blush, their worlds don’t overlap. But at a chance musical meet-up in Ireland they found that her 19th century American minstrel banjo tunes and his traditional Sicilian Tamburello (tambourine) rhythms fit very naturally together.  They soon discovered the reason for that - their respective roots…

Mexico City's internationally celebrated classical guitarist, Antonio Lopez returns to the Opera House this fall after a multi-year hiatus. Tonight this world renowned guitarist will perform a solo set before being joined on stage by Maine musicians Carl Dimow, Jeff Roho and Alva Achorn on flute. This promises to be an evening unlike any other this season.Advance discounted tickets $20, available only from the box office at 207-633-5159. Regular tickets $25, available online and on the day of the performance.…

Applauded for their “flat-out amazing” performances and “stunning virtuosity” (Cleveland Classical), the highly acclaimed Kenari Quartet delivers inspiring performances that transform the perception of the saxophone. The quartet aims to highlight the instrument’s remarkable versatility by presenting meticulously crafted repertoire from all periods of classical and contemporary music. They have found a home performing on many of the premiere chamber music series in the United States. Their performances run from classical Bach to jazz with funk and folk appearing at times.…

Grammy-nominated, Pedro Pablo “Pedrito” Martinez was raised in Havana, Cuba, and since settling in New York City in 1998, Pedrito has recorded or performed with Wynton Marsalis, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, and Sting and has contributed to over 50 albums. Pedrito was a founding member of the highly successful, Afro-Cuban/Afro-Beat band, Yerba Buena, with which he recorded two albums and toured the world. He has received the Thelonius Monk Award, Sphinx Award for Excellence and been named “Percussionist of the…

One of Atlantic Canada's premiere traditional groups, with the fiery Celtic style as its musical core, Còig easily shifts between century old tunes of past generations to original and contemporary compositions, featuring the band’s range of over a dozen instruments (vocals, fiddles, piano, guitar, banjo, mandolin, viola, bouzouki, whistles, and more). This holiday season they bring the best of a Celtic Christmas to the Opera House stage. With driving tunes, haunting songs, and infectious energy, Còig is an unparalleled musical…