In Freeport on Saturday, March 6th.

(Freeport, ME) David Maxwell has amassed an enormous resume throughout the years playing piano with some of the greatest and well- known musicians in the blues. David plays many styles of music including jazz and improvised music, but he is best known for his soulful virtuosity and unmatched ability to reach the heart of post-war Chicago Blues. Through his work, he has gained the respect of artists, critics and fans and has established a reputation as one of the finest blues pianists alive.

In the last decade , David has received over a half dozen WC Handy and Grammy nominations and a Grammy Award for recorded work, as well as Handy nominations for instrumental performance He has played with many of the greats including Freddie King, Bonnie Raitt, James Cotton, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Hubert Sumlin, Jimmy Rodgers, Charley Musselwhite, Johnny Adams and Ronnie Earl; and has had gigs with Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Levon Helm, Jimmy Witherspoon, Lowell Fulsom, Junior Wells and many others.

Doors open at 7:00 and the show starts at 8:00 pm. Tickets are $20. For more information, please visit the Venue Music Bar website.

At the Merrill Auditorium on Saturday, March 20th at 8:00 pm.

(Portland, ME) Glorious, powerful, intelligent – Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC) is dance that energizes, inspires, and feeds the soul. DCDC presents the work of three of the most creative geniuses in American dancemaking, drawn from the company’s participation in the Kennedy Center’s festival Masters of African-American Choreography: Donald McKayle’s masterwork Rainbow ‘Round My Shoulder, about a group of men on a prison chain gang; Tony-nominated choreographer Donald Byrd’s JLawrence Paint (Harriet Tubman Remix), inspired by the paintings of Jacob Lawrence; and hip-hopinflected dancemaker Rennie Harris’s Jacob’s Ladder, also informed by a Lawrence painting. DCDC recently marked its 40th anniversary performing the world’s largest repertoire of works by African-American choreographers.

For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit the Portland Ovations website.

On Saturday, March 20th at 8:00 pm.

(Freeport, ME) Even though Roomful of Blues’ lineup has changed over the years, the band has always been one of the tightest, most joyful blues ensembles in the world. Currently an eight-piece unit led by guitarist Chris Vachon, the band has never sounded fresher or stronger. In 2010, singer Phil Pemberton took over the vocal duties, bringing his sweet and soulful vocals and adding another bright new dimension to the jazzy, jump-blues musical roots. Their winning combination of jump, swing, blues, R&B and soul remains their calling card, as does their ability to fill the dance floor. Along with new members, bassist John Turner, trumpeter Doug Woolverton and longer standing members keyboardist Travis Colby, drummer Ephraim Lowell, baritone and tenor saxophonist Mark Earley, tenor and alto saxophonist Rich Lataille, Roomful keeps on rockin’ in 2010.

Doors open at 7:00 and the show starts at 8:00 pm.

For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit the Venue Music Bar website.

At Various Venues, March 12th Through March 27th.

The Everyman Repertory Theatre presents a staged reading production of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s verse play, Conversations at Midnight. These lively and often hilarious 'after dinner' conversations are rich with muscular and powerful verse that varies from the formality of a sonnet to parodies of Ogden Nash.

The Everyman Repertory Theatre, founded in 2008, is a registered 501(c)3, not-for-profit theatre company whose mission is to achieve excellence in professional theatre in the greater Penobscot Bay region.

List of Dates and Locations:

First Congregational Church of Christ in Camden at 7:00 pm on Friday, March 12th
Farnsworth Art Museum Auditorium in Rockland at 2:00 pm on Sunday, March 14th
Camden Library in the Reading Room at 7:00 pm on Friday, March 19th
Skidompha Library in Damariscotta at 2:00 pm on Sunday, March 21st
Hutchinson Center in Belfast at 7:00 pm on Friday, March 26th
Unity Centre for the Performing Arts at 7:00 pm on Saturday, March 27th

Tickets are $15 and are available by calling the theater at 236-0173 or online at the Unity Centre for the Performing Arts.