On Saturday, August 14th at 7:00 pm.

(Eastport, ME) For many years, internationally renowned acoustic guitar virtuoso Ernie Hawkins has been playing countless venues in the United States, Canada, Japan and Europe and at every stop in the road from A Prairie Home Companion to Antone's to the Madrid Jazz Festival. He has played with blues greats such as Son House, Mance Lipscomb, Fred McDowell, Jim Brewer, Rev. Gary Davis and many others. Hawkins appears on Maria Muldaur's Grammy and Handy nominated and Indie Award winning album, Richland Woman Blues and was the guitarist for her national support tour.

For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit www.eastportartscenter.com.

On Saturday, August 21st at 7:30pm.

(Brunswick, ME) The traditional music of New England can be as warm and comforting as a winter fire or as potent and exhilarating as a summer thunderstorm. Fiddler and singer Lissa Schneckenburger is a master of both moods, a winsome, sweet-voiced singer who brings new life to old ballads and a skillful, dynamic fiddler who captures the driving rhythm and carefree joy of dance tunes old and new.

For more information, please visit the Frontier Cafe and Gallery website.

(Image: "Tongs with Balls I" by Roger Majorowicz)

Through September 4, 2010.

(Portland, ME) Originally from South Dakota, Roger Majorowicz graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and was awarded a full scholarship to attend the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, where he won the school's top award in sculpture. He received a Fulbright Fellowship to study for two years at the Institute D'Arte in Florence, Italy.

Prior to his permanent move to Maine in 1983, he spend over two decades teaching sculpture at the Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore, with summer retreats to Whitefield, Maine, where he currently resides and works. His work has been featured in museums and galleries around the world, including Carerra, Milan, Spoleto, and Rome, Italy; Munich, Germany; and in the United States in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and many other cities. Majorowicz has created over 40 public commissions around the United States, most of them monumental in scale. Many of his sculptures can be seen in schools and public buildings in Maine, commissioned by the Maine Arts Commission Percent for Art program, including Leavitt Area High School in Turner, Westbrook High School, The University of Maine at Augusta, and Whitefield Elementary School.

Majorowicz's home and studio along the Sheepscot River borders a field enhanced by his wildly fantastic sculptures, some over 30 feet tall with moveable parts. He draws inspiration from many sources, including mythical themes, the human figure, and the landscape.

To see more of Roger Majorowicz's work, please visit the Gleason Fine Art website.

As Part of the Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ Summer Series.

(Portland, ME) On Tuesday, August 24th at 7:30 pm at the Merrill Auditorium. Originally from San Diego, California, Ms. Chen studied piano from a young age with Jane Bastien and Lori Bastien Vickers. At fifteen she began organ lessons with Leslie Robb, and later with Monte Maxwell. She went on to study with John Weaver and Paul Jacobs at Juilliard, receiving both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in the Accelerated program. The following year she composed and performed in Taiwan as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar.

For more information on Ms. Chen's program, please visit the Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ website. The Merrill Auditorium is located at 20 Myrtle Street in Portland. Tickets are available through Port Tix, or by calling 207-842-0800. There will be a pre-concert talk with the artist at 6:30 and the concert begins at 7:30 pm.