Greetings and Happy Weekend!  I scoured our own listings and cruised all over the interwebs and here are 5 fantastic live music options for your weekend consideration.

Ready? Set? GO!

The Lomax / the McCarthys Double CD Release Party

WHEN: Friday, November 18

WHAT TIME: 8 p.m.

HOW MUCH: $5

WHERE: Bayside Bowl, 58 Adler St.

INFO:baysidebowl.com

Except from my 1/10/08 column: “I just listened to the entertainingly catchy song “Lewiston Kids” from Portland country-folk-rock power players The Lomax”

What I wrote about them in 2009:

www.pressherald.com/archive/the-night-is-young_2009-02-18.html

Little Wings with Small Sur

WHEN: Saturday, November 19

WHAT TIME: 8:30 p.m., 18 +

WHERE: Space, 538 Congress St.,Portland

INFO: space538.org

Skinny from the Space Website:
Little Wings is the musical incarnation of San Francisco based artist and beach dweller Kyle Field. A communal, ever-changing roster of bonfire musicians paints the Little Wings portrait, with Kyle as founder, and also the only permanent member. He has collaborated with the likes of Feist, who covered his song "Look at What the Light Did Now," M. Ward (Kyle played bass in Rodriguez, Ward's earlier endeavor), Will Oldham (Bonnie Prince Billy), YACHT, Grandaddy and many others. Visionary, vagabond, seagull worshiper, call him what you may, but this dude is on to something. Opening the night is Small Sur, otherwise known as what John Muir would have sounded like if he was a beard-farming musical craftsman from Baltimore.

The Maine Striper Sessions with Jason Spooner Trio & Pete Kilpatrick Band

WHEN: Friday, November 18

WHAT TIME: 7 p.m.

HOW MUCH: $18

WHERE: Port City Music Hall, 504 Congress St.,Portland

INFO: portcitymusichall.com

Skinny from the Port City Website:

Port City Music Hall will host the First Annual Maine Striper Sessions - a unique benefit concert featuring two national artists with strong ties to Maine – The Jason Spooner Band and the Pete Kilpatrick Band.  For the first time ever, both bands will take the stage at Port City  – all proceeds from the concert will benefit the Maine’s Coastal Conservation Association, or “CCA”, which is the only grassroots volunteer and nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving Maine’s saltwater sport fishing and marine resources. 

Bearfoot CD Release Show for “American Story”

WHEN: Sunday, November 20

WHAT TIME: 8 p.m.

HOW MUCH: $15 in advance/$18 at the door

WHERE: One Longfellow Square, 181 State St.,Portland

INFO: onelongfellowsquare.com

Skinny from the One Longfellow Square Website:

Call it "new-timey," call it "post-bluegrass," call it "string band music for the 21st century"—whatever the name, there's a revolution under way where string band traditions meet youthful creativity; look right to its center, and that's where you'll find Bearfoot.
Hoots and Hellmouth opens!

Waltzing for Dreamers New Music Series

WHEN: Sunday, November 20

WHAT TIME: doors at 6 p.m.

HOW MUCH: free !

WHERE: Stone Mountain Arts Center, 695 Dugway Road, Brownfield

INFO: stonemountainartscenter.com

Skinny from the Stone Mountain Website:

Featured Artists: Carpenter and May…Roots Music at its best. Fred Carpenter and Tim May play roots music at its best. Their versatile new trio with bassist Charlie Chadwick is a solid equilateral triangle of tone, taste and timing. Using guitar, fiddle, mandolin, bass and vocals they can mow down backyard bluegrass, tug the Celtic heartstrings or even croon a jazz standard. Their self-titled, debut CD “Carpenter & May” immediately went to #1 on the Folk Radio Charts. We have a high standard for live music here at Stone Mountain Arts Center, and Fred & Tim have no trouble living up to it!

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Aimsel Ponti has been obsessed with - and inspired by- music since she listened to Monkees records borrowed from the town library when she was six years old. She's a huge fan of the local music scene and interviews an act every week for "Making Noise" which runs in the Press Herald GO section. You'll also find her out and about absorbing live music like a sponge and roaming around local record shops and flea markets.

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