The Resurgam Music and Arts Festival will be expanding its schedule and footprint this year.

The free Portland festival will be held over two days — Saturday and Sunday, June 13-14 — with new outdoor stages in the heart of the Old Port and new partner venues hosting indoor concerts. It had been a one-day, outdoor festival since its creation in 2022 and for the past three years it’s been held along Portland’s eastern waterfront, on the edge of the Old Port.

With the expansion, Resurgam’s stages will be located on the site of the Old Port Festival, which was last held in 2019, after a 46-year run. Resurgam was created at least partly to fill the void left when the Old Port Festival ended.

Some of the local acts scheduled to perform for free at Resurgam this year include Cilla Bonnie, The Speed of Sound, Forget Forget, Coyote Island, Raging Brass, Graham Gantner and several groups from the Maine Academy of Modern Music. There’ll be about 30 performances over the two days.

Organizers decided to expand the festival after hearing from local merchants who said they appreciated the rush of business the event brought and would welcome more, said Jeff Shaw, a founder of the festival and executive director of the Maine Academy of Modern Music.

“Portland is known for its food scene and beer scene, but it has a great live music scene and we want to celebrate that part of Portland,” said Shaw. “Creative Portland has its First Friday Art Walk and this is our version of a rock walk.”

The Resurgam festival was created by MAMM, just three years after the Old Port Festival stopped. The Old Port Festival was created in the 1970s to draw people to the Old Port at a time when it was not the polished, high-priced tourist destination it is today. It featured several stages of musical acts, plus food, crafts, children’s games and amusements.

Resurgam was first held at Thompson’s Point on outer Congress Street but organizers decided to move it to the Portland waterfront after one year, to make it accessible to more people and to have more parking.

“It’s good to see them growing. Resurgam brings people to the area and arguably they’re buying a sandwich or something else while they’re here,” said Cary Tyson, executive director of Portland Downtown, the organization that had organized the Old Port Festival. “We’re thrilled they’re doing this.”

MAMM, which runs several programs for young musicians, sponsored a stage at the Old Port Festival on Dana Street for years, where the institution’s students and teachers performed. With the expansion of Resurgam this year, there will once again be a MAMM stage on Dana Street.

Shaw said that while Resurgam is expanding into the area where the Old Port Festival had been held, it is not a replacement. Its focus remains on local music and musicians.

Resurgam also got a $10,000 city grant to help fund the expansion. The city is supporting the expansion because it will “bring more music, more visitors and more economic activity to local businesses while strengthening Portland’s vibrant arts and culture scene,” said Jessica Grondin, the city’s director of communications.

Having a free music festival is important because it creates opportunities for local musicians to be heard and to perform in the Old Port, said Cilla Bonnie, a Portland singer-songwriter who will be performing at Resurgam on June 13.

“This is a great way for people to see and hear what local musicians are up to,” said Bonnie.

The festival’s name comes from the Portland city motto, adopted in 1832, which means “I shall rise again” in Latin. The city has risen from the ashes more than once, after being bombarded by the British Navy in 1775 and after a devastating fire in 1866. The festival was created as the pandemic was ending and restrictions on large group gatherings were lifting, so organizers thought “resurgam” was also an apt reference to people getting back to a more normal way of life.

The festival stages will host performers on June 13 from 5-8 p.m., followed by shows in several Old Port venues. On June 14 the stages will run from noon to 7 p.m.

The June 13 shows will be mostly in the Old Port, at stages in Old Port Square and on Dana Street. Shows that night will be held at indoor venues, including 3 Dollar Deweys, Amigos, Brickyard Hollow Brewery, Gritty McDuff’s, Portland Lobster Company, Ri Ra Irish Pub, The Porthole and The Thirsty Pig.

The June 14 shows will be on three stages near the Ocean Gateway marine terminal, including Moon Tide Park and Amythyst Park. There are also two shows connected to Resurgam where admission will be charged, including a concert by King Kyote at Live at Madrid’s on the night of June 14 and a Lady Gaga tribute show for Pride month at Portland House of Music the night of June 13.

A complete schedule of acts and performance times is posted at resurgamfestival.com