Music on the Mall, Downtown Brunswick’s Summer Concert Series, presents FREE concerts Wednesday evenings at 6PM* throughout the summer on the Brunswick Town Mall (Green, see map). Grab a blanket or chair, bring your family and friends, order a picnic dinner or dine at a local Brunswick restaurant, then relax and enjoy great music. Hosted by the Brunswick Downtown Association!

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DATE	BAND/PERFORMER
June 26	BLUES BUZZARDS - Classics, current and past.
July 3	The Clements Brothers - The Clements Brothers are George and Charles Clements and they play and write music together for you!
July 10	Jimmy Jo and the Jumbol’Ayuhs - Based in Phippsburg, the Jumbol'Ayuhs serve up music from Cajun Louisiana with a Downeast accent.
July 17	The Cobblestones - Playing a variety of songs from artists such as Mary Chapin Carpenter, Natalie Merchant, Mellencamp, CCR, Fleetwood Mac, Bonnie Raitt and many more.
July 24	Pat Colwell and the Soul Sensations- A powerful mix of Motown/Memphis Soul Music
July 31	Pete Kilpatrick - Brunswick based indie singer/songwriter Pete Kilpatrick has released eight studio albums
August 7	Bonnie Edwards & The Practical Cats -The Practical Cats are an eclectic group of seasoned musicians that know how to lay down a groove!
August 14	Maine State Music Theatre Performing songs from a variety of exciting shows! *Concert begins at 5:30!
August 21	Breaking Strings - Maine's premier Bluegrass Band.
August 28	Dirty McCurdy - A rockin "4-piece Power Trio" that packs a whole road case full of musical spiked-punch with implements of melodic carnage like Bagpipes, Saxophone, Banjo, Keyboards, Flute, Fiddle, and Blues Harp.

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This summer the Bowdoin International Music Festival celebrates its 60th Anniversary Season, June 24 – August 2! Experience an exciting concert lineup of timeless classics alongside vibrant new works. Ticketed concerts feature world-renowned guest ensembles and artist-faculty. The Festival also offers free Young Artists Concerts and Community Concerts throughout the Midcoast region. Learn more at bowdoinfestival.org/events or 207-373-1400.

Dead Writers takes listeners inside famous American authors’ homes. Riffing on literature, history, home décor, gardens, and ghosts, literary critic Tess Chakkalakal and novelist Brock Clarke bring great American writers and the books they wrote back from the dead.

The first episode, “Secret Encounter: Harriet Beecher Stowe,” will air on Maine Public Radio at 8:00 p.m., Sunday, July 28, 2024. Six more episodes will follow, one each week in the same time slot. Following the airing of each installment on Maine Public Radio, the episodes will be available on the Dead Writers Podcast website and wherever you get your podcasts.

Dead Writers brings classic American authors back to life for a contemporary audience through a podcast series that takes listeners on a tour of literary homes, transporting them inside the houses in which the authors lived and wrote. The first season is dedicated to Maine’s literary landscape and will highlight such authors as Harriet Beecher Stowe (Brunswick), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Portland), and Nathaniel Hawthorne (Raymond).

Chakkalakal says it was during her decade-long battle to preserve the Harriet Beecher Stowe House that she became fascinated with literary houses and the ways in which people interpreted these homes and used them for various purposes.

“I was surprised by the important role these houses played in bringing people from various backgrounds and experiences together,” says Chakkalakal. “That was quite amazing and interesting to follow as we met the people who worked and visited the houses.”

Using humor and storytelling, Chakkalakal and Clarke structure the first season’s seven episodes as a guided conversation–talking to the people who take care of the houses and fellow visitors to give listeners a chance to get inside American literature and introduce these authors to a new generation.

“I hope listeners will read the books written by the authors whose homes we visited,” Chakkalakal says. “They are really good and underappreciated, because they were written such a long time ago, but still relevant today.”

Chakkalakal, associate professor of Africana studies and English and director of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House at Bowdoin College, (pronounced “Chah-KAHL-ickle”) has published widely on nineteenth-century African American and American literature. She is the author of Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America (Illinois, 2011) which earned the Robert K. Martin Prize for best book on American literature and “a must read” title designation by Choice. She is coeditor of Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs (Georgia, 2013). She is also coeditor of Imperium in Imperio by Sutton E. Griggs: A Critical Edition (West Virginia Press, 2022).

Clarke, Bowdoin’s A. Leroy Greason Professor of English, is the author of four previous novels, including the bestselling An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers Homes in New England, as well as three collections of short stories, the most recent being The Price of the Haircut.