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PORTLAND PRESS HERALD 10/2/2022. By Amy Regan Special to the Press Herald

PORTLAND PHOENIX 9/14/2022.

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD 9/2/2022 BY ERIC RUSSEL & RAY ROUTHER Mark your calendars now for theater, rock concerts, a puppet festival, author events, ballet, art openings and more this fall in Maine.

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD 8/29/2022 BY AIMSEL PONTI Hit up an informal weekly session or see accomplished musicians in concert.

The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, in partnership with Portland Ovations, announces a $40,000.00 award for contemporary dance  

By Jean Noel Mugabo  On April 29, Portland Ovations will host two internationally celebrated musical groups from distinct yet related worlds at Merrill Auditorium in Portland. These are the five-time Grammy Award-winning and Gospel Hall of Fame inductees, the Blind Boys of Alabama, and the renowned Amadou and Mariam, on tour in the U.S. from … Read more

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD 3/21/2022 BY ERIC RUSSELL An 18-piece chamber orchestra featuring some of the top Black and Latinx classical musicians in the country is coming to Maine next week. The Sphinx Virtuosi will perform at Merrill Auditorium on Thursday, March 31, as part of Portland Ovations’ Seeking Resonance series, a partnership with Indigo Arts … Read more

By Jean Noël Mugabo The seven days that Toto Kisaku spent as a kidnapping and torture victim – and his subsequent rescue by his own assailant, who shot and killed his three friends – led to the creation of Requiem for an Electric Chair, a solo, multimedia theater piece, with a performance at Westbrook Performing … Read more

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD 11/14/2021 By Bob Keyes