Events
Upcoming 2024
An intimate and exclusive songwriter's circle in our 1800s farmhouse featuring 4 local Southern Maine artists playing with no amplification
Thurs September 12, 7pm - 8:30pm
∆BSENTIER
BOBBIE STRANGER
BETH BORRUS
JEFF CHRISTIANSEN
This show is FREE, but we suggest a $10 donation for the musicians.
Very limited seating. If you need to cancel, please give us at least 48 hours notice so we can offer your ticket to another guest.
Please arrive at least 15 minutes early at the Desert of Maine parking lot.
NOTE: We will be driving all guests out to the farmhouse in our electric train, which will depart at
7:00pm sharp. Don't miss the train!
Artist Links:
https://www.instagram.com/absentier
https://www.instagram.com/bobbiestranger/
https://www.instagram.com/bethborrus/
https://jeffchristiansenmusic.com/schedule
CAE supports arts programming that connects people with nature and to this unique landscape.
In the coming years, we plan to program events like these:
Music Workshops that model active listening to the sounds of nature as inspiration for communal song-writing
Mandala making
Open air theater performances that feature the Desert of Maine landscape
Fireside and star gazing song circles
Contact improv and ecstatic dance classes and jams that incorporate nature into the event
Note: We are committed to developing programs that center queer and BIPOC composers, voices that have been creating fantastic art for a long time, but have been excluded from the canon
Past Performances 2024
An intimate and exclusive songwriter's circle in our 1800s farmhouse featuring 4 local Southern Maine artists playing with no amplification
Thurs August 8, 7pm - 9pm
FINE PIONEER
KATE MCCANN
MOLLY GIBBS
MELVIN GRADIZ
Past Performances 2023
In 2023, we hosted five events which helped us home in on our mission to focus on Nature-Centric Arts.
Juan Wauters
Founding member of Queens-based garage act The Beets, Wauters has spent the better part of the last decade on the road as a solo artist, traversing the US and Latin America to collaborate with other musicians. This was his first time performing in Maine in over a decade and this "destination concert" in our historic Farmhouse was a memborably special standing room-only affair.
The Sand Princess
High drama and low comedy featuring clever scoundrel who threatens the future of an empire in the sand. The show contained magic, masked creatures, and evocative music performed live out on the dunes.
Classical Uprising Presents,
Choose your own Musical Adventure
A bold rethinking of the classical music experience through an immersive event which stations musicians at different areas of the Desert of Maine landscape to encourage audience participation and ask questions like–will you be the conductor, the drummer, a singer, or a music critic?
Kat and Brad
Drawing from 50s and 60s pop, American Songbook standards, and much more, this vibrant duo channels and fuses these influences through two voices, a guitar, and violin to bring you a mixture of original songs and dusted off covers from the past.
Sarah Quintana
A rare solo performance from a singer-songwriter from New Orleans with a background rich in jazz, folk and popular music. This was her debut concert in Maine.