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SUMMARY:May Day Celebration!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the official opening of our 2016 season with our 2nd annual May Day Celebration! Don’t miss this wonderful family friendly community event in celebration of Spring and public spaces! \nThere will be May Pole festivities\, games & crafts\, a spring treat bake sale\, face painting\, and New England folk dancing with live fiddle music by The Violin Movers\, and instruction by Caller Maggie Robinson.Fun\, easy social dances for all ages – families\, singles\, and couples welcome. Bring friends\, bring the kids! \nAnd\, thanks to all the wonderful seniors from 10 Congress Square Plaza and 100 State Street who have been busy meeting and making tissue and crepe paper flowers for the May baskets and May crowns that will be given away for the celebration! \n 
URL:http://congresssquarepark.org/event/may-day-celebration/
LOCATION:Congress Square Park\, Portland\, ME\, 04101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Dance,Meet,Music,Play
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SUMMARY:Raging Brass Reggae
DESCRIPTION:Raging Brass Reggae returns to Congress Square Park to kick off our Friday night events for the May First Friday Artwalk! This high energy 7-piece ska ensemble is sure to get you on your feet. \nRBR was formed in 2014 by trumpeter Marc Chillemi. This 7-piece brass band pays tribute to 1960s Jamaican Ska\, Rocksteady and Roots Reggae instrumentals. Created in South Portland\, Maine\, RBR includes trumpet\, trombone\, alto & tenor saxophones\, guitar\, tuba and drums. Featuring an all-star collection of musicians from Portland based bands Primo Cubano\, Rustic Overtones\, The Fogcutters Big Band\, Sly Chi\, and the Portland Rumba Project. \nRaging Brass Reggae has been a long time vision of Marc’s that has finally come to fruition. After hearing the music of the legendary Skatelites for the first time\, Marc knew he wanted to learn and play this music. \nMarc assembled a hand-pick horn section from Portland’s most inventive and soulful players. Using tuba instead of electric bass\, which is common in New Orleans music and brass bands from around the world\, the beginning of the RBR sound was in place. Marc calls this rhythmic foundation “T&D”. \nIn addition to the performance side of RBR\, there is an educational element. In 2014\, Marc was awarded a project grant by the Maine Arts Commission to start a pilot program to teach young music students about jazz improvisation and how to groove as a group through this Jamaican music and it’s history that lead to its invention. The program serves as an expansion to the existing methods used in public schools throughout the United States. Our goal is to inspire groups of horn players to explore and discover their own sound and style. Out of many one sound.
URL:http://congresssquarepark.org/event/553/
LOCATION:Congress Square Park\, Portland\, ME\, 04101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Swing Dance with Honky Tonk Heroes and Portland Swing Project
DESCRIPTION:Join the Friends of Congress Square Park and Portland Swing Project as we host another summer of swing dances to fantastic live music! We’re kicking off the season on May 11th with the talented Honky Tonk Heroes\, so bring a picnic dinner\, grab your dancing shoes and come join your friends in Congress Square Park.\n\nThe Honky Tonk Heroes dish out a blend of Juke-Joint swing\, Classic Country and Rock n’ Roll. Led by Jed Bresette\, this six-piece band provides bluesy melodies\, creamy-thick harmonies and uninhibited improvisation\, all supported by a rock-steady rhythm section. Featuring: Jon Cooper on Slide Steel\, Kyle Morgan on Lead Guitar\, Jake Hoffman on Bass\, Don Whitney on Drums and Pip Walter on Fiddle.\n\n\n \n\n\nPortland Swing Project is a local organization with a passion for swing music and dances of the 1920s to today. We teach\, dance\, perform and provide live and DJ’d swing music spanning a century to local venues. We’re also some of the friendliest people you’ll ever meet – we have a bunch of fun so come join us! For information on weekly classes and dances\, private lessons and special events\, check out www.portlandswingproject.com.
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LOCATION:Congress Square Park\, Portland\, ME\, 04101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dance,Meet,Music
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SUMMARY:Ballroom Latin Mix Night
DESCRIPTION:Ballroom Dance Portland is hosting our first outdoor social dance in Congress Square Park! New to Ballroom dancing? No problem! Owner Polina Kirillova and her professional partner John Nolan will be offering a mini-lesson to get you started! \nCome out and dance to our DJ spinning oldies as well as current hits as we Rumba\,Cha Cha\, Waltz\, Foxtrot and Tango the night away!We will have a Dance performances through out the night done by our professional dancers! \nBallroom Dance Portland is the premiere Ballroom Dance Studio in Southern Maine bringing weekly lessons\, monthly dances\, and seasonal showcases to our local arts scene.
URL:http://congresssquarepark.org/event/ballroom-latin-mix-night/
LOCATION:Congress Square Park\, Portland\, ME\, 04101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dance,Music
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SUMMARY:Woodshed Mystics
DESCRIPTION:The Woodshed Mystics feature upbeat ROOTS/ACOUSTIC\, spanning folk\, soft rock & adult alternative (from oldies to newer stuff) with lots of close harmony singing\, a hint of reggae\, a splash of calypso\, a dash of bluegrass\, maybe a riff of Bach\, and so on! \nThe DDREaM team = Dave Santillo\, Dan Koloski\, Robert Myers\, Ellie Osborn\, and Mike Berkowitz. \nWe play mostly soft rock 60s-present day\, upbeat covers and a few originals with a hint of roots/folk/pop and almost always 2-3 vocalists in close harmony with any combination of the following instruments: 2 guitars\, cello\, djembe\, cajon\, dumbek\, frame drum\, electric bass\, organ\, mandolin\, ukulele\, flute\, recorder\, and harmonica.
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LOCATION:Congress Square Park\, Portland\, ME\, 04101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Salsa in the Square with PM Salsa & Primo Cubano
DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss our sizzlin’ Salsa in the Square evenings with PM Salsa featuring Primo Cubano! ALL Level dancers wanted!  From 6:00-6:30 enjoy a free 1/2 hour beginner Salsa lesson with Wendy of PM SALSA\, followed by live music and dancing with Primo Cubano. Come dance the night away on the 4th Friday of the month. \nPM Salsa seeks to spread the joy\, creativity\, athleticism and passion that is brought about through salsa dancing and to grow a stronger community through dance. Wendy Edwards of PM Salsa believes the best part of salsa dancing is in seeing people come together in a positive\, healthy environment while celebrating people’s individuality. Her goal is to provide people with the foundation and tools for them to build on their own individual style. Her classes are fun and welcoming for all. \nPrimo Cubano plays traditional Cuban dance music dating back to the turn of the 20th Century.  Son is the most popular style to come out of Cuba and is the primary contributor to the blend of Latin styles today known as Salsa.  It was first a music of the country people and eventually migrated to Havana\, where it was urbanized and began to draw a wider audience. \nGuitarist Paul D’Alessio\, a simple-living country man himself\, came into contact with this music on a trip to Cuba in 2004 with the Brunswick-Trinidad Sister City Association\, a cooperative between Brunswick\, ME and the city of Trinidad\, Cuba.  He began learning to play Son music on a guitar-like instrument native to Cuba called the tres and subsequently formed Primo Cubano\, “Cuban Cousin”. \nTrumpeter Marc Chillemi has also spent time in Cuba and has played in various other Latin groups.  He also plays percussion and sings on the choruses\, or coros\, to which the lead singer\, or sonero responds with an improvised lyric. \nLenny Hatch has loved the congas since he first heard Mongo Santamaría play Watermelon\, and he has been playing them in addition to the bongó and other percussion instruments for over 20 years now. \nEric Winter has been singing all his life and began studying Spanish at the age of 12.  He has become particularly interested in Cuban music in the last few years.  Eric also plays maracas and is the newest addition to Primo Cubano. \nKeeping it all together is Duane Edwards on the bass fiddle. He is a graduate of the University of Maine at Augusta and plays in various groups in the area.  As a jazz student\, he took very quickly to the tumbao bass pattern that makes this music so danceable.
URL:http://congresssquarepark.org/event/salsa-square-primo-cubano/
LOCATION:Congress Square Park\, Portland\, ME\, 04101\, United States
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