Carl Wockner’s Live-Looped Kindness Hits All the Right Notes in Bar Harbor

From Australia to the Annex, Wockner Builds a Musical Moment Carrie Jones Jul 24, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by the Bar Harbor Music Festival. BAR HARBOR—The stage at the Annex seemed barely big enough to hold solo, live-looping performer and songwriter Carl Wockner, Wednesday night. That had nothing to do with the stage’s size. It had everything to do with just how … Continue reading Carl Wockner’s Live-Looped Kindness Hits All the Right Notes in Bar Harbor

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Music Harbor Brings Music, Joy, and A Lot More During Marathon Weekend

And according to science, it’s bringing some emotion, too Carrie Jones Sep 21, 2024 BAR HARBOR—The posts started showing up on one social media account after another: an image of Mount Desert Island and in the middle? A guitar fretboard. “Music Harbor” was all it read. What exactly did the image mean? What was Music Harbor? And why was this image suddenly showing up everywhere? … Continue reading Music Harbor Brings Music, Joy, and A Lot More During Marathon Weekend

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Don’t Bring Tomatoes. Do Bring Cheer.

World-Renowned Improvisers Set to Barnstorm Bar Harbor CARRIE JONES JUL 25, 2024 Share This article was generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund. BAR HARBOR—In improv, there’s no script. There are no writers jotting down notes. There are no lines to remember. There is no stand-up routine memorized. There is absolutely no time to prepare. It’s just four men on the stage, thinking quick, … Continue reading Don’t Bring Tomatoes. Do Bring Cheer.

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Want to Understand What Community & Imagination Can Do? Head to the Theater

A Starry Cast and Devoted Crew bring ACT’s “Just So” to the Grand This Friday CARRIE JONES MAY 01, 2024 Share ELLSWORTH—Matt Cornish strides along the aisles of Ellsworth’s Grand Theater. He looks left. He looks right. He listens, leaning forward, as his cast crowds the stage, waiting for his instruction, his notes, his thoughts. “Theater is hard,” he tells his cast of over 40 … Continue reading Want to Understand What Community & Imagination Can Do? Head to the Theater

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Where’s the Party, Bar Harbor?

Bar Harbor After Dark CARRIE JONES JUL 2, 2023 BAR HARBOR—“Where’s the party?” The question was almost a mantra in old Bar Harbor, and by old, that just means the last 40 years, during the occasionally hedonistic, cocaine-driven 1980s until the 2010s. It’s still a question of extroverts looking for fun after dark in the tourist town by the ocean. It’s a question that’s answer … Continue reading Where’s the Party, Bar Harbor?

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