Hailing from as far away as Waterford and as close as Denmark, 2^nd String comes off the bench to deliver a high-impact, low-carbon footprint show at the Arts Center. The group entertains with a mixture of pop, rock, bluegrass, and originals along with a healthy dash of self-deprecation and witty banter. When not working their day jobs, these self-proclaimed Wordle and Heardle masters get together to play ear candy songs a different way each time. Band members regularly switch up vocals and genres, and with a trumpet or fiddle often covering leads, you never know what is coming next. While they may not always agree on who is singing what, 2^nd String does promise concert-goers a good time!

2nd String is comprised of Colin Holme, Justin Ward, Ben Peierls, Mark Priola, and Beth Perron.

Join Red Hot & Ladylike Burlesque at the DAC! 21+ show

Red Hot and Ladylike performed last fall in NYC. Are you ready for a night of Broadway Style Burlesque? Experience the excitement, wild energy, and nonstop fun of this unforgettable show leaving some things to the imagination!

Maine Blacksmith Guild in the park, inside DAC will be:

ages: 5-10 Kids Kraft Building

ages: 10+ Customized Tshirt making

ages: 10+ Sewing Your Way Home

Students will learn to hand mold a variety of pieces. You can make many items for yourself or gifts for the holidays. Classes are taught by Kathy Banks, who is passionate about pottery and loves to share that joy with learners of all skill levels.

Waylon Jennings is the original country music outlaw.  He was unfiltered, raw and gritty, which was something that wasn’t mainstream during his time. Join us for a crazy good time!

Craig Bryan Jr. - Drums, Don Walden - Bass, Jarod Taylor - Guitar, Ken "Swampdog" Dyer - Vocals / Guitar

This is a free fall family fun program supported with grants from Onion Foundation, The Betterment Fund & Town of Denmark. Get ready to spin, twirl, and dance with hula hoops!  In this workshop we will cover some beginner friendly hula hooping tricks as well as the fundamental pieces of circus style hula hooping!

AND Let’s make a rainbow! Here children will learn a fun and rhythmic dance choreographed by the Nevaeh Dance Circus!

POSTPONED - stay tuned to this event page for a schedule change different from Sunday September 27

Write Yourself Home: A Creative Guide for Living Well in the Body You Have Through Embodied Writing and Movement Practice. Equal parts compelling story and transformative guide, the bookis a radical invitation to come home to your body—finding safety, joy, and connection, exactly as you are.

FALLFEST AUCTION & DINNER SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 4-7PM

Please join us INSIDE for a fall evening of fun, food, friends, music, and bidding at FallFest, our annual silent auction and fundraiser for the Denmark Arts Center featuring the Free Range band!

A poetry/music collaboration created April 2025.  The program includes some pieces which have a strong blues jazz element. There are a few pieces that are contrapuntal readings - with multiple voices - including one by the Canadian poet, Robert Bringhurst.  Several of the pieces are duo or trio performances with two pieces involving all performers.

Al Hospers & Friends, featuring Mike Sakash, Jarrod Taylor, Tom Robinson and Tim Gilmore They play an eclectic mix of cover tunes, unique arrangements of instantly recognizable favorites as well as original songs that audiences have come to enjoy.  Their jams are legendary in the Mount Washington Valley and beyond…

Join us for Melodies and Munchkins, 90 minutes of pure musical joy, fun, movement, singing and instrument play 45min of the music/movement class, 30min art project and a 15min circle time music to wind down all guided by music educator Riley Waygood.

The Coopers are bringing back their popular and ever so fun Open Mic Night. A family community open mic for poets, comedians, musicians, storytellers and more.

FREE BAROQUE & LUTE CONCERT with Philippa Dunne 2026

An Italian Baroque composer follows his lass to Scotland. Theorist and lutenist Vincenzo Galilei, Galileo’s father, experiments with string lengths and pitches in his basement. The oud lands in Hispania, gains a string, and eventually finds its way into the hands of the trouvères.

“Into the Woods” explores Maine's influence on my artwork, highlighting nature's interconnectedness and our place within it, through expressive landscape and figurative paintings that evoke a sense of time and place in solitude. Food and beverages, compliments of Hannaford & National Distributors. Judy’s show will run from 9/5-10/17/26

Join us for Melodies and Munchkins, 90 minutes of pure musical joy, fun, movement, singing and instrument play 45min of the music/movement class, 30min art project and a 15min circle time music to wind down all guided by music educator Riley Waygood.

Seth Gallant grew up in a mill town in rural Western Maine to a family that played music on the front porch at almost any occasion. These traditions of folk, country, and Acadian music would shape the songs he writes and performs today. He is accompanied by the group, Rough Sawn, who have been performing together since 2015.

Rough Sawn is a Maine-based acoustic bluegrass quartet known for playing a mix of bluegrass, Western swing, and old favorites. Acoustic Country / Bluegrass. The band has featured father and son Nick and Ben Whatley, along with Seth Gallant and Steve Frens.  A "talented bluegrassy quartet" that performs both original songs and traditional tunes with essence of roots and folk.

A cd release party for “Live in Cotuit” their 2nd release on the Verdict music label and ninth overall and celebrating all year long! Copies available for sale.

New England Blues Legend Bruce Marshall formed the BRUCE MARSHALL GROUP in 1991. They have been recording and performing steadily all over New England since their inception. Bruce has shared the stage with over 200 national acts, was a former member of The Toy Caldwell Band (formed from members of Marshall Tucker) and toured with Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Outlaws and Charlie Daniels. His 4-man band takes their listeners on a soaring ride through their 6 CD's in addition to putting out a healthy dose of Toy Caldwell songs from the Marshall Tucker catalog. The 2-guitar attack of Bruce Marshall and guitar ace Dave Cournoyer is one of the best in the biz and has been going strong since 1994. The band's rhythm section is anchored by Pete Premo on drums and Andrew Renault on bass.

WE WILL SEE YOU BLEED. “We Will See You Bleed is a thriller in the best sense. You can’t put the damn thing down, and the story of these down-and-outs fighting the powers that be will stay with you a long time. Solid-gold guarantee.” —Stephen King

PARK SERIES: YARD SAUCE SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 7PM. YARD SAUCE is a Maine-based, acoustic string trio featuring Chris Moore (mandolins and vocals), Jeff Christmas (guitar and vocals) and Callie Brennan (fiddle and vocals). Their dynamic live performances draw from the group’s eclectic musical tastes, diverse regional traditional music influences, and a deep catalog of original songs. Old-time, bluegrass, country and world folk traditions (including traditional Shaker music) are all part of the mix in every live set. The trio trades off on lead vocal and harmony duties, delivering arrangements of traditional and original tunes with their distinctive, down-to-earth authenticity combined with virtuosic instrumental skills.

Fun for everyone at Bicentennial Park!

DAM JAM REVIVAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2026 2-7PM More family fun than ever! Our outdoor festival focuses on family with kid’s art, stilt-walkers, traditional craft artisans, good music-as always, and fun selection of food trucks! 2-7pm. 12 and under Free-accompanied by an adult

The WMWV Song Of The Year WINNER will open our outdoor family art & music festival followed by the beloved BOLD RILEY and our 2026 headliner COLD CHOCOLATE

The Coopers are bringing back their popular and ever so fun Open Mic Night. A family community open mic for poets, comedians, musicians, storytellers and more.

Lights Out! We're coming to Denmark! Join Phil West and the Lights Out! crew for an unforgettable night that you can't stop laughing about. We're pulling out all the stops to make the Barn Swallow Theatre's featured late-night talk show accessible to all in Denmark Art Center's beautiful venue. Special guests (TBA), live music, and sketch comedy all wrangled together with Phil's quirky sense of humor.

Heart the Lover by Lily Kingis a 2025 novel (companion to Writers & Lovers) centering on a young, unnamed college writer who becomes entangled in a intense love triangle with two friends, Sam and Yash, in the 1980s. It explores the lasting impact of youthful,, often reckless choices on love, friendship, and ambition, following these characters into middle age and dealing with loss and redemption.

Black Cat Road is back, doing what they do best … rocking the house down. Who loves you BCR … Denmark Arts Center! If you believe in black cats, walk under ladders, or stronger, Voodoo, then you’re good at Black Cat Road. Swamp rock & blues, rootsy, funk, and soul coming your way.

Denmark Historical Society & Arts Center welcomes Rita Parisi of Waterfall Productions for a powerful solo theatrical performance of Women of ’76 — a journey into the lives of the real women who witnessed, chronicled, and in some cases changed the course of the Revolution.

An interpretation of the classic story, “Mirett on the High Wire” set to original music composed by artistic director, Eliot Bailen. Rotholz will narrate the story and be accompanied by Bailen on cello.

Musical Theater campers, directed by Mary Bastoni-Rebmann, will perform their piece (photo credit: Stephanie Hasselbeck).

Factory Town

"We're machines, kiddo. Humans can go to rusting therapy, or drink coffee, or get dogs. The best thing we can hope for is better data storage."

Jordie lives a normal life: an android stealing from the human world for a secret underground factory, observing the eccentric friends with whom he shares a hive mind. Everything changes when his team encounters Tien, a rogue android secretly bargaining with aliens for a new world order. A runaway now living as a wealthy human in Worcester, Massachusetts, Tien is a threat to the factory and its inhabitants. Sent after him, Jordie is faced with uncomfortable truths about connection, isolation, and coffee with pepper. Factory Town, with its cast of lovable androids, turns a winking eye on humanity, with humor, dark honesty, and gloriously obscure references.

Mad Agnes Saturday, July 18 at 7pm 2026

Mad Agnes who has won hearts on two continents. The trio uses primarily one microphone around which they form and re-form, early-radio style. Their ease with one another on stage invites the audience into their world of human connection and spontaneous fun. Well-crafted instrumentation – using guitars, mandolin, ukulele, piano, melodica, an inventive keyboard and three-part harmonies as tight as jeans from the dryer – enthralls audiences again and again.