Irish ensemble, Motown show among March events at CCA
March events at the University of Maine Collins Center for the Arts will include “Peg + Cat Live!”, Irish and Motown music groups and more, all part of the 2018–19 season.
“Peg + Cat Live!” will be at 7 p.m. March 8. Based on the Emmy Award-winning PBS Kids show “Peg + Cat,” this musical features wild comedy and countless favorite songs from the show. On their adventure to solve a problem, Peg and Cat will need math — bar graphs, size comparison, position words, fair sharing and a lot of counting. They also will need to count on each other, and the audience, too. Free tickets will be available for all children who attend the show with at least one paying adult.
Hailing from counties Waterford, Dublin, Donegal and Cork, Danú will give a high-energy performance mixing ancient Irish music and new repertoire at 4 p.m. March 10. Danú is one of the leading traditional Irish ensembles of today. For more than two decades, the group’s virtuosi players on flute, tin whistle, fiddle, button accordion, bouzouki and vocals — in Irish and English — have performed around the globe and recorded seven critically acclaimed albums. Danú takes its audiences on a musical journey to the members’ native Ireland, offering a moving and memorable concert experience.
The Four Tops and The Temptations will perform at 7 p.m. March 14. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers bring the 1960s Motown sound they helped define and shape to Maine for a soulful, dynamic show.
Russian National Ballet will perform “The Sleeping Beauty” at 7 p.m. March 20. “The Sleeping Beauty” was first performed at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in 1890, and the score by Pyotr Tchaikovsky was completed in 1889. Based on Charles Perrault’s “La belle au bois dormant,” the work has become one of the classical repertoire’s most famous ballets.
Dreamers’ Circus, a Nordic band consisting of Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen, Ale Carr and Nikolaj Busk, will perform at 3 p.m. March 31 in Minsky Recital Hall. The trio met by chance in 2009 during a folk festival in Copenhagen, and ended up playing folk tunes together all night long. “We are on an exciting journey and we are looking forward to meeting all of you in your neighborhood, wherever it might be,” say the ensemble’s members.
To view the full season schedule, request a reasonable accommodation or purchase tickets, visit the CCA website.