RELEASE DATE: February 12, 2021
MAINE CONNECTION: The album was produced by Portland’s Jonathan Wyman who helms This Sounds Good. It was recorded at The Halo studio in Windham. What’s more, the latest single, “And So It Went” features nearly 30 students from the Maine Academy of Modern Music singing towards the end of the song. The Pretty Reckless is a rock HUGE band based technically out of New York City but in fact singer Taylor Momsen has been living in Maine for about seven years.
WHO: Andrew LaVogue
RELEASE DATE: January 15, 2021
NOTES: I owe a debt to Portland-based musician Andrew LaVogue for reminding me how instrumental music speaks its own language and can be just as captivating as music with words. LaVogue gets his message across using two types of guitars brilliantly layered with reverb and delay on his EP Surrounded by the Northern Lights, released on Jan. 15.
Fri, 12/18/2020 - 4:15pm
Display of books at Indigo Arts Alliance’s Beautiful Blackbird Children’s Book Festival. (Photo by Sijie Yuan/MaineCF)
Grants of up to $10,000 from Maine Community Foundation’s Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Fund are available to nonprofit programs or organizations that are led by, and serve, people of Native American, Latino, African, Arab, and Asian descent.
Grants focus on three areas: addressing health disparities, supporting youth, and improving economic opportunities.
The deadline for applications is February 15, 2021. The application, details of the grant program, and a list of recent grants are available at www.mainecf.org.