Kent County Arts and Entertainment Events- September 2019

August 23 – September 8, 2019
Directed by Bonnie Hill

Director Bonnie Hill brings the contemporary piece, Circle Mirror Transformation to the stage in August. Playwright Annie Baker weaves the tale of four lost New Englanders who enroll in a six-week-long community-center drama class. While they experiment with harmless games, hearts are quietly torn apart and tiny wars of epic proportions are waged and won. A beautifully crafted diorama, a petri dish in which we see (with hilarious detail and clarity) the antic sadness of a motley quintet. Fridays and Saturdays 8 p.m. Sundays 2 p.m.

Please note the new Mainstay Monday pricing effective May 27, 2019:$10 online in advance, $12 at the door.

Join us for another Mainstay Monday!These eclectic evenings happen every Monday night and are hosted by our own Joe Holt at the piano. Partnering with a special guest. Each week is a unique, one of a kind show. Seating is casual and tables are available (bring your own dinner, if you like) along with a cash bar. Doors open at 6:30 pm with the show starting at 7:00.

Rebecca Makkai is the Chicago-based author of the novels The Great Believers, The Hundred-Year House, and The Borrower, as well as the short story collection Music for Wartime. Her short fiction won a 2017 Pushcart Prize, and was chosen for The Best American Short Stories for four consecutive years (2008-2011). The recipient of a 2014 NEA fellowship, Makkai is on the MFA faculties of Sierra Nevada College and Northwestern University, and she is the Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago.

Tim Robson and Cary Ebli - more information will be added closer to the time of the concert

The idea of working in series or in distinct purposeful directions is not about repetition but rather about being able to explore, investigate, examine or address ideas, themes, issues, compositions, concepts or topics in progressively deeper and more meaningful ways, and from a greater variety of perspectives than is possible by making just one or two.
Come in to explore the connections the artists have made with their series of work.
Exhibit on display from September 6 - 29, 2019
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday-Friday, 11:00 am - 5:30 pm
Saturday, 10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Sunday, 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Tim Robinson, organist, returns for a program of organ and Horn music with Cary Ebli, English Hornist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Featuring work by Vicco von Voss ,Grace Mitchell, Simma Liebman, Patrick Henry, Joe Dickey, Paula Shalan, Eve Stockton, Katherine Cox, Heidi Fowler, Linda Richards, Stuart Cawley, Mark Gardner, Takashi Icihara, Vanna Ramirez, Lindsay Mullen, Lisa Lebofsky, Zemma Mastin White, Marcy Dunn Ramsey, Emily Kalwaitis and special guests.

First Annual Charllie Joiner Memorial Decoy show honoring the late Charlie Joiner, native of Betterton & Chestertown Md. and a world renowned Decoy carver from Kent County Maryland.. We are expecting close to 100 Vendors for this one day event that will include new decoys, old decoys, antique fishing lures, shell boxes, oyster cans, fishing and hunting licenses and much more. Proceeds from this event will benefit the Charlie Joiner/Charlie Bryan Investment Account at the Havre de Grace Decoy Museum. Admission is just $5.00. Come out and support this legendary art to our area from the past and in the future. A great day for the family.

The Mainstay Blues Series welcomes guitarist Eleanor Ellis! $20 online, $25 at the door/by phone reservation. ELEANOR ELLIS, a native of Louisiana, has performed at clubs, festivals and concerts in the United States, Canada and Europe. She has also traveled and played with the late gospel street singer Flora Molton and bluesman Archie Edwards, and sometimes accompanied Delta Blues great Eugene Powell. She is a founding member of the DC Blues Society and the Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation.

lease note the new Mainstay Monday pricing effective May 27, 2019:$10 online in advance, $12 at the door.

Join us for another Mainstay Monday! These eclectic evenings happen every Monday night and are hosted by our own Joe Holt at the piano. Partnering with a special guest. Each week is a unique, one of a kind show. Seating is casual and tables are available (bring your own dinner, if you like) along with a cash bar. Doors open at 6:30 pm with the show starting at 7:00.

The Mainstay hosts the first night of the Chestertown Jazz Festival with Philly sax legend Larry McKenna! $25 online and $30 door/phone.
One of the world’s finest jazz saxophone players, Larry McKenna is known for his gorgeous tenor saxophone sound, the beauty of his balladry, and his fluid, bebop-inspired improvisations. After six decades in his profession, his international reputation as both a masterful jazz improviser and educator is firmly established.

Rebecca Luker’s Broadway roles include Helen in FUN HOME. CINDERELLA’S Fairy Godmother, Marie. Winifred in the original Broadway production of MARY POPPINS (Tony Award nomination), Claudia Nardi in NINE opposite Antonio Banderas, Marian Paroo in THE MUSIC MAN (Tony Award nomination, Drama Desk Award nomination & Outer Critics Circle Award nomination), Maria in THE SOUND OF MUSIC (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination); Magnolia in SHOWBOAT (Tony Award nomination), Lily in THE SECRET GARDEN (Drama Desk Nomination); Christine in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. With the New York City Opera Ms. Luker was featured in X (THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MALCOLM X) and was Fiona in BRIGADOON. Off-Broadway she starred in Maury Yeston’s DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY – Outer Critics Circle nomination (Roundabout, 2011), the world premiere of A.R.Gurney’s INDIAN BLOOD (Primary Stages), CAN’T LET GO (Keen Company) and THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES

Our 2019 Lineup
Alicia Olataju, headliner
Gregor Huebner
Greg Thompkins Quintet
WC Jazz Combo

Please note the new Mainstay Monday pricing effective May 27, 2019: $10 online in advance, $12 at the door.

Join us for another Mainstay Monday! These eclectic evenings happen every Monday night and are hosted by our own Joe Holt at the piano, partnering with a special guest. Each week is a unique, one of a kind show. Seating is casual and tables are available (bring your own dinner, if you like), along with a cash bar. Doors open at 6:30 pm with the show starting at 7:00.

International Ukulele star debuts at The Mainstay! $25 online and $30 phone/door
Vox is an 'ukulele-toting award-winning songwriter and performer. With a passion for songwriting since she was 10, (first on keyboard, then on guitar), she studied at the Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA) and in 2003, she took up the ukulele as her main accompaniment. Since the release of her first ukulele album in 2006 (... and her Jumping Flea), Vox has been one of the leading songwriters on the ukulele scene (Ukulele Magazine, front cover + feature article).

This year's concert series begins with The Bratcher Project. Led by bassist Vaughn Bratcher, the group provides an experience that fuses the rhythmic grooves of R&B with the harmonic, melodic & improvisational properties associated with traditional Jazz. We hope you'll join us to welcome The Bratcher Project back to the Sumner Stage!

lease note the new Mainstay Monday pricing effective May 27, 2019:$10 online in advance, $12 at the door.

Join us for another Mainstay Monday!These eclectic evenings happen every Monday night and are hosted by our own Joe Holt at the piano. Partnering with a special guest. Each week is a unique, one of a kind show. Seating is casual and tables are available (bring your own dinner, if you like) along with a cash bar. Doors open at 6:30 pm with the show starting at 7:00.

Reckoning, Billy Price’s new Vizztone release, can stand tall among the soul classics of the past. Robert Feuer, Living Blues

2016 Blues Music Award Winner Billy Price first attracted national attention during his three-year association with guitarist Roy Buchanan. Price is the vocalist on two of Buchanan's LPs, That's What I'm Here For and Live Stock. Since then, with the Keystone Rhythm Band, the Billy Price Band, and solo projects, Billy Price has recorded and released a total of 16 albums, CDs, and DVDs.

Please note the new Mainstay Monday pricing effective May 27, 2019:$10 online in advance, $12 at the door.

Join us for another Mainstay Monday!These eclectic evenings happen every Monday night and are hosted by our own Joe Holt at the piano. Partnering with a special guest. Each week is a unique, one of a kind show. Seating is casual and tables are available (bring your own dinner, if you like) along with a cash bar. Doors open at 6:30 pm with the show starting at 7:00.