On Saturday, February 27 we had a unique Middle Eastern Night here at SPACE. The night began with an impressive performance by Alhan Middle Eastern Music Ensemble before picking things up with the high-energy music played by The Shavarsh Kef Ensemble. Both groups paid homage to the late master musician Alan Shavarsh Bardezbanian. Photos by [...]

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Originally billed as a show for Glenn Jones, the headliner had to cancel, but luckily we were still left with a great three-act bill, helmed by Arborea and with two of Maine’s most promising newer acts, Old Man Forest and Selbyville, supporting. Photos by Jon Donnell.

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On Saturday, February 13, we had our 4th Annual Dead Of Winter show. This experiment involves taking songwriters out of their element (bands) and seeing what they do on their own or with new collaborators. This year’s performers were José Ayerve (Spouse), Eric Schwan (Orchards), Randy Illian (Tin Ceilings), Jeremy Alexander (An Evening With), Aly [...]

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For one night only, the Tess Van Horn-directed new adaptation of Alfred Jarry’s classic surrealist play Ubu Roi was performed at SPACE. Check out the photos below by Dennis Stein’s and Jon Donnell!

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On February 1 we held two shows at SPACE. The first, an earlier, suggested-donation event with bands on the floor included Planets Around The Sun, Peace, Loving, Theodore Treehouse, and Prince Rama Of Ayodhya. The later show – for which much of the earlier crowd returned – was guitar virtuoso James Blackshaw and folk songwriter [...]

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On December 11, WCYY held their annual Class Of… show at SPACE. Eric Bettencourt, Grand Hotel, Holy Boys Danger Club, and Sun Gods In Exile played. Check out Jon Donnell’s photos below:

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As you may have heard, local musician and photographer Joshua Loring and SPACE Gallery were awarded a grant by the Maine Arts Commission to document the underground rock scene in Portland, Maine. The result of this project is a compilation cd (wonderfully mastered by Pete Nenortas) and book (lovingly designed by Sean Wilkinson) covering a [...]

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The Mumlers, photo by Bryan Bruchman
It’s been a very busy month at SPACE Gallery, and whether you’ve been around for all of our exciting events or just heard about them, this is your chance to relive them all in one great big post. Thanks so much to our volunteer photographers, Jon Donnell and Dennis Stein, [...]

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This show was so good that we had two photographers cover it. Fans lined up to get in as soon as doors opened, and the Atomik DJs got everybody moving while the room filled up. Arms And Sleepers laid out a lush aural landscape, complete with stellar projections. Headliners El Ten Eleven had the whole [...]

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Last night, SPACE was in listening room mode. Tables, candles, red wine, etc. It was a fitting break from this fog that’s been sitting on Portland for what seems like forever. Brooklyn post-experimental-chamber-punk group Zs (glad we got that out of the way) brought their short East Coast tour to Portland, obliterating any notion of [...]

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