Friday Dec. 7th, 2012, 5-7 pm

Please join us for an evening of chocolate tasting, browsing music, and conviviality on Friday, December 7th from 5-7pm. Dean’s Sweets, makers of delicious hand-dipped truffles and chocolate bars, and winner of a 2011 Best of Portland Award, will provide samples of their chocolates as the solo piano of Clayton Clemetson calms the mind to take in the Extravaganza of small artworks and crafts assembled for a localvore’s gift giving pleasure! Clayton’s original compositions will spice up the nooks and crannies and Dean’s Sweets will tantalize your taste buds at the tasting table with a sample or two of chocolate with flavors including; Brandy, Maple, Cayenne, and Salted Caramel truffles and chocolate bars including Brandied Orange Peel, Mocha Latte, and Maine Potato Chip. Yum.

We’ll be open Friday nights til 7pm for the month of December, and will close at 3pm on December 24th.

The Rockland based electronic/ambient duo “Algorithm” returns to the Aarhus Gallery in Belfast on Saturday, October 27 at 7pm. The group is comprised of Mike Whitehead, trumpet and fluglehorn, and Tom Luther on keyboards. The basic form of the group is supplemented by substantial use of electronic instruments, both live and sequenced. Both musicians are experienced jazz performers, and use their improvising skills in the context of modern electronica and ambient music.

“We’re truly an amalgam of several different approaches,” says Luther. “The idea of playing along with recorded material goes back to the early electronic music of the French musique concrete, while our sound is really more related to the work of Brian Eno and Jon Hassell in the 1970s. In one sense it’s really an extension of our jazz performance, but in another its a complete departure”. Both musicians compose for the group, and create the electronic textures that serve as the musical landscapes which they traverse during their performances.

Algorithm combines the fixed electronic backgrounds with live mixing and improvisation to make each performance unique, and infinitely variable. “It can get a little dicey managing the live performance with the manipulation of the technology, but it really adds a potent element to our performances,” says Luther.

Suggested donation $10, light refreshments will be served.

Friday, September 21, 2012 | 7:30pm
$12 Suggested Donation

Åarhus Gallery is excited to welcome back the nuanced raucous Balkan/Gypsy folk dance music and the multidimensional Yiddish celebration anthems of Cinder Conk, Friday, September 21st at 7:30.

The duo has shared the stage with such entities as Beat Circus, The Toughcats, Slavic Soul Party and has wowed a packed house at Åarhus Gallery during the First Annual Free Range Music Festival.

Though intrigued and inspired by the rousing traditions of Gypsy/Roma cultures and Eastern European folk music, Cinder Conk is wholeheartedly Midcoastian. Matthew Schreiber is a nimble fingered accordion activist and his own compositions are stunning and affecting achievements in Mathew’s commitment to promoting spiritual development through free-reed music. Xar Adelberg is an orthodox bullfiddle pilot committed to a musical revolution.

Suggested donation $12, light refreshments will be served.

Saturday June 23, 2012 at 7:30
$10 Suggested donation
Light refreshments

Åarhus Gallery is very happy to welcome back, the exceptional, William Pint and Felicia Dale, to once again dazzle and delight listeners with their masterful interpretations of music of the sea. Traditional and contemporary, evocative, moving and sometimes haunting, this Seattle-based duo will take the audience on a lyrical voyage around the world and ne’er will they long for home, as they sing along, hear the wind in the rigging, and pine for love in sultry harbors.

Along with Williams energetic guitar style and evocative voice, one of the attractions of their performances is Felicia’s hurdy-gurdy, an instrument whose origins date back to the 12th century (basically a hand cranked violin with a keyboard) which, in Felicia’s practiced hands, can gently roll like a deep sea swell, or wail like bagpipes and send you ‘round the briney Horn.

Dirty Linen Magazine says,
“William Pint and Felicia Dale rank among North America’s most exciting interpreters of music based in the traditions of the British Isles and France… unconventional but spine-tingling… unique and mesmerizing ”

Sing Out! Magazine says,
“…You won’t regret setting sail on a musical journey with Pint and Dale”

Pint and Dale have performed together around the world for over twenty years now, collecting songs from the British Isles, the coastal regions of France, the Canadian Maritimes and the U.S. Nine albums to date showcase their powerful harmonies and dramatic instrumental work including guitar, mandolin, fiddle, penny whistle, and hurdy-gurdy.

Come and share life at sea with them for a few spellbinding hours, Saturday June 23rd at 7:30pm. Suggested donation $10, refreshments will be served, and CD’s will be available for purchase.

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Saturday June 9, 2012 at 7:30
$8 suggested donation
Light refreshments

“Words and Music” is an evening of collaboration between four area poets and the electro-acoustic duo Algorithm. The wordsmiths for the evening are Ellen Sander, author of Back to the Garden and the blog Crackpot Chronicles, Lauren Murray, author of the recently publishedHear if You Dare, Joel Lipman, author of Chicago You Got A Wide Stance and professor at University of Toledo, and current Belfast Poet Laureat Jacob Fricke, and author of This Book of Poems You Found.

Algorithm is a new electro-acoustic duo comprised of Mike Whitehead, trumpet and fluglehorn, and Tom Luther, keyboards. The basic form of the group is supplemented by substantial use of electronic instruments, both live and sequenced. Both musicians are experienced jazz performers, and use their improvising skills in the context of modern electronica and ambient music. The music itself is an amalgam of improvised material and electronic soundscapes crafted by both performers.