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WATERVILLE — The lineup for Waterville Rocks! now in its fourth year, has been announced.
The series of free and family-friendly outdoor concerts sponsored by Waterville Creates! will feature regional acts, including Enter the Haggis, The Mallett Brothers Band and Kat Wright.
The concerts take place in downtown’s Castonguay Square from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Fridays June 28, July 5, July 26 and Aug 2. Each show features two performers.
There is also a beer garden in front of The Proper Pig, with both food and drink for adults of age, and the Stone Fox Farm Creamery Food Truck for people of all ages. Waterville Rocks! is hosted by the Waterville Opera House and sponsored by local businesses, organizations and patrons of the arts. The series is designed to provide free cultural programming for the community and offer a new way to animate downtown Waterville. In the event of rain, all Waterville Rocks! concerts will be performed inside the Waterville Opera House.
Scheduled to perform are:
June 28 — The Mallett Brothers Band, an independent, nationally touring sextet with albums chock-full of crackling Americana, a foot-stomping patchwork of country, folk and rock and Hymn for Her, a duo that injects juiced-up backwoods country blues with desert rock psychedelia.
July 5 — Kat Wright, there’s soul flowing in and out of her rock ‘n’ roll with a serpentine seduction. She has been described as “a young Bonnie Raitt meets Amy Winehouse.” Also performing will be Katie Matzell, a Portland native with a voice that is “fierce and dazzling.”
July 26 — Tinsley Ellis, a six-string guitar virtuoso, and Cold Engines, which mixes soul, new wave, rock and dance.
Aug. 2 — Enter the Haggis – Toronto-based Indie Celtic Folk Rock band with appearances on “Live with Regis and Kelly,” and a PBS concert special that aired across multiple stations, and Tricky Britches – A country, contra-dance, bluegrass, rock string-band consisting of four friends from Maine who shape their music around experiences from places in the U.S. to Europe.
