[Harp-L] Re Maine

[Will Spear <will.spear@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Portland is a great town. Fairly year round unlike the rest of the state. Lot of great places to eat.   Great music and art scene. Reasonable blues/jazz and funk following. Some great venues in town for sound quality.  Couple fantastic venues for intimate shows. 

Harmonica is not represented heavily but there are a few players around. Couple of them are pretty solid and or great. 


As for a more in depth on venues my personal haunts. 

Portcity music hall. Great sound some times has great cheap shows. Winter brings on the 2 buck Tuesday's. 2 bands for 2 bucks. 2 buck beer. 

Empire. They get some great acts all over the spectrum of music. Generally not heavy acts. 

Big easy. Lot of funk, soul, blues, and hiphop. Sound is fair. Cover to cover night is fun. A local band covers a mainstream album front to back in one set then does a full set of originals. Could be any genre. 

Space gallery. Great venue plays a ton of great bands of any genre. Focuses on art heavily 

Genos. Metal and rock mostly some psycobilly. Loud dirty kind of place. Good if you like that sort of thing

One Longfellow. Great for singer songwriters American roots type music and blues. James Montgomery plays there a lot

Blue. Small venue plays a lot of extremely intimate shows. Blues, jazz, folk, Irish music.  Great spot they have live music almost every night no cover but they take tips for the acts. One of my favorite clubs

Aphodian. Back alley garage rarely has stuff but when they do it is a great venue.  Seedy place byob off the grid. Lot of work to find out if there is even a show.  

Ginkgo blue. Kind of a trendy spot for jazz and blues and drinks. Very small has music almost every night


State theater gets amazing touring shows from time to time. 

There are others but that is the lowdown on several. 






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