We have cornhole boards set up in our taproom each Monday for some good old fashioned bag tossin’. Winning teams stay on as long as they keep winning – and feel free to bring your own food as our Kitchen isn’t open on Mondays at this time.
Currently featuring $2 Maine Oysters, $5 Local Drafts, $5 Rotating Bottles/Cans and $10 Rose by The Glass
Monday, May 29 will be the first “Acoustic Monday,” starting at 1 PM for the holiday. Kris Hype and Andi Fawcett will be on rotation every Monday throughout the summer, 5 PM – 8 PM.
Happy Hour includes $10 cocktails, $9 Aperol Sprits, and $7 house wine
happy hour w/ deals on cocktails and pies!
performances. Celebrating the imaginative and the
weird. Inclusive, intersectional, and unafraid.
2023 Venues
Aikido of Maine
Belleflower Brewing (PortFringe Central)
Blue Lobster Urban Winery
Coffee By Design
Hi-Fidelity Brewing
Maine Studio Works
Mayo Street Arts
Salud Portland
Tandem Coffee
Three of Strong Spirits (Late Night Venue)
2023 Artists
Jesse Ward // Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Tandem Theatre Collective // Portland, ME
The Duchess Carpathia Bouffray // Kaftanada (a small European nation)
Chimera Theatre Collective // Scarborough, ME
Business Pants Corporate Theater // Portland, ME
Slugfest / Michael Galligan // Brooklyn, NY
The Triple Ampersand // Portland, ME
Sampson Spadafore // Syracuse, NY
Sam Atwood and Kings Floyd // Atlantis
Hey Party People! // Portland, ME
Adelyn Bell // New Gloucester, ME
Polyphonic Theatre Ensemble // Portland, ME
Joe Quinn // Portland, ME
Nora Daly // Portland, ME
Elliot Nye // Portland, ME
GenZ // Portland, ME
Elizabeth Lardie // Portland, ME
Orthogonal Arts // Portland, ME
Russell Kaback // Portland, ME
Gwen Coburn // Boston, MA
Lou Sydel // NYC
Crusty Old Broads // Portland, ME
Every Monday we host trivia with Hardly Trivial – starts at 5:30.
Free to play. Gift cards for first and second place!
Join us!
INCLUDES:
15 REGULAR CARDS
18 EARLY BIRDS
15 WINNER TAKE ALL
1 SPECIAL COVERALL
Danielle Dior Trivia Galore
Hosted by “the Queen Double-D”!
Every Monday & Wednesday
7:00 PM
$5 to play – the winner takes the pot!
Acoustic guitarist Leo Kottke was born in Athens, Georgia, but left town after a year and a half. Raised in 12 different states, he absorbed a variety of musical influences as a child, flirting with both violin and trombone, before abandoning Stravinsky for the guitar at age 11.
After adding a love for the country-blues of Mississippi John Hurt to the music of John Phillip Sousa and Preston Epps, Kottke joined the Navy underage, to be underwater, and eventually lost some hearing shooting at lightbulbs in the Atlantic while serving on the USS Halfbeak, a diesel submarine.
Kottke had previously entered college at the U of Missouri, dropping out after a year to hitchhike across the country to South Carolina, then to New London and into the Navy, with his twelve string. “The trip was not something I enjoyed,” he has said, “I was broke and met too many interesting people.”
Discharged in 1964, he settled in the Twin Cities area and became a fixture at Minneapolis’ Scholar Coffeehouse, which had been home to Bob Dylan and John Koerner. He issued his 1968 recording debut LP Twelve String Blues, recorded on a Viking quarter-inch tape recorder, for the Scholar’s tiny Oblivion label. (The label released one other LP by The Langston Hughes Memorial Eclectic Jazz Band.)
After sending tapes to guitarist John Fahey, Kottke was signed to Fahey’s Takoma label, releasing what has come to be called the Armadillo record. Fahey and his manager Denny Bruce soon secured a production deal for Kottke with Capitol Records.
Kottke’s 1971 major-label debut, “Mudlark,” positioned him somewhat uneasily in the singer/songwriter vein, despite his own wishes to remain an instrumental performer. Still, despite arguments with label heads as well as with Bruce, Kottke flourished during his tenure on Capitol, as records like 1972’s “Greenhouse” and 1973’s live “My Feet Are Smiling” and “Ice Water” found him branching out with guest musicians and honing his guitar technique.
With 1975’s Chewing Pine, Kottke reached the U.S. Top 30 for the second time; he also gained an international following thanks to his continuing tours in Europe and Australia.
His collaboration with Phish bassist Mike Gordon, “Clone,” caught audiences’ attention in 2002. Kottke and Gordon followed with a recording in the Bahamas called “Sixty Six Steps,” produced by Leo’s old friend and Prince producer David Z.
Kottke has been awarded two Grammy nominations; a Doctorate in Music Performance by the Peck School of Music at the U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; and a Certificate of Significant Achievement in Not Playing the Trombone from the U of Texas at Brownsville with Texas Southmost College.