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Music starts at 6:30pm, free

Patrick Corrigan, the artist currently featured in our gallery, had a good idea: free music and soup in the lobby of SPACE, lovingly transformed into a small venue by Corrigan. His new band with Seekonk buddy Dave Noyes, called Plains, will kick off the series which runs every Wednesday in July.
http://www.myspace.com/whattheplains

12pm and FREE at Post Office Part, on Middle St. between Exhange and Market Streets

SPACE is pleased to curate the Weekday Music Series with the Portland Downtown District. Kicking off the outdoor series, every Friday in July in Tommy's Park, is Chris Teret. Chris last graced our stage with his band, Company, but it's his solo set that really brings out the Americana in him, channeling the spirit of Woody Guthrie.
http://abandcalledcompany.com/christopherteret.htm

Doors open at 9:00pm, event starts at 9:30pm, $7, 18+
Buy tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com

Self-described as "Old timey riot music for dancing", The Can Kickers are a live trio from New London, Connecticut. The three-man group plays on washboards, banjos, fiddles, and one of the fellas yodels. Expect a hootin' good ol' night with fellow Connecticut band The Weird Bears and Phoenix BMP Best Roots Act winners The Toughcats.
http://www.cankickers.com/
http://www.toughcats.com/
http://www.myspace.com/theweirdbeards

Doors open at 9, music starts at 9:30, $7, 18+
Buy tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com

Miss Fairchild is a five-piece modern pop and soul band that’s been setting dance floors on fire! On a mission to put the K back in FUN, the band has been traveling the US and Canada in support of their sophomore release, “Ooh La La Sha Sha.” Miss Fairchild mixes the electricity of James Brown, the undeniable funk of Sly and the Family Stone, the New Jack sensibility of Bel Biv DeVoe and modern flavors. Opening set by rocket.one (wepushbuttons) and dance set by Sammy Bananas.
http://www.missfairchild.com/

Doors open at 6:00pm, talk starts at 6:30pm, free, All ages

Karyn Oliver was born in 1968 in Trinidad, raised in Brooklyn and educated at Dartmouth where she studied psychology and the Cranbrook Academy of Art where she studied ceramics. She mines subjects such as childhood play, furniture and billboards to explore complex psychological and cultural riches in the form of disorienting sculptures and installations. She currently teaches at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard.
http://www.dunnandbrown.com/exhibitions-art-olivier.html
http://www.meca.edu/newsevents/VisitingArtists.aspx

Music starts at 6:30pm, free

Galen Richmond (the Enchantments, Same Basic Bear) just returned from NYC's The Bent Festival, where his new glitchy analog pop tunes, derived from modified toys and keyboards, won him praise from the Village Voice. Tim Burns (Phantom Buffalo) calls himself The Red F when he plays on his own. It's your best chance to hear his beautiful voice over pop-oriented fingerpicking compositions.
http://www.myspace.com/computeratseamusic

12pm and FREE at Post Office Part, on Middle St. between Exhange and Market Streets

Chriss Sutherland is just as much a solo artist these days as he is a member of Portland all-stars Fire on Fire. His solo debut, “Me In a Field,” offers up songs that first appear folky and then develop into something freer and more exciting with strains of Spain and psychedelia in the mix.
http://www.myspace.com/chrisssutherland

Doors open at 9, music starts at 9:30, $8, 18+
Buy tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com

As members of the Elephant Six Collective, Ladybug Transistor brushes shoulders with bands like Of Montreal and The Apples in Stereo. The group relies heavily on melody and leadman Gary Olson's low voice to create their unique version of classic pop. Northampton's Winterpills open with a set of infectious yet melancholic  tunes. Local rising stars Gully begin the evening. Doors open at 9:00pm, event starts at 9:30pm, $8, 18+
http://www.theladybugtransistor.com/
http://www.winterpills.com

Doors open at 9:00pm, event starts at 9:30pm, $7, 18+
Buy tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com

Local indie legends Phantom Buffalo celebrate the release of their long-awaited next album entitled Take To The Trees. Described as The Beach Boys meets The Shins, the band creates their own version of pop music, tricked out with effects and guided by the gentle vocals of Jon Balzono-Brookes. Metal Feathers make their debut at SPACE to show us what happens when members of Cult Maze and Diamond Sharp get together. Good things is our guess. Portland's newest favorite band The Honey Clouds open the evening.
http://www.myspace.com/phantombuffalo
http://www.myspace.com/metalfeathers
http://www.myspace.com/honeyclouds

Doors open at 6:00pm, talk starts at 6:30pm, free, All ages

After years dedicated to painting, artist Amy Yoes has begun exploring multimedia environments in the form of otherworldly environments and idiosyncratic interiors created through photography, sculpture and video. A Village Voice critic described one of her installations as “a cross between a skateboard ramp and a fashion-show catwalk.”
http://www.amyyoes.com/
http://www.meca.edu/newsevents/VisitingArtists.aspx

Music starts at 6:30pm, free

Biddeford duo South China will someday not be referred to as 2/3rds of Brown Bird because the momentum of Jeremy and Jerusha Robinson's new project seems to be superceding the reputation of their well received Americana outfit. Expect cello, banjo, subtle guitar effects and beautiful harmonies. They'll then join the rotating cast of White Light for a psych-pop set featuring members of the L'Animaux Tryst collective.
http://www.myspace.com/southchinamusic

Doors open at 9, music starts at 9:30, $6, 18+
Buy tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com

What's better than an art opening? A non-opening. We re-celebrate Corrigan's gallery show with music from self-described "turbo folk micro-orchestra", French guitar-and-drums duo Vialka. There'll be one-night-only projections by Scott Spears and Kit Demos and then a performance by internationally renknowned sonic confabulator Crank Sturgeon. Local noise cooperative, bad bus, will finish the evening, probably by banging on something.
http://www.vialka.com/
http://www.cranksturgeon.com/
www.myspace.com/badbusmaine

12pm and FREE at Post Office Part, on Middle St. between Exhange and Market Streets

Over A Cardboard Sea mixes vaudevillian charm with a contemporary DIY ethos. Old Timey instrumentation is complemented with good jokes and bad jokes and giant puppets.
http://www.myspace.com/sailingoveracardboardsea

Doors open at 9:00pm, music begins at 9:30pm, $10, 18+
Buy tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com

Wisconsin's Bon Iver stole the show this winter when they opened for Black Mountain and couldn't wait to come back. Frontman Justin Vernon isolated himself in an old cabin for four months to write and record his latest album, For Emma, Forever Ago.  Singing in falsetto about past reflections and the natural surroundings while strumming acoustics, Bon Iver brings with them a set inspired by the cold wilderness to cool these hot summer days. The Bowerbirds make their Portland debut to open the night.
http://virb.com/boniver
http://www.bowerbirds.org

Doors open at 6:00pm, talk starts at 6:30pm, free, All ages

Nina Katchadourian spends a part of each year on a small island in the Finnish archipelago where she summered as a child. Her work exists in a wide variety of media including photography, sculpture, video and sound. Her projects include "The Mended Spiderweb" series, comprised of using red sewing thread to repair broken spiderwebs and "Natural Car Alarms," in which she replaced car alarms with similar ones made only of bird calls. She currently teaches sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design.
http://www.ninakatchadourian.com
http://www.meca.edu/newsevents/VisitingArtists.aspx

Doors open at 8:30pm, music begins at 9:00pm, $8, 18+
Buy tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com

San Francisco's Vetiver just released Things of the Past, a covers album feauring their major influences including Loudon Wainwright III and Bobby Charles. The band originally soared to popularity on the coattails of friends Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom but have proved they have a sound all their own. Northern Maine's bewitching troubadours Arborea and local freaker upstarts Saint Disaster start the night.
http://www.vetiverse.com/
http://www.myspace.com/arborea2
http://www.myspace.com/stdisastertheband  

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Music starts at 6:30pm, free

Who better to wrap up the Dog Day Afternoon series than the genre-defying, mind-bending musician known to the rest of us as Vince Nez? Vince is sure to pack in a set of surprise guests to help with his unique, playful songs, written on anything from an acoustic guitar to a trombone.

Doors open at 7, music starts at 7:30, $7, $5 for members, all ages
Buy tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com

This is the story of how well-intentioned Americans try to intervene in the life of an Iraqi and how nothing goes as planned. Actor Liev Schrieber, after seeing an MTV reality show clip, recruits Iraqi film student Muthana Mohmed to intern on his production of Everything Is Illuminated. Quickly though, intentions devolve into a complex, moral quagmire and an all-consuming power struggle between filmmaker and subject without a good exit strategy. Engaging, often comical, the film draws a subtly nuanced parallel to our current involvement in Iraq.
http://www.operationfilmmaker.com