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State Theatre Presents The Beths

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

The Beths return with “A Real Thing,” their first new song since the release of 2020’s Jump Rope Gazers. “A Real Thing” comes as The Beths begin their long-awaited North American headline tour, which has been rescheduled twice due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Last year, the band released Auckland, New Zealand, 2020, a live concert recording that showcased the infectious energy The ...

$20.00 – $25.00

Funky Monday with Gina & The Red-Eye Flight Crew

Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 day of show. Doors at 8:30 pm | Music starts at 9:30 pm. 21+ All of our tickets are paperless. Purchased tickets will be at will call at the door. All you need to do is arrive with your ID and enjoy the show!

Funky Monday with Gina & The Red-Eye Flight Crew

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Every Monday, all Summer! Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 day of show. Doors at 8:30 pm | Music starts at 9:30 pm. 21+ All of our tickets are paperless. Purchased tickets will be at will call at the door. All you need to do is arrive with your ID and enjoy the show! ——

$8.00 – $10.00

Dead Wednesdays with Maine Dead Project

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 day of show. Doors at 7:30 pm | Music starts at 8 pm. 21+ All of our tickets are paperless. Purchased tickets will be at will call at the door. All you need to do is arrive with your ID and enjoy the show!

$8.00 – $10.00

Steve Hofstetter

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Doors at 9 pm | Show starts at 9:30 pm Author, columnist, and comedian Steve Hofstetter is often called the hardest working man in show-business. With all due respect to the late James Brown. Hofstetter's national TV debut came on ESPN's Quite Frankly, where Stephen A. Smith yelled at him for three minutes. Hofstetter has also appeared on CBS' "Late ...

$25.00 – $50.00

Dead Wednesdays with Maine Dead Project

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 day of show. Doors at 7:30 pm | Music starts at 8 pm. 21+ All of our tickets are paperless. Purchased tickets will be at will call at the door. All you need to do is arrive with your ID and enjoy the show!

$8.00 – $10.00

Dylan Raw’s 24th Birthday Party

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS: CHRIZI JAMER, GRAFF, PAT DICK COMEDY, SPREGG, KID ANGEL, ROXX THE 96ER, LOC DAB, 1-800 ALBA, SUPERSTAR FREDDY, LOW PATCHO Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 day of show. Doors at 7 pm | Music starts at 8 pm. 21+ All of our tickets are paperless. Purchased tickets will be at will call at the door. ...

$15.00 – $20.00

Funky Monday with Gina & The Red-Eye Flight Crew

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Every Monday, all Summer! Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 day of show. Doors at 8:30 pm | Music starts at 9:30 pm. 21+ All of our tickets are paperless. Purchased tickets will be at will call at the door. All you need to do is arrive with your ID and enjoy the show! ——

$8.00 – $10.00

Dead Wednesdays with Maine Dead Project – Concert To Benefit Veterans

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 day of show. Doors at 7:30 pm | Music starts at 8 pm. 21+ All of our tickets are paperless. Purchased tickets will be at will call at the door. All you need to do is arrive with your ID and enjoy the show!

$8.00 – $10.00

State Theatre Presents ARLO McKINLEY

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

with special guest PALOMINO MOTEL In 2019, Arlo McKinley played a show at the High Watt in Nashville. While he had years of such gigs on the DIY singer-songwriter circuit behind him, this night was different. In the audience was one of his musical heroes, John Prine. When they met briefly beforehand, Prine, who never gave praise lightly, told Arlo ...

$15.00 – $20.00

State Theatre Presents ENTER THE HAGGIS

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

For the better part of two decades, Toronto’s Enter The Haggis has combined bagpipes and fiddles with a rock rhythm section to create a distinctively eclectic sound, praised by The Boston Globe, The Washington Post and Canada’s Globe and Mail.  Their songs offer singalong melodies and deep, meaningful lyrics which tell the stories of everyday hard working people, often faced with seemingly insurmountable challenges.  Signature songs ...

$30.00 – $35.00

Funky Monday with Gina & The Red-Eye Flight Crew

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 day of show. Doors at 8:30 pm | Music starts at 9:30 pm. 21+ All of our tickets are paperless. Purchased tickets will be at will call at the door. All you need to do is arrive with your ID and enjoy the show!

$8.00 – $10.00

State Theatre Presents THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

After finally being in the same room for the first time in six months, the Infamous Stringdusters seized the moment for their revealing new album, Toward the Fray. Inspired by self-reflection and a strong sense of solidarity, the project documents the Grammy Award-winning group’s remarkable growth as instrumentalists as well as songwriters. Released on their own label, Americana Vibes, the ...

$35.00 – $40.00

State Theatre Presents Tessa Violet

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Growing up an only child in a small town in Oregon, Tessa Violet always had a deep desire to create authentic connections with people. YouTube was the first platform which allowed her to foster those connections; as she grew up, and the platform evolved, it became a place for many budding musicians to flock. Now based in L.A.,Tessa, an independent artist blazing a ...

$25.00 – $30.00

Kendall Street Company + Frenzie

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Kendall Street Company is a jam-alt rock band based out of Charlottesville, Virginia. From late night jam sessions at the University of Virginia to main stages at venues and festivals throughout the country, Kendall Street Company has broken the mold of improvised rock and entered a world of jazz-grass infused psychedelic bliss. The band's musical style incorporates elements of jam, ...

$12.00 – $15.00

Rigometrics “Rig N’ Roll” Album Release Show

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

with special guest Jeff Beam Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 day of show. Doors at 8 pm | Music starts at 9 pm. 21+ All of our tickets are paperless. Purchased tickets will be at will call at the door. All you need to do is arrive with your ID and enjoy the show!

$15.00 – $20.00

The Rock and Roll Playhouse plays Music of Grateful Dead for Kids + More

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

The Rock and Roll Playhouse, a family concert series hosted at historic music venues across the country, allows kids to “move, play and sing while listening to works from the classic-rock canon” (NY Times). Performing songs created by the most iconic musicians in rock history, The Rock and Roll Playhouse band offers its core audience of families with children age ...

$15.00

Funky Monday with Gina & The Red-Eye Flight Crew

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 day of show. Doors at 8:30 pm | Music starts at 9:30 pm. 21+ All of our tickets are paperless. Purchased tickets will be at will call at the door. All you need to do is arrive with your ID and enjoy the show!

Free – $8.00

State Theatre Presents SUPERORGANISM

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

When the first Superorganism music was uploaded in 2017, the reaction was anything but tepid. The group’s in-your-face aesthetic — a post-everything mishmash of psychedelic indie pop and fizzy, funky electronica — quickly began to resonate; inaugural track “Something For Your M.I.N.D.” was co-signed by Frank Ocean less than a month after it popped up on Soundcloud. Early buzz sent ...

$20.00 – $25.00

Emily Bodley’s Farewell Party with Emily Bodley Quartet + Hambone + Yeahman

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 day of show. Doors at 7 pm | Music starts at 8 pm. 21+ All of our tickets are paperless. Purchased tickets will be at will call at the door. All you need to do is arrive with your ID and enjoy the show!

$12.00 – $15.00

In Your Honor – A Foo Fighters Tribute

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 day of show. Doors at 8 pm | Music starts at 9 pm. 21+ All of our tickets are paperless. Purchased tickets will be at will call at the door. All you need to do is arrive with your ID and enjoy the show!

$12.00 – $15.00

A Very Special Funky Monday benefitting Backline

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Come celebrate World Mental Health Day with a very special Funky Monday with Gina & The Red Eye Flight Crew. $5 of each ticket and $1 of each drink sold will be donated to Backline, a 501(c)(3) non-profit that connects music industry professionals and their families with mental health and wellness resources. Backline strives to build a safer and more ...

$15.00

Kick The Cat

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Based in Chicago and Nashville, Kick The Cat is an internationally renowned fusion quartet. Musically, the band falls within the virtuosic lineage of classic fusion and prog ensembles like Return to Forever and Weather Report but draws on contemporary groove elements, electronics, and a healthy dose of humor. The result is a heady, yet approachable, combination of mind-bending rhythms, harmonies, ...

$15.00 – $20.00

Coffee By Design Presents My Body, My Choice, My Vote: An Evening in Support of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Featuring Gina Alibrio & Friends, guests speakers, fabulous swag and merch, and voter registration.All proceeds to benefit Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. Tickets are $20 Doors at 7 pm | Show starts at 7:30 pm 16+ All of our tickets are paperless. Purchased tickets will be at will call at the door. All you need to do is arrive ...

$20.00

Shred is Dead

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Progressive high-octane performances of Grateful Dead & Jerry Garcia Band led by guitar & vocalist, Marcus Rezak. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 day of show. Doors at 8 pm | Music starts at 9 pm. 21+ All of our tickets are paperless. Purchased tickets will be at will call at the door. All you need to do is ...

$15.00 – $20.00

State Theatre Presents Blue Star Radiation

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Musical artists collaborate all the time.  We all can identify with that feeling when your favorite band invites a well known keyboardist, or killer guitarist on stage at a festival or show.  It is simply magical.   When renowned keyboardist Nate Wilson, band leader for Ghosts of Jupiter, and founding member of both Assembly of Dust, and Percy Hill, came to Moe.’s bassist ...

$20.00 – $25.00

The Unlikely Candidates with Nox Holloway & Kenzo Cregan

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

One listen to The Unlikely Candidates, and it’s clear that the Fort Worth, TX alternative rock mavericks create their own scene. One song vaults from stadium anthem into a piano ballad, while the next twists from syncopated singalong into a contemporary grunge-influenced pop song. Hailing from Texas, the boys immediately separated themselves since uniting in high school. Breaking from the ...

$15.00 – $20.00

An Evening With Zach Nugent & The JG3

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Zach Nugent, Cheryl Rucker, and Sunshine Garcia Becker spent almost 30 combined years on the road with JGB. Join them for this limited event featuring a Vermont all-star backing band, and the Jerry Garcia Band experience we’ve all come to know as ‘church’. Tickets are $17 in advance and $20 day of show. Doors at 8 pm | Music starts ...

$17.00 – $20.00

The Magic Beans with The Crowded Table

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Magic Beans have steadily built upon their national notoriety in a short period of time with a distinguishable sound that is uniquely their own. Hailing from Denver, the band’s combo of funk/soul/rock has quickly set themselves apart from the pack as one of the state’s premier acts. The Beans made their Red Rocks debut in April 2019 and have been ...

$15.00 – $20.00

Emo Night Portland

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 day of show. Doors at 8 pm | Music starts at 9 pm. 21+ All of our tickets are paperless. Purchased tickets will be at will call at the door. All you need to do is arrive with your ID and enjoy the show!

$12.00 – $15.00

Shut Down Brown + Mother Leopard

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 day of show. Doors at 8 pm | Music starts at 9 pm. 21+ All of our tickets are paperless. Purchased tickets will be at will call at the door. All you need to do is arrive with your ID and enjoy the show!

$10.00 – $15.00

The Rock and Roll Playhouse plays Music of Phish for Kids + More

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

The Rock and Roll Playhouse, a family concert series hosted at historic music venues across the country, allows kids to “move, play and sing while listening to works from the classic-rock canon” (NY Times). Performing songs created by the most iconic musicians in rock history, The Rock and Roll Playhouse band offers its core audience of families with children age ...

$15.00

Port City Peep Show Presents: Staying Alive!

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Port City Peep Show returns for a 7th annual Halloween burlesque and drag spectacular! A night that promises thrills & chills from a star studded cast showcasing Portland's finest established and emerging performers: Chartreuse Money, Cinnamon Maxxine, Creme de la Phlegm de la Femme, Cruzan Candy, El Ixir, Gigi Gabor, Kinky Slippers, Kitty Caboose, La Petite Mystique, Liza May, Minx ...

$15.00 – $20.00

The Red Eye Fright Crew presents The Funk of 40,000 Years – A Halloween Special

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 day of show. Doors at 8:30 pm | Music starts at 9:30 pm. 21+ All of our tickets are paperless. Purchased tickets will be at will call at the door. All you need to do is arrive with your ID and enjoy the show!

$15.00 – $20.00

El Grande with East End Redemption + Meanmugg

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 day of show. Doors at 8 pm | Music starts at 9 pm. 21+ All of our tickets are paperless. Purchased tickets will be at will call at the door. All you need to do is arrive with your ID and enjoy the show!

$10.00 – $12.00

All Roads & State Theatre Present Sarah Shook & the Disarmers

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

with special guest with Becca Biggs. North Carolina’s Sarah Shook sings with a conviction and hard honesty sorely lacking in much of today’s Americana landscape. Always passionate, at times profane, Sarah stalks/walks the line between vulnerable and menacing, her voice strong and uneasy, country classic but with contemporary, earthy tension. You can hear in her voice what’s she’s seen; world ...

$15.00 – $30.00

WinterKids’ License to Chill

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Celebrate our 11th Anniversary of License to Chill with a live auction on November 10th. Hosted by Coast 93.1’s Blake & Kelly, you will enjoy Allagash drink specials, live music with J.C. and The Elvis Experience, and a LIVE auction filled with amazing items! Purchase tickets here

portBowie – A Celebration of David Bowie

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Featuring a complete 50th anniversary live performance of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 day of show. Doors at 7 pm | Music starts at 8 pm. 21+ All of our tickets are paperless. Purchased tickets will be at will call at the door. All you need ...

$12.00 – $15.00

State Theatre Presents Letters To Cleo

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

with special guest THICK. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 day of show. Doors at 7 pm | Music starts at 8 pm. 21+ All of our tickets are paperless. Purchased tickets will be at will call at the door. All you need to do is arrive with your ID and enjoy the show!

$25.00

The Return of Lazy Lightning – Performing the Grateful Dead, Oxford, Maine 7/2/88

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Recreating the Grateful Dead’s 07.02.88 Oxford, Maine show in its entirety. Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 day of show. Doors at 8 pm | Music starts at 9 pm. 21+ All of our tickets are paperless. Purchased tickets will be at will call at the door. All you need to do is arrive with your ID and enjoy ...

$8.00 – $10.00

The State Theatre Presents LOVE BY NUMB3RS – Earth Needs a Moon Album Release Show

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

with very special guest King Kyote. For this next adventure, the evocatively titled Earth Needs A Moon, LBN whisks the listener beyond the stratosphere for some vintage psychedelia that lives firmly between the 1960s and 1970s. Stylistic signposts along the way include 1970s Stevie Wonder, Sgt.. Peppers-era Beatles, Betty Davis, Neil Young, James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Mickey Newbury’s “An American ...

$15.00 – $20.00

The Rock and Roll Playhouse plays Music of Talking Heads for Kids + More

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

The Rock and Roll Playhouse, a family concert series hosted at historic music venues across the country, allows kids to “move, play and sing while listening to works from the classic-rock canon” (NY Times). Performing songs created by the most iconic musicians in rock history, The Rock and Roll Playhouse band offers its core audience of families with children age ...

$15.00

Model Airplane’s Funksgiving

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 day of show. Doors at 8 pm | Music starts at 9 pm. 21+ All of our tickets are paperless. Purchased tickets will be at will call at the door. All you need to do is arrive with your ID and enjoy the show!

$20.00 – $25.00

Model Airplane’s Funksgiving

Portland House of Music 25 Temple St., Portland, ME, United States

Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 day of show. Doors at 8 pm | Music starts at 9 pm. 21+ All of our tickets are paperless. Purchased tickets will be at will call at the door. All you need to do is arrive with your ID and enjoy the show!

$20.00