Walking tall, dancing prove hits at WAW

Along Main Street, Wiscasset Thursday night, dancers’ feet were leaving the ground and coming back down, and a towering bird was walking around without touching the ground.

Dance Maineia from Waldoboro and the stilt walker from Connecticut-based Mortal Beasts and Deities were part of Wiscasset Art Walk. So were a Boothbay man and his guitar, and a Bowdoin College student with a book he wrote.

Boothbay’s Rick Turcotte played on his jumbo, handmade Collings guitar he said is like the old Gibsons, and is the best thing he has ever owned. He recalled wanting to buy the Austin, Texas-made instrument years ago at a Portland shop. He finally had the $2,500 to get it, the day before he moved to Austin, he said after playing and singing “Where did you come from?” Like most songs he performs, he wrote and composed it.

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