Hi Gang,

I am happy to announce that we are finally putting our old gal of a barn up. We have not had a proper lobby since we opened in 2006. It was always our intention to resurrect this 200 year old english frame and attach it by breezeway to the main hall, for a beautiful new lobby area where folks can come mingle before the show. But we ran out of funds and have been working with a tiny entry way, while people wait in line outside in the rain, the bugs, heat or snow....well that quaintness has worn off and we are getting this lobby up.

A "Barn Angel" gave us a financial jump-start, and many have already shown their support through donations of labor,time and supplies... but we need all the support we can get to complete this project.

The Story Begins ...

This short movie will show the original barn, the frame before it was taken down and the start of the raising project. Check back for updates.

Scott Campbell (Marlies's husband) of Maine Mountain Post and Beam has lovingly restored the frame of this beautiful antique barn for us. Under his old timey guidance, we had an old fashioned raising on Monday, May 31st while we had a rare lull in our schedule.

We will quickly move to close it in and finish the exterior and then work on the interior over the summer for a proper lobby. When completed, it will be connected to a breezeway that will empty into the main hall with little disruption. We hope to open our new lobby by our anniversary in August.

A more than lovable and supportive "Barn Angel" is helping us with some of the financing for this project and we will depend heavily on our friends once again to support us with their time and talents as we did when the first barn went up.  Russ Lanoie of Rural Home Technology helped to excavate the site, and besides his great stories he is a wiz with the back hoe. We cannot thank him enough...out of the blue, he just offered. I hope when you need a septic design or a driveway done you call him!!!  The Dashnaus of Snowville will be donating a pile of beautiful antique lights. Don is the one that restored and rigged up our big church lights for the main hall when we opened.

We are hoping we will have some sponsors come out of the woodwork so to speak to help with the heavy load of materials, but in the meantime, YOU can literally be in the woodwork!!!

Many of you already signed pegs that are now tucked away in this beautiful 200 year old frame. Lots more people wanted to "get pegged", but they missed out... so heare is another chance to be part of SMAC history.

Add your Signature and Brief Message to our Giant Guitar

Standing 70 inches high, our new handcrafted Giant Guitar is complete with stunning woodworking detail, turning pegs that work, strings.... everything you could want in a guitar, only giant! It is soooo beautiful. Geesh, you ask a guy in Brownfield to do something and it gets done. We have talented carpenter and our parking guru Dan Whalen to thank for this amazing piece to be hung in our new lobby.

Anyway, we are selling a limited amount of signatures for posterity for 100.00 each to help get this project done. You can place your order by calling the box office at 1-207-935-7292 or online by clicking the link below. Let us know if you'd like us to add your signature and message or you can place your order then sign the guitar during your next visit to SMAC.

Click here to Sign our Giant Guitar!

You can support this project while promoting your business to our ever-growing audience.

Reserve space for your business (sample left) which will be a 25 x 18 framed poster under glass to include your logo and business description. These posters will be hung in the breezeway connecting our new lobby with the Arts Center for one year.

The cost is $1000 (including production and framing provided by Edge of Maine Gallery!!!) for the whole year and we are taking advance reservations now to help pay for that Hall to Fame and a lot of extras for the Old Barn/New Lobby Project.

Please contact us at 1-207-935-7292 if you can help us finish the barn, and we can help you advertise!!! We are shooting for a lobby opening in August for our Anniversary show.