The video of the Maine Pops Concert Band’s final 2025 summer performance at Scarborough Summerfest is now available for viewing through band’s YouTube channel. The performance capped off a seven-engagement concert series where the band performed publicly in Kennebunk, Scarborough, Portland, Bath, and Cape Elizabeth. It also conducted private performances in Scarborough and Portland.
“Our final performance was AMAZING!,” said Watts after the season-ending Scarborough performance. “When people holler and stand up after performances, you know you’ve made a connection. When you pull people in who just happened to be passing by, you know you’ve made a connection. When you see teenagers start dancing and singing along with your performance, you know you’ve made a connection. And that’s what we did in our final performance of the season.”
Music for the summer season included the following works:
• The Star-Spangled Banner,
• Eighties Flashback
• Light Cavalry Overture
• The Rakes of Mallow
• Seventy-Six Trombones
• Summer of ‘69
• An American in Paris
• Fuego del Alma
• Finlandia
• Galop
• (Back Home in) Indiana
• The Pathfinder of Panama
• Star Trek Symphonic Suite
• Three Celtic Dances
• Travellin’ Music
• The Stars and Stripes Forever
Many thanks to John Cranton and his team at Scarborough Community Access Television for recording the performance and providing a copy to the band.
The Maine Pops will resume rehearsals on Wednesday, September 3 and September 10 at Scarborough’s Ketcha Outdoors from 7 to 9 p.m. On September 17, the band resumes rehearsals at Scarborough High School in preparation for the annual Maine Pops fall concert slated for Sunday, November 2 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. at the Westbrook Performing Arts Center in Westbrook, Maine.
