Ogunquit Chamber Music Festival celebrates its 15th year

Ogunquit Performing Arts is celebrating the crystal anniversary of its annual Chamber Music Festival with four concerts in two locations. The festival features live performances of works by Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Debussy and others, with nightly shows from Thursday to Sunday, June 11 to 14.

The first two concerts begin at 8 p.m. at the Dunaway Center on School Street. The Thursday night show features the New York-based Ambrosia Trio, with Beulah Cox on violin, Martin Fett on cello and Frank Daykin on piano. Formed in 1990, the trio has performed internationally and across the United States, recording two CDs along the way. Their performance will include works by composers Joseph Haydn, Felix Mendehlssohn and Joaquin Turina.

Topping the bill on Friday night is The Boston Chamber Music Society, with Thomas Hill on clarinet, Randall Hodgkinson on piano, and guest artist Sharan Leventhal on violin. The reduced trio will feature works by Igor Stravinsky, Franz Schubert, Darius Milhaud and Malcolm Arnold.

On Saturday, the festival shifts to the Barn Gallery at the corner of Shore Road and Bourne Lane. Maine’s own DaPont String Quartet will take the spotlight at 8 p.m. that night, featuring Kirsten Monke on viola, Ferdinand Liva and Lydia Forbes on violin, and Myles Jordan on cello. The quartet will perform works by Mozart, Thomas Adès and Claude Debussy.

The final concert begins at 5 p.m. on Sunday, when the Amaryllis Chamber Ensemble performs in the Barn Gallery. Formed in 2000, the group consists of Bonnie Cochran on flute, Melissa Bull on violin, Kate Marsch on cello, and Piper Runnion-Bareford on harp. The Boston-area ensemble, making its first appearance in Ogunquit, will perform works by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Carlos Salzedo, Arthur Foote and Francois Devienne.

The Dunaway Center is at 23 School St. and the Barn Gallery is at 1 Bourne Lane, both in Ogunquit, Maine. Tickets are $12 for each concert or $35 for all four, free for students age 18 and under. Tickets are available at the Dunaway Center, the Ogunquit Camera Shop, the Ogunquit Welcome Center or at the door. For more information, call 207-646-7236.

Kittery music series concludes with guitarist Bobby Keyes

The Kittery Art Association is drawing its seventh music series to a close with one of its most exciting acts to date, Boston-based guitar virtuoso Bobby Keyes. Keyes and his band will perform at First Congregational Church in Kittery Point, Maine, on Friday, June 12, at 7:30 p.m.

Keyes is an American roots guitarist equally versed in the genres of rhythm & blues, jazz, country, rock, pop and swing. Keyes simultaneously plays homage to other guitar greats like Les Paul, Chet Atkins and Django Reinhardt, while gearing his sound to a new generation of listeners. His live band, Bobby Keyes & Friends, is composed of a number of respected session musicians.

Doors open at 7 p.m. and seating is limited. There is a suggested donation of $15. First Congregational Church is at 23 Pepperrell Road, Kittery Point, Maine. For more information, call 207-439-5401.

RiverRun welcomes local and national acts

One of the Seacoast’s most familiar folk faces will join forces with acts from musical havens around the nation at RiverRun Bookstore on Friday, June 12. Portsmouth-based singer-songwriter Guy Capecelatro III will welcome Chicago artist Anna Vogelzang, Brooklyn-based cellist Emily Hope Price and Michigan singer-songwriter Annie Palmer at the Congress Street shop.

Guitarist and singer Vogelzang is in the midst of an East Coast tour with Price, an experimental cellist and folk singer-songwriter. Also a member of the trio Pearl and the Beard, Price will perform a solo set in Portsmouth, plucking and bowing the strings of her cello and tapping its body for percussive adornments. Vogelzang, a multi-instrumentalist also skilled on piano, glockenspiel, melodica and tambourine, will play as a duo with fiddler Joe Arnold. Palmer is an occasional member of area band Tiger Saw and other acts, as well as a solo Americana singer and guitarist.

The prolific Capecelatro is a regular RiverRun performer with a distinctive take on the indie-folk sound, characterized by evocative storytelling and emotive guitar work and vocals. “Holy crackers this will be fun,” he blogged on his MySpace page.

The show begins at 8 p.m. at RiverRun Bookstore, 20 Congress St., Portsmouth, 603-431-2100.