This Week in Bath Maine

Fresh pasta, gelato, and fashion—what else comes to mind when you think of Italy? Delicious wine! This special event will feature wines with Scott Hudson from Winebow not usually available at our tasting events. Don't miss this once-in-a-twenty-year event!  Our wine tastings are free, informal, and open to the public. We provide light appetizers. Must be […]

Saturday March 28: The Market will be open; we've moved early to our Waterfront Park location, allowing easier compliance with CDC and Maine Dept. of Agriculture guidelines, be aware that music, food sampling & brewed coffee are not available; please honor the 6 foot social distance fguidelines, and don't pla to consume food at the […]

Celebrate mud season in style at this premiere fundraising event benefiting the Chocolate Church Arts Center. What is Mud Boots & Black Tie Gala? Gala? Yes. Mud Boots? Yes. Building community to support the Chocolate Church? Definitely! Supporters will open their homes to host dinner parties throughout the region. Community is at the core of […]

Join us for candlelight, beautiful chants with live guitar, thoughtful readings, and meditative silence in our upstairs chapel. 2nd Wednesdays through Spring 2020 at 6:30pm. All Welcome

Join us for our monthly wine tasting on the second Thursday of every month. Our tastings are FREE, and there is no need to sign-up. We provide light appetizers and tasting notes.

Eric Jergensen, Assistant Professor of Marine Transportation at Maine Maritime Academy, shares his knowledge of navigation on board the historic arctic schooner, Bowdoin, with new generation of students. Eric will share Bowdoin’s history in the icy arctic and the vessel’s present role as an educational classroom.

Saturday March 21:   the Market will be open.   We will be operating under guidelines developed by Market Management  using info provided by Maine Federation of Farmers  Markets and our vendors.  Please be aware that music, food sampling & brewed coffee. Some vendors are not here. For more info please see our newsletter, using the […]

Rent a table for $10 and sell your own items (or donate your items to the BMS Student Council's table) or just come and shop!  The concessions stand will be open with a bake sale and lunch items!

UPDATE - our monthly sit-down dinner church is suspended until further notice. We will provide "to go" brown bag dinners on Wednesday though. For more info on our regular dinner church see below ... This is a free community meal but also a church. We call it "Dinner Church!" What is Dinner Church? Think about […]

Four piece, Indie folk group, GoldenOak is driven by the songwriting and harmonies of the brother-sister duo Zak and Lena Kendall and rounded out by Mike Knowles and Jackson Cromwell. In many ways, the themes of GoldenOak’s music are driven by their home base.

Saturday March 21:   the Market will be open.   We will be operating under guidelines developed by Market Management  using info provided by Maine Federation of Farmers  Markets and our vendors.  Please be aware that music, food sampling & brewed coffee. Some vendors are not here. For more info please see our newsletter, using the […]

Due to COVID-19, we are postponing our March 2020 supper. Check back for upates. You may subscribe to our email list at BathUMC.org Every 3rd Saturday in the Spring and Fall, we host a gourmet, home-cooked supper which includes all the fixings, plus drinks and dessert. Eat with your neighbors or take your dinner to […]

After playing massively popular shows at our Summer Waterfront Concert Series in 2019, one of Maine’s best tribute band will team up for a double-header performance on our mainstage. Runnin’ Down A Dream will be playing the music of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, this is the closest you’ll get to seeing the legendary band […]

Called “a master of free verse” in the Boston Globe, Peter Gallway has released more than twenty-five albums on Warner/Reprise and various independent labels. A founding member of The Fifth Avenue Band, Peter's albums have spanned styles from ‘60’s rock and roll, to “jazzy folk”, to atmospheric Americana. With his return to Maine in 2018, […]

Saturday March 21:   the Market will be open.   We will be operating under guidelines developed by Market Management  using info provided by Maine Federation of Farmers  Markets and our vendors.  Please be aware that music, food sampling & brewed coffee. Some vendors are not here. For more info please see our newsletter, using the […]

Thanks to a generous grant from The Maine Community Foundation, the Chocolate Church Arts Center is proud to offer our brand new childcare program: Parents' Night Out! For a very reasonable cost, we will offer professional childcare (with an emphasis on fun arts activities) during our concerts. The idea is simple: You come to a […]

Joan Osborne has rightfully earned a reputation as one of the great voices of her generation— both a commanding, passionate performer and a frank, emotionally evocative songwriter. A multi-platinum selling recording artist and seven-time Grammy nominee, the soulful vocalist is a highly sought-after collaborator and guest performer who has performed alongside many notable artists, including […]

In The Annex Heather Pierson is an award-winning pianist, multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter, and performer whose inspiring live performances and growing catalog of releases delve into Americana, blues, New Orleans jazz, vocal chants, instrumental piano, and poignant folk.  She is best known for her virtuosity at the piano and her bell-tone vocals, and her songs and musicianship […]

On May 9, 2020, come to the Winter Street Center at 2:00 p.m. and have “Tea with Sarah Sampson.” Sagadahoc Preservation, Inc. is sponsoring this inaugural tea as a fundraiser. Borrowing from Campobello’s “Tea with Eleanor,” two local history buffs will share their favorite stories about Bath’s heroic Civil War nurse, our "lady with the […]

Decades before indie labels were the norm, and years before women had any real access to the industry, Cris Williamson was busy changing the face of popular music. In 1975, the twenty-something former schoolteacher recorded The Changer and the Changed, for her brainchild, Olivia Records, the first woman-owned woman-focused record company. Her music and voice quickly became an essential […]