PHOTO CAPTION: Joe Boucher, pianist and vocalist for Piano Men: The Music of Elton and Billy, will be performing at the Franco Center with the tribute band at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26. Tickets available at 207-689-2000 or www.francocenter.org/shows. The Franco Center is at 46 Cedar Street, Lewiston. Submitted photo.  Elton and Billy Joel tribute…

PHOTO CAPTION: Josée Vachon, a favorite Franco American performer among regular patrons of the Franco Center, can see her perform in person at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 17. Tickets are available at 207-689-2000 and www.francocenter.org/shows. The Franco Center is at 46 Cedar Street, Lewiston.  Josée Vachon to perform in afternoon concert at Franco Center Feb.…

The Franco-American Collection at the University of Southern Maine, in collaboration with the Franco Center, will host “The Feminine Voice of Protest” at the 46 Cedar Street, Lewiston venue on Friday, March 1. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the program starts at 6 p.m. There is no admission fee. “The Feminine Voice of Protest” is a program about women composers who founded a resistance network in 1941 Paris. “They put themselves at great peril as they were Jewish and they sought to save French music, culture, and lives. Only the music of men at that time is remembered,” said Grammy-nominated soprano Malinda Haslett, the University of Southern Maine's School of Music leader of the Voice Department. 

PHOTO CAPTION: Portland-based The Who tribute band, Magic Bus, is coming to the Franco Center at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 9. Tickets are available at 207-689-2000 and www.francocenter.org/shows. The Franco Center is at 46 Cedar St., Lewiston. Submitted photo.  Magic Bus: The Who tribute band coming to Franco Center March 9  LEWISTON–Magic Bus, The Who…