September 2021

09/18, all day// Maine Celtic Celebration : Pouring local cider!

July 2021

07/15, 6p// Maine Heritage Orchard Collaboration Release Party : Join us for the release of a special cider made collaboratively by Maine's cidermaking community in support of the Maine Heritage Orchard. Coordinated by Perennial, the collaboration features apples from 6 Maine cidermakers, fermented and barrel aged by Whaleback Farm Cider in Lincolnville. The cider will be on tap exclusively at Perennial beginning with the release party and continuing through the year until we run out. Perennial will donate a portion of the sales from the cider directly to the orchard project. Remarks from Perennial's Khris Hogg, apple historian John Bunker, Heritage Orchard orchardist Laura Sieger, and Gene Cartwright of Whaleback Farm Cider. Live music by Benjamin Foss + Friends. The event is free; cider available for purchase. FMI about the Maine Heritage Orchard, visit maineheritageorchard.org

June 2020

06/18, 4p// Perennial Cider Bar Re-Opens!

06/27, 1p// Release Date for collaboration cider w Whaleback Farm Cider : 100% Belfast apples, foraged by our staff from backyards and field edges from around town. Dry and tannic w notes of unsweetened tea, apple skin, and toast. $5/tap pours.

April 2020

04/07, 12p // MOFGA 2020 Scion Swap at Perennial: Hello, Apple Lovers! MOFGA has dispersed their scion swap to multiple locations in the wake of Covid-19. Perennial will be hosting one such pick up from 12-3p on April 7th. Scions are pre-bundled to minimize contact and keep pick-up times to a minimum. All bundles contain the same medley of apples and here they are: Blenhein Orange, Newt Grindle, Garden Royal, Golden Russet, Opalescent, and Pomme d'Or. Almost all variety descriptors can be found at Out on a Limb. There will be a self service fridge at the base of the stairs and Perennial staff will be on hand to sanitize all handles and surfaces between persons. Please remember to keep 6 ft spacing between yourselves and do wear your masks to prevent water droplets from entering the fridge. If you have any immuno-compromised friends or family who cannot come, but would like scions, please grab them a bundle. And, of course, if you'd like to bring home a bottle of cider with your bundle- we got you!

04/17, 6p // Perennial Cider Bar Turns One! An online concert: Elsie Gawler + Ethan Tischler and Baron + Emma will be playing celebratory sets online for all your socially distant pleasure to celebrate the big day! Check our Facebook for the videos!

March 2020

03/07, 1p // Lamb Talk + Tasting w/ Jackson Regenerational Farm: A discussion of regenerative agriculture practices and lamb tasting! JRF meat pre-sale available. This event is FREE. Full food and bar menu will be available throughout.

THIS EVENT IS CANCELED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN AT PEN SHORES 03/11, 11a// A Taste of Place & Time “Hard Cider”: Chef and farmer Khris Hogg loves apples and that passion found its expression in Perennial Cider Bar + Farm Kitchen in downtown Belfast which serves heritage ciders and locally sourced, organic cuisine inspired for the local landscape and its seasons. Join Khris as he discusses his exploration of what it means to be a 21st century artisan seeking to offer a taste of place and time that acknowledges the richness of the past while savoring the present moment. This event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Location is at Penobscot Shores, 10 Shoreland Dr Belfast. FMI 338.2332

03/13, 6p // Toki Oshima and John Pranio - Live music for all!: Toki and John will be playing traditional fiddle tunes and songs with a few originals as well, on guitar, fiddle, old time banjo and harmonica. This event is free, all ages. Please bring gratuity for the band.

THIS EVENT IS CANCELED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CLOSURE 03/15, 2p // Read-A-Loud February: Come read aloud in community! Bring something you are reading, bring something you read a long time ago, bring friends whom we haven't met yet. Depending on how many folks come, we usually give each reader 5-7 minutes of airtime followed by conversation/comment space before the next reader. Other than that, it's pretty fluid. Come late, leave early, forget your book so google something desperately last minute on your phone, write a poem but remain elusive about it's author- it's all acceptable.

THIS EVENT IS CANCELED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CLOSURE 03/20, 6p // Mathias Kamin- Live music for all!: Old timey banjo returns! This event is free, all ages. Please bring gratuity for the band.

THIS EVENT IS CANCELED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CLOSURE 03/22, 2p// Elsie Gawler and Ethan Tischler- Live music for all!: Elsie and Ethan of celtic/trad trio, Wake Robin, will be here to beguile away your Sunday afternoon!

February 2020

WEATHER ALERT: THIS SHOW HAS MOVED TO SUNDAY, FEB 9TH, 1-3P // Mathias Kamin- Live music for all!: Old timey banjo returns! This event is free, all ages. Please bring gratuity for the band.

02/14, 6p // Aaron Lefebvre - Live music for all!: This is not a night to miss- come in and listen to Aaron's fingerstyle guitar and fall in love with the beauty of sound and string. No date necessary! But you'll definitely want to leave with one. This event is free, all ages. Please bring gratuity for the band.

02/15, 5p// Cousin B - Live music for all!: Splitting time between New Orleans and DownEast Maine, Cousin B. plays upbeat blues, rock & country with swing and swagger.

02/16, 2p // Read-A-Loud February: Come read aloud in community! Bring something you are reading, bring something you read a long time ago, bring friends whom we haven't met yet. Depending on how many folks come, we usually give each reader 5-7 minutes of airtime followed by conversation/comment space before the next reader. Other than that, it's pretty fluid. Come late, leave early, forget your book so google something desperately last minute on your phone, write a poem but remain elusive about it's author- it's all acceptable.

02/22, 6p // Zak Kendall (of GoldenOak) - Live music for all!: Singer-songwriter Zak Kendall, one half of the sibling-led band, GoldenOak will be sharing his homespun indie tunes in this special solo show.

02/28, 6p // Rural Electric and the Divorcée: Singer-songwriter Alyssa Kelly will be joined by Rural Electric members Alan Gibson and Andrew Carpenter to perform a merged collection of original tunes. Their Americana sound delivers poetic lyrics, vocal harmonies, and traces of (their alt-country heroes) Uncle Tupelo and Kathleen Edwards. This event is free, all ages. Please bring gratuity for the band.

January 2020

01/03, 6p // Mathias Kamin and Gus La Casse- Live music for all!: It's the first weekend of a new decade- where will you be? Make the right choice. This event is free, all ages. Please bring gratuity for the band.

01/10, 6p // Bare Back Rider- Live music for all!: It's time for some female vocals! Come in tonight to hear Rachel Elizabeth Bell! Her band, Bare Back Rider, just released an album this fall and would love for you to give a listen. This event is free, all ages. Please bring gratuity for the band.

01/17, 6p // Baron Collins-Hill and Emma Swartz- Live music for all!: Baron and Emma will be cheering up your evening once again! This will be their last night with us for a few months so please come in and share your smiles, your hugs, and WASSAIL them into the second half of winter! This event is free, all ages. Please bring gratuity for the band.

01/19, 2p // Read-A-Loud January: Come read aloud in community! Bring something you are reading, bring something you read a long time ago, bring friends whom we haven't met yet. Depending on how many folks come, we usually give each reader 5-7 minutes of airtime followed by conversation/comment space before the next reader. Other than that, it's pretty fluid. Come late, leave early, forget your book so google something desperately last minute on your phone, write a poem but remain elusive about it's author- it's all acceptable.

01/24, 6p // Honey Bound - Live music for all!: Come in for some barn stompin' folk with Honey Bound tonight! This event is free, all ages. Please bring gratuity for the band.

01/26, 4p // Wake Robin in concert: Wake Robin is an acoustic trad/folk project of musicians Duncan Yandell, Ethan Stokes, and Elsie Gawler. These three bring together a shared love of traditional Celtic and Americana music with original songs from Vermont and Maine. As a trio, their sound is marked by a unique blend of heartfelt lyricism and dynamic, high energy instrumentation. We are so happy to bring you this trio in concert! The show will start at 4p. Suggested donation $10-20. Full bar and food menu will be available. ALL AGES EVENT.

01/31, 6p // Sister Strongman- Live music for all!: Austin will be here to charm your Friday evening with his original songs. Music starts at 6p. This event is free, all ages. Please bring gratuity for the band.

December 2019

Holiday Pie Sale: This holiday season, be thankful for local organic food, heirloom apples, and those who work to steward them by purchasing your holiday pies from Perennial. We’re partnering with our fiends at Night Moves and Out on a Limb CSA to make the most delicious, well-made, thoughtfully sourced apple pie you can find. The pie will also feature apples from the Maine Heritage Orchard, which stewards hundreds of rare and nearly extinct apples with Maine histories. Perennial will donate a portion of the proceeds from the pie sale to the heritage orchard to support their great work. Pre-order by end of day 12/20 for pickup at the bar Tues 12/24. Prices are $32 for 1, $30/ea for 2-3, or $28 for 4 or more. Order over the phone or at the bar. Online ordering coming soon.

12/19, 8p // Democratic Debate Watch Party: Don't argue with your screen alone! Come do it at Perennial tomorrow night alongside a bunch of your neighbors as we host a Democratic presidential debate watch party (or primal scream therapy session, depending on your feelings). We'll open at 4 as usual and stay open through the end of the debate, which begins at 8p. Come anytime. We'll be pouring cider and serving food throughout. (Before anyone asks: yes, if there end up being Republican debates, we'll show those too. We're less interested in supporting a particular candidate or a particular party and more interested in supporting a space where people can come to access important information and be in civil discussion with others).

12/20, 5p // Solstice Show with Mathias Kamin and Gus La Casse- Live music for all!: Come in after your holiday shopping is done, and enjoy a cider and dinner with us with some roaring good banjo and fiddle to accompany. No better way to spend the longest night of the year! This event is free, all ages. Please bring gratuity for the band.

12/22, 2p // Read-A-Loud December: Come read a loud in community! Bring something you are reading, bring something you read a long time ago, bring friends whom we haven't met yet. Depending on how many folks come, we usually give each reader 5-7 minutes of airtime followed by conversation/comment space before the next reader. Other than that, it's pretty fluid. Come late, leave early, forget your book so google something desperately last minute on your phone, write a poem but remain elusive about it's author- it's all acceptable.

12/27, 6p // Austin Bergstrom- Live music for all!: Austin of Sister Strongman will be playing tunes to the delight of all! Come in for that post-holiday wind-down and let us make your dinner. This event is free, all ages. Please bring gratuity for the band.

12/31, 5p// NYE @ Perennial!: A new decade is upon us! Let's close out 2019 with a festive night together! We'll be offering $5 taps, a special cider cocktail for the evening, and of course, our usual 100% organic and local food menu. Soft drinks available as well, including our newly popular, piel du pomme tea. In the second half of the night, Baron Collins-Hill and Emma Swartz will be gathering an old timey jam to ring us into 2020 together. Bring your instruments and join in!

November 2019

***Perennial will be closed the week of 10/28 to participate in Franklin County Cider Days and the first ever Wild and Seedling Pomological Exhibition***

Thanksgiving Pie Sale: This holiday season, be thankful for local organic food, heirloom apples, and those who work to steward them by purchasing your Thanksgiving pies from Perennial. We’re partnering with our fiends at Night Moves and Out on a Limb CSA to make the most delicious, well-made, thoughtfully sourced apple pie you can find. The pie will also feature apples from the Maine Heritage Orchard, which stewards hundreds of rare and nearly extinct apples with Maine histories. Perennial will donate a portion of the proceeds from the pie sale to the heritage orchard to support their great work. Pre-order by end of day 11/22 for pickup at the bar Tues 11/26. Prices are $32 for 1, $30/ea for 2-3, or $28 for 4 or more. Order over the phone, at the bar, or here on the website.

11/1-11/3 // Franklin County Cider Days: If you’re a cider and/or apple enthusiast, there’s no better place to be the first weekend of November every year than Cider Days, the longest running cider gathering in the country. Celebrating its 25th year in 2019.

11/17, 4 pm // Processing Acorns for Food: People living wherever oak trees grow have included acorns in their diet for centuries. While most of us never learned the skills necessary to process them, some folks, including our guest Chef Frank Giglio, have taken the time and practice to get reacquainted. Chef Frank will walk us through the steps from raw acorn to finished flour, and share a sample of a dish made from the finished product. FREE (although if you can bring +/- 1/2 gallon of your own dried acorns, it will make for a more hands-on experience).

11/24, 2p // Read-A-Loud: Come read aloud in community! Bring something you are reading, bring something you read a long time ago, bring friends whom we haven't met yet. Depending on how many folks come, we usually give each reader 5-7 minutes of airtime followed by conversation/comment space before the next reader. Other than that, it's pretty fluid. Come late, leave early, forget your book so google something desperately last minute on your phone, write a poem but remain elusive about it's author- it's all acceptable.

Perennial considers requests for small private events during our off-hours from both individuals and local businesses. Inquire via email at info@perennialciderbar.com or call us at 207.808.1083.

During our regular hours, seating is first come, first served. Groups of 4+ are encouraged to call ahead for a reservation.