PINE TREES,

BLUEGRASS

The Kentucky HeadHunters, 1990’s Grammy winner for Country Album of the Year, will play at the Springfield Fairgrounds at 8 p.m. Saturday.

Before you scoff and say the band has fallen from grace, bluegrass acts don’t exactly start in arenas and work their way down to state fairs. These guys aren’t the country equivalent of Foghat or anything.

No, they’re still doing their thing, pickin’ and a-grinnin’, cutting albums and playing around the world.

For all the time they’ve spent touring and playing together, the HeadHunters are sure to be as polished an act as you’ll be able to catch this summer in northern Maine – or anywhere in Maine for that matter.

Maine country band Entity will open for the HeadHunters.

Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 the day of the show. For more information, call John Krapf at 738-4134.

WAVES OF FUN

The Museum of Science in Boston is offering two weeklong introductory programs on oceanography at the Bay of Fundy.

Teens will be able to explore the ocean coasts of Maine and New Brunswick July 29-Aug. 4 or Aug. 5-11. Students in grades seven through nine will collect plankton, investigate tidal fluctuations and go whale watching.

The program is based at the field station in Dennysville. The fee for nonmembers is $825 and $787 for museum members, children of Suffolk University alumni and students in Washington County.

For more information, call 617-589-0300 or email travel@mos.org.

R.E.A.L. LEARNING

The University of Maine Hutchinson Center will be host to a special summer program for middle school pupils, “Real Educational Adventures in Learning (R.E.A.L.),” with an emphasis on project-based learning with real-world problems having a focus on mathematics, science and technology. The R.E.A.L. Camp for young women will be July 30 to Aug. 3; the R.E.A.L. Camp for young men will be Aug. 6-10. Pupils should be entering grades six, seven or eight in the fall. The cost for the week is $199. Partial scholarships are available. For information call the UMaine Hutchinson Center at 338-8000.

COWBOY-HATTED DUO

Brooks & Dunn will perform at 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 3, at the Tweeter Center for Performing Arts in Mansfield, Mass. Tickets are $45 reserved, $30 lawn, and are available at the Tweeter Center box office on a limited window basis, and at all Ticketmaster outlets, on the Web at www.ticketmaster.com, or by calling (617) 228-6000 or (617/508) 931-2000.

LONG LIVE OZZY

The Ozzfest 2001 festival will begin at 11 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 5, at the Ctnow.com Meadows Music Centre, in Hartford, Conn. Doors open at 10 a.m. Parking gates open at 9 a.m. Featured are Papa Roach, Slipknot, Black Sabbath, Marilyn Manson, Crazy Town, and Linkin Park. Tickets are $73.25, reserved, day of show; $71.25, reserved; $63.25, reserved, day of show; $61.25, reserved; $38.25, lawn, day of show; and $36.25, lawn. Tickets are available through Tickets.com or by calling (860) 422-0000.

– From Staff Reports