Magic will flow through the mountains of western Maine this weekend. The music will waft above the flora and fauna, then mingle with the strains of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra before being carried off past the horizon by the sunset.

That’s the evening BSO executive director Susan Jonason envisions as the orchestra prepares to perform its first pops concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Kingfield Flower Farm on Route 27 in Kingfield. The 36-acre farm is a natural setting for concerts, she said, with a natural amphitheater that could comfortably accommodate 3,000 concertgoers.

David Katz, of Danbury, Conn., will conduct the first Kingfield Pops concert. He conducted similar concerts for the BSO in Bangor and Rockport in 2001 and 2002. Saturday’s program will include patriotic songs, themes from Hollywood blockbusters, Broadway show tunes, and a salute to 2003 graduates with a rendition of “Pomp and Circumstance.”

Organizers, including Jonason, believe this concert has the potential to give the BSO a summer home and turn the western Maine community into the Tanglewood of northern New England. Tanglewood is the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts.

“It’s a big dream,” said Jonason, “with a big commitment on the part of the community there to launch this and make it successful. That area of the state hadn’t necessarily struck me as a place to focus on. We do draw people from there, but in the past, we’ve thought of the coast for summertime events. Yet the mountains are an equally wonderful place. Perhaps, we can carve our own niche in western Maine in the summer.”

With Sugarloaf USA a few miles away, Kingfield is better known as a winter wonderland than a summer paradise. Described by Ski Magazine as the most beautifully preserved ski town east of Aspen, Colo., Kingfield business and community leaders recently formed the Mt. Abram Economic Development Group to address the recent regional economic decline.

While fishing, boating, white-water rafting and hiking draw summer visitors to the Bigelow Mountains, members of the economic development group are convinced that quality summer performances will attract a different kind of tourist and spur new opportunities.

The BSO has dabbled in outdoor summer concerts at Husson College in Bangor, the Roundtop Center for the Arts in Damariscotta and on the riverfront in Belfast, but nothing gelled as a site for a permanent summer home. Earlier this year, the development association contacted the BSO and plans for a small ensemble concert quickly grew into a pops concert with a 55-piece orchestra this summer and the fostering of a long-term relationship.

Over the winter, orchestra members will visit area schools as part of the BSO educational program. Next summer, the orchestra tentatively envisions two pops concerts as well as a chamber music series that organizers believe will draw cultural tourists to the area’s historic inns, unique restaurants and Stanley Museum, devoted to the history of the steam-powered automobile.

Kingfield may sound like it’s a long way from the BSO’s home base, but is it less than two hours from Bangor and Dover-Foxcroft and about 21/2 hours from Portland, Rockport and the midcoast region, according to Jonason. The grounds will open at 6:30 p.m. and attendees are asked to bring low-back chairs and blankets to sit on. Clowns, jugglers and the Western Mountain Trash Can Band will perform in a pre-show and food vendors will be on site.

Today is the last day to buy advance tickets at the BSO office in Bangor and the United Kingfield and Camden National Bank branches. Advance tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for children aged 6-17, and free for children under five. Tickets at the gate cost $25 for adults.

For more information and directions to the site, call 942-5555, (800) 639-3221, or visit the BSO Web site at www.bangorsymphony.com.

If you go:

From Bangor, take I-95 south to exit 39 in Newport. Turn right off the exit.

Passing the Irving and Mobil stations, turn left onto Route 2 toward Skowhegan.

In Skowhegan, pass the Morning Sentinel newspaper and turn right onto Route 201 North toward Bingham. Drive 4 miles and turn left at the blinking light onto Route 148 toward Madison.

Once in Madison, passing the elementary and high schools, go through first set of lights and follow Route 201A and Route 8 North.

After driving 4.5 miles, passing a sign for North Anson, turn left onto Route 16. Drive 16 miles and cross a small bridge into the town of Kingfield. The Kingfield Flower Farm is 2.5 miles on the right.