IT’S BEEN A WEEK SINCE I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH to be among those who caught Devonsquare’s sold-out, final farewell tour shows at Stone Mountain Arts Center in Brownfield, Maine, last weekend.
Tom Dean and Alana MacDonald and band performed one show on Friday and the finale on Saturday.
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