OXFORD, Maine — Pocket Full of Mumbles, southern Maine’s leading purveyors of “Smart Twang,” will play The Oxbow Beer Garden here on Saturday, July 26, 4-7 p.m.
Founded in Newcastle, with a second location on Portland’s ever-more trendy Washington Street corridor, Oxbow opened its third location, The Beer Garden, in 2019. If you haven’t checked out this location — at 420 Main Street in Oxford, 35 minutes north of Portland, just west of Lewiston-Auburn — you’re missing out.
The sprawling, idyllic setting on Route 26, with its vintage sleds and private lean-tos, has no comps. The restaurant slings wood-fired, naturally leavened pizza, along with salads and seasonal dishes. The bar features an extensive selection of Oxbow beers, as well as house-made sodas, spirits, cider and wine. The terrain surrounding the Beer Garden — the former Carter’s XC Ski — has produced exceptional fruits and vegetables for generations. Today it generates ingredients for the Oxbow kitchen.
“We first became enamored of Oxbow’s delightful Farmhouse Pale Ale, but then we discovered Washington Street and the Beer Garden,” says Mumbles co-founder Hal Phillips. “We’re thrilled to play the latter on July 26. It’s become THE place to stop on the way home from Sunday River. But on a warm summer evening? Way cozier.
“We also appreciate the staff warming to our Simon & Garfunkel roots. The poster was their own creation! We still pepper our sets with S&G — if you haven’t heard America with pedal steel, well, you’ve never really heard it. But folks can also expect our full complement of originals, along with twang-infused covers of Jackson Brown, Son Volt, Robert Plant and Alisson Krause, The Band and CSN.”
