Concerts
Each year, Treworgy Family Orchards hosts our Orchard Concert Series featuring some of the best of New England folk music. Our concerts occur on fall weekends between 1pm and 4pm and are free to the public. Make sure to mark your calendar to come and enjoy excellent music at the orchard this fall!
2011 Orchard Concert Series artists and dates:
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Saturday September 10: Highland String Trio
Highland String Trio performs an energy filled blend of Celtic and Irish songs with a few select bluegrass tunes and traditional Americana singalongs in between. Highland String Trio members include fiddler Lauren Scott, Walt Bannon on the guitar and bodrahn, and Chris Bannon on the mandolin.
Saturday September 17: Matching Orange
Using the trio of Eric McDonald (guitar, mandolin, vocals), Eric Eid-Reiner (piano), and Brendan Carey Block (fiddle), Matching Orange plays traditional music from around the world, including Ireland, Scotland, Quebec, Appalachia, New England, Cape Breton and others. They create a swirling level of intensity, sometimes gritty, sometimes pure, and always engaging.
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Sunday September 18: Ari and Mia Friedman
Ari & Mia are a soulful and spirited acoustic accompanied duo exploring the traditions of Southern Appalachia, Northeastern fiddle music, and the realm where their own compositions cross paths with older traditions. Their hearts also lie with early American swing, jazz, and bluegrass music. Combine this with their bold approach to song and tune-writing and their interpretations of traditional music and the result will open hearts and dance floors. Ari & Mia’s “intricate arrangements, soaring harmonies, infectious grooves and intuitive improvisations combine an old-time sensibility with a truly adventurous spirit,” says Hankus Netsky of New England Conservatory.
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Saturday September 24: Lissa Schneckenburger
The traditional music of New England can be as warm and comforting as a winter fire or
as potent and exhilarating as a summer thunderstorm. Fiddler and singer Lissa
Schneckenburger is a master of both moods, a winsome, sweet-voiced singer who brings
new life to old ballads and a skillful, dynamic fiddler who captures the driving rhythm
and carefree joy of dance tunes old and new.
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Sunday September 25: Frigate
Frigate is a Maine based rockin’ contradance band with heavy New England, French Canadian, old timey, and maritime influences. Fiddler Steve Muise, mandolin player Glen Loper, and guitarist Fred White send hard driving, swinging tunes with inspired improvisation your way. This band is tailor made to get people dancing!
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Saturday October 1: Penobscot Fiddles —–Postponed until Monday October 10
Penobscot Fiddles is a local group of amateur folk musicians from the Bangor area. The group comprised of fiddlers, guitarists, banjo players, and more will entertain the farm with traditional fiddle music with roots in the celtic, bluegrass, and New England genres.
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.Sunday October 2: Perpetual e-Motion—Postponed Until Sunday October 9
Perpetual e-Motion begins with the simple statement of traditional, often recognizable dance tunes from Europe and Americas, and proceed to notch it up into a thrilling composition of complex poly-rhythms, melody and counter melody scaffolding exotic and lush chord structures into an amazingly satisfying musical performance drawing from Celtic, bluegrass, jazz and electronic influences. The duo is highly regarded throughout New England for their ability to provide hours of driving, pulsating music for contra dances, which rely on traditional dance tunes as a backdrop.
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Saturday October 8: Greg and Jessie Boardman
Greg and Jessie perform with a host of various folk instruments including: Fiddles, viola, cello, guitar, whistle, pump organ and vocals. They are versed in classical and folk (New England, French Canadian and Maritime) traditions, and love them equally. Greg is the founder of Maine Fiddle Camp and has been awarded a Traditional Arts Fellowship by the Maine Arts Commission.
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Sunday October 9: Emma Walsh and Chuck Donnelly
Emma Walsh & Chuck Donnelly are one of Maine’s most engaging and fun Irish fiddle/guitar duos. Emma’s powerful fiddle playing entwines with Chuck’s percussive rhythms and flat-picked melodies making for an afternoon of music that one might expect to hear in any pub or on any stage in Ireland or Scotland. When listening to Emma and Chuck, one can expect to be taken on a musical tour from the old country to modern day downeast Maine.
