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Mountain Arts Guide
2013-14
PO Box 534, Bethel, ME 04217
207-824-3575
info@mahoosucarts.org
The Mahoosuc Arts Council has been making significant contributions to the cultural enrichment and creative economic development of Western Maine since 1986 through
a variety of school and community arts programming. The coming season is no exception!
We are thrilled to be hosting an exciting and diverse season ahead featuring the Nimble Arts Aerial Circus, a multi-media artist residency program, a world-renowned boys’
choir from the Czech Republic, Makanda Jazz Project of Boston, the giant puppets of
Rijah Newell’s Circus Olé, the 2nd Mahoosuc Sky Celtic Series, the Annual ARTirondack
Auction, Annual Art Fair, Free Bandstand Concert Series and much, much more!
The council strives to build much-needed and meaningful visual and performing artseducational programs for K-12 students in a rural district through annual performing arts
series, artist in residency programs and theater residencies. The council is also committed to building community arts events for all ages which provide economic opportunities for artists and local businesses. We compile this guide as a resource for visitors,
residents, businesses and artists to find new opportunities and experiences.
The council is a leader in collaborative programming and operations. In 2011, the State
of Maine and Maine Association of Nonprofits recognized the council with the Dirigo
Award for Nonprofit Excellence for the scope and effectiveness of our mission impact.
We urge you to join our mission in support of community arts, arts education and cultural economic development by making a tax-deductible gift to the Mahoosuc Arts
Council today, no matter how small, with the donation form included in this guide. We
would love to thank you with a returned gift of concert tickets to one of our upcoming
performances!
Your support combined with our commitment and passion to uphold our mission will
ensure quality educational and community impact for years to come because the arts
improve quality of life, quality of place, quality of education and quality of spirit for all.
Sincerely,
Aranka K. Matolcsy
Executive Director
Mahoosuc Arts Council 2013-14 Board of Directors
Tera Ingraham, Chair
Helen Davies, Vice Chair
Heather Roderick Treas. Linda Stowell, Secretary
Melanie Ellsworth
Lauren Head
Kathy Hodsdon
Karen Saito
Welcome to the Mountain Arts Guide!
This guide is designed to provide information and resources on the abundant arts,
performances and cultural resources the Greater Bethel Area. Please visit these
web sites to learn more about what is available in our corner of western Maine:
Mahoosuc Arts Council mahoosucarts.org
Bethel Area Chamber of Commerce bethelmaine.com
Bethel Area Nonprofit Collaborative bethelmainenonprofits.org
The Bethel Performing Arts Project bethelperformingarts.com
Gould Academy Programs in the Arts gouldacademy.org
Mahoosuc Kids Association mahoosuckids.org
MSAD #44 Schools sad44.org
Hebron Academy Programs in the arts hebronacademy.org
W. Me Economic Development Council wmedc.org
Western Mountains Senior College maineseniorcollege.org
The Mahoosuc Arts Council is the recipient of the
2011 Dirigo Award for Nonprofit Excellence.
It is also a proud member of:
• The Maine Alliance for Arts Education
• The Maine Association of Nonprofits
• The Arts Presenters of Northern New England
• The Western Maine Arts+Business Collaborative
• The Crossroads International Celtic Festival
• The Bethel Area Nonprofit Collaborative
• The Bethel Area Chamber of Commerce
Thanks to our sponsors:
The council is funded in part by grants from New England States Touring program of the
New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies,
The Maine Arts Commission, Gould Academy, MSAD#44, Hebron Academy, and The Bethel
Rotary as well as much-needed support from private donors and corporations.
Gould Performing Arts Series
RUCKUS CIRCUS BY NIMBLE ARTS
October 22
7 p.m., Bingham Auditorium,
45 Church St., Bethel
Tickets: $15. Students: Free
Nimble Arts was founded by award winning aerialists Elsie Smith & Serenity Smith Forchion, identical
twins who specialize in aerial acrobatics. Elsie &
Serenity’s performing resumes include Cirque du
Soleil’sSaltimbanco, Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey,
New Pickle Circus, Cirque Le Masque, and numerous
corporate and event planner clients. Their gigs take
them around the world with their duo trapeze and duo fabric acts, as well as various solos on
aerial apparatus. Serenity also performs a partner handbalancing act with her husband, Bill
Forchion. http://nimblearts.org/
Wrap, Rap....
Rhapsody In Blue
January 14, 2014
7 p.m., Bingham Auditorium,
45 Church St., Bethel
Tickets: $15 Students: Free
Rhapsody in Blue....Wrap the Bodies in Hue....Rap
the Body to Blue. This multi-disciplinary dance
and visual arts residency will literally wrap students and community members into an innovative, multimedia set of dance and arts workshops
leading to a set of public performances. Choreographer and Artistic Director Debi Irons is
working with Gould Academy Music Diector James McLaughlin and Wheaton College Music
Faculty Todd Brunel, Visual Artist Nikki Millonzi and the Mahoosuc Arts Council on a residency
program that will have students not only dancing in the production set to Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, but painting, dying and sculpting the fabrics that will become sets and costumes for in-school workshops and performances at the Telstar Middle and High Schools and
evening performances at the Gould and Hebron Academies.
BONIFONTES
Czech Boys Choir
February 26, 2014
7 p.m., Bingham Auditorium,
45 Church St., Bethel
Tickets: $15 Students: Free
The Bonifontes Boys’ Choir was founded in Pardubice, Czech Republic, in 1999 and has won a place
among the cream of boys choir ensembles in the
world. Talented boys from the age of 4 to 18 years
of age work in seven departments of the singing
school known as “Schola cantorum Bonifantes”.
Almost 100 boys visit the concert department alone
and the choir takes part in over 60 concerts and
performances each year including tours to other
countries. http://www.bonifantes.cz/
Gould Performing Arts Series -cont’
MAKANDA JAZZ PROJECT
April 22, 2014
7 p.m.,
Bingham Auditorium,
45 Church St., Bethel
Tickets: $15
Students: Free
An ensemble based in Makanda Ken McIntyre’s hometown
of Boston, is dedicated to
continuing Makanda’s legacy
through the performance of his
music - specifically, by playing
compositions which Makanda
never had the opportunity to
record or perform in public. The band, which was formed in 2005 and has kept mostly the same
personnel since then, consists of 13 musicians: 5 saxophones, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, a vocalist, piano, bass, and drums. The leader, pianist John Kordalewski, who studied and performed
with Makanda, has written arrangements for the large group, working from the lead sheets in
Makanda’s notebooks.
Since 2007 the group has presented an ongoing series of free concerts in Boston’s Roxbury
neighborhood. These concerts have reflected a belief in the importance of building a presence
and role for the music on a community level. They have also served as a consistent platform
from which. Also in keeping with Makanda’s legacy, most of the members of the Makanda Project are educators as well as musicians, and the group has presented a variety of educational
programs along with its performances. www.mkmjazz.com/makanda-project.php
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Telstar Performing Arts Series
This series is held only for Telstar Middle, High School and Home School Students
RUCKUS CIRCUS BY NIMBLE ARTS
October 23
11:05 AM TSH/12:30 PM TMS
Nimble Arts was founded by award winning aerialists Elsie Smith & Serenity Smith Forchion, identical
twins who specialize in aerial acrobatics. Elsie &
Serenity’s performing resumes include Cirque du
Soleil’sSaltimbanco, Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey,
New Pickle Circus, Cirque Le Masque, and numerous
corporate and event planner clients. Their gigs take
them around the world with their duo trapeze and
duo fabric acts, as well as various solos on aerial apparatus. Serenity also performs a partner
handbalancing act with her husband, Bill Forchion. http://nimblearts.org/
Wrap, Rap....
Rhapsody In Blue
January 15, 2014
11:05 AM TSH/12:30 PM TMS
Rhapsody in Blue....Wrap the Bodies in Hue....Rap the Body to Blue.
This multi-disciplinary dance and
visual arts residency will literally wrap
students and community members
into an innovative, multimedia set of
dance and arts workshops leading
to a set of public performances.
Choreographer and Artistic Director
Debi Irons is working with Gould Academy Music Diector James McLaughlin and Wheaton
College Music Faculty Todd Brunel, Visual Artist Nikki Millonzi and the Mahoosuc Arts Council on a residency program that will have students not only dancing in the production set
to Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, but painting, dying and sculpting the fabrics that will become sets and costumes for in-school workshops and performances at the Telstar Middle
and High Schools and evening performances at the Gould and Hebron Academies.
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Elementary Performing Arts Series
This series is held only for the K-5 students of MSAD#44 and district home school students
Crabgrass Puppet Theater
October 29
10 AM at Crescent Park Elementary School
Home schoolers are welcome to attend.
The Mahoosuc Council will be presenting an innovative and captivating take on the traditional tale
of “Jack and the Beanstalk,” by the Crabgrass
Theatre as part of the Mahoosuc 2013-14 Elementary Performing Arts Series. New, larger-than-life
representations of traditional characters set to a
delightful score polishes the timeless tale into modern context perfect for our elementary performing
arts programming. This ingenuity of production is
truly a feast of for the senses with stunning set and
puppet design. Performed on a visually-rich and creatively-designed, two-level stage by two
experienced puppeteers, the life-sized puppets working with a live masked actor gives the
sense of an intimate puppet show in a large space. This puppet theater has developed rich
curriculum materials we can share with teachers and home school parents to augment the
educational value of our investment. http://www.crabgrasspuppets.com/
CIRCUS OLÉ & FEAST OF FOOLS
January 28, 2014
10 AM at Crescent Park Elementary School
Home schoolers are welcome to attend.
Come one! Come All! The Circus is coming
to town Trapeze artists, contact jugglers,
hoop dancers, illusionary artists, giant puppets, stilt walkers and other zany performers
coming from and wide for Circus Olé! And
Feast of Fools! Performing artists in aerial silk,
stilt walking, hoop dancing, contact juggling
and giant puppeteering hail from as far
away as Portland, Boston, and from Western
Maine. There is sure to be something to
dazzle all ages at this animal-cruelty-free
circus which also serves to raise awareness about the plight of real circus animals. All the animals Circus Olé are whimsical giant theatrical puppets created by Trash Into Art - a community collective that uses street theater to dismantle social and environmental issues. FMI: www.
circus-ole.com. Artistic Director Rijah Newell will offer instruction and residencies in puppet
making, dance and theater arts: www.rijahnewell.com
BONIFONTES
CZECH BOYS CHOIR
February 25, 2014
10 AM at Crescent Park
Elementary School
Home schoolers are
welcome to attend.
The Bonifantes Boys’ Choir was founded in Pardubice, Czech Republic, in 1999 and has won
a place among the cream of boys choir ensembles in the world. Talented boys from the age
of 4 to 18 years of age work in seven departments of the singing school known as “Schola
cantorum Bonifantes”. Almost 100 boys visit the concert department alone and the choir
takes part in over 60 concerts and performances each year including tours to other countries. http://www.bonifantes.cz/
Mountain Arts Performing Series
at Hebron Academy
RUCKUS CIRCUS BY
NIMBLE ARTS
October 24
7 p.m., Androscoggin
Theater
at LePage Arts Center
Tickets: $15, Students: Free
Nimble Arts was founded by award winning aerialists Elsie Smith & Serenity Smith Forchion, identical
twins who specialize in aerial acrobatics. Elsie &
Serenity’s performing resumes include Cirque du
Soleil’sSaltimbanco, Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey,
New Pickle Circus, Cirque Le Masque, and numerous corporate and event planner clients. Their gigs
take them around the world with their duo trapeze
and duo fabric acts, as well as various solos on
aerial apparatus. Serenity also performs a partner
handbalancing act with her husband, Bill Forchion.
http://nimblearts.org/
MAKANDA JAZZ PROJECT
April 21, 2014
7 p.m., Androscoggin Theater
at LePage Arts Center
Tickets: $15, Students: Free
An ensemble based in Makanda Ken
McIntyre’s hometown of Boston, is
dedicated to continuing Makanda’s
legacy through the performance of his
music - specifically, by playing compositions which Makanda never had the
opportunity to record or perform in public. The band, which was formed in 2005 and has kept
mostly the same personnel since then, consists of 13 musicians: 5 saxophones, 2 trumpets,
2 trombones, a vocalist, piano, bass, and drums. The leader, pianist John Kordalewski, who
studied and performed with Makanda, has written arrangements for the large group, working
from the lead sheets in Makanda’s notebooks.
Since 2007 the group has presented an ongoing series of free concerts in Boston’s Roxbury
neighborhood. These concerts have reflected a belief in the importance of building a presence and role for the music on a community level. They have also served as a consistent
platform from which. Also in keeping with Makanda’s legacy, most of the members of the
Makanda Project are educators as well as musicians, and the group has presented a variety
of educational programs along with its performances. www.mkmjazz.com/makanda-project.
php
At Hebron Academy
Oct. 25 - 7:30 PM
Feb. 7 - 7:30 PM
Apr. 26 - 10:15 AM
Free of Charge
Androscoggin Theater
Lepage Center
for the Arts
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Annual Bethel Art Fair
First Saturday Every July
A BETHEL AREA WEEKEND OF ARTS & CULTURE
Thursday
Annual Community Picnic, Bethel Historical Society, 12PM
Lawn Dance at the Bethel Inn Resort Tarvern, 8PM
Friday
Art Walk, Reception at Owen Gallery, Gould Academy
The 10th Annual Shy, Novice & Closeted Art Soiree, High Street, 5-8PM
Music Without Borders: Intl Piano Series, Gould Academy, Church St., 7 PM
Saturday
25th Annual Bethel Art Fair on the Common 9-4PM (Rain Date - Sunday)
70 Fine Artists and Artisans featured on the historic Bethel Common with a full day of live
entertainment and fine local fare:
10AM
Circus Ole Giant Puppets
11AM
Jazz Piano with Tom Zicarellii
12PM
Art Fair Artist Winners Announced
Blue Grass with Abby Goldberg & Amalia Segiel
1PM
Harpist Conni St. Pierre
2PM
Just Us Two
3PM
Brad Hooper
Artistic Endeavors Open House 171 Main St., featuring works of local artists, 1:30-4:30PM
The 10th Annual Shy, Novice & Closeted Art Show, High St, 9-4PM
Bethel Historical Society: Art Opening “Pictures Serene and Sublime: Traditional White
Mountain Art Recaptured, July 6-Aug. 31, 9-4PM
Exhibit at the Owen Gallery, High St. Gould Academy, 10AM-3PM
Music Without Borders: Intl Piano Series, Gould Academy, Church St., 7 PM
Fireworks and live music, Bethel Inn Resort, 9 PM
ARTirondack Chair Auctions
Third Saturday Every July
At Mollyockett Days in Bethel
This favorite community event featured
a very special project in 2013 that
raised funds for tow groups! Not only
did the Mahoosuc Arts Council benefit
from a unique collaboration (pictured)
between renowned artist Arla Patch
and James Eric Francis Sr., Tribal Historian, Penobscot Nation, but so did the
Maine Truth and Reconciliation Project.
The work depicts never-before shared
images of Wabanaki art and culture.
Proceeds from the auction of this
chair were shared 50/50 between the
Mahoosuc ArtsCouncil and the TRC .
We are thrilled to say the $1000 reserve
was met!
The 2014 ARTirondack Auction will
again celebrate the talents of local
artisans while raising funds that further our continuing efforts to support
the advancement of the arts and humanities in the adult communities and
schools systems of Western Maine. These images are but a small sampling of the
remarkable chairs auctioned in recent years. For a complete list of past and
current chair photos please visit: www.mahoosucarts.org
Left bids and phone bids are accepted.
FMI: contact the Council at 207-824-3575
or write to info@mahoosucarts.org
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1. Bethel Historical Society 10 Broad Street
2. Maine Mineral Museum, 103 Main Street
3. Bonnema Pottery 146 Main Street
4. Elements Art Gallery 162 Main Street
5. Artistic Endeavors Frame Shop & Gallery 171 Lower Main St.
6. S. Timberlake Co., 158 Mayville Rd.
7. Community Gallery, Sunday River Brew Pub, 1 Sunday River Rd.
8. Red Gate Studio, 15 Skilling Rd, Corner of route 5/35, W. Bethel
9. Harvest Gold Gallery, 1082 Main St. Route 5, Lovell
10. Owen Gallery at Gould Academy, Church Street
11. Larry’s Metal Magic, East Bethel Road
12. Bethel Bait, Tackle & More, 7 Mechanic Street
Art Studio & Gallery Locations
2014 Summer Bandstand Concerts
Bring your lawn chairs, blankets, kids, dogs and snacks!
Held on the historic Bethel Common every Sunday of August at 4 p.m.
Rain location: Bingham Auditorium, 45 Church Street, Bethel, Maine
Aug. 3 - Jewel & Donnie
Bethel’s favorite duo, Donnie Katlin and Jewel Clark
play many old and new favorites and are an annual
date for families, and folks of all ages. Jewel is a true
gem in the crown of Bethel! She is a an award-winning
performer with incredible diversity in her voice and
expresion, with yodeling expertise and an extremely
authentic spirit you can feel in her music. Donnie’s skillful picking and time-polished soulful voice make the
duo a perfect match that has spanned decades. This
wonderful duo offers something for everyone: Country
and Folk to Blues and Rock-n-Roll, spiced with originals
here and there. And of course, there’ll be some “yodeling,” an art Jewel inherited from her
Dad, Yodeling Slim Clark. To learn more about Jewel: http://www.jewelwhatever.com/
Aug. 10 - Conni St.Pierre
Conni St.Pierre is founder of the smasheasy® music
label and Tourmaline Media. She is creator/composer
of The Legends Trilogy, her critically acclaimed ambient/new age music series, as well as the new “Nature
Spirits” series. Whether she’s playing melodic alto flute
lines, or hauntingly ambient keyboard resonances - with
the sparseness of Zen shakuhachi, or time-travelling
with medieval-influenced Celtic harp - St.Pierre creates
a musical landscape and shares an inner vision that
is fresh and inspired - calm, and graceful. Conni also
works as partner and manager of The Outloook recording studio in Bethel, which she and her
husband, producer/engineer Ted St.Pierre, founded in 1980.
Aug. 17 - Just Us Two
Hailing from the hills of Western Maine, duo covers
just about every favorite song you have ever had. Jo
Plummer and Bob Gauthier lead you on a journey
down memory lane, no matter your age. The voices
of these two have a well-practiced musicans, blend
perfectly in harmonoies and unions. They been playing
out non-stop since they broke out into the perfomring
scene in Maine for events like the Moore Park Art Show
is South Paris (www.mooreparkartshow.biz), the Bethel
Art Fair (http://www.mahoosucarts.org/artfair.html),
The Norway Arts Festival, and at popular performance
spots like Tucker’s Pub in Norway and The Smilin’ Moose in South Paris. Don’t be suprised if you
find yourself siging along, 1960s through today...
Aug. 24 - Abby Goldberg & Amalia Siegel
These local ladies and Gould Academy grads have led
the renaissance of bluegrass in Western Maine, making it cool again for the youngest and hippest crowd,
while reviving classics that are decades old but which
still make sense today. Abby and Amalia can be seen,
and heard, tucked under a shady spot in Bethel with a
guitar and mandolin working out the delicate harmonies that define their duo. They have performed for the
council at the Annual Art Walk and Bethel Art Fair and
will be sure to be performing much more with us in the
future!
Aug. 31 - TBA
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Mahoosuc Skye Celtic Series
This series is made possible by a partnership between
Mahoosuc Arts Council and New England Celtic Arts - The Skye Theatre.
KATHLEEN GOREY-MCSORLEY
June 18, 2013
7 PM, Bingham Auditorium,
45 Church St.
$20 Adults/$15 Seniors 65+/$5 students
At only 18 years of age Kathleen already has international experience having performed in Ireland, Scotland and the USA as well
as various parts of Canada. Among her many accomplishments
a couple of highlights are competing at the Fleadh Cheoil na
hEireann in Co. Offaly 2008 and again in Co. Cavan, Ireland in
2010 and the Canadian Grand Masters Fiddling Championships
in Ottawa in both 2009 and 2010. It was also a distinct honour to
appear in two concerts with Ashley MacIsaac in January 2010.
Kathleen showcased at “Contact East” in Antigonish in September 2010. She released her second CD “Ceol Binn” (Irish for
“Sweet Music”) in July 2010. This CD was nominated for an ECMA
award as Roots/Traditional Solo Recording of the Year.
Website & Media for Kathleen:
http://kathleengorey-mcsorley.com/
TEN STRINGS AND A GOAT SKIN
July 2, 2013
7 PM, Bingham Auditorium,
45 Church St.
$20 Adults/$15 Seniors 65+/$5 students
Rooted in the traditional, members of this
award winning trio celebrate the music of
the Irish and Francophone cultures they
share, infuse their original compositions and
traditional standard tunes with modern and
world rhythms and interpretations to create
an infectious energy and unique sound
that speaks to all ages. Building on a base of much loved traditional Maritime music with
a good dose of originality, innovation and humor, the band grabs both French and English
audience right from the first note. They easily connect with their listeners while they create
an atmosphere that is pure fun. Website: http://tenstringsandagoatskin.com
World Acadian Congress 2014
Showcase Tour (International)
July 16, 2013
7 PM, Bingham Auditorium,
45 Church St.
$20 Adults/$15 Seniors 65+/$5 students
This event is the official showcase tour with the World
Acadian Congress. Three locations have been chosen
in Maine for this promotional tour to call attention to the
Congress in Maine and Quebec in August of 2014 The performers have been hand selected
to represent the essence of Acadian culture in Music today. The artists are Denny Breau
from Maine, Pascal Lejeune from New Brunswick and Patrice Michaud from Quebec..
Denny Breau’s rhythmically flawless and dazzlingly clear style allows him to do amazing and
stunning things with a six-string guitar. He first draws in an audience with a finely arranged
melody and then slides effortlessly into scorching fingerwork that sets ears aflame. The lighting fast guitar lines that seem almost humanly impossible to accomplish are balanced with
those that have a quiet intimacy and wrap tenderly around his carefully crafted songs.
Pascal Lejeune is a major Acadian artist. His writing talent and melody makes him one of
the most interesting young artists on the French-Canadian stage. Well known as a charmer
on stage, he uses poetry and humor and truly has a style of his own. Pascal Lejeune is an
unusual and gifted singer!
Patrice Michaud was born in 1980 in Cap-Chat, in Quebec’s Gaspé region. As a youngster
gifted with a vivid imagination. When music finally entered the picture, Michaud started
singing songs, telling stories and writing about everything he saw - and then some. Left
with $8.75 in his bank account after a four-month European jaunt, he was invited to tell
a story (the only one he had formally completed at the time) at the 2004 Gala Culturel
Gaspésien, and ended up taking part in the region’s signal pop music event, the Festival
en chanson de Petite-Vallée, in 2008. He came out of this sometimes scary, sometimes
carefree experience with more than he had bargained for with no less than three prizes
- the SOCAN Best Song Award for “C’est chien pour les singes,” the Public Award and the
Grand 8 Franco-Québécois prize.
Denny Breau (Me) http://dennybreau.com
Pascal Lejeune (NB) http://www.pascallejeune.com
Patrice Michaud (Qc) http://patricemichaud.ca
MAKEM & SPAIN BROTHERS (USA IRISH)
August 13, 2013
7 PM, Bingham Auditorium,
45 Church St.
$20 Adults/$15 Seniors 65+/$5 students
Every generation has a few acts that define where a
musical genre is going, performers so confident in their
chosen field that they are able to completely embrace the genre and yet introduce something new to
it. In Irish folk music today, that act is the Makem and Spain Brothers.
Not in the past 30 years has a group taken the international stage with such vocal power
and stage presence, capturing the essence of their genre, while standing out as something
truly unique. A host of various instruments and five male vocals, using precise three-part harmonies blend perfectly for what many have described as a wall of sound. The Makem and
Spain Brothers are at their best onstage where their talent and enthusiasm draw in fans who
have never experienced the joy of folk music.
Website and media for Makem & Spain: http://www.makem.com
SAMANTHA ROBISHAUD
August 27, 2013
7 PM, Bingham Auditorium,
45 Church St.
$20 Adults/$15 Seniors 65+/$5 students
Samantha’s passion, desire and drive have led her
to achieve incredible success in just a short time.
Samantha was featured and performed on the
2010 Vancouver Olympics Opening Ceremony.
She was the 2010 East Coast Music Award Winner for “Fans Choice” and composed and performed on the Documentary CD “This Is
My America” With Dolly Parton and Mark O’Connor. Three time Music NB award winner,
Samantha has performed on many prestigious stages and events, standing ovations during 2 week tour of China as a professional soloist with the New Brunswick Youth Symphony
Orchestra, represented province of New Brunswick as Tourism Ambassador on US junkets,
Celtic Colours Cape Breton, Carnegie Hall, Grand Ole Opry, Wild Horse Saloon in Nashville,
the Calgary Stampede new artist stage and youth stage, Klondike days in Edmonton, the
nationally broadcast CBC TV East Coast Music Awards show, CBC Acadian World Congress
Closing Show, A Musical Maritime Odyssey performing for Queen Elizabeth II during her last
Canadian visit in 2002 and for Prince Charles during his visit to Saint John, NB in 2012.
Samantha Robishaud website and media links: http://www.samantharobichaud.ca/#
Crossroads International
Celtic Festival
September 11-15, 2013
7 PM, Bingham Auditorium,
45 Church St.
$20 Adults/$15 Seniors 65+/$5 students
September 15 Finale
On September 11-15 2013, the inaugural Crossroads International Celtic Festival will feature musicians from all over the Celtic world and attract
visitors to Oxford County and Franklin Counties.
For five days in September, they will become
home to a unique celebration of music and culture as the Crossroads International Celtic Festival
presents dozens of concerts all over the county,
an extensive line-up of community events, and
a nightly Festival Club. Artists will travel from
Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island,
Scotland, Ireland, Wales, England, as well as from
across the United States to join the finest of Maine’s musicians, singers, dancers, storytellers
for a lively fall celebration.
http://crossroadscelticfestival.com/
https://www.facebook.com/CrossroadsInternationalCelticFestival
Winter Hill Road, Carthage, ME 04224 207.562.4445 necelticarts.com
2013 Donors
ANGELS
Claire & Barry Carver
Brook Family Foundation Frank Vogt
Ms. Christine Otten
Ann Speth
Kris & Pat Kellner
UNDERWRITERS
Polly Mahoney & Kevin
Ms. Karen Kutchera
Slater
Dr. John Mason
Mrs. & Mrs. Coseglia
Mr. & Mrs. Walter Hatch Susan Driscoll
Feinberg Family
Arlene Lowell
Foundation
Chryl & George AnPeter & Vickie Rackliffe gevine
Denise & Robert Manning
PATRONS
Alberta Merrill
Bethel Rotary Club
Mr. & Mrs. Charles
Becky Kendall
Raymond
Mr. & Mrs. Harry Dresser Mr. & Mrs. Felix OteroRobin & Doug Zinchuk
Otero
Julia Young
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Southam
Kathy Hodsdon
Harriet Gilpatrick
Susan DuPlessis
Wende Gray
Ann Holt
DONORS
Ken Hotopp & Robin
Jan Stowell
Gorrell
Blake MacKay
Wayne & Marilyn Howe
Lauren Head & Robert
Tineke & Marvin Ouwinga
Baribeau
Norman & Sylvia Clanton
Art & Ellen Marshall
Bradford Clarke
David & Cynthia Bobbe Carolyn Colby
Ed & Leslie Rosenberg
Dennis Doyon
Cathy Newell
Jane Rich
William & Suzanne
Marilyn & Eric Sahlberg
Herlihy
Cyndy Kane Olson
Stan Howe
Amy & Tony Chapman
Francis Piccirillo
Grace & Richard
Thomas & Martha
Douglas
Whittington
Ginny Gamble
Nancy & Mac Davis
Marguerite & Ronald
Robert Davis
Kendall
Ellen & Stuart Crocker
Dean & Pricilla Walker
Anne & Gary Stuer
Bill Caddigan
Wendy & Dick Penley
Randy Bennett
Kenneth Ruff
John & Bette Woodbury
Jessica Coolidge
Judith Coolidge &
Leslie & Marc Moore
Richard Cross
Jackie & Al Cressy
James & Mary Fiske
Marcel Polak & Emily
Lucy & John Nordahl
Ecker
Michael Liberti
Scott & Carol Gould
Virginia Cole
John & Julia Fox
Diane & Clifford York
Margery & Kevin Finley
FRIENDS
Robert & Cynthia Blake
Eileen & Sidney Pew
John & Pauline Applin
Shirley & Bruce Powell
Barbara Russell
Suzanne & Phil Taylor
Dorothy Bartlett
Brian & Christine Blake
Nancy Willard
Eileen & Vincent Meisner Linda & Ted Davis
Eric Schwarz
Brett & Sara Shifrin
Linda Stowell
Arla Patch
Joan Adams
Betsy Foster
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Kuzyk
Mr. & Mrs. David Murphy
Michael O’Donnell
Jim Osgood
Jackie & Christopher
Van Leuven
Brad & Brenda Wight
Elizabeth & Jonathan Smith
Sonja & Phillip Davis
Sue Gardner
Cynthia Moxcey
Paul & Sally Bodwell
Mary Dooen
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence
Engdahl
Rosabelle Tifft
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COVER ARTIST:
Artist and inspiration Jo Baker has spent the past 40 years studying art, judging arts competitions
and developing her own technique in watercolors, oils and most recently pastels in her studio
at her Newry farm and in her winter home in Florida. Jo began her journey in the arts in her
50’s when she began taking pen & ink classes at the WYCA. She went on to study fine art with
Hungarian Fine Arts Professor Lajos Matolcsy in 1960-1980s which included the study of still life
and going into the field for en plein air work in both Maine and Florida. She became a founding
member of the Western Maine Art Group, the Norway Arts Festival and the Bethel Art Fair. Over
the past 20 years Jo has been active in judging the Bethel Art Fair, the Children’s Art Show in
Bethel, The Moore Park Art Show in South Paris and for events held by the Farmington Arts Institute. In 2005, this talented artist was awarded Best of Show by the Florida Art Association.
www.maineartspassport.biz
Western Maine Arts + Business Collaborative PO Box 278, S. Paris, ME 04281
207-200-7220 info@maineartspassport.biz
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