CARTHAGE — Popular Boston Irish fiddler George Keith and friends will play the Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center on Sunday, Sept. 4.
Keith’s family has owned property in Carthage for many years. Each year, members gather with friends from the Boston music scene on Labor Day weekend to enjoy Maine and music.
Keith grew up playing classical violin, but found himself drawn to Irish traditional music in the early 1990s. He learned to play traditional music between Chicago and Boston, and has since won both North American Irish fiddle titles.
More recently, Keith has performed as a member of Grammy Award-winning Tim O’Brien’s bluegrass/Irish crossover band, The Crossing. He also appears on the DVD of WGBH’s “A Christimas Celtic Sojourn, Live.”
He regularly performs with Robbie O’Connell and Aoife Clancy, and can often be found playing for dancing and in Irish sessions in Boston.
Also playing on Sept. 4 will be Tina Lech, a North American Irish fiddle champion whose trio with Dana Lyn and Donna Long performs regularly in the United States; Ted Davis, a sought-after guitarist who has performed with Kevin Crawford and Cillian Vallely of Lunasa and with Aoife O’Donovan and the Boston Pops Orchestra.
And, Sean Clohessy, who has played fiddle for the past 20 years; John Coyne, who plays bouzouki primarily, but is also known to strum a guitar; Lisa Coyne, who plays traditional Irish flute and whistle regularly in Providence and Boston; Kate Minogue, a singer-songwriter who also plays Irish flute; Jackie O’Riley, an Irish step dancer who has also studied sean-ns and traditional step dancing in the United States and Ireland; and Martin Langer, who graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in jazz bass.
There will be a jam session at 6:15 p.m. when audience members are encouraged to bring their instruments and play briefly with visiting performers. The concert will begin at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 at the door. Skye is at 2 Highland Drive off Winter Hill Road and U.S. Route 2. For reservations, call 562-4445.
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- Irish fiddler George Keith of Boston and friends will gather at Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center in Carthage over Labor Day Weekend to celebrate the holiday, Maine and music.
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