FARMINGTON – A gathering of musicians and dancers will present North of the Border 2, a new edition of last year’s record-breaking, sold-out celebration of Scottish song and dance, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13, in Nordica Auditorium at the University of Maine at Farmington.
The program will include bagpipe music, fiddles, guitar, viola de gamba, recorder and hammer dulcimer. Vocal music that is both lyrical and rousing will span the centuries and the oceans, from the middle ages to the present, and from the Scottish Highlands to Cape Breton and even the mountains of Kentucky.
Dances will feature Highland jigs, reels and strathspeys and several kinds of Scottish step-dancing, a lesser-known cousin of the popular Irish style.
Performers include singers Dale Hill, Sarah Sloane, Jeff and Lisl Fuson. Singer Jane Parker will also be playing fiddle. Other performers will be Andy Buckland playing guitar, Anne Parker on hammer dulcimer, and fiddler Hannah Sloane-Barton. John and Kathryn Sytsma will add recorders and viola da gamba to the mix.
Also appearing again will be the popular Highland Soles, a family of musicians and dancers from Portland, featuring their trademark fiddle tunes and Scottish dances.
In addition, bagpiper Scott Walmer will perform traditional pipe tunes and his own compositions.
Tickets are $6 for adults, $5 for seniors, $3 for children. They are available at Mickey’s Hallmark in Farmington.
The Farmington concert is sponsored by the Arts Institute of Western Maine, an affiliate of the University of Maine at Farmington.
More information may be obtained by calling Sarah Sloane at 778-4770.
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