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GREENE – Turkey Hollow will entertain at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25, and 2 and 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, at the Sawyer Memorial, 371 Sawyer Road.

Admission is free, and doors will open one hour before the show. For more information call 946-5311 or visit http://ourworld.cs.com/sawyerfoundation.

Turkey Hollow includes bassist Tom Rowe, who is also a member of well-known folk trio Schooner Fare; his son and flat-picking guitar wizard Dave Rowe; and guitarist Denny Breau, a many-time winner of Maine Country Music Association awards.

Turkey Hollow performs primarily original music with some selected covers and sings in tight three-part harmony. Their acoustic roots music includes bluegrass, folk and country, with elements of blues, jazz, rock, Celtic and Cajun.

Their second album, “Live Turkey,” was released in 2001 and they are working on a third recording. The band showcased at the 2000 Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in Hillsdale, N.Y. and for the Northeast Performing Arts Conference in Boston that same year. Turkey Hollow was chosen for inclusion in the Maine Arts Roster in 2001.

For Tom and Denny, Turkey Hollow means coming full circle, as they had their first band while in high school. Tom Rowe went on to join brothers Steve and Chuck Romanoff, as Schooner Fare, to forge a 27-year partnership that includes 13 albums and performances at New York’s Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center in Washington and Symphony Hall in Boston, where they played with the Boston Pops.

Breau, son of country stars Hal Lone Pine and Betty Cody and the younger brother of jazz guitar legend Lenny Breau, has had an award-winning solo career. He has also performed with several other Maine artists including Melinda Liberty and Dick Curless, and was one-half of the guitar duo Winterwood with Brad Harnois.

Dave Rowe began his professional career at age 15 with the Makem Brothers, the sons of Irish performer Tommy Makem. He went on to tour and record with Maine rising star Don Campbell and the award-winning Silver Dollar Band before joining his dad in the duo Rowe by Rowe. The younger Rowe is also a member of Irish music trio Murphy’s Lawbreakers.


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