LEWISTON – Florence Rose Martin of Lewiston and her daughter, Darlene Rose Kritzman of Topsham, will go to Washington, D.C., to sing at the Library of Congress and at the John F. Kennedy Center on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 18 and 19.

The performance will be part of the “Homegrown: Music of America” series. The two will sing French Acadian songs, some of them brought over from France by the Acadians in 1604 when they first came to the new world.

Florence Rose performed at Le Festival International de la Louisiane in Lafayette, La., in 1993 and 1995. She sang at a Folklorique Festival in Lowell, Mass., in 1993 and in Bar Harbor in 1996 as well as schools and colleges around New England.

She was featured as “Keeper of the Song” in 1995 in an exhibition at Lewiston-Auburn College, introducing local Franco-American women. She has sung at the Portland Performing Arts Center and at many Acadian Festivals in Madawaska.

Darlene Rose has been singing and playing guitar from an early age. She wrote and recorded some of her own songs and now has a repertoire of Christian music.

Darlene Rose has helped her mother preserve the old French songs – in 1999 they sang at a showing of “Evangeline,” a 1929 silent film, when it was shown in Augusta.

In 2002 they sang at the Center of Cultural Exchange in Portland for a Celtic Christmas and at the Franco-American Heritage Center of St. Mary’s.

Darlene Rose graduated from Lewiston High School in 1977. She lives in Topsham with her husband, Andy, and their three children, Emily, Franky and Gregory.

The pair will sing on Sunday, May 23, at Holy Family Church and on June 7 at Montello Manor.