GREENE – Old Grey Goose International will perform music and songs featuring traditional American folk music along with Central Asian music at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 20, and 2 and 7 p.m. Friday, May 21, at Sawyer Memorial.

Doug Protsik, guitar, fiddle, accordion, has developed an interest in folk music and guitar. After moving to Maine in 1971, he began studying and playing traditional music from New England, adding fiddle, accordion and country-dance calling to his repertoire.

He has performed throughout the United States and traveled and performed in Europe. Protsik composes, performs and records old-time piano scores for silent movies, teaches at a variety of academic levels and provides educational programs to schools and summer camps. Protsik is director of the Maine Fiddle Camp. He composes and arranges for the band and is a full-time musician.

Jeff McKeen, accordion, guitar and the bones, grew up in a musical household. He began playing the guitar, learning popular and rock and roll music, later turning to folk and traditional idioms. In college he began playing banjo and mandolin, later adding fiddle and button accordion.

In 1977 he co-founded the traditional music group Old Grey Goose and has toured with them throughout his native New England as well as the Appalachians and the Pacific Northwest. In 1990 he toured Brazil with Project Troubadour.

McKeen has worked as a folklorist for cultural organizations in Maine and the Canadian Maritimes conducting research, producing folk festivals and radio documentaries and collecting folk songs and dance tunes from traditional musicians. In 2002 the governor appointed McKeen to the Maine Arts Commission. He is co-owner and operator of an oyster farm.

John Gawler, banjo and guitar, learned guitar basics at a young age during family “sing-alongs.” His first contact with traditional music was the singing and playing of Mississippi John Hurt, who performed in the mid 1960s in Washington, D.C., where Gawler grew up learning the rudiments of country blues guitar.

Following high school, Gawler settled in Maine and has called it home for 33 years. He continues to play the five-string banjo and guitar in a variety of styles and has toured throughout the United States and Europe. Gawler traveled through West Africa with Project Troubadour.

He operates a sheet-metal business. With his wife and three daughters, all musicians, Gawler continues to perform throughout Maine as the Gawler Family Band.

Eric Rolfson, guitar, mandolin and harmonica, grew up in France where he began playing rock and roll music in the mid-1960s. His mother bought him a banjo as a high school graduation present.

He took it with him to Maine in 1969 where he also discovered the mandolin and began playing the traditional music of the region. While teaching in Europe, he wrote a textbook on how to use folksong in the classroom to teach American history and social studies. Rolfson is at Thomas College as vice president for institutional advancement.

The Sawyer Memorial is located at 371 Sawyer Rd. Admission is free, and doors open an hour before the show. For more information, call 946-5311 or visit http://ourworld.cs.com/sawyerfoundation.