AUBURN – Take a stroll out to Auburn’s Festival Plaza on Tuesdays and Lewiston’s Courthouse Plaza on Thursdays for free noontime concerts.

Tuesday, July 12, Festival Plaza will feature Boréal Tordu presenting a lively, updated revival of Maine’s French music scene drawn from their family heritage.

Thursday, July 14, Jamal Karama and band will perform progressive East African music at the Courthouse Plaza. They will play in the tradition of the Somali singer-songwriter.

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Boréal Tordu began when fiddler Steve Muise and singer Robert Sylvain discovered a mutual interest in the music of their shared French-American heritage.

Band members are Muise on fiddle, vocals, accordian, feet; Sylvain on vocals, guitar, dobro; Ron Bonnevie on drums, percussion; and Pip Walter on upright bass, vocals.

Born in Mogadishu, Somalia, arama began writing songs in a progressive East African style as an immigrant teen in America, in the tradition of the Somali singer-songwriter.

Shortly after moving to Lewiston, his search for a music teacher led him to Greg Boardman and other local musicians interested in the music of the most recent addition to the local cultural landscape.

Joining Jamal and Boardman on fiddle and guitar will be Jeff Taylor on bass and Mike Hansen on percussion.

For more information about Music in the Parks and other L/A Arts events, contact L/A Arts at 782-7228 or (800) 639-2919 or visit the Web site at www.laarts.org. The Web site includes a schedule with links for all L/A Arts summer concerts.