TEMPLE – Well-known fiddler and musician Greg Boardman – who has been a major inspiration for fiddlers throughout Maine over the last three decades – will give a concert Saturday, May 12, at The Temple Stream Theater.

His guitar-playing son Aidan will join him. They will play old and new fiddle tunes and sing ballads, love songs and gospel tunes. The music will range from French to Irish and English, looking back to the roots of the traditions here in the Northeast region. Boardman will also tell stories about some of the pieces and play the viola, cello and guitar.

Founder of the Maine Fiddle Camp, Boardman has steered a career in folk music, playing at concerts and dances, and learning the regional Down East fiddling style from the likes of Otto Soper and Simon St. Pierre. He is a strings teacher in the Lewiston public schools.

Boardman is bilingual and well versed in Franco-American musical styles. His roots, on his grandmother’s side, are Franco-American.

The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. Suggested donation is $8.

Starting an hour before the concert, pizza will be served from the wood-fired oven at the Temple Stream Theater bakery located next to the theater. The Temple Stream Theater is on Intervale Road just past the Red School House. Take Route 43 west from Farmington to Temple and keep going 1 mile past the post office.