Castlebay, Fred Gosbee and Julia Lane, will appear on Thursday and Friday, June 21 and 22, at Sawyer Memorial.

Castlebay duo to perform at Sawyer Memorial

GREENE – Castlebay will perform music and song from the Celtic lands and the Maine coast at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 21, and 2 and 7 p.m. Friday, June 22, at the Araxine Wilkins Sawyer Memorial, 371 Sawyer Road.

Admission is free and the doors will open one hour before shows.

Castlebay weaves together Maine’s nautical and British Isles legacies. Julia Lane and Fred Gosbee have loved and researched traditional music for most of their lives and blend history, legend and experience into their performances.

Their renditions of traditional and original songs are supported with Celtic harp, 12-string guitar, fiddle and woodwinds.

Castlebay has toured the eastern U.S., British Isles and Ireland, performing at festivals, museums, schools and folk clubs.

To date, they have released 20 recordings, which receive international airplay.

Lane studied classical and flamenco guitar at Phillips Exeter Academy and used the guitar to accompany her singing until 1989 when she discovered the Celtic harp.

Self-taught, she won the senior professional division at the New Hampshire Scottish Games Harp Competition in 1990 and 1991 and the International Folk Harp Competition at Stonehill College in 1992.

She teaches at performance workshops for the harp. Gosbee has played classic and 12-string guitar for more than 35 years, began playing violin and viola and Irish flute about 1995.

He learned many traditional songs from his family, who worked as lumbermen in the forests of New Brunswick and Maine.

His original songs have been sung and recorded by other artists.

For more information, contact Castlebay Inc., P.O. Box 168, Round Pond, ME 04564-0168; at 529-5438; or e-mail, [email protected].

For more information on Sawyer Memorial, call 9846-5311 or visit http://ourworld.cs.com/sawyerfoundation.