GREENE – Erica Brown and the Bluegrass Connection will perform at Araxine Wilkins Sawyer Memorial, 371 Sawyer Road at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, and 2 and 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21.

Brown, 22, of Lewiston, at age 7, was competing in fiddle contests with kids twice her age and by the age of 9 she was traveling throughout New England, Canada and Louisiana with the Maine French Fiddlers.

She has produced and released four solo CDs. The first recording, “Bowing the Strings,” was recorded in 1999 when she was 15. It contains 22 fiddle tunes, capturing the French Canadian and Bluegrass styles. Her most recent CD, “Box of Memories,” was released in 2006 and features a selection of traditional French Canadian fiddle tunes as well as traditional Bluegrass instrumentals and vocals.

In 2003 Brown was chosen Junior Female Entertainer of the Year by the Maine Country Music Association and was a recipient of a 2006 Maine Arts Commission Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Award.

Her band includes her younger brother, Daniel, on mandolin. He discovered the mandolin at age 10 while attending many weekend bluegrass festivals with his sister and family. Today, at 17, he is on his way to becoming an accomplished Bluegrass musician.

Lincoln Meyers plays guitar for the Bluegrass Connection and Ken Taylor plays bass. Ted DeMille, left-handed guitarist, is lead and harmony vocalist for the Bluegrass Connection. He is also a song writer.

Read McNamara is the newest member of the band. He began playing the banjo at 18 while at college. After graduating, he moved to Virginia and began touring full-time, traveling up and down the east coast. Read later joined an Indiana-based band in 2003. After moving to Maine from Indiana in 2004, Read became a member of the Bluegrass Connection.

Admission is free and doors open one hour before shows. For more information, call 946-5311 or http://ourworld.cs.com/sawyerfoundation.