LIVERMORE – As part of a two-day event featuring the largest Civil War re-enactment in Maine in recent years, a contra dance will be held Saturday, June 6, at Washburn-Norlands Living History Center.
Local favorite The Racket Factory will provide the music and call the contra dance, which will be held under a tent on the grounds of the 19th-century historic site.
The Racket Factory has more than a century of combined experience performing reels, jigs, waltzes, hambos and polkas for people in New Sharon, Vienna and Central Maine. Using only fiddles, guitar, banjo, bass and a five-string racket, the group plays all locally generated music.
Making up The Racket Factory are Hank Washburn, Eric Johnson, Margaret Cox, Mark Rains and Cynthia Phinney.
For more band information, visit www.starleft.org/racket/index.html.
Gates open at 9 a.m. for a day full of Civil War living history. A traditional bean supper will be served at 5 p.m. The dance will be at 7 p.m. Full-day tickets are $7 and include dance, but no beans. Bean supper with contra dance: $8. Dance only: $5.
Visit www.norlands.org or call 897-4366 to learn more about the event.
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