DIXFIELD — Countryfolk Music Theatre will hold its annual Youth Music Scholarship Country Jamboree and Music and  Minerals weekend, July 29, 30, 31. The theater is located on Route 2 in East Dixfield.

For 12 years, Countryfolk has brought this annual event together with more than 50 volunteer musicians, craft and mineral exhibitors for a weekend of country music to raise donations for the annual awarding of youth music scholarships and donations to the local food bank.

Friday night, July 29, offers a campfire jam session for musicians, their families and the public. Saturday, July 30th offers free exhibitors space for gems and minerals, crafts, antiques and other old, Maine-type exhibits. All are welcome to join the fun says Larry Bisbee, operator of Countryfolk. Bisbee went on to say, “We have a 2-acre field for exhibitors and we can park 125 cars.”

Saturday also features a Country Jamboree from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.,  with new musicians and vocalists every half hour on two covered stages. There is also a free bean supper at 5 p.m. Any donations support the scholarship project.

Sunday morning begins with a campfire breakfast (bring your own and cook it over the campfire) at 8 a.m., and Cowboy Church with Country Music Hall of Famer Ginger Mae Dyer at 10 a.m. The music starts again at  noon with Nickels and Dimes and Off The Hill on stage one and Stained Grass with Forrest Blood and friends on Stage two. A pot luck meal starts at 1 p.m. in the covered spectator building along with youth music scholarship awards, a clogging dance demonstration and a special guest appearance by Ginny Palmer at 1:30 p.m. with the country music continuing until 6 p.m.

Among this year’s performers are: Mary and Maurice Belanger from Manchester, Arizona Rose (aka Sandy Waite Haskell) and the Ric Rich Band of Farmington; Herman Leblanc and Becky Law of Turner; Lorelie Dodge and Art Ploof of South Paris and Poland; Terry Moore of Livermore falls; Owen Donnell of Leeds; The Bloods of Jay and New Vineyard; Off The Hill of Livermore and Fayette; The Pinkhams of Farmington and Wilton; Norm and Trudy Crowley of Wilton; Aubrey Farrington of West Paris; Seminole Wind (Jeff and Donna Wells) of  Farmington; and Christine LaPointe of Jay with others being added.

All events are free to the public. Musicians, exhibitors and their families may camp over free of charge, Bisbee said.

“This is a community gathering” Bisbee said, “and we have a lot of fun doing it each year,” Bisbee said.  “Our mission is to provide a venue to showcase Maine talent, young and older, and to award youth music scholars,” he said.

For more information, contarct Larry Bisbee at 645-4411.