LEWISTON — La Rencontre will meet at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 4, at the Franco-American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar St. The center will serve a full-course turkey dinner with dessert and beverage. The cost of the meal is $7 per person. After the meal, patrons will be entertained by Betty Cody and Denny Breau. Patrons are encouraged to speak only French during the meal.

During more than 30 years as a full-time musician, Breau has performed with many well-known artists and picked alongside outstanding guitarists including Bryan Sutton, Harvey Reid, J.P. Cormier, Pat Donohue, Dan Crary and Steve Kaufman. Breau was a member of roots music trio, Turkey Hollow, with Tom Rowe and Tom’s son, Dave, starting in 1998. He was inducted into the Maine Country Music Hall of Fame in 2004 as the youngest inductee in the history of the organization.

For a brief span during the early 1950s, Cody stood side by side with honky tonk queens like Kitty Wells and Goldie Hill. “Betty Cody was the closest to Kitty Wells in both plaintive vocal style and heartache lyric content,” wrote Mary A. Bufwack and Robert K. Oermann in Finding Her Voice: The Saga of Women in Country Music. Cody shored up her country music credentials by learning to yodel by listening to Patsy Montana’s 1935 hit “I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart.” She found work at local radio stations with first appearances at WCOU Radio in Lewiston at the age of 15. In the early ’50s Cody reached the height of her career when the act signed to RCA and initiated a series of recordings. Cody’s formative training paid off when “Tom Tom Yodel” became a hit in 1952.

Everyone is invited to attend La Rencontre and reservations can be made by calling Claudette Violette at 786-6936 or the center at 783-1585.