NORTH WATERFORD — Singer-songwriter

will perform at the North Waterford Church on Route 35, opposite Melby’s eatery, at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 27. A free-will offering will be taken to help the church build a new bathroom.

Hooper is a Maine singer-songwriter living on a small farm nestled in the unorganized territory of Albany Township. He has been singing, playing and writing for more than three decades.

Originally from Chicago, Hooper moved to Maine, the land of his bloodlines, in 1980. He writes and performs songs that are raw and intuitive; lyrics fueled by years of hard-mileage and universal truths. Hooper’s voice is “smooth like whiskey, sweet like an old guitar.”