FARMINGTON — New England Celtic Arts in collaboration with PEI’s Festival of Small Halls will present world-famous fiddler Richard Wood with Gordon Belsher at the Mexico Congregational Church on Wednesday, May 6, and at North Church in Farmington, for the Farmington Historical Society, on Thursday, May 7. Both concerts start at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15.

A jam session begins at 6:15 in both locations. Audience members are encouraged to bring their musical instruments to the jam sessions.

For more than two decades, Wood has impressed audiences  across Canada, as well as in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. Highlights include TV guest appearances with Shania Twain on David Letterman and “Good Morning America,” Carnegie Hall with Irish legends The Chieftains, a featured performer on CBC’s Canada Day on Parliament Hill, “Rita MacNeil and Friends,” and with Jean Butler of Riverdance on “Celtic Electric.”

Wood has played for Canada’s prime minister and governor general, the queen of England (in Toronto), and for the emperor of Japan in Tokyo. In the late 1990s he toured the United Kingdom and Europe headlining concert halls and folk festivals. He’s since played at the Lincoln Centre in New York City, Epcot at Disney World, and was a featured performer in the touring fiddle spectacle “Bowfire.”

He has five previous CD recordings and has won three Canadian East Coast Music Awards. MacLean’s Magazine named him one of the Top 100 Canadians to watch in the 21st Century.

Gordon Belsher has been entertaining audiences in Canada and around the world for more than a quarter of a century performing solo at concerts, ceilidhs, conventions and pubs.

The Mexico Congregational Church is at 163 Main St. Mexico. For reservations call 207-562-4445. North Church is located at 118 High St., Farmington. For reservations at North Church call: 207-778-2006. FMI http://www.necelticarts.com