GREENE — The women’s barbershop group, The Mollyockett Chorus, will perform at 2 and 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 8, at the Sawyer Memorial.
The chorus sings barbershop style a capella harmony in four parts: tenor, lead, baritone, and bass.
Beginning in Norway with a core group of eight to 10 enthusiastic women, the chorus was chartered in 1996. They are a chapter of Sweet Adelines International, the world’s largest nonprofit musical education organization for women singers.
The chorus is committed to advancing the musical art form of barbershop harmony through education, fellowship, performance and maintaining a presence in communities all throughout Maine.
The name honors Mollyockett, a Pequawket Indian who was born between 1730 and 1740. She was a healer, artisan, storyteller and friend of settlers in the region.
The Araxine Wilkins Sawyer Memorial, 371 Sawyer Road.
FMI: Free admission, 946-5311, sawyer-foundation.com, www.facebook.com/sawyer.foundation1937.
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