Barry Lawson and Kent Ippolito Submitted photo

Bluegrass, newgrass, fiddle tunes, swing, and Americana music featuring mandolin by Barry Lawson and guitar by Kent Ippolito comes to the Oasis of Music beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday Sept. 25, at Trinity Commons in Lewiston.

A relative newcomer to Maine, Lawson brings two decades of experience in the Virginia acoustic music scene, on mandolin, guitar, and upright bass. He has performed and recorded with The Honey Dewdrops, Mill Run Bluegrass Band, and Gene and Gayla Mills, and has also performed as part of various bands based in Richmond, Virginia.

Since the 1980’s, multi-instrumentalist Ippolito has performed and recorded with numerous artists, including Stony Man, John Starling and Carolina Star, Laurie Rose Griffith and Peter Mealy, Stuart Whitford, and Vertical Land. He plays guitar and mandolin-family instruments, as well as dobro and clawhammer banjo.

The Oasis of Music is a weekly music series of performances of roughly thirty minutes, running from September to May. Admission is free, with donations accepted. The musical genres vary greatly, in largely, but not exclusively, acoustic formats. Trinity Commons is located at 247 Bates St., Lewiston. For more information, call 207-344-3106.