LEWISTON — “He felt like he was a painter and his colors were the musical notes from his guitar.”

That’s how Denny Breau remembers his brother, the late legendary jazz guitarist Lenny Breau. Today, 26 years after his death, the “Lenny Legacy” is being carried forward with the second annual concert benefiting the Lenny Breau Memorial Scholarship.

This year’s show, called “Celebration of the Guitar,” will feature performances by several nationally acclaimed guitarists. It will take place from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 10, at the Franco-American Heritage Center.

The benefit show lineup includes Denny Breau, Mark “Guitar” Miller, Kevin Kimball with Blue Steel Express, Arlo West with The Pinecasters and Ken Goodman with The Distributors.

Bob Thompson, of Portland, a highly regarded guitar clinician who has performed across the country and taught guitar most of his adult life, will demonstrate Lenny Breau’s guitar-playing technique, said Goodman, concert organizer.

Thompson, who has taught at the University of Maine at Augusta and Berklee College of Music’s Summer Guitar Sessions, will also put on an impromptu clinic.

Guest musicians who will lend their skills for backup at the concert are Ray Arsenault, Randy Donovan, Paul Mellyn, Frank Coffin, Bub Lynch, Don Whitcomb, Deb Danuski, Steve Grove, and Pam Manning.

Musicians will perform half-hour sets and the concert will conclude with an all-star jam session.

Goodman said the event not only assists aspiring guitarists with a scholarship, but also “raises awareness that we had one of the best on the planet” in the talents of Lenny Breau.

The audience will likely include many people who knew and played with Breau years ago, and, Goodman noted, the event will provide a good opportunity for networking among audience members.

A native of Auburn, Lenny Breau was the son of country music personalities Hal Lone Pine (Harold Breau) and Betty Cody. He started playing guitar at age 8; and by age 15, he was the band’s lead guitarist. His genius for innovation developed in the later years of his life as he melded classical, flamenco and country styles with jazz. He performed with many jazz greats and appeared on the Jackie Gleason and Joey Bishop television shows. Breau’s career took him to Canada for several years.

His stellar talents also had a tragic side of drug addiction. His death came at age 43, the victim of a still-unsolved murder.

“Had he not had those demons and if he were alive today, we have to wonder how great Lenny Breau would have been,” Goodman said. The fact that lessons on his technique are still given today is testimony to Breau’s musical influence.

According to Denny Breau, it’s hoped that the scholarship fund can be grown to $10,000. That would support an annual award of $500 for recipients expected to come from the Lewiston-Auburn area.

Sound production for the concert will be provided by Jeff St. Amand of LA Music Productions.

The Franco Center, at 46 Cedar St., will provide a cash bar and a lunch menu during the entire event.

Tickets, $15, are available at Bull Moose music store and L/A Arts (782-7228 or www.laarts.org). Anyone interested in sponsorship, volunteering or exhibiting memorabilia or vintage instruments may call Goodman at 577-5701 or Kimball at 353-5796.