Our penultimate show of the year starts early- 5pm. Enjoy The Dopplegangers and The Huddled Masses!
The DOPPLEGANGERS: Kenny Raskin and RF Berks met in 2015 at the Maine Fiddle Camp. They found that they both have a love of folk and Americana music. They also found out that many people at the camp thought they were brothers. The deal was sealed when RF’s daughter mistook Kenny for her father. Thus, The Doppelgangers were born. Both RF and Kenny have had their own musical careers but revel in the camaraderie of playing together.
When Kenny was 8 years old, his father’s friend Harry gave him a ukulele. He proceeded to teach him two songs: Tom Dooley and Scotch and Soda. He played the ukulele until 11 years old. Then he discovered girls, and promptly bought a guitar. That ukulele, however, was the gateway into a fifty-year plus love affair with playing music on multiple instruments. In 2018, Kenny released his debut CD, entitled MY GREATEST HITS! Kenny is also known internationally as an accomplished actor and theatre clown, having appeared on Broadway and with Cirque du Soleil, as well as on television and variety stages in the US, France, England, Chile, Germany and China.
www.kennyraskin.com
RF Berks found a Sears guitar in the attic when he was 15 and began carrying it everywhere he went. Whenever he met a kid that could play a song or guitar lick he would make them show him how it worked until eventually he learned enough to form a band. He learned most of what he knows about music long before he studied and obtained a degree in the subject. He has been writing songs for over twenty years, and released an album TREAT ME WELL a couple of years ago on the usual streaming platforms. It was an eclectic mix of styles with contributing musicians from around the world.
https://www.facebook.com/secondthoughtmusic
THE HUDDLED MASSES:
The Huddled Masses is a nine-member brass band based in Waldo County, Maine. They specialize in Serbian-style brass band music and also incorporate an eclectic mix of tunes from various cultures, along with Gospel and Dixieland-style shouts.
The band consists of two trumpets, two trombones, a clarinet, a tenor sax, percussion, an accordion, and a tuba.
Thank you to this weeks Concert Sponsor Marshall Wharf Brewing Co in addition to all of our series community sponsors and folks like you who have donated in the baskets this summer! You all make this series possible. ❤️👏🎶
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