Old South Church welcomes back a Maine based youthful favorite, fiddler Owen Kennedy to Farmington on Thursday, August 14th at 7pm. Admission is adults $15 and students $10. Doors will open at 6:30pm. Until 2pm on the day of the concert, tickets can be purchased online or reserved by calling the ticket reservation line at 207-491-5919. Tickets will be available at the door beginning at 6:30pm prior to the concert. Cash or check accepted as payment at the door.
Residing with his family in Winthrop, Maine, Owen Kennedy is an eighteen-year-old
fiddler whose love of traditional music and enthusiasm for performing has captivated
audiences from San Diego to the Shetland Islands and all-over New England. Owen is the
2022 New England Regional Open Scottish Fiddle Champion, the 2021 Junior US
National Scottish Fiddle Champion, and won the 2021 Young Stars of Maine "Glenn
Jenks Future in Music” prize. He was selected for Best of All Things Irish from the Maine Irish Heritage Center and received a Passim Iguana Music Fund Grant for work on his debut album, "Oh When: Now", which is out... now! As an emerging musician rooted in the Maine Maritime music tradition and exploring the music of Scotland, "Oh When: Now" features the tunes Owen has loved for years as well as newer favorites from Scotland, Cape Breton, and Shetland. The album is a musical snapshot of the places Owen has visited and the musicians he's played with and learned from. Many talented Maine folks were part of this project: it was recorded with Owen Marshall, mixed by Noah Fishman, mastered by Lincoln Clapp, with album design by Elsie Gawler and duplication from Crooked Cove.
Owen performs in duos with both Seán Heely and Ethan Tischler and in various groups including the Pineland Fiddlers, the Young Tradition Youth Commission, and as a Youth Artist Leader in Vermont’s Young Tradition Touring Group. Owen has shared the stage with Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy, Genticorum, Claude Méthé, Pete Sutherland & Oliver Scanlon, Andrea Beaton & Troy MacGillivray, and Owen Marshall. Owen has been involved with a solo project, 50 Fiddlers from 50 States. He attended two years in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia at the Beinn Mhàbu Gaelic Foundations: Living Cultures program beginning the fall of 2023.
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