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Celtic Tunes Echo Through Maine in March
2011 Winter
Maine is a popular stop for touring Irish and Scottish music acts any time of year, but each March local performance spaces get particularly crowded with Celtic music. Here are a few performers hitting stages in Maine before and after St. Patrick's Day.
Scotland-born harpist and singer Maeve Gilchrist and her quartet will play the Unity Centre for the Performing Arts in Unity on March 10. The Unity Centre will also host "Bowfire" featured fiddler Richard Wood from Prince Edward Island, Canada, on March 31. The seven-piece Northern Ireland-based family band McPeake will perform at the Franco-American Heritage Center in Lewiston on March 14, while The Saw Doctors, an international-touring group and record holders of Ireland's top-selling single of all time, will play at Port City Music Hall in Portland on March 15. Veteran all-female group Cherish The Ladies will perform on St. Patrick's Day (March 17) at Stone Mountain Arts Center in Brownfield. And legendary Irish fiddler Kevin Burke of Bothy Band and Patrick Street fame teams up with versatile American guitarist Cal Scott for a show on March 26 at One Longfellow Square in Portland.
Scotland-born harpist and singer Maeve Gilchrist and her quartet will play the Unity Centre for the Performing Arts in Unity on March 10. The Unity Centre will also host "Bowfire" featured fiddler Richard Wood from Prince Edward Island, Canada, on March 31. The seven-piece Northern Ireland-based family band McPeake will perform at the Franco-American Heritage Center in Lewiston on March 14, while The Saw Doctors, an international-touring group and record holders of Ireland's top-selling single of all time, will play at Port City Music Hall in Portland on March 15. Veteran all-female group Cherish The Ladies will perform on St. Patrick's Day (March 17) at Stone Mountain Arts Center in Brownfield. And legendary Irish fiddler Kevin Burke of Bothy Band and Patrick Street fame teams up with versatile American guitarist Cal Scott for a show on March 26 at One Longfellow Square in Portland.
