Posted on September 21, 2010

First Annual “Harvest Hootenanny” Comes to Snow Bowl!

Saturday, October 9 is the day for the first annual, outdoor Harvest Hootenanny at the Camden Snow Bowl. Billed as a “community shindig,” it will be filled with live music, food and activities for the entire family. Things get started at 11AM and will wrap-up around 6PM.

Lincolnville native and Maine humorist Rosey Gerry will emcee the event, and will also be playing with his band The Breezemere Bottom Boys. This band started in 2002 with four performers and has gone up and down since, with sometimes as many as nine members. The Breezemere Bottom Boys bill themselves as players of hometown-type roots music, with a flavor of gospel bluegrass style, but not limited to all-gospel!

Slated to follow the Breezemere Bottom Boys, Lisa Redfern is an award-winning singer-songwriter who recently moved back to Maine from San Francisco. Lisa learned the guitar from her father, who had his musical beginnings with the legendary Seeger family hootenannies. She has performed with many notables including Pete Seeger, Dave Mallett and The Roches. She is the 2010 National Parenting Publications Gold Award for Children’s Music!

Next in the entertainment lineup, Wyatt McLean is a young singer/songwriter born and raised in Camden, Maine. His musical influences range from the bluegrass of Flatt and Scruggs, to Sinatra, to various 50′s folk acts. The son of musical legend Don McLean, Wyatt has proven to have talent of his own!

The Mallett Brothers Band—led by the sons of renowned folk singer/songwriter Dave Mallett—is a brand new alt country outfit grown out of the seedy underbelly of Northern New England’s ripe and eclectic music scene. Brothers Luke (vocals and acoustic guitar) and Will Mallett (vocals, acoustic and electric guitar) have written many of the band’s songs. With one foot in the muckiest of American country/bluegrass/folk/mountain music and another on the pulse of today’s postmodern musical sensibility, The Mallett Brothers Band creates a truly dynamic sound blending acoustic, vocal harmonies, with a touch of twang.

Roosevelt Dime, a Brooklyn NY-based band known for their blend of acoustic jug-band blues, classic Motown soul and modern alt-country rock. Their band includes Camden native Eben Pariser, and consists of a banjo, bass, drums/percussion, trumpet/cornet and woodwinds. Hard to classify because it is soulful, funky, New Orleans jazz, and vaudeville, their sound is humorous and always a crowd pleaser.

Rounding out the night is Gypsy Tailwind, a soulful Americana act out of Portland, led by Daniel Connor (vocals, guitar) and Amanda Gervasi (vocals, guitar, ukelele), that has taken the Northeast by storm. Gypsy Tailwind’s six-piece act also includes Camden-native Max Cantlin. In a matter of only three years, Gypsy Tailwind has gained a strong local and regional following. They routinely are sellout headliners in the Portland area.

In addition to the great music lineup, there will be food vendors, activities for everyone, pumpkin carving and pie baking competitions, and the first annual “CTC Olypics,” featuring local firefighters, police officers and town administrators.

This event is a joint fundraiser for the Five Towns Communities That Care and the West Bay Rotary Club. Tickets are $9, children under 12 get in free. Call 236-9800 or visit http://www.fivetownctc.org/participate/harvest-hootenanny/ for more information.

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