PHILLIPS – The Maranacook String Band will bring their beautiful Appalachian-sounding vocal harmonies to the Phillips Area Community Center on Saturday, July 18.
The String Band, which was founded at Maranacook Community High School in 2009 as part of the Gifted & Talented Education Program, has drawn large audiences and rave reviews all around Central Maine ever since, and has played at the Phillips Center before, always to an enthusiastic and appreciative crowd.
The band features two stellar young vocalists — 21-year-old Julie Churchill of Livermore, and 13-year-old Dana Reynolds of Wayne. “Individually or together, they sound like angels,” said band founder and director Stan Keach, himself a nationally-known Bluegrass songwriter who lately specializes in writing songs about Maine topics. Keach’s 2012 CD, Cry of the Loon and other original songs about Maine, features members of the String Band, and includes such crowd-pleasers as Slow Down (You’ll Hit a Moose) and Logger’s Son. Instrumentally, the band will feature new member Perrin Davidson, a 14-year-old virtuoso banjoist from Brunswick.
The Community Center is located at 21 Depot Street. The concert will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Adults – $10; students – $5; children 5 and under are free. Delicious refreshments will be available for sale at intermission. This concert will benefit the Phillips Area Arts Association.
