When:
May 21, 2023 @ 3:00 pm
America/New York Timezone
2023-05-21T15:00:00-04:00
2023-05-21T15:15:00-04:00
Where:
Maine Irish Heritage Center
34 Gray St
Portland, ME 04112
USA
34 Gray St
Portland, ME 04112
USA
Cost:
$10.00 - $20.00
Contact:
Maine Irish Heritage Center
On May 21st at 3 pm, champion fiddlers Seán Heely and Owen Kennedy will play a special afternoon of Celtic Fiddle & Song at the Maine Irish Heritage Center in Portland, featuring beautiful bouzouki & fiddle duets, haunting slow airs, lively Gaelic songs, mighty pipe marches, and wild twin fiddling. They will also include a few tunes from Owen’s debut album, “Oh When: Now” which was released in April 2023. CDs from both performers will be available to purchase.
Champion Celtic fiddler and singer Seán Heely is rapidly emerging as one of his generation’s most creatively versatile and captivating young artists. He is a U.S National Scottish Fiddle Champion and an award-winning Irish Fiddler and folksinger specializing in Scottish Gaelic.
Owen Kennedy is a seventeen-year-old fiddler from Maine whose love of traditional music and enthusiasm for performing has charmed audiences from San Diego to the Shetland Islands and all over New England. In addition to winning the Junior US National Scottish Championship and the New England Open Scottish Fiddle Competition, Owen was awarded the Young Stars of Maine “Glenn Jenks Future in Music” Prize from Bay Chamber Music School in 2019 and was selected for “Best of All Things Irish” from the Maine Irish Heritage Center in 2021. Since 2019, Owen & Seán have been performing in venues and events across Maine.
For more information about this duo, go to www.fiddlerokennedy.com/owen-sean