The Thornton Academy String Quartet will perform at the Oasis of Music beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 23, at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston. Their program will include the first movement of Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 6 in B flat Major, Op. 18, plus arrangements of pop and movie […]
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Folk country duo coming to Oasis
The folk country duo Darling Corey will perform at the Oasis of Music beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 16, at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston. As a duo, Matt Shipman and Erica Brown feature a delightful blend of vocal harmonies accompanied by fiddle, banjo, mandolin and guitars. From thoughtful […]
Seyir Duo bringing Middle Eastern music to the Oasis
Middle Eastern music specialists Nathan Kolosko and Eric Laperna will perform at the Oasis of Music beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 9, at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston. Known as the Seyir Duo, LaPerna and Kolosko perform music which spans from the mystic world of the Sufis to the […]
Denny Breau to perform at Oasis of Music
Local “guitar slinger” and vocalist Denny Breau will perform at the Oasis of Music beginning at 12:30 pm. on Wednesday, Jan. 26, at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston. Breau, a cross-genre mainstay in the state of Maine and beyond, started playing guitar when he was 9 years old and was performing […]
Duo of Elsie Gawler and Ethan Tichler grace Oasis of Music
Elsie Gawler and Ethan Tichler will perform at the Oasis of Music beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 19, at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston. Gawler met Tischler at Maine Fiddle Camp in 2016 and from there they grew a musical connection that eventually turned into a partnership and musical […]
Accordionist to perform at Oasis of Music
Popular local singer and accordionist Lorraine Ouellette will perform at the Oasis of Music beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 12, at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston. Her repertoire includes popular songs sung in English and in French, along with the occasional jig tunes, so beloved in her Franco-American community […]
Singer-songwriter Stan Davis will perform at the Oasis of Music
Multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Stan Davis will perform at the Oasis of Music beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday Dec. 15, at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston. Stan Davis decided to play the guitar at age twelve, after attending a concert by Pete Seeger. More than fifty years later, his finger-style, slide, and […]
Somali music highlighted at Oasis of Music
Hadithi Bani-Adam and and Mohamed Ali Ibrahim will perform at the Oasis of Music beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday Dec. 8, the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston. Bani-Adam is a singer of traditional songs and a singer-songwriter, who accompanies himself on the oud, the traditional plucked string instrument of the Middle […]
Flute duo to perform at Oasis of Music
The flute duo of Chris Lansley and Sally Grube will perform at the Oasis of Music beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 1, at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston. The duo have named their program “Classical Men and Modern Women,” with music by Telemann, Handel, Corelli, Chedeville and Haydn, plus […]