Greg Boardman, a fiddler and music teacher known for decades as a pillar of Maine’s folk music community, celebrates the release of his new CD with a concert at 8 p.m. Friday, April 30, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Bates College, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n
The event is open to the public. A donation at the door is requested. For more information, please call 207-786-6135.<\/p>\n
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An Auburn resident, Boardman has performed in folk venues all over Maine during his 30-year career. His new recording, Divine Waltz<\/em>, is a collection of tunes he has written over the past several years, performed more or less in a traditional Down East style — “acoustically delivered with a chamber-rock edge,” says Boardman.<\/p>\n Joining him at Bates will be several musicians featured on the disc, including Chris Prickitt, banjo; Beth Borgerhoff, accordion and piano; Peter Sturtevant, guitar; Jeff Taylor, bass; and Mike Hansen, percussion. Boardman’s sons Isaac, Ethan and Aidan will also perform, as will fiddler Ellen Gawler. From Bates, where Boardman is a member of the applied music faculty, participating musicians include seniors Jessie Gagne-Hall, fiddle; Mike Roberts, bass and dobro; and the folk choir Northfield.<\/p>\n Boardman has performed with the Northern Valley Boys, Old Grey Goose, the Ben Guillemette Ensemble and Timbrel. He practices a fiddle style inspired by such musicians as Don Messer, Simon St. Pierre, Otto Soper and Fairport Convention’s Dave Swarbrick, the English folk-rocker who first moved Boardman to swap his electric guitar for a fiddle.<\/p>\n Boardman’s solo recordings include Century Reel<\/em>, In Came a Fiddler<\/em> and Chantons<\/em>, a Franco-American song collaboration with Michael Parent.<\/p>\n As a promoter of traditional fiddle music Boardman founded or co-founded a number of popular fiddling events, including (with the late Shirley Littlefield), Maine\u2019s longest-running fiddle contest, the East Benton Fiddlers’ Convention.<\/p>\n He has also long been involved in the state’s burgeoning country-dance scene. Boardman teaches strings for the Lewiston School Department as well as for Bates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greg Boardman, a fiddler and music teacher known for decades as a pillar of Maine’s folk music community, celebrates the release of his new CD with a concert at 8 p.m. Friday, April 30, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Bates College, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,39,14],"tags":[3592,3974,6135,6889,8790,9087],"class_list":["post-33838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-event-highlights","category-faculty-staff","tag-folk-music","tag-greg-boardman","tag-music-tag","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-traditional-fiddle-music","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92871,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33838\/revisions\/92871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}