Tour Featured Musicians
Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown is a longtime fixture on the Portland music scene as well as along the midcoast and on Vinalhaven. For several years now, his fame has spread as, each December, he assembles instrumental musicians and vocalists to perform Handel’s Messiah in bars from Portland to Rockland. “The Barroom Messiah” attracts crowds to marvel and sing along. Charlie also teaches piano and is currently the music director at Nativity Lutheran Church in Rockport.
Anderson Gray
Anderson Gray was born and raised in Woolwich, Maine, and began playing violin at the age of four. Growing up in the Midcoast, he learned his craft while attending Maine Fiddle Camp and the Bay Chamber summer programs, and studying with Dino Liva of the DaPonte String Quartet. While attending Amherst College, Anderson was a member of the Amherst Symphony Orchestra and soloist performing Beethoven's Romance No. 1 in G. His string quartet, entitled "Shore", has been performed by the Wistaria String Quartet at both Amherst and at the Hilltown Chautauqua Festival in Cummington, Massachusetts. Each of the Quartet's five movements looks to capture the spirit of a coastal landscape Anderson holds dear. He has played with The Gilded Age Orchestra of Newport and the Narragansett Bay Symphony Orchestra, and appears in the last episode of the first season of HBO's The Gilded Age performing the Finale from Festival-Quadrille Op. 341. Anderson and his wife Arla own and operate Gray Canvasworks, a marine canvas fabrication company in Rockport.
Ami & Ina
Ami Wolovitz is a rising 9th grader in Camden. She has been playing violin for 7 years and has won 1st place awards in the Young Stars of Maine (2022) and Pine Tree Competition (2021, 2023). She plays in the Kennebec Valley Youth Symphony, and attends the Envision Workshop at Bay Chamber Music School, Kneisel Hall Program for Maine Students, and Kinhaven Music School in the summer. Ami also enjoys singing, reading, sewing, snuggling with her pup, and being with friends.
Ina Wolovitz will be going to college in the fall. She has been playing piano for 11 years and hopes to minor in music. She has played in masterclasses for Pedja Muzijevic and Antonio Galera, as well as participated in chamber music camps, such as Envision and Kneisel Hall. She also actively accompanies other students at Bay Chamber Music School. Outside of music, Ina enjoys crocheting, reading, volunteering with Habitat for Humanity, and playing Ultimate Frisbee.
Greg Dorr
Greg Dorr is self-taught on the mandolin, guitar and fiddle. instruments, including the fiddle, He started playing with a contradance band called Karl’s Dad’s Tavern. Dorr volunteers for the Midcoast Habitat For Humanity ReStore when he's not learning a new piece or performing. He lives in Camden with his wife, Susan, and their beloved boxer, Edie, one of his most adoring fans. Every summer, Greg enjoys performing at the Pleasant River Grange on Vinalhaven and can be found busking throughout the area at local farmers’ markets.
Jamie Allen
Jamie Allen is a musician and gardener. His mother was a classical pianist, and his grandfather played piano for silent movies; music significantly influenced Allen’s life. He became a fiddle and flute player and taught himself to play many other instruments, such as the penny whistle, guitar, and bass. Allen plays classical guitar and Celtic guitar at weddings and other occasions. Allen grew his first garden at seventeen and pursued this passion through apprenticeships on farms throughout New England. He moved to Midcoast Maine in 2014. He continues his work as a gardener and often plays music in downtown Camden on a sunny day.
Alex Bigney
Kirkmount is the name of a forgotten village in the hills of Nova Scotia. The white-washed church on the hill and the little graveyard are still there, but much of MacLellan's Mountain has once again returned to woods and barrens. The scattered stone foundations now hold families of spruce and maple and the memories of a few old-timers who return to visit their home. The one-room school house where folk danced strathspeys and reels all night to fiddles and the percussive banging of the piano is gone, but the Bigney family still plays the Celtic music their grampa, great-grampa and great-great-grampa played there. That Scotch snap, the irregular spikey rhythms and lingering melancholy notes once again paint memories and make feet tap.