Songs from the Logging Camps concert is April 22

BETHEL — The Bethel Historical Society’s Bethel250 Program Series will host folk singers Sara Grey and Brian Miller.
The performance is 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 22, at West Parish Congregational Church, 32 Church St.

Grey and Miller will perform a one-hour musical performance, Songs from the Logging Camps. The concert will showcase songs that migrated from Ireland to the logging camps of New England, Canada, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
A featured performer of traditional song in the U.S. and Britain for more than 40 years, Grey sings and plays the five-string banjo. Her rare and extraordinary trove of traditional songs were gleaned from a lifetime steeped in traditional music on both sides of the Atlantic. Now living in Maine, she grew up in New Hampshire, but has lived in many parts of the U.S. and the U.K.
Miller joins Grey in reviving the Irish-influenced songs of men who roamed the Great Lakes region in the days “when pine was king.” As a member of the Irish traditional group Bua, Miller has toured throughout the U.S. and Canada. His love of his home state of Minnesota led him to the rich but under-explored musical traditions that were once shared by woods singers throughout North America’s historic pine forests.
Also performing will be Bethel’s Carrie Grover, a Nova Scotia native who graduated from and taught music at Gould Academy.
Admission is free, but donations to help offset the program cost will be accepted. For more information, call 207-824-2908.