Thursday, 7-9pm
August 4th | $35
at the Strand Theatre
In celebration of 50 years of boats building people, a benefit concert is being held for The Apprenticeshop. Founded in 1972 by Lance Lee, The Apprenticeshop is a small non-profit on Rockland's waterfront. We provide hands-on experiences in the traditional crafts of wooden boat building and seamanship. Over the last 50 years our reach has extended across the world and along the coast of Maine, peppering communities with boatbuilders, craftspeople and seafarers. Since occupying our current home in Rockland, we have deepened our community connection by providing experiential education and water access to local youth through summer sailing camps and expanded school programming. In an age of digital technology and social isolation, we are proud to be a place of real connections -- to our coastal heritage, to natural materials and our environment, and to each other. At The Apprenticeshop, boats are the vessel to build resilient individuals within a strong community.
The Chivalrous Crickets are an East-coast based American group formed in 2018. Exploring the roots, branches, and crossroads of Celtic, English, and American folk music, with a focus on boldly re-imagined arrangements of standards, and original songs with traditional influence, they bring their backgrounds in traditional Irish, English, Appalachian, popular, and early Classical (Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque) music to the stage and the studio in an exhilarating and thrumming blend of instrumental timbers, lavish vocal harmonies, and rich history treated with creative twists. The Crickets specialize in using historical and orchestral instruments, as well as the usual suspects, in their arrangements. Some of these include various lutes, a Renaissance bassoon called a dulcian, the baroque guitar, and Medieval pipes.
Thanks to our sponsor for this event!
