The Festival features an active children's area with face painting, music-making, a book corner, and a dress-up area. Henryfest always features a popular Pie Table, offering a myriad of home-baked pies sold by the slice. The local food vendors featured at this year's festival include Mr. Sippy's BBQ, Otto Pizza, Taco Trio, Toots Ice Cream, Kids Gone Raw, and Allagash Brewing.
Headliner Aoife O'Donovan (pronounced EEF-ah) grew up in a musical family, immersed in folk music. A hugely talented singer and songwriter, she studied contemporary improvisation at the New England Conservatory of Music in her hometown of Boston. Aoife is a founding member of the Boston-based newgrass sensations Crooked Still, and is also a member of the folk-noir trio Sometymes Why. Most recently she recorded and performed with Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Stuart Duncan and Chris Thile as a guest vocalist on The Goat Rodeo Sessions. She has maintained a wide variety of side projects and collaborations, working with numerous other artists including Ollabelle, Karan Casey and Seamus Egan, Jerry
The Stray Birds draw upon the richness of American folk music traditions with outstanding songwriting that soars in three-part harmony. The versatile trio plays fiddle, guitar, mandolin, banjo, and upright bass. Raised on music in the farmland of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, The Stray Birds were born of a compelling collaboration between two unique writers and vocalists: the pure, luxurious voice of Maya de Vitry and Oliver Craven's richness of tone and depth of delivery. Grounding their sound in the unshakeable groove of bassist Charles Muench, The Stray Birds are a trio of captivating chemistry and sensitive musicality.
This Way is an alternative country band based in Portland, Maine. 317 Main instructor Andrew Martelle plays fiddle and mandolin with the band. With influences ranging from Waylon Jennings to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young to Paul Simon, the band's sound is laced with thick vocal harmonies, acoustic guitar, fiddle, mandolin, foot stomping rhythm and down-home grit. This Way was named Best Roots Act of 2011 by The Portland Phoenix and nominated for Best Roots/Americana/Folk Act and Best Maine Act of the Year by the 2012 New England Music Awards. Their new CD is due out in September.
Cumberland Crossing is a bluegrass band featuring some of the top pickers from throughout Southern Maine. The Lay-Z-Gait Band plays western swing and features 317 instructors Tom Whitehead on guitar and Andy Happel on fiddle. Two 317 student emsembles made up largely of very talented teenagers will perform at the festival, playing a wide range of music ranging from traditional bluegrass to acoustic arrangements of their favorite contemporary rock songs.
Henryfest is generously sponsored by Maine magazine, Dead River Company, Allagash Brewing, Coffee by Design, MaineOrtho, Norway Savings, Verrill Dana, and WMPG. All proceeds will benefit 317 Main Community Center.
Admission at the gate is $20 per individual or $40 per family. Advance tickets are available only at 317 Main Community Music Center, 317 Main Street in Yarmouth and are $18 per individual or $35 per family. Parking at the event is free. In the event of rain, an alternate indoor rain location will be announced on 317's web site at www.317mainst.org
317 Main Community Music Center is a registered 501c3 non-profit organization founded in 2004. 317 Main offers private, semi-private and group lessons for all ages in guitar, banjo, violin/fiddle, mandolin, acoustic bass, dobro, piano, cello, flute, harp, and voice. 317 Main Street also offers lessons at a satellite campus in Portland at Acoustic Artisans, 1 Forest Ave. For more information on offerings, contact 317 Main Street at (207) 846-9559 or visit the web site at www.317mainst.org
For more information, call (207) 837-8849 or go to www.317mainst.com.
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