AUBURN — The Maine Franco-American Genealogical Society is pleased to have Le Bon Truc, a trio of multi-instrumentalists and vocalists who play beautiful French folk-dance music, as its guest performers at its fall general membership meeting on Oct. 18th in the Androscoggin Community Room of the Auburn Public Library, 49 Spring St.
The music will begin at approximately 11 a.m. Prior to this performance, MFGS will hold a brief business meeting beginning at 10 am that will include board elections.
Light refreshments will be available. Admission to both the meeting and the performance is free and open to the public.
Le Bon Truc, a lively trio, will present folk dance music – such as bourrées, branles, mazurkas and schottisches from different regions of France. They will share descriptions of the accompanying dances and relate how they have adapted the music from traditional instruments to the ones they play, and how their performances are influenced by other musical styles. Amusing anecdotes about how they’ve come to play this music for over ten years may also be included!
Gary Chapin plays a variety of diatonic accordions, Barb Truex plays Appalachian dulcimer, tenor guitar and banjo-ukulele and Steve Gruverman plays clarinet, bass clarinet, flute and soprano sax. You don’t want to miss this talented trio!
Le Bon Truc also performs on a regular basis at The Oasis of Music, the weekly free concert at Trinity Commons in Lewiston.
There will be time for a question-and-answer session at the end of the performance.
MFGS is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote the study of Franco-American genealogy and genealogical research in the state of Maine.
For more information about MFGS visit www.mfgen.org
For more information about the meeting, contact Connie Hitchcock at [email protected].
For parking information at the Auburn Public Library, visit www.auburnpubliclibrary.org,
