“A WICKED GOOD TIME AT TOWN HALL!” RETURNS
April 4 & 5 “Celtic Songs and Stories” Updated-see below
May 2 & 3 “Mid-Life Crisis Cabaret”
Fed up with shoveling? Ice storms? News about the economy? You’re in for a treat! This winter, “A Wicked Good Time at Town Hall” returns to South Berwick, bringing you affordable entertainment once a month, through mud season and into spring.
!!Friday morning April 3, 9:30 AM-This update from Poolyle Productions!!
“Not only is it mud season, but it’s also cold, flu and in Jennifer Armstrong’s case, pneumonia season, so she will be unable to perform this weekend. That’s the bad news. The good news is that Jennifer called in a personal favor, and storyteller, musician and folklorist, Dillon Bustin has agreed to entertain us with stories and songs from his Irish heritage.
“A modern-day bard” with an “earthy soothing voice”(middlesex beat), Dillon has performed at Passim in Cambridge, the Iron Horse in Northampton, the Woods Hole Folk Music Society, the Folk Song Society of Greater Boston, The Sea Music Festival in Mystic, the Westerly Center for the Arts and Old South Meeting House in Boston to name a few. We feel very lucky to have found such a talented performer to grace our stage.
Thanks for your patience and support! In the words of Helen Keller, “Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all.”
Susan Poulin
“A Visit With Ida!” will be followed by “Celtic Songs and Stories” featuring Jennifer Armstrong, April 4 & 5. This amazingly talented musician and storyteller shares her Scottish border clan heritage in a delightful program of Scottish songs, stories, toe-tapping fiddling, Gaelic mouth music, bagpipes and ballads. Fun for the whole family!
Jennifer is a musical storyteller with a lifetime involvement in the folk arts. When she was five, Jennifer and her sister made bagpipes out of balloons and tinker toys, but ended up starting with the lap dulcimer instead. By age eight she added the fiddle, the guitar at ten and the banjo when she was twelve. It wasn’t until Jennifer was thirteen that she officially began learning to pipe. She attended Donald Lindsay’s Invermark College of Piping for a number of years during her teens.
In 1977, Jennifer began performing professionally, opening festivals, and piping at funerals, weddings and graduations. She works as an artist-in-residence and performer in schools, libraries, theaters and festivals all across Maine and around the country. She’s been featured at the National Storytelling Festival, been interviewed on NPR, performed as far away as Hong Kong and has seven (many award winning) recordings of music and stories to her name, as well as two children’s books.
The series concludes with “Mid-Life Crisis Cabaret,” a celebration of the not-quite-Golden Years, with Pat Spalding, Susan Poulin and Gordon Carlisle, May 2 & 3. If you can’t remember what you did in the 60’s, or where your keys are, this is the show for you! Does a night out with friends include hard to read menus, antacids and decaf? In the last week, have you had a conversation about aging parents, insomnia, knee, hip or hormone replacement? You may think a colonoscopy is nothing to sing about. We beg to differ! Rated GP 30: you must be over thirty to understand what we’re talking about!
“A Wicked Good Time at Town Hall” begins with “A Visit with Ida”, March 21 & 22, and continues with “Celtic Songs and Stories,” April 4 & 5, and “Mid-Life Crisis Cabaret!”, May 2 & 3. Performances are Saturdays at 7:00pm, and Sundays at 2:00pm, at South Berwick Town Hall, Main St., South Berwick, ME. There’s plenty of parking behind Town Hall and on Main Street. Tickets are $16, $13 for students, seniors and South Berwick residents, $6 for children under twelve. Or buy a Wicked Good Deal Pass (one ticket to all three plays): $41.95/$32.95, or a Not Too Shabby Pass (one ticket to two plays): $28.95/$22.95. Tickets are available at the door, or to reserve, call: 207-384-4526, or email: info@poolyle.com http://www.poolyle.com
