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Junior Scottish fiddle champion and Oasis favorite Owen Kennedy will perform at the Oasis of Music beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 26, at Trinity Church in Lewiston.

The Maine fiddler is a seventeen-year-old award-winning musician whose love of traditional music and enthusiasm for performing has captivated audiences from San Diego to the Shetland Islands and all over New England. Kennedy is the 2022 New England Regional Open Scottish Fiddle Champion, the 2021 Junior US National Scottish Fiddle Champion, he won the Young Stars of Maine “Glenn Jenks Future in Music” prize from Bay Chamber Music School, and was selected for Best of All Things Irish from the Maine Irish Heritage Center. As an emerging musician rooted in the Maine Maritime tradition and immersed in his growing passion for Scottish music, his powerful playing can capture the melancholy of a Scottish air, mimic the sound of pipes in a march, or drive a good ol’ New England contradance tune.

The Oasis of Music is a weekly music series of performances of roughly thirty minutes, running from September to May. Admission is free, with donations accepted. The musical genres vary greatly, in largely, but not exclusively, acoustic formats. COVID restrictions of optional mask-wearing and social distancing are observed. Trinity Church is located at 247 Bates St., Lewiston. For more information, call 207-344-3106.