Lincoln County Community Theater is pleased to present live in concert:  SKIP GORMAN,  MUSIC OF THE OLD WEST, with special guests The Oyster Creek Fiddlers, on Friday May 16th at 7 p.m.   Skip returns to Lincoln Theater to present a program with emphasis on his fiddling and the work featured in two of Ken Burns' documentaries, Baseball and Lewis & Clark: The Core of Discovery.  He will be joined by The Oyster Creek Fiddlers, a local group of youngsters from the Damariscotta region who fiddle for the love of music.  They have been invited to open the show for Skip and will join him in the end in a special finale. 

Skip is an accomplished Celtic and Western-style fiddler.  He has performed on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, at bluegrass festivals, cowboy gatherings, and folk venues throughout the U.S. and Europe.  He has released numerous CDs and recordings.  Through his music, Skip brings back to life the workaday world of the cowboys of the American West.  His music is not the music of the Hollywood cowboy, but rather the simple, yet beautifully poignant music that was performed around campfires by cowboys and westward settlers in the 19th century.  Gorman brings to the music a scholar's knowledge of the cowboy's Celtic, Spanish and Afro-American roots as well as the personal experience gained by working as a cowboy on a ranch in Wyoming, along with an exquisite touch as a singer, guitarist, fiddler and mandolinist.  We are honored to welcome him back to Lincoln Theater.

"The lonesome ache that is in the core of Skip Gorman's voice and fiddling fits close to the bones of the slope country, the rough breaks, the bunchgrass high plains.  These traditional cowboy songs, unadorned, openly sad, sometimes lively or gritty, carry the distance and solitude of the West in them."    E. Annie Proulx, Author               

Tickets are $12 for adults and $8 for children twelve and under.  Tickets are available at the theater box office (563-3424) and at the Maine Coast Book Shop.  Don't miss this special evening of music and talent!