Tapestry Singers had planned a musical tribute to the Maine Bicentennial. Rehearsals began in January 2020 and then the pandemic shut everything down.This is our belated bicentennial celebration with nods to Maine’s cultural roots. Guest artists, Julia Lane and Fred Gosbee (who form the duo Castlebay) have worked in collaboration with Tapestry Singers’ director, Beth Preston to include pieces from their recently published Bygone Ballads of Maine vol 1- Songs of Ships & Sailors. The concert program includes folk songs of the woods and the waterfront, Algonquin and Penobscot water songs, and arrangements of Shaker tunes. Tapestry is particularly pleased to perform new pieces by Maine composers, Stuart Gillespie and Matt LaBerge, and a 1794 hymn from “The Harmony of Maine” by Supply Belcher. Also on the program are arrangements of French Canadian and Scottish folks songs. Three pieces are based on the works of some of Maine’s most prolific poets: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Philip Booth.