Meetinghouse Concert: Owen Kennedy & Seán Heely
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Friday, July 17, 2026
6pm-7:30pm
Tickets available at https://maineshakers.com/event/kennedy-heely/
Join us in the historic 1794 Shaker Meetinghouse as musicians Owen Kennedy and Seán Heely perform a program featuring beautiful bouzouki & fiddle duets, lively Scottish puirt à beul, haunting slow airs, mighty pipe marches, tragic Gaelic songs, and wild twin fiddling!
Maine musician Owen Kennedy is an award-winning fiddler rooted in the Maine Maritime and Scottish traditions. During his two years splitting time between Maine and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Owen studied Gaelic language, culture, and music at Beinn Mhàbu, as well as learning tunes and songs from local tradition bearers and performing around the island. Now back in Maine full time, Owen is excited to share new songs and tunes on fiddle, banjo, and mandolin!
Owen's love of traditional music and enthusiasm for performing has taken him all over New England, into Maritime Canada, and over to Scotland and Shetland, where he has played with the Pineland Fiddlers, the Young Tradition Vermont’s Touring Group and Youth Commission, and in duos with Seán Heely, Ethan Tischler, and Benjamin Foss. Most recently, Owen was selected to perform at the 2025 Scottish Performing Arts Classic. He is the 2022 New England Regional Open Scottish Fiddle Champion, the 2021 Junior US National Scottish Fiddle Champion, and won the 2021 Young Stars of Maine "Glenn Jenks Future in Music" prize. Owen’s 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.
Tickets are general admission, advance tickets encouraged.
Tickets available at https://maineshakers.com/event/kennedy-heely/
6pm-7:30pm
Tickets available at https://maineshakers.com/event/kennedy-heely/
Join us in the historic 1794 Shaker Meetinghouse as musicians Owen Kennedy and Seán Heely perform a program featuring beautiful bouzouki & fiddle duets, lively Scottish puirt à beul, haunting slow airs, mighty pipe marches, tragic Gaelic songs, and wild twin fiddling!
Maine musician Owen Kennedy is an award-winning fiddler rooted in the Maine Maritime and Scottish traditions. During his two years splitting time between Maine and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Owen studied Gaelic language, culture, and music at Beinn Mhàbu, as well as learning tunes and songs from local tradition bearers and performing around the island. Now back in Maine full time, Owen is excited to share new songs and tunes on fiddle, banjo, and mandolin!
Owen's love of traditional music and enthusiasm for performing has taken him all over New England, into Maritime Canada, and over to Scotland and Shetland, where he has played with the Pineland Fiddlers, the Young Tradition Vermont’s Touring Group and Youth Commission, and in duos with Seán Heely, Ethan Tischler, and Benjamin Foss. Most recently, Owen was selected to perform at the 2025 Scottish Performing Arts Classic. He is the 2022 New England Regional Open Scottish Fiddle Champion, the 2021 Junior US National Scottish Fiddle Champion, and won the 2021 Young Stars of Maine "Glenn Jenks Future in Music" prize. Owen’s 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.
Tickets are general admission, advance tickets encouraged.
Tickets available at https://maineshakers.com/event/kennedy-heely/
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Where is it happening?
Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, 707 Shaker Rd,New Gloucester, Maine, United States
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