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POLAND —  Dynamic and versatile and world renowned banjo virtuoso, Peter Mezoian will perform at 7 p.m., Monday, July 6, at the All Souls Chapel at Poland Spring as next performer in the  Poland Spring Preservation Society’s Summer Concert Series.
Tickets are $7.50.
Mezoian plays the banjo with a smooth, lush tone and combines great technique with a human emotional approach that connects to his audience. The
roots of his instrument are in the birth of American popular and jazz music from the early 1900s. Unlike many banjoists,  Mezoian decided that those syncopated infectious rhythms and provoking melodies could transfer to other genres and generations of music  — where Cole Porter crosses Paul Simon, Broadway intersects with the Beatles, and the Roaring ’20s catches up with the psychedelic ’60s.
Years of taking the banjo around the world as a feature act on theater and night club stages in America, England and Japan, at music festivals and more than 50 different cruise ships, have created a funny, charming and engaging performer who keeps you wondering what he will play next.
Mezoian bills himself as your typical Steve Marti- influenced, Maine native, doughnut-eating, espresso-drinking, half -Armenian, half-Greek four-string banjoist. All this and he’s only 5 feet 3 inches tall.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
FMI: email [email protected] or  call (207) 998-4142

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