LEWISTON — Local guitar and singing legend Denny Breau will appear at the Oasis of Music, Wednesday, Feb. 1, at Trinity Episcopal Church, 247 Bates St. The 

free concert is from 12:30 to 1 p.m. 

The son of Hal Lone Pine and Betty Cote, and brother to groundbreaking guitarist Lenny Breau, Denny Breau plays a wide swath of music that showcases his creative approach to many American roots genres.

 A recent Dirty Linen review of Denny’s solo CD of “Neighborly Song Portraits of Weathered Souls” said that “listening to Denny nimbly bend his acoustic steel strings … one can hear a jazz player’s elegant fluidity.”

Breau started playing guitar when he was 9 and was performing professionally by his early teens. During more than 30 years as a full-time musician, he has performed with many well-known artists and picked alongside outstanding guitarists including Bryan Sutton, Harvey Reid, J.P. Cormier, Pat Donohue, Dan Crary and Steve Kaufman.

He has long been in demand as a studio musician and has done jingles and sound tracks for radio and television as well as recorded and produced albums for other artists.

Breau was a member of roots music trio Turkey Hollow with Tom Rowe and Tom’s son Dave starting in 1998. Since Tom’s death in early 2004, Denny and Dave have continued to perform as Turkey Hollow on a limited bases.

Breau was inducted into the Maine Country Music Hall of Fame in 2004, the youngest inductee in the history of the organization.  FMI: dennybreau.com.

 

The Oasis of Music is hosted by Trinity Church, located at 247 Bates Street in Lewiston.  For more information call 344-3106.