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Recorded in quarantine, Lula Wiles’ new album is out and getting noticed
The trio, who grew up in Maine, released Shame and Sedition last month.
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The band Lula Wiles, three women originally from Maine, has been attracting national attention. Left to right are Isa Burke, Eleanor Buckland and Mali Obomsawin.
Photo by Laura E. Partain
When Isa Burke, Eleanor Buckland and Mali Obomsawin first played music together while attending Maine Fiddle Camp in Montville more than a dozen years ago, they had no thoughts of forming a band.
Nor did they as they became closer friends in high school – Burke in South Berwick, and Buckland and Obomsawin in Farmington. Or when all three ended up at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Or even as they first started playing gigs around the city and found their harmonies blended nicely, as did their expansive views on what folk music can be.
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Fiddler Kyra Bleicher will perform at the Oasis of Music from 12:30-1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 12, at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston.
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Fiddler Kyra Bleicher will perform at the Oasis of Music from 12:30-1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 12, at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston.
Bleicher, a recent graduate from Bates College and contradance fiddling enthusiast, has thus far chosen to stay in the area post graduation. She is working for a second year as an AmeriCorps VISTA Member at the St Mary’s Nutrition Center in Lewiston, while also contributing as a team member of a local subsistence farm. At the Nutrition Center, Bleicher has worked to improve the organization’s volunteer system and to increase language accessibility for volunteers, while also offering direct support on the ground. She also helps connect people to services in the community, documents the Nutrition Center’s work for more effective storytelling, and