Concert to Benefit Michele Alexander Scholar Award Fund
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — A benefit concert featuring folk music by “Generations,” a local group that includes University of Maine professors Larry Latour and Joel Gold, is scheduled for Friday Jan. 21 from 7-9 p.m. in Room 100 of UMaine’s Donald P. Corbett Business Building.
Proceed will support the Michele Alexander Scholar Award, named in honor of the UMaine psychology professor who died in a Dec. 2003 car accident. The annual award is given to an outstanding UMaine senior continuing on to graduate studies in Social Psychology, which was Alexander’s specialty.
“Michele was a wonderful person and an outstanding professor,” says Gold, a psychology department colleague. “Her loss has been felt very deeply, but we are fortunate that this fund has been established to allow her legacy to continue.”
In addition to Latour and Gold, “Generations” includes Leslie Hemberger and David Mussey. The group mixes guitar, banjo, mandolin, concertina and four part harmonies to perform familiar and meaningful songs reminiscent of Woody and Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger and the Weavers.
Tickets will be available at the door. General admission is $10; student admission is $5.