BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.7//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:234@uubrunswick.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261024T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261024T213000 DTSTAMP:20260927T121819Z URL:https://www.uubrunswick.org/events/concerts-for-a-cause-presents-yard- sauce/ SUMMARY:Yard Sauce DESCRIPTION:UUCB Concerts for a Cause presents local string trio Yard Sauce at the UU Church on October 24th to benefit Midcoast New Mainers Group a nd Tedford Housing.\n\nYARD SAUCE is a Maine-based\, acoustic string tri o featuring Chris Moore (mandolins and vocals)\, Jeff Christmas (guita r and vocals) and Callie Brennan (fiddle and vocals). Their dynamic live performances draw from the group’s eclectic musical tastes\, diverse re gional traditional music influences\, and a deep catalog of original songs . Old-time\, bluegrass\, country and folk traditions (including traditiona l Shaker music) are all part of the mix in every live set. The trio trades off on lead vocal and harmony duties\, delivering arrangements of traditi onal and original tunes with their distinctive\, down-to-earth authenticit y combined with virtuosic instrumental skills.\n\nJEFF CHRISTMAS (guitar a nd vocals) began playing music when he was 6 years old. Since then he has made his way from pop guitar to musical theater to jazz bands to opera to Americana and just about everything in between. He is equally at home on t he operatic stage and in a smoky bar. He also is addicted to that connecte d feeling we can find when playing music together in a room and works to f ind and cultivate that feeling with  collaborators. Jeff was raised in Bu rlington\, North Carolina and has lived in California\, Massachusetts\, Te nnessee\, and South Carolina before moving to Portland in 2015.   Jeff b rings all of these regional and genre ingredients and eagerly mixes them i nto the gumbo that is Yard Sauce. Currently\, Jeff is  a teaching artist for strings\, voice\, and music enrichment at 317 Main Community Music Cen ter  in Yarmouth.\n\nCHRIS MOORE (mandolins and vocals) grew up in Maine. As a youth he studied piano and violin. He graduated with a degree in act ing from Skidmore College. After college\, Chris moved to New York City\, where he worked as a performance artist\, musician\, puppeteer\, and on th e staff of the Arts at St. Ann’s in Brooklyn. While in New York\, he stu died with mandolin master Andy Statman. In 1989\, Chris founded the band R ust Farm with guitarist John McGann and released two albums. New England a udiences know him as a mandolinist with The Fogg Brothers bluegrass band. Chris has composed\, performed\, and recorded music for dance\, film\, tel evision\, theater\, and visual art projects. He has performed as a classic al soloist and was awarded a Maine Arts Commission Fellowship for songwrit ing. His songs have been recorded by and performed by Mark Erelli\, Joe K. Walsh\, Barnstar!\, Adrienne Young\, Carol Noonan\, among others. Chris h as taught lessons\, classes\, and workshops in mandolin\, songwriting\, En glish Country Dance and traditional Shaker music. He lived in Nashville\, TN from 2003-2013\, where he founded the band Kindling Stone\, featuring o riginal compositions along with 19th century tunes from the Shaker and Sac red Harp traditions. Chris returned to Maine in 2013 to work as the Direct or of Music Education for 317 Main Community Music Center in Yarmouth. His latest solo recording\, “Changing Union” (2025) was produced by folk icon Tim O’Brien.\n\nCALLIE BRENNAN\n(fiddle and vocals)\n was raised i n Maine\, where she spent her childhood writing short stories and practici ng fiddle tunes.  At 18 she left Maine to pursue degrees in music\, and t raveled the world studying\, performing\, and eventually\, teaching. She ’s appeared in venues including the Sydney Opera House\, Barbican Stage\ , Red Rocks Amphitheater\, Abbey Road Studios\, Boettcher Hall\, and many others. She’s held title positions in ensembles including the Spartanbur g Philharmonic and the West Virginia Symphony\, section positions in the C olorado Ballet Orchestra and Colorado Music Festival\, and appeared regula rly with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and Colorado Opera. Now back in M aine\, Callie holds a position in The Portland Symphony Orchestra\, is a p ermanent member of the Portland String Quartet\, and performs regularly wi th celebrated pianist Laura Kargul in their duo (aptly named)\, the Brenna n/Kargul Duo.\n\nTickets are $25 in advance\, $30 at the door\, and $10 fo r students/children and will be available at the church office\, Gulf of M aine Books\, or online at ticketstripe.com/yardsauce.\nBuy Tickets Here\n\ nListen to Yard Sauce here:  \nhttps://www.yardsaucemusic.com/media\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.uubrunswick.org/wp-content/uploads/2 026/04/Yard-Sauce-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Concerts for a Cause END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR