TURNER — Beloved country music singer, songwriter and recording artist Denny Breau will perform at 6:30 Saturday, April 30, in the upstairs section of Turner Center Universalist Church.

Breau won the Maine Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year, Album of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year and Instrumentalist of the Year so many times that he was eventually retired from the running with an All-time Great award.

Born in Lewiston on May 26, 1952, to popular country performers and RCA recording artists Hal Lone Pine and Betty Cody, Breau, a master of the six-string guitar, was 9 when he picked up the instrument.

He taught himself how to play folk and rock songs aired on the radio and credits his late brother, guitar jazz legend Lenny Breau, as the primary influence on his musical career.

Breau fulfilled a lifetime dream in 1996 when he opened for Chet Atkins at the State Theater in Portland.

Breau’s performance is the second of three Cabin Fever spring concerts intended to bring the community together to support the upkeep of the historic church on Route 117, across from the community gazebo and the public library.

Donations will be accepted.

Singer and award-winning songwriter Mary Murphy performed her renditions of blues and jazz favorites, along with her own gospel songs, at the first concert. Later in the evening, several community members shared in the open mike.

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