CHESTERVILLE — Barry Wood will perform on Father’s Day, Sunday, June 17, at the Chesterville Center Union Meeting House at Borough and Zion’s Hill roads.

The show starts at 1 p.m. and admission is by donation. Refreshments will be served. 

Wood taught himself how to play guitar on a cheap six-string donated by his aunt. He continued to play music while serving as a communications specialist in the United States Air Force. After moving to Dixfield following his time in the service, he joined the rock ‘n’ roll world in 1963 with his own band, The Impacts.

After retiring from the Rumford paper mill in 1998, Wood took a few years to play with his friend Jack Libby before going solo. Now some 20 years later, and with his classic Gibson thin hollow-body Country Gentleman electric, Wood is still going strong.

“Music’s been good to me,” he says, “I don’t know what I’d do without it.” 

Barry Wood will perform in Chesterville on June 17, Father’s Day.