Brick Store Museum

Hildaland | Concerts in West K with Mousam River Music
2025-11-09 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Brick Store Museum, 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, 04043, United States
This Concert has been Cancelled due to performer illness. Thank you for your understanding!
If you ordered your tickets online, you will see a refund to your account within the next two business days. Questions? Call us at (207)985-4802.
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The Museum’s Concert Partner Mousam River Music Presents:
Hildaland, featuring Orkney (Scotland) -born fiddler Louise Bichan and Indiana (USA) mandolinist Ethan Setiawan present a collaboration and meeting of their musical worlds. A path steeped in the fiddle traditions of their respective sides of the Atlantic, the journey taken wends through Scottish, oldtime, and Swedish inspired music intertwined with contemporary compositions. Bichan’s fiddle is a melodic foil to Setiawan’s counterpoint and harmonic depth, and the two weave in and out seamlessly.
Join us in the Museum’s Dane Street Program Center for a great evening of traditional Irish music!
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Tickets: $20 per person
Pre-purchase online by Saturday, November 8 at 1pm! After that time, tickets will be available for purchase at the door. Questions or want to reserve cash seats? Email: paul.wells@mousamrivermusic.net

Irish Trio Fόdhla | Concerts in West K with Mousam River Music
2026-02-01 15:00 - 17:00
Sunday’s concert by Fodhla is on, but we are keeping a close eye on the weather!
The Museum’s Concert Partner Mousam River Music Presents:
The popular Irish trio Fόdhla (FO-lah) kicks off the 2026 season of the long-running “Concerts in West K!” series. The concert will take place Sunday, February 1, from 3:00-5:00 pm, in the Dane Street Program Center of the Brick Store Museum.
Bethany Waickman (guitar), Ellery Klein (fiddle), and Nicole Rabata (flute), are highly-respected members of the broad Boston-Portland acoustic music community. They are no strangers to Kennebunk concert-goers; Fόdhla was one of the first groups to appear in the series when it began in 2015.
The ensemble brings high energy and stellar artistry to their performances. Their sound is firmly rooted in the traditional Irish melodies and ornamentation that fiddler Ellery Klein and flute player Nicole Rabata honed during years spent abroad in Ireland’s cities Cork, Limerick, and Ennis. Guitarist Bethany Waickman provides superb support to the fiddle and flute tunes. Her inventive, tasteful harmonies and driving rhythm have been perfected through years of playing for contradances.
The Brick Store Museum is located at 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, adjacent to the Kennebunk Town Hall. The “Concerts in West K!” series is produced by Mousam River Music in association with the Museum.
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Tickets: $25 per person
Pre-purchase online by Saturday, January 31! After that time, tickets will be available for purchase at the door. Questions or want to reserve cash seats? Email: paul.wells@mousamrivermusic.net

Woodson/Finley/Ó Meachair | Concerts in West K with Mousam River Music
2026-03-15 15:00 - 17:00
The Museum’s Concert Partner Mousam River Music Presents:
There’s no better way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day than with some superb Irish traditional music! Join us in the Museum’s Program Center from 3:00-5:00 pm on Sunday, March 15 for an afternoon of jigs, reels, hornpipes, and airs from three of the region’s best Irish musicians!
Portlanders Will Woodson (uilleann pipes & flute) and Caitlin Finley (fiddle), will be joined by Cork native and Boston resident Diarmuid Ó Meachair (button accordion) for what promises to be an exceptional concert. All three are master musicians with deep knowledge of Irish tradition. They say that everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, so come join the celebration!
The Brick Store Museum is located at 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, adjacent to the Kennebunk Town Hall. The “Concerts in West K!” series is produced by Mousam River Music in association with the Museum.
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Tickets: $25 per person
Pre-purchase online by Saturday, March 14! After that time, tickets will be available for purchase at the door. Questions or want to reserve unpaid seats? Email: paul.wells@mousamrivermusic.net

Virtual Lecture: The Revolution with Dr. Alan Taylor
2026-03-30 19:00 - 20:00
On Monday, March 30th, the consortium of York County history organizations (of which the Brick Store Museum is a part) will be hosting award-winning historian and author, Dr. Alan Taylor, for a discussion on the American Revolution and its Maine connections. This program is free, and will be held on Zoom.
Dr. Taylor is the author of eleven books, with numerous awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes. After teaching collegiate courses in American colonial and Revolutionary history for forty years, he retired as the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chair at the University of Virginia. Most recently, he was a featured historian on the documentary The American Revolution by Ken Burns.
Taylor has published eleven books, including William Cooper’s Town, which won the Bancroft, Beveridge, and Pulitzer Prizes. The Internal Enemy won the Pulitzer Prize for American history and the Merle Curti Prize for Social History (OAH). American Colonies won the 2001 Gold Medal for Non-Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California. The Divided Ground won the 2007 Society for Historians of the Early Republic book prize and the 2004-7 Society of the Cincinnati triennial book prize. The Civil War of 1812 won the Empire State History Prize and was a finalist for the George Washington Prize. In 2022, American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 won the New-York Historical Society’s annual Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History.
To commemorate America’s 250th anniversary, museums and historical societies across York County have joined together explore the American Revolutionary experience.
The upcoming discussion with Dr. Alan Taylor is just the beginning of a range of programs being offered by individual societies across southern Maine. And for more information on this program, and more fascinating events you can expect, please visit the website for your local society or museum in York County.

Please RSVP below to receive the Zoom link for this presentation. It will be sent out on Sunday, March 29 to the email you list below (an email is required for us to send you the link!).

Liz Knowles and Kieran O’Hare | Concerts in West K with Mousam River Music
2026-06-14 15:00 - 17:00
The Museum’s Concert Partner Mousam River Music Presents:
Those who were fortunate enough to attend Liz Knowles’ solo concert in November, 2024, in which piper Kieran O’Hare joined her for a few numbers at the end of the show, know the quality of music they can expect to hear! Both Liz and Kieran are among the very best Irish musicians in the world today.
Knowles builds on her early foundation in classical music with a deep love for, and understanding of, Irish music. The result is a distinctive sound that combines the fire and finesse of traditional fiddling with the power and tonal richness of classical violin.
O’Hare is a highly respected and sought-after performer, and teacher of traditional Irish music on the uilleann pipes, concert flute, and tin whistle. He was educated at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, where he continued the process of learning the tradition of uilleann piping from master pipers.
Together Liz and Kieran have collaborated on many projects to compose, arrange, and perform music for large-scale European-based productions integrating traditional and contemporary Irish music with dance and song. In addition to their solo and duo projects they perform in the trio Open the Door for three along with Dublin-born bouzouki player and singer Pat Broaders.
We are privileged to welcome them back to the “Concerts in West K!” series!
The Brick Store Museum is located at 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, adjacent to the Kennebunk Town Hall. The “Concerts in West K!” series is produced by Mousam River Music in association with the Museum.
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Tickets: $25 per person
Pre-purchase online by Saturday, June 13! After that time, tickets will be available for purchase at the door. Questions or want to reserve unpaid seats? Email: paul.wells@mousamrivermusic.net
