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Bonny Eagle High School Drama Scholarship Concert

Members of the Bonny Eagle High School Drama Club perform with the Half Moon Jug Band, Maine's finest purveyors of musical mayhem and mirth. All net proceeds go to the P. Michael Bourgoin Memorial Theatre Scholarship Fund.

The Half Moon Jug Band is a 21st century jug band rooted in the Downeast humor and dry wit traditions of their home State O Maine. Upbeat and positive, the Half Moon Jug Band does whatever it takes to get you singing along and dancing in the aisles. They firmly believe that Louie, Louie is every bit as real a folk song as Shell Be Coming Round the Mountain.

Before you ask: Theres no jug. Its implied. Jug band music is the homemade music friends make sitting round the kitchen table. You wont hear it on the radio, you wont see it on cable TV and you cant get it at Wal-Mart. Labels dont apply here. If it sounds fun, if the audience claps in time, if it feels honest, then its jug band music.

Stage and screen actor and director P. Michael Bourgoin taught theatre at Bonny Eagle High School for 25 years. Born in Biddeford, raised in Lewiston, he was a Vietnam veteran who mentored hundreds of students. One of them was Troy R. Bennett, founder of the Half Moon Jug Band.

"I've always tried to follow and pass on his greatest bit of advice," said Bennett. "When you have the chance to be ordinary or wonderful, always pick wonderful."