Monica Grabin

Monica's performance will offer an innovative look at America during World War I. She will combine her musical talents on guitar, autoharp, banjo and an array of percussion instruments with imagery from the Brick Store Museum’s fascinating collection of World War I recruitment and morale posters—among the most extensive in Maine—to evoke the spirit and issues of the era. Musical highlights of the concert include gems from American musical theater and British music halls, Grange movement folk songs which inspired the farmers whose wheat fed the troops, songs illustrating American isolationism in 1914, and others tunes reflecting concerns on the home front, as well as the realities that soldiers faced on the battlefield.