OPA is delighted to continue sponsorship of the 25th Annual Festival of Kites, this favorite Ogunquit event. Professional kite flying demonstrations, with huge, multi-dimensional kites, are an all-day feature of the festival.
Children are also offered an opportunity to decorate their own kites, and to enter them into a contest with a multitude of categories in order for many prizes to be awarded. Kites can also be purchased at the beach so that everyone can participate. The “Grand Ascension” where the sky is filled with all of the day’s kites occurs at approximately 12 noon. Bring your cameras! It’s a spectacular sight.
The music of Joyce Andersen and Harvey Reid will accompany the festivities with sets occurring at 11 am and 1 pm.
The Capriccio Festival of Kites is presented by Cricket’s Corner Beach and Toy, Ogunquit Performing Arts, Ogunquit Rotary Club, Kennebunk Savings Bank, That Place in Ogunquit, and the Town of Ogunquit.
Live Performance at the Capriccio Festival of Kites
Joyce Andersen and Harvey Reid
Saturday, September 6, 2025 (no rain date)
11 am and 1 pm
Ogunquit Main Beach
Free Admission
Performing at Ogunquit Beach as part of the Kite Festival, Joyce Andersen, a singing electro-acoustic fiddle troubadour, and Harvey Reid, autoharp virtuoso, a modern minstrel, pushing the limits of acoustic music, guarantee amazing musical entertainment.
Joyce Andersen, a folk musician who follows her passion in every genre, from bluegrass to rock, began playing violin as an 8 yo child. She discovered, mastered, and fell in love with every style she encountered, once stating: “I just learned how to find the music that had always been there hiding from the mainstream.” Andersen performs her own music on the violin, accompanying it with vocals, putting “a modern spin on an old art form.” With her musical influences ranging from Billie Holiday and Otis Redding to Sheryl Crow, The Rolling Stones and Louis Armstrong, she seeks to bridge all the genres in her albums and live performances.
Over the course of her 30 year career, she has released several solo albums and others recorded with folk musician Harvey Reid. She credits Harvey, her husband and musical partner with, among other things, showing her how “to make CDs on her own label, work hard getting little concert gigs, and to earn one fan at a time.”
Harvey Reid, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, writer and music educator, began his musical journey listening to sixties music on top forties radio stations, and began playing “recreational” guitar at age 14, performing with friends at parties and local coffeehouses. He began writing songs at the same time, as well as playing and singing traditional music of folk and rock popular songs, never intending to become a musician. He began a period of self-education, being introduced to many of the roots of American music in the blues, bluegrass, and folk music by a local progressive FM radio station, based in Bethesda, MD and like Joyce, began honing his craft by attending regional concerts and festivals, where he had opportunities to jam with bluegrass legends, and where he fell in love with bluegrass and old time music, and began playing autoharp.
He is considered to be one of the modern masters and innovators of the acoustic guitar, autoharp and 6-string banjo. He has absorbed a wide range of musical styles of acoustic music, from hip-hop to slashing slide guitar blues to old time Celtic, ragtime and even classical.
His reputation as a “musician’s musician” is unparalleled. He was included on Rhino Records Acoustic Music of the 90’s CD, and his own Steel Drivin’ Man CD was voted by Acoustic Guitar Magazine, he was voted as one of the Top Ten Fold CD’s of All Time, in company with Woody Guthrie, Joan Baez, and other musical giants. Apple Computer used his version of J.S. Bach’s Minuet in G in their iPhoto software. He has released over 32 recordings on the Woodpecker record label.
He is author of dozens of music education books. Among many notable publications, he wrote the first college textbook for folk guitar, Modern Folk Guitar, the epic, The Troubadour Chronicles, blazing a new trail in music history and education. Among his many awards he has won the National Fingerpicking Guitar Competition, the International Autoharp competition, and in 2023 was inducted into the Maine Music Awards Hall of Fame.
Harvey Reid and Joyce Andersen are traveling less to perform, while raising their two children in York, Maine. They can be found performing locally, and in 2020 began a series of livestream performances, which can be heard on their Puffin and Loon You Tube channel where their current goal is to post a daily new song for one year until 3/11/26!
How fortunate are we to call these talented artists and performers “neighbors” who are gracing us with their unique blend of multi-genre music as part of our Capriccio celebration.