The Lincoln Festival Chorus is not the only performer in Lincoln Arts Festival, but it is the cornerstone of the organization in the sense that it was the first Festival activity to be established, and it is the only one to be presented annually from 1980 to 2025. Last summer they joyfully performed Vivaldi's Gloria in D Major!

                                Linda Blanchard, Artistic Director     

                                Sean Fleming, Pianist and Organist

August 7 and 9, 2026

7:30 pm

The Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor

 Joseph Haydn: Miss brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo

(Little Organ Mass)

Sing with Lincoln Festival Chorus

Under the leadership of Artistic Director Linda Blanchard and Assistant Artistic Director, Organist & Pianist Sean Fleming!

Rehearsals every Monday 7-9PM starting June 15. Email lincolnartsfestivalbbh@gmail.with your preferred voice part. Please arrive 20-30 minutes early on Monday, June 15, to register, pay dues of $40 and pick up music. 

Artistic Director Linda Blanchard earned her MA in Choral Conducting from Univeristy of Michigan School of Music, Ann Arbor, and her BA in Music from Bowdoin College. She is recipient of the Susan Winchell Burnet Music Prize, the Abraham Goldberg Prize for theatrical directing and the St. Botolph Emerging Artist Award. She studied orchestral conducting with Gustav Meier and Zae Munn and choral conducting with Theodore Morrison, Jerry Blackstone, and Robert Greenlee. Ms. Blanchard is founding director of St. Cecilia Chamber Choir, directs the Sheepscot Valley Chorus and Lincoln Arts Festival Chorus, and is Director of Choirs at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Newcastle. She has served as Chorus Master for the Conductors' Retreat at Medomak, a festival adjudicator and clinican, directed the Bowdoin College Chamber Choir, University of Michigan Residential College Choirs and Orpheus Singers, worked in Maine and Michigan as a  church organist andd choir director, taught junior high and high school chorus in Maine, taught voice at Bowdoin College, and worked extensively as a musical theater director.

Assistant Artistic Director Sean Fleming performs regularly with the Bowdoin Chorus, Coastal Chorale, Down East Singers, Lincoln Academy Lincolnaires, Lincoln Festival Chorus, Maine Friends Music, Maine Pro Musica, Midcoast Community Chorus, St. Cecilia Chamber Choir, Sheepscot Valley Chorus, and Tapestry Singers. He also regularly accompanies many high school and junior high festivals. He has worked with Ann Arbor Camerata, Bowdoin Chamber Choir, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival Chorus, Colby College Chorale, Oratorio Chorale, Renaissance Voices, University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan Society, University of Southern Maine Chorale, University of Southern Maine Chamber Singers, and Vox Nova Chamber Choir. Sean has direected or accompanied over sixty-five musical theater productions nationwide. Most recently he was the music director for "Sunday in the Park with George" with Heartwood Regional Theater Company, and "Little Shop of Horrors" at the Waldo Theater. An organ recitalist who has performed throughout the United States, Sean studied organ and piano with Ray Cornils, John Doney, Michael Lindsey, and Gerald McGee. For the past sixteen years he has served as organist at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Newcastle. He was the recipient of a 2009 St. Botolph Club Foundation Grant Award for achievements in  music.