MPBN to feature Melanie Saucier

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FORT KENT– The Maine Public Broadcasting Network invited a seventeen-year-old singing sensation from Fort Kent, Melanie Dorice Saucier, to join a who’s who of Maine folk and classical musicians for the Christmas TV special, which the network recently recorded at the Husson University’s Gracie Theatre in Bangor, Maine.

Melanie Saucier

Performers include Noel Paul Stookey, Jonathan Edwards, Paul Sullivan, Rich Charette, Laura Darrell, Lew Colby, John McVeigh, George Lopez, Maggie Coffin and the DaPonte String Quartet, as well as Con Fullam, organizer and songwriter.

Melanie will perform “Minuit Chrétien” “O Holy Night.”

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of “The Maine Christmas Song,” Fullam organized a special Christmas in Maine concert which MPBN will televise this weekend and throughout the month. Fullam performs the song with the Camden Hills Regional High School Chamber Singers.

MPBN’s Suzanne Nance and Maine humorist Tim Sample hosts the show.

Melanie is no stranger to Suzanne Nance and George Lopez. The University of Maine at Fort Kent invited her to perform a duet with soprano Nance at the UMFK Foundation Dinner on the University’s campus in 2010, where they performed “Barcarolle” from Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffman. George Lopez, classical pianist and faculty member of Bowdoin College, accompanied them.

The MPBN air dates for the special are: Sunday, Dec. 9 at 7 p.m. and 11 p.m.; Sunday, Dec. 23 at 12 noon; and, Tuesday, Dec. 25 at 5:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. 

Melanie is a senior at the Community High School in Fort Kent and a Pleasant Street Academy student at the University of Maine at Fort Kent. Melanie participated in the Christmas in Maine 20th Anniversary CD which she sang “The Maine Christmas Song” in French.