FARMINGTON — Boréal Tordu will perform Saturday, May 15 at 7:30 p.m., at the University of Maine Farmington’s Nordica Auditorium, presented by the Arts Institute of Western Maine. Boréal Tordu is a Maine-based musical combo rooted in the traditional music of the Acadians, the original French-speaking settlers of Maine.

The concert will celebrate the group’s most recent album, Les Chevaliers (2009), drawing on traditional and contemporary themes in Acadian, Cajun, Québécois, Manouche, Maritime and Downeast music.

Founded by Acadian cousins Steve Muise on fiddle and accordéon and singer/songwriter/dobroist Robert Sylvain, the band also features Pip Walter on guitar and backing vocals and Andy Buckland on upright bass.

Boréal Tordu’s 2006 album, La Bonne Vie, was called “an inspiration to the Franco-American community” by Dirty Linen Magazine and was highlighted on the PBS series Now with Bill Moyers. Thrice nominated for the Portland Phoenix readers’ poll award for Best World Music Act, Boréal Tordu continues to innovate in a genre uniquely its own.

Opening for Boréal Tordu is the Franklin County Fiddlers, the multistylistic fiddle band from Mt. Blue High School, directed by Steve Muise. The FCF has performed internationally from Québec and Nova Scotia to Ireland and most recently, in 2009, combined a concert tour of the deep south with Katrina relief efforts in New Orleans.

Nordica Auditorium is located on the second floor of Merrill Hall (elevator available), at the corner of Main and Academy streets. Cash admission at the door; no advance ticket sales: adults $8, seniors $7, free for children under 16 and UMF students.

For further information, visit http://www.borealtordu.com or www.artsinstitute.org.