High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Maine is a state of the United States, located in a region called New England. Its musical tradition possibly extends back thousands of years to the music of the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, and other indigenous peoples. Modern musicians from Maine include the bluegrass brothers Roland and Clarence White and the contemporary ragtime performer Glenn Jenks, singer/songwriter Bruce Thulin. In the colonial era, the talented composer, singer, and compiler of tune books and Maine resident Supply Belcher (1751 1836) was known in his time as "the Handel of Maine." Belcher organized the first choir in Maine.