WCLZ/FM 98.9 will sponsor Singing for their Supper at 10 locations throughout town. The event will include performances by more than a dozen local musicians featured on the station’s Music from 207 program.

Funds raised through Singing for their Supper, which begins tonight and continues throughout Saturday, will support Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program.

For the last four years, WCLZ has held an annual fundraising auction for MCHPP, whose mission is to reduce hunger by providing food assistance, sustainable living education and referral services to households living at or below poverty in Brunswick, Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Durham, Harpswell, Lisbon and Topsham.

“The auction was always held in a building. And it was very helpful, not just because it raises money for hunger prevention, but more importantly because it raises awareness that there are people who are hungry in our communities,” Karen Parker, interim executive director of MCHPP said.

But this year, WCLZ program director Ethan Minton said, “We were looking for an event that would put us in front of new people. We think this is a great way to tie together the local music scene and something we think our audience cares about — taking care of other people in need.”

WCLZ chose Brunswick as the location for the first Singing for their Supper event because the town was the station’s original home and its radio tower is still located here, Minton said. He is also on the MCHPP board of directors.

The Pete Kilpatrick Band, with special guest Adam Gardner of Guster, will kick off the weekend events with a special concert at Frontier Café tonight at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 and all proceeds from their sale benefit MCHPP.

On Saturday, musicians will busk for donations that will be given to MCHPP as well.

“People are familiar with seeing sidewalk performances,” Minton said. “That’s really all busking is. These musicians have agreed to play pro bono and donate what they make to MCHPP.”

According to Parker, MCHPP serves an average of 1,000 “unduplicated” families a year with an 18 percent increase in new families for 2012. The Soup Kitchen, serving meals five days a week from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. at MCHPP’s 84A Union St. complex, has seen an 11 percent increase in meals served this year. Visits to the food pantry are up 11 percent as well.

Singing for their Supper has already raised $10,000 through corporate sponsorships. “Anything the public puts in the musicians’ guitar cases will come to us, too,” Parker said.

For more information, visit 989wclz.com.

SATURDAY’S LINEUP

BRUNSWICK — Musicians featured on WCLZ’s
Music from 207 program are scheduled to play Saturday during Singing for their Supper at the following
locations:
— String Tide, 9 a.m. at Crystal Springs Farmers
Market, 277 Pleasant Hill Road.
— Jud Caswell, 9 a.m. at Starbucks, Cook’s Corner.
— Anna Lombard, 10 a.m. at Little Dog Coffee
Shop, 87 Maine St.
— Gunther Brown, 10:30 a.m. at Crystal Springs
Farmers Market.
— Jay Basiner, lead singer of This Way, 11 a.m. at
Northeast Bank, 186 Maine St.
— Amy Allen, noon at Big Top Deli, 70 Maine St.
— Dominic and the Lucid, 1 p.m. at Wild Oats, 149
Maine St.
— Spencer Albee, 2 p.m. at Bull Moose, 151 Maine
St.
— Eric Bettencourt, 3 p.m. at Morning Glory Natural
Foods, 60 Maine St.
— Sara Cox, 4 p.m. at First Parish Church, 9
Cleaveland St.
— Zach Jones, 5 p.m. at Inn at Brunswick Station,
4 Noble St.
Performances at Crystal Springs will be 90 minutes
long. Other venues feature 45-minute shows.