Seán Dagher is an active performer, arranger, and composer of music from various folk and classical music traditions: Celtic, Baroque, Medieval, Arabic, French-Canadian, and Maritime. He is a member of Skye Consort and is the co-artistic director of La Nef. Seán sings and plays Irish bouzouki, mandolin, oud, and banjo. Seán has also provided arrangements for other ensembles and artists, including Camerata Nova (Winnipeg), Chor Leoni (Vancouver), Arion, Palade Musica, Les Voix Humaines, La Mandragore, Pierre Lapointe (all Montreal), Shannon Mercer, I Furiosi (Toronto), Les Voix Baroques, Choeur Louisbourg (Moncton), Cantatica (Pennsylvania), and the Nashville Baroque Orchestra. Other groups he has played with include the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Caprices, Les Boréades, Le Petit Rien. Seán's voice is widely known from his recordings for the Assassin's Creed video game series, including Black Flag. His renditions of sea shanties and other songs from the games have been streamed some 70 million times. His own Shanty of the Week video series receives thousands of views a week and has a loyal following the world over. Seán's compositions and arrangements have been performed across Canada, the United States, and Europe. He has worked with the Festival du Monde Arabe creating shows of Middle Eastern and North African music. He has arranged and composed music for audio books, with story-teller and musician Suzanne De Serres, Youth Program Director for La Nef, and for American author Sandra Gulland. He has been a composer and sound designer for theatre productions. He has been nominated for numerous OPUS and ADISQ awards and participated in the ADISQ-winning CD, La Traverse Miraculeuse with La Nef and Les Charbonniers de l'enfer. He has won OPUS awards for Creation of the Year (Leave Her, Johnny), Album of the Year (Skye Consort & Emma Björling) and Youth Production of the Year (Le chat et le gondolier, La Nef).

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Internationally Renowned - Irish Celtic Harp and Guitar Duo

6:00 pm doors

6:15-7:00 pm first set

7:00-7:15 pm intermission

7:15-8:00 pm second set

8:30-10:00 pm reception at the Gateway Hotel

https://www.maireandchris.com

Chris Newman is one of the world's finest flat-picking guitarists and a gifted improviser who has toured and recorded with many luminaries of the folk and jazz worlds, among them Aly Bain, Boys of the Lough, Kathryn Tickell, Diz Disley and Stéphane Grappelli. He is an award-winning composer and record producer, receiving a silver disc for producing "The Oldest Swinger in Town", a Top 10 hit for comedian Fred Wedlock. He was principal guitar and mandolin tutor for Newcastle University’s Folk B.Mus degree course for twenty-one years, since its inception, and many of his alumni form the new wave of British acoustic guitarists and mandolinists currently to be seen gracing festivals around the world, among them members of Talisk, the Elephant Sessions, the Tea Pad Orchestra, Kate Rusby Band etc. “Dazzling” ACOUSTIC GUITAR (USA) “His playing boggles my mind” FLATPICKING GUITAR MAGAZINE (USA)

Máire Ní Chathasaigh (pronounced Moira Nee Ha-ha-sig), steeped in the traditions of her native Co. Cork, is a recipient of Irish music’s most prestigious award, Traditional Musician of the Year (Gradam Cheoil TG4 - Ceoltóir na Bliana) and a multiple All-Ireland winner; she developed profoundly influential techniques for harp performance of traditional Irish music, heard on her iconic 1985 solo album, 'The New Strung Harp' - "a milestone in Irish harp music” - which was re-mastered and reissued in 2023. “She is the great innovator of modern Irish harping, a player of outstanding technique and imagination” THE ROUGH GUIDE TO IRISH MUSIC “Máire is an absolute legend.” THE IRISH ECHO (USA)

Their performances are a breathtaking blend of traditional Irish music, hot jazz, bluegrass and baroque, spiced with striking new compositions, dazzling pieces from Chris’ groundbreaking solo album Breaking Bach - and what THE WEST AUSTRALIAN calls his "delightfully subversive wit”!

Join us for a FREE performance!

The Seward Community Winter Family Movie Series is a not for profit activity sponsored by the Seward Arts Council, designed as a family friendly event to be held on Friday Nights during the winter months. A group of volunteers is raising money from businesses, individuals, and organizations in the Seward Community to put on two movies a week, on Friday Evenings between October and March, in a traditional theater setting at the UAF Rae building in downtown Seward at a very low cost.

We want to make a family friendly event designed to attract youth and young adults, as well as families and other members of the community.

SCB practices every Tuesday night at 7:00pm at the Seward Middle School. Our practices are open to all musicians regardless of age. We currently have 2 students playing with the band and many seniors…our current count for the band is 23 members!

The Seward Community Winter Family Movie Series is a not for profit activity sponsored by the Seward Arts Council, designed as a family friendly event to be held on Friday Nights during the winter months. A group of volunteers is raising money from businesses, individuals, and organizations in the Seward Community to put on two movies a week, on Friday Evenings between October and March, in a traditional theater setting at the UAF Rae building in downtown Seward at a very low cost.

We want to make a family friendly event designed to attract youth and young adults, as well as families and other members of the community.

SCB practices every Tuesday night at 7:00pm at the Seward Middle School. Our practices are open to all musicians regardless of age. We currently have 2 students playing with the band and many seniors…our current count for the band is 23 members!

The Seward Community Winter Family Movie Series is a not for profit activity sponsored by the Seward Arts Council, designed as a family friendly event to be held on Friday Nights during the winter months. A group of volunteers is raising money from businesses, individuals, and organizations in the Seward Community to put on two movies a week, on Friday Evenings between October and March, in a traditional theater setting at the UAF Rae building in downtown Seward at a very low cost.

We want to make a family friendly event designed to attract youth and young adults, as well as families and other members of the community.

SCB practices every Tuesday night at 7:00pm at the Seward Middle School. Our practices are open to all musicians regardless of age. We currently have 2 students playing with the band and many seniors…our current count for the band is 23 members!

The Seward Community Winter Family Movie Series is a not for profit activity sponsored by the Seward Arts Council, designed as a family friendly event to be held on Friday Nights during the winter months. A group of volunteers is raising money from businesses, individuals, and organizations in the Seward Community to put on two movies a week, on Friday Evenings between October and March, in a traditional theater setting at the UAF Rae building in downtown Seward at a very low cost.

We want to make a family friendly event designed to attract youth and young adults, as well as families and other members of the community.

SCB practices every Tuesday night at 7:00pm at the Seward Middle School. Our practices are open to all musicians regardless of age. We currently have 2 students playing with the band and many seniors…our current count for the band is 23 members!

The Seward Community Winter Family Movie Series is a not for profit activity sponsored by the Seward Arts Council, designed as a family friendly event to be held on Friday Nights during the winter months. A group of volunteers is raising money from businesses, individuals, and organizations in the Seward Community to put on two movies a week, on Friday Evenings between October and March, in a traditional theater setting at the UAF Rae building in downtown Seward at a very low cost.

We want to make a family friendly event designed to attract youth and young adults, as well as families and other members of the community.

SCB practices every Tuesday night at 7:00pm at the Seward Middle School. Our practices are open to all musicians regardless of age. We currently have 2 students playing with the band and many seniors…our current count for the band is 23 members!

The Seward Community Winter Family Movie Series is a not for profit activity sponsored by the Seward Arts Council, designed as a family friendly event to be held on Friday Nights during the winter months. A group of volunteers is raising money from businesses, individuals, and organizations in the Seward Community to put on two movies a week, on Friday Evenings between October and March, in a traditional theater setting at the UAF Rae building in downtown Seward at a very low cost.

We want to make a family friendly event designed to attract youth and young adults, as well as families and other members of the community.

SCB practices every Tuesday night at 7:00pm at the Seward Middle School. Our practices are open to all musicians regardless of age. We currently have 2 students playing with the band and many seniors…our current count for the band is 23 members!

The Seward Community Winter Family Movie Series is a not for profit activity sponsored by the Seward Arts Council, designed as a family friendly event to be held on Friday Nights during the winter months. A group of volunteers is raising money from businesses, individuals, and organizations in the Seward Community to put on two movies a week, on Friday Evenings between October and March, in a traditional theater setting at the UAF Rae building in downtown Seward at a very low cost.

We want to make a family friendly event designed to attract youth and young adults, as well as families and other members of the community.

SCB practices every Tuesday night at 7:00pm at the Seward Middle School. Our practices are open to all musicians regardless of age. We currently have 2 students playing with the band and many seniors…our current count for the band is 23 members!

The Seward Community Winter Family Movie Series is a not for profit activity sponsored by the Seward Arts Council, designed as a family friendly event to be held on Friday Nights during the winter months. A group of volunteers is raising money from businesses, individuals, and organizations in the Seward Community to put on two movies a week, on Friday Evenings between October and March, in a traditional theater setting at the UAF Rae building in downtown Seward at a very low cost.

We want to make a family friendly event designed to attract youth and young adults, as well as families and other members of the community.

Join the Seward Community Band for a winter performance at the Seward Middle School. Admission is free!

The Seward Community Winter Family Movie Series is a not for profit activity sponsored by the Seward Arts Council, designed as a family friendly event to be held on Friday Nights during the winter months. A group of volunteers is raising money from businesses, individuals, and organizations in the Seward Community to put on two movies a week, on Friday Evenings between October and March, in a traditional theater setting at the UAF Rae building in downtown Seward at a very low cost.

We want to make a family friendly event designed to attract youth and young adults, as well as families and other members of the community.

SCB practices every Tuesday night at 7:00pm at the Seward Middle School. Our practices are open to all musicians regardless of age. We currently have 2 students playing with the band and many seniors…our current count for the band is 23 members!

The Seward Community Winter Family Movie Series is a not for profit activity sponsored by the Seward Arts Council, designed as a family friendly event to be held on Friday Nights during the winter months. A group of volunteers is raising money from businesses, individuals, and organizations in the Seward Community to put on two movies a week, on Friday Evenings between October and March, in a traditional theater setting at the UAF Rae building in downtown Seward at a very low cost.

We want to make a family friendly event designed to attract youth and young adults, as well as families and other members of the community.

SCB practices every Tuesday night at 7:00pm at the Seward Middle School. Our practices are open to all musicians regardless of age. We currently have 2 students playing with the band and many seniors…our current count for the band is 23 members!

The Seward Community Winter Family Movie Series is a not for profit activity sponsored by the Seward Arts Council, designed as a family friendly event to be held on Friday Nights during the winter months. A group of volunteers is raising money from businesses, individuals, and organizations in the Seward Community to put on two movies a week, on Friday Evenings between October and March, in a traditional theater setting at the UAF Rae building in downtown Seward at a very low cost.

We want to make a family friendly event designed to attract youth and young adults, as well as families and other members of the community.

The Seward Community Winter Family Movie Series is a not for profit activity sponsored by the Seward Arts Council, designed as a family friendly event to be held on Friday Nights during the winter months. A group of volunteers is raising money from businesses, individuals, and organizations in the Seward Community to put on two movies a week, on Friday Evenings between October and March, in a traditional theater setting at the UAF Rae building in downtown Seward at a very low cost.

We want to make a family friendly event designed to attract youth and young adults, as well as families and other members of the community.

The Seward Community Winter Family Movie Series is a not for profit activity sponsored by the Seward Arts Council, designed as a family friendly event to be held on Friday Nights during the winter months. A group of volunteers is raising money from businesses, individuals, and organizations in the Seward Community to put on two movies a week, on Friday Evenings between October and March, in a traditional theater setting at the UAF Rae building in downtown Seward at a very low cost.

We want to make a family friendly event designed to attract youth and young adults, as well as families and other members of the community.

In the spirit of Arctic Entries, the Seward Arts Council presents, Seward Stories - Low Tides: Tight Places, Last Chances and The One That Got Away.

Join us and your neighbors for an evening of storytelling, and music, by the Seward Community Band.

Doors open at 6:30 pm, and storytellers begin at 7:00 pm.

This is an 18+ ages event, and beer and wine will be available for purchase (ID required).

Tickets $20 advance purchase, $25 day of the event.