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Seán Dagher

 Seán Dagher is a folk singer and multi-instrumentalist from Montreal. He sings music from various folk and classical music traditions including Celtic, Baroque, Medieval, Arabic, French-Canadian, and Maritime Shanties, while playing a number of instruments including the Irish bouzouki, cittern, mandolin, banjo, oud, and the shruti box.

Join HCOA in welcoming Seán to Homer for a unique and memorable performance. Seán’s performance will showcase his deep catalog of traditional sea shanties accompanied by cittern & banjo.

Tuesday, April 15th at 7pm 

at The Porcupine!

Dagher is an active performer, arranger, and composer. He is a member of Skye Consort and is the co-artistic director of La Nef. Gamers may recognize Seán’s voice 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 on Youtube. He also performs his own Shanty of the Week video series on Youtube, receiving thousands of views a week.

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 and 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 as well as 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.

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).

**Beer and wine will be sold at this event.
Youth under 21 must be accompanied by parent/guardian or spouse over 21**

This program is supported in part by the Creative West and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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