Come celebrate the Winter Solstice with Celtic and Balkan tunes & seasonal and original songs and poems performed by SeaMuse! The group released its first recording, Solstice Fire, in 2019. Masks and proof of vaccination will be required for admission to the concert.
Stanley and Kip Greenthal, Christos Govetas and Kim Goldov have played together for a number of years, inspiring new instrumental compositions and unusual arrangements of seasonal and original songs not heard at other holiday concerts. SeaMuse features music from a variety of regions of Greece, Turkey, and the Balkans, as well as songs and instrumental music from Brittany, Scotland and Ireland. Some of their music is original, with songs about love and the pivotal challenges of our times. Their performance also includes poetry with instrumental accompaniment.
Stanley Greenthal is an internationally acclaimed songwriter and instrumentalist, who stretches musical borders from Scotland, Ireland and Brittany to Greece and the Balkans. He sings and plays guitar, bouzouki, laouto and lavta (Greek and Turkish lutes). Christos Govetas has performed extensively in the U.S., Canada and Greece. He sings and plays clarinet, oud and bouzouki and performs regularly with his group Dromeno in Seattle, and across the U.S. and Canada. Kip Greenthal sings harmony vocals, plays a variety of percussion instruments, and plays the ancient bowed psaltry. Kip also adds poetry set to musical accompaniment. Kim Goldov plays 5-string violin, double bass and soprano glockenspiel. Kim has performed in a variety of groups, including the Radost Folk Ensemble, Freylakh Klezmer Band, Yeni Ses (Turkish traditional and modern folk), and the Bucharest Drinking Team.
Tickets are $20 adults, $8 youths (6 to 17), and are available at the door, Village Books, the Firehouse, and seamusebellingham.brownpapertickets.com.
