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2019 Winter Solstice Concerts with SeaMuse
December is here and we are thrilled to announce that our new SeaMuse recording, Solstice Fire, will be available at our three Winter Solstice concerts! Our friend and fellow musician Christos Govetas made a remarkable recovery from a serious fall in September. To our surprise, Christos wanted to resume recording the album much sooner than we thought possible. So this year, we’ll be celebrating the Winter Solstice with even more appreciation and gratitude for our community and friends.   
 
With very best wishes for a happy holiday to all,
Stanley & Kip



Bellingham
Saturday, December 14th – at 7:30 pm
1314 Harris Avenue   
360-734-2776
$20 adults, $8 youths 6 to 17
Tickets available at the door, Village Books, the Firehouse, Community Food Co-op, and from seamusebellingham.brownpapertickets.com

Seattle
Saturday, December 21st – at 7:30 pm
3406 Fremont Avenue N   
Tickets: $20 in advance, $25 at the door
 206-634-1662 and at dustystrings.com

Lopez Island
Sunday, December 22nd – at 7:00 pm
Info: www.lopezcenter.org  (360) 468-2203
Tickets: $15 adults, $6 youth (under 18)
Available at PSR, Blossom, Bookshop & lopezcenter.org



 Celebrate the winter solstice, the longest night of the year, with traditional Celtic and Balkan tunes, original songs, and poetry. A tradition for many years, the concerts bring together four friends who love to share their individual art with each other and with their audience. “This is world music in the holiday tradition including Greenthal’s superb originals,” writes Chris Lunn, editor of northwest music quarterly Ancient Victorys. SeaMuse, comprised of Stanley Greenthal, Christos Govetas, Kip Greenthal, and Kim Goldov, plays music from Greece, Turkey, and the Balkans, as well as songs and instrumentals from Brittany, Scotland, and Ireland. A mix of traditional and original, the music touches on themes of love, challenges of the times, and stories from life experience. Their performance also includes poetry with musical accompaniment.

 Stanley Greenthal is an internationally acclaimed songwriter and instrumentalist who stretches musical borders from Scotland, Ireland, Brittany, Greece, and the Balkans. He sings and plays guitar, bouzouki, laouto and lavta (Greek and Turkish lutes). Sing Out! magazine described his latest recording, First Song, as “…a fascinating voyage to the highlands of Scotland, the Breton lands and the islands of the Mediterranean.”

 Christos Govetas sings and plays clarinet, oud, and bouzouki, and regularly performs with his group Dromeno (www.dromeno.com) in Seattle and across the U.S. and Canada. Christos and his wife Ruth Hunter are winners of the 2017 Gordon Ekvall Tracie Memorial Award in recognition of their excellence in ethnic performance and significant contributions to traditional cultural arts. Govetas has recorded and performed with Bill Frisell’s group, The Intercontinentals.

 Kip Greenthal sings harmony, plays the ancient bowed psaltry, as well as percussion. With SeaMuse, Kip also adds compelling spoken word pieces set to musical accompaniment.

 Kim Goldov plays 5-string violin, double bass, and soprano glockenspiel. Kim has performed on glockenspiel and xylophone since his early years in his neighborhood Orff ensemble. More recently he performed in the Radost Folk Ensemble, Freylakh Klezmer Band, Yeni Ses (Turkish traditional and modern folk), and the Bucharest Drinking Team.

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