Sea Shanties & Eclectic Music concert featuring Seán Dagher at Valley Folk Music Society in Corning
2:00pm, Sun, Feb 8, 2026
144 Cedar St (red brick church, use door on First St. )
More info, including ticket link: https://www.valleyfolk.org
info@valleyfolk.org
(607) 962-4461
Direct Ticket Link: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/sean-dagher
Seán Dagher helped create music for Assassin’s Creed & Black Flag video games. But he’s a far better singer than most any ship’s crew!
An active performer, arranger and composer of music from various traditions including Celtic, Baroque, Medieval, Arabic, French-Canadian and Maritime, he sings and plays Irish Bouzouki, mandolin, oud and banjo. (more info about the performer below)
Admission: Buy tix on-line to save time at door.
Patron Admission- $30 – pay a bit more, if you can
General Admission- $25.
“Hard Times” Admsision – $10 – no questions asked – suitable for students, disabled, unemployed or anyone who might have had to stay home at full price.
free kids 14 & under w/adult
If you might be contagious, please take all precautions and consider staying home and asking for a refund.
Cash/checks at door or use a QR code with a smartphone.
www.valleyfolk.org • (607) 962-4461 • info@valleyfolk.org
There is always a free and optional jam session to play and sing folk music 90 minutes ahead of every concert, in the lounge downstairs. Bring unplugged instruments and songs.
Warm beverages are provided during intermission. The audience in invited to bring ready-to-serve finger foods (sweet or savory) for the intermsision snack buffet. BYO serving utensill. Sorry, no kitchen access.
More info about Seán Dagher:
He is a member of Skye Consort and is the co-artistic director of La Nef. He has played with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Caprices, Les Boréades, and Le Petit Rien among others. Seán has also provided arrangements for other ensembles and artists both across Canada and the US.
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 and been a composer and sound designer for theatre productions. He has been nominated for numerous OPUS and ADISQ awards and 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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This project is made possible in part, with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes.
