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SUMMARY:Séamus Egan Project
DESCRIPTION:ADVANCE PURCHASE: $30\nAT THE DOOR: $40\nAll tickets will in
 cur an additional $6.00 surcharge.\nALL AGES\n\nSeamus Egan…It’s har
 d to think of an artist in traditional Irish music more influential than
  Seamus Egan. From his beginnings as a teen prodigy\, to his groundbreak
 ing solo work with Shanachie Records\, to his founding of Irish-American
  powerhouse band Solas\, to his current work as one of the leading compo
 sers and interpreters of the tradition\, Egan has inspired multiple gene
 rations of musicians and helped define the sound of Irish music today. A
 s a multi-instrumentalist\, he’s put his mark on the sound of the Iris
 h flute\, tenor banjo\, guitar\, mandolin\, tin whistle\, and low whistl
 e\, among others.As a composer\, he was behind the soundtrack for the aw
 ard-winning film The BrothersMcMullen\, co-wrote Sarah McLachlan’s bre
 akout hit\, “Weep Not for the Memories\,” and has scored numerous do
 cumentaries and indie films since. As a bandleader\, Solas has been the 
 pre-eminent Irish-American band of their generation for the past 20 year
 s\, continuously renewing Irish music with fresh ideas\, including a col
 laboration withRhiannon Giddens on their 2015 album. As a performer\, fe
 w others can make so many instruments or such wickedly complex ornaments
  seem so effortless. Music comes as naturally to Seamus Egan as breath\,
  but his mastery of the tradition is only one facet of his plans to move
  the music forward. In 2018\, Seamus Egan began touring as a solo perfor
 mer\, bringing along friends and musical guests\, and making music that 
 points towards the origins of Solas in the 1990s.Originally a band of fr
 iends who gathered to enjoy the late night craic of the Irish sessions i
 n Philadelphia and New York\, Solas was able to meld the breakneck speed
  and fun of these late night jams with a more sensitive feel for complex
  arrangements and composition that came from Egan’s love of other musi
 c genres like jazz\, classical\, bluegrass or rock. Revisiting this peri
 od in his music\, focusing on the three solo album she cut before Solas\
 , Egan’s looking back to that initial burst of creativity that followe
 d the breathtaking four All-Ireland Championships he won on four differe
 nt instruments by the young age of 14 and his turns as a star soloist in
  his later teens with Mick Moloney’s The Green Fields of America.Growi
 ng up under the wing of powerful elder musicians\, Egan’s always paid 
 homage to his roots\, but he’s thought of these roots less as a herita
 ge and more as a universal language to be shared. Just as classical or j
 azz cuts across all ethnicities and unites communities around the world\
 , Egan saw Irish music the same way\, and the ensuing decades only serve
 d to support this idea. Today\, musicians play Irish music all over the 
 world\, and part of this comes from the constant evolution the tradition
  has seen in the past century. Certainly this idea of musical evolution 
 has kept Egan centered through the twenty years he’s spent as founding
  member of Solas\, but the first real inkling of this came from his grou
 ndbreaking 1996 album\, When Juniper Sleeps. Here\, Egan began to explor
 e the further reaches of the Irish tradition\, blazing his way at specta
 cular speed through Irish reels\, but also bringing in rich compositions
  and arrangements\, and crafting soundscapes to enrich the melodies. Thi
 s album dropped nearly the same year as Solas’ debut\, self-titled alb
 um\, so it’s no surprise that Egan would reach back to this time perio
 d to create new music for new generations.
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LOCATION:181 State St.\, Portland\,  Maine  04101\,  US
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