Arts Events Around Town

Petersburg Arts Council is happy to share your arts event on our calendar and periodic Arts Up! e-newsletter.

Email us (petersburgarts@gmail.com) the event poster or graphic and date, place, time, and cost and we’ll create an event web page you can link to. Open to nonprofits, businesses, individuals, and schools.

Accessible events

We strive to make all our events accessible to as wide a range of people as possible. The Wright Auditorium in Petersburg is ADA accessible and also has assistive listening capacity. Do you have a special need we can help accommodate at one of our performances in advance? Please reach out and let us know how we can help: Email us (petersburgarts@gmail.com)

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Sea Shanties & More w/Sean Dagher
Apr
5

Sea Shanties & More w/Sean Dagher

Petersburg Arts Council presents a lively evening with sea shanty and global music rennaissance man Seán Dagher.

Tickets on sale now

Seán Dagher’s sea shanties for game soundtracks have racked up hundreds of millions of listens on streaming platforms, but wait… there’s more!

Seán Dagher is an active performer, arranger, and composer of music from various classical and folk music traditions: Celtic, Baroque, Medieval, Arabic, Quebecois, and Maritime. He is artistic director and principal arranger of Skye Consort, @skyeconsort and and is a member of La Nef's Artistic Committee. He often provides arrangements for other ensembles and artists, including La Mandragore, Pierre Lapointe, Shannon Mercer, I Furiosi, Les Voix Baroques, and Les Voix Humaines. His music has been performed across Canada and the United States. Seán has recorded sea shanties and tavern songs for several video game sound-track in Assassin's Creed 4 series, by Ubisoft. He has also performed and toured with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal under Maestro Kent Nagano.

Seán 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 with story-teller and musician Suzanne De Serres, Youth Program Director for La Nef, and for American author Sandra Gulland. Seán has also been a composer and sound designer for several theatre productions. Seán has been nominated for numerous ADISQ and Opus awards and won prizes with La Nef and Les Charbonniers de l'Enfer for their concert and CD La Traverse Miraculeuse, with La Mandragore for the concert Convivencia, wand with La Nef for the creation of Leave her, Johnny. Despite all that Seán can frequently be found singing and playing in Irish pubs.

Want to sponsor Sean Dagher’s show? Contact PAC!

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Moving Music: Swing Dance at the Elks!
Sep
28

Moving Music: Swing Dance at the Elks!

Moving Music Concert Series Presents Swing Dance at The Elks Club! Local musicians team up to bring a swing themed night to Petersburg! The evening promises to be something different and tasty! There will be a silent auction for desserts throughout the evening as well as beverages to enjoy while you dance the night away! $20 for individuals and $60 for families
Purchase tickets for this event here.

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Emerge125 Dance Performance
Sep
17

Emerge125 Dance Performance

Emerge125 is a dynamic dance performance and education touring company based in Harlem & New York’s Adirondacks. They’ll be leaping through Alaska fall of 2024 with a cast of 8 dancers, and we’re thrilled to bring them to Petersburg for a performance & dance workshop.

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Lyric & Spirit
Nov
1

Lyric & Spirit

Lyric & Spirit is an International Celebration of Women’s Voices, bringing together female singers from around the world. The inaugural American Tour in Fall 2023 features Lenna Bahule from Mozambique; Varijashree Venugopal from India; and Luisa Lacerda from Brazil.. In the style of International Guitar Night each artist will perform a solo set, followed by collaborations showcasing the blending of their global cultures.

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Mike Block Trio
Sep
28

Mike Block Trio

$20 at the door, $15 at Lee’s Clothing

Mike Block Trio in Petersburg, performing American roots music with contemporary and international influences, bringing an exciting and personal perspective to the acoustic music scene.

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DUDE MTN
May
20

DUDE MTN

Get ready to unzip those Norwegian sweaters and hit the dance floor...

Ketchikan's own Dude Mtn, fresh off a history making tour of Juneau's Folk Fest, will bring their "psychedelic rock and blues" to Sons of Norway Hall for the 2023 Little Norway Festival in Petersburg, Alaska.

Doors open at 7:30 pm, Saturday May 20th

Tickets are $15 at Lee's Clothing / $20 at the door.

Get a *free ticket* by helping us set up, take down, or clean up the next day - Peterburg Arts Council has several volunteer slots for this show. Message us to claim a volunteer spot or for more info.

Proceeds benefit the band (yay local artists!) & our nonprofit arts council, an all volunteer crew working hard to bring the arts to our island.

All ages show, bring an ID for beer/wine. 

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Gold Dust Rising
Feb
25
Concert

Gold Dust Rising

Presented by the Petersburg Arts Council with sponsorship support from the Petersburg Rotary Club.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Soft drinks, sparkling water, beer and wine available for purchase. Please do not bring in your own alcohol, including those purchased downstairs.

Advance tickets are currently available online via the Arts Council’s Square commerce page (opens in new window/tab). Please print the receipt or keep a digital copy (confirmation email is fine) to use as your ticket.

Advance purchase tickets may be purchased in-person via credit card, check or cash at FireLight Gallery & Framing. The printed sales receipt serves as the ticket to the event. Advance sales (online and in-person) will end 4 hours (2:30 p.m.) prior to doors opening.

Admission will also be available at the door.

We define “family” as immediate family members. The intent is to cap total admission costs for parent/guardian(s) and their children.

Band Bios

Matthew Johnson

Matthew Johnson, Alaska born and raised musician, has been listening to and playing bluegrass music since his early childhood spent growing up in the woods. Following the rythymn and footsteps of his idols (Bill Monroe, Del McCoury, Carl Hoffman and the likes) has help him find his boisterous, soulful voice, clear, crisp guitar licks, and beautifully timed mandolin strums. He spent 14 years as Carl Hoffman’s mandolin player and tenor singer in Northern River. He’s been in the bluegrass music scene from Alaska to Austin, Texas and all places in between.

Laura Davis Collins

Laura Davis Collins was born and raised in southeast Virginia, singing harmonies with her sister at church. She developed an ear for bass lines playing bassoon in high school band and orchestra and picked up playing guitar in college in southwest Virginia, where she learned to love bluegrass. In 2007, Laura moved to Nome, AK and picked up the bass in 2011 to join the Nome-based old time string band Landbridge Tollbooth. She’s played music with Lorne and Matt off and on for over 10 years.

Lorne Carroll

Lorne Carroll, while he wasn’t born in Alaska he got here as quick as he could in the winter of 2009. He’s been fueled by the bluegrass beat for decades and is influenced by David Grisman, Andy Statman, and a long, long list of others. You might find him and that 1996 Flatiron Performer F behind the Gold Dust Saloon, inside the Down East Saloon or anywhere in-betweens.

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Sundae + Mr. Goessl
Apr
8

Sundae + Mr. Goessl

Sundae + Mr. Goessl, a Wisconsin-based duo, comes to Petersburg for a stop on their Alaska tour. This charming wife/husband duo has a style all their own and incorporate humor, vintage style, interesting instrumentation, nostalgia and serious musicianship in their act. While some label their style as "Vintage Pop" and others deem it "Cowboy Jazz" there's one adjective that everyone can agree on: delightful.

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Séet Ká Festival
Feb
10
to Feb 16

Séet Ká Festival

An Indigenous festival dedicated to cultural awareness, cultural revitalization, and uplifting the Indigenous people of Séet Ká Kwáan through art and language classes, as well as dialogues about racial equity, cultural awareness, and decolonization.

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