An Evening of Celtic-Style Music
With
Crescent Loon
Saturday, October 24
6-7:30 PM
Suggested donation: $25 (taken at the door).
Tea and Treats Served
Join us for a joyful music event with local Celtic-inspired musicians: Crescent Loon (Emerson Gale, Sanaa Siddiqi, and Justin Rodig).
Crescent Loon will share their arrangements of traditional and contemporary Celtic-style tunes in support of Migrant Justice, an immigrant farmworker community organization based in Vermont.
All proceeds will benefit the work of Migrant Justice.
Learn More about Migrant Justice HERE.
Listen to Emerson Gale Below!
Meet Crescent Loon…
Emerson Gale
Emerson enjoys performing and teaching traditional Celtic dance music around the Upper Valley region of Vermont and New Hampshire. Emerson is also a busy piano technician, tuning, cleaning, and repairing upright and grand pianos throughout the area. In addition, he serves on the boards of the Seven Stars Arts Center and Summer Music For Kids. To learn more you can visit: www.emersongale.com
Sanaa Siddiqi
has been passionate about music for much of her life and has immersed herself in traditional Celtic music on mandolin following her arrival to the Upper Valley in 2022. Born in India, raised in the U.K., and having lived in Alaska for twelve years, her love of dance and music is woven from many different colourful threads of myriad cultures. Most recently, Sanaa has been composing her own pieces inspired by traditional folk and fiddle tunes. She recently debuted her new piece, “The Wind Calls Back,” at the popular Strafford Common Concert Series. You can also hear her performing with the Seven Stars Community Fiddle Band and playing at jam sessions around Vermont. She is also a science communicator with a focus on the Arctic Bumblebee, as well as the Program Manager for the Institute of Arctic Studies in the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth.
Justin Rodig
is a guitarist from the Chicago area with experience in folk, rock, and classical traditions. Performing in a rock band while also studying folk fingerstyle guitar during high school led to the study of classical guitar and voice at Southern Illinois University, where Justin earned a BA in Music Theory and Composition. For the next several years, Justin collaborated with other musicians on various projects in and around Chicago while also starting a family. After studying band instrument repair at Red Wing Technical College in Red Wing, MN, he migrated to Vermont with his wife and son where he worked at the Ellis Music repair shop in Bethel, VT for six years fixing flutes, piccolos, clarinets, and oboes. Justin continues to pick up his guitar and other instruments as often as he can.