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An Evening of Folk Music

This is DAVE SEAR'S long loved general family concert. With banjo and twelve string guitar ringing, SEAR blends old foot stomping mountain square dance tunes with new songs about sailors, women, children, animals, mermaids, aging and nature into a life-affirming concert that leaves an audience young or old with a good feeling toward life. This ever changing concert has been pleasing audiences for years and is the foundation of DAVE SEAR'S successful concert career.

The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie

This Land was made for you and me. America's most prolific balladeer and folk singer, Woody Guthrie chronicled our history in song through the Dust Bowl, the depression, the labor movement of the 1930's and 40's, and the Second World War. He wrote the songs that laid the foundation for the folk revival of the 1950's and 60's and has had a profound influence on succeeding generations of singers from Dylan to Springstein. DAVE SEAR, who worked and sang with Guthrie, will sing through a broad swath of Guthrie’s songs, both the historical and the personal, including the deliciously engaging songs that he wrote for his children. This concert has been drawing large audiences, as Sear has given numerous performances from "The Redwood Forests" to "The New York Island" and north to Alaska, where audiences came to relive the times through the songs of America’s Shakespeare in overalls.

A Half Century of American Folk Music

Here is a brand new concert which DAVE SEAR has put together to celebrate the songs and the times that we have lived through and sung about for the past fifty years. SEAR starts with the Post War period when battle-scarred G.I's came home to seek the good life. He sings the songs of the early Civil Rights Movement of the 40's the McCarthy period, and the Third Party Campaign. The program goes on to highlight the 50's and 60's when civil rights and the Vietnam War dominated the nation's agenda and artists such as Dylan, Paxton, Ochs took center stage. The concert culminates in the music of today featuring songs by the likes of Tom Chapin, Bill Staines and others who speak for our times. Join us for this historical journey by a man who's lived it, sung it, and brings it to life through music.

Songs of the Sea

There are few songs that capture the human condition like the songs of the sea. These songs have an intensity and sense of drama, from the hurricanes of the Bahamas to the "White Squalls" of the Great Lakes. Whether it be "The Greenland Whalers" telling the adventure of their lives or the crew of "The Mary Ellen Carter" determined to raise their ship, these songs strike a universal chord in everybody who works, hopes, aspires and affirms life.

In a new concert, Dave Sear has woven these songs together with sea shanties where the audience becomes the crew. There are old songs about women that have gone to sea and new songs about mermaids. He has spiced up the brew with some salty folk philosophy that takes the audience from the jovial to the deeply moving, which is the hall mark of a Dave Sear concert.

Dave often performs this concert with his good friend and partner in piracy, Peter Pickow, who adds his bass, guitar, penny whistle and strong bass voice to the mix, bringing to life the music of work and the sea.

American Folk Music of Conflict and Social Discord

The United States has had a long and anguished history of conflict between its economic classes, its diverse ethnic groups, gender antagonisms and strife over unpopular wars. These conflicts have sparked the creation of some of our best and most dynamic folk songs and have carried the banners and been the artistic symbols of the battles. Folk singer DAVE SEAR has carried this banner unfurled from the long neck of his five string banjo asking union workers "Which Side Are You On" and singing the songs of women fighting for equal rights. He sings the moving songs of Afro-Americans breaking the bonds of slavery and fighting for their civil rights and of Irish and Jewish immigrants battling discrimination. He sings of "The Banks of Marble" foreclosing on and auctioning off farmers homes. DAVE SEAR ends the concert with the songs he sang during the sixties that helped end the Vietnam War and then comes to the present with a few songs of todays issues. Join us on this historical journey with a man who's lived it, sung it and brings it to life through music.

Holiday Folk Festival Around The Word

HOLIDAY FOLK FESTIVAL AROUND THE WORLD is a program tying together the holidays celebrated by people around the world at Christmas, Chanukah and the Indian Festival of Lights. It pays tribute to America’s diverse ethnic backgrounds.

Let Freedom Ring

LET FREEDOM RING is a smashing tribute to the people of America who fought against slavery, segregation, bigotry and prejudice. It celebrates the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and the story of Afro-Americans as they sang their way to freedom from their capture on the coasts of Africa through their journey along the route of the underground railroad and the Civil War. DAVE SEAR includes the songs of other peoples, such as women, the Irish, Jews and others, who similarly fought poverty, discrimination and prejudice .