The Wire Birds, Santa Fe College’s first Visiting Artists for the 2024-25 season, will perform on Friday, Sept. 13.
The concert is slated for 7:30 p.m. in the Jackson N. Sasser Fine Arts Hall (3000 NW 83 St.) in Gainesville.
Tickets can be purchased online from Showpass at showpass.com/visiting-artist-the-wire-birds or from the Fine Arts Hall Box Office at 352-395-4181. The prices are $16 for adults; $10 for seniors, students and military service members and children 12 and under; and free for SF students, faculty, and staff with college ID cards.
The Wire Birds are a folk group performing original songs with close harmonies and a string quintet:
- Dan Stepp, vocals and guitar
- Emma Rynear, vocals
- Gabi Shapiro, bass
- Dan Hardwick, cello
- Cate Hancock, viola
- Andre Cox, violin
- Lauran Roberts, violin
The group’s musical influences include country, blues, jazz, traditional folk music and classical chamber music. The Wire Birds have been performing together for two years and have created two albums of original compositions.
“We are thrilled to announce The Wire Birds, as our first Visiting Artist of the 2024-2025 season,” said Kyle Novak, Director of Cultural Affairs for Santa Fe College, in a press release. “Their extraordinary talent, dynamic performance, and masterful mix of uplifting, nostalgic and heart wrenching songs promise to provide an unforgettable musical evening as we welcome this remarkable ensemble to our Fine Arts Hall stage.”