About Us
Mission
“Enriching Interior Alaska through the performing arts”
We bring talented professional performing artists from all over the world and connect them with Interior Alaskans.
We create opportunities for everyone to participate. We’re part of the community. We enhance it, we make it fun, and we bring people together in a joyous shared adventure through public performances and outreach opportunities.
History

Coming Soon!
“Subarctic Sounds and Echoes” is a vibrant history of the performing arts in the Alaskan Interior, from before 1900 to the present day, with a particular emphasis on Alaska’s longest-running performing arts-presenting organization – the Fairbanks Concert Association.
Author: Dr. Paul Krejci, local Fairbanks scholar and musician.
Dr. Krejci has been on the FCA board for numerous years, and is an avid lover of Alaska’s musical history.
The rich and long-held artistic heritage of traditional Indigenous peoples in the region and that of locals and visitors to Fairbanks during the community’s first five decades served as vital sources of cultural expression and enrichment, spiritual exploration, knowledge preservation and transmission, political empowerment and relationship building, and social conformity and stratification.
Over the course of FCA’s first 75 years, starting in 1948, the organization has presented a wide variety of the performing arts, reflecting distinct cultures and individual voices within those cultures. From Indigenous and Black music and dance to Asian and European art forms; from Celtic, Cajun, and country to jazz, bluegrass, and hip-hop; from the compelling storytelling of folk music to the dramatic cadence of the spoken word; from classical to classic rock; and from dance and theater to comedy and circus, the Fairbanks Concert Association’s broad, performing arts spectrum has been one of ever-enduring, ever-changing, and ever-mixing quality.
FCA’s programming has reflected and celebrated human diversity at its fullest.
Stay tuned for details on a launch event this fall.
Staff

Marie Olesen
Executive Director
Originally from Montreal, Canada, I grew up with an unlimited access to arts and concerts from around the world.
As a young adult, I immersed myself in music and live events such as the International Jazz Festival, rock, folk, classical, opera, ballet, symphony, theater, and more. I believe live events connect us in ways that are hard to recreate outside a performance venue.
The arts help us process challenges and celebrate successes alike, they heal, mend, and put words on life experiences that are at times hard to speak of.
The FCA family is one of the most supportive, uplifting and engaging I have worked with, and it is a pure joy to go to work everyday!

Robert Stewart-Rogers
Operations Manager
I originally hail from Western New York, but I moved to Fairbanks in 2015 after spending a summer in Coldfoot. I never expected I’d want to live in Alaska for the long haul, but isn’t that just how the story goes? My heart belongs to the Brooks Range now, to say nothing of my wife and two kids, all Alaska-grown.
It was during my 3-year tenure as a Dalton Highway tour guide for Northern Alaska Tour Company that I shuttled many FCA visiting artists,including Tanya Tagaq, Melissa Etheridge, We Banjo 3, and OK Go.
I’ll hold some of these memories for as long as I live. I’m thrilled to be a part of the FCA team!

Tori Tragis
Communications Manager
I’ve spent some 20-plus years in communications and public relations, most recently at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
I liked the places I’ve worked, but I also always wondered about the lucky few who worked for the Fairbanks Concert Association.
Then suddenly, somehow, one of the lucky ones was me!
Board of directors
MIKE POWERS
President
Retired, CEO Tanana Valley Clinic
PAUL EWERS
Vice president, administration
Retired, City of Fairbanks attorney
PAUL KREJCI
Vice president, artist selection
Musician
CINDY WENTWORTH
Secretary, interim treasurer
Retired, State of Alaska DOT
EVELYN SFRAGA
Board member
Retired, FNSB School District
BILL SCHNABEL
Board member
Dean, UAF College of Engineering & Mines
JEFF STEPP
Board member
Legislative staff, Alaska State Legislature
AJ FUSSALVA
Board member
Licensed clinical social worker, Fort Wainwright
WALKIE CHARLES
Board member
UAF faculty fellow in language revitalization
GWEN BRAZIER
Board member
Choir director, Lathrop & West Valley high schools
CHUCK LEMKE
Board member
Owner, North Star Dental Laboratory
Past Seasons
78th Season | 2025-2026
Delbert Anderson Quartet
Adam Trent
Portland Cello Project
International Guitar Night XXIV
Cherish the Ladies
OkCello
Dustbowl Revival & Hot Club of Cowtown
Pedrito Martinez
Gnoss
Pink Martini
Yonder Mountain String Band
77th Season | 2024-2025
St. Paul and the Broken Bones
Skerryvore
EMERGE125
Waipuna
Sammy Miller & The Congregation
Broadway’s Next Hit Musical
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio
Trailblazing Women of Country
Napoleon Dynamite
Cirque Kalabanté – Africa in Circus
Seán Dagher
76th Season | 2023-2024
Eli Paperboy Reed & the Harlem
Gospel Travelers
Choir! Choir! Choir!
Diyet & The Love Soldiers
International Guitar Night XXIV
Trinity Irish Dance Company
The Sound of (Black) Music
Live from Laurel Canyon
Damn Tall Buildings
Barbra Lica
Adonis Rose & the NOJO7
Breabach
Whose Live Anyway?
75th Season | 2022-2023
DECRUIT
Neko Case
Alpin Hong
Making Movies
Laura Cortese and the Dance Cards
Cirque Mechanics
Shawn Colvin, Mark Cohn, & Sarah
Jarosz
Eileen Ivers
Rosanne Cash
Meow Meow
Emmet Cohen Trio with Cyrille Aimée
Pink Martini featuring China Forbes
74th Season | 2021-2022
Christ Thile
International Guitar Night
Jane Lynch & Kate Flannery “Two
Lost Souls”
Lunasa
Royal Wood
Jake Shimabukuro
Talisk
Small Glories
BeauSoleil
Post Moderm Jukebox
72nd Season | 2019-2020
We Banjo 3
The Rad Trads
Whose Live Anyway?
International Guitar Night
Capitol Steps
Scott Silven – Wonders at Dusk
An Evening with Jenn Colella
and Caitlin Warbelow
PUBLIQuartet
Eileen Ivers
Ensemble Mik Nawooj
Fairbanks Flies with Tomas Kubinek
71st Season | 2018-2019
Stephan Wolfert- Cry Havoc!
Black Violin
Broadway at the Palace
Derina Harvey
Across the Great Divide: Hot Club of
Cowtown/Dustbowl Revival
The Second City
Improv Festival with Tracy
Silverman/Roy “Futureman” Wooten,
Sirius Quartet, SEVEN)SUNS
OK Go
The Imago Theatre: Frogz
The Hot Sardines
70th Season | 2017-2018
Cantus
Postmodern Jukebox
Storm Large
La Santa Cecilia
Sweet Honey in the Rock
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Squirrel Nut Zippers
TaikoProject
Dervish
The Wailin’ Jennys
Pink Martini
69th Season | 2016-2017
Jamison Ross
Women of the World
Tanya Tagaq
Cherish the Ladies
The Intergalactic Nemesis
Versa-Style Dance Company
Portland Cello Project
Rhythm Future Quartet
Shane Koyczan
David Sedaris
68th Season | 2015-2016
Martha Redbone Roots Project
Letters Aloud
Eddie Izzard
Blind Boys of Alabama
Capitol Steps
Jake Shimabukuro
Dublin Guitar Quartet
Solas
ScrapArtsMusic
Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn
67th Season | 2014-2015
Masters of Hawaiian Music
Black Violin
Split Knuckle Theatre’s Endurance
The Intergalactic Nemesis
TorQ Percussion
African Guitar Summit
Ramsey Lewis & John Pizzarelli
BodyVox
66th Season | 2013-2014
Martin Short
Quixotic Fusion
Manhattan Transfer
California Guitar Trio & Montreal
Guitare Trio
Lunasa
Sybarite5
International Blues Express
Chick Corea & Bela Fleck
65th Season | 2012-2013
Riders in the Sky
New York Polyphony
In the Footsteps of Django
Metta Quintet
Pink Martini
Cirque Mechanics
Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas
The Good Lovelies
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
BeauSoleil
The StepCrew
Bruce Adolphe & Friends
64th Season | 2011-2012
Brasil Guitar Duo
Te Vaka
Sweet Plantain
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Capitol Steps
New Shanghai Circus
Tito Puente Jr. Orchestra
Le Vent du Nord
Lily Tomlin
63rd Season | 2010-2011
Chic Gamine
Calo Flamenco
Alpin Hong
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Reduced Shakespeare Company
Suzanne Vega
Solas
The Calder Quartet
Acoustic Africa
Tomas Kubinek
62nd Season | 2009-2010
Cantus
Lakota Sioux Dance Theatre
Eileen Ivers & Immigrant Soul
Imago Theatre’s ZooZoo
Street Beat
Les Yeux Noirs
Sharon Isbin & Mark O’Connor
Ira Glass
61st Season | 2008-2009
Calo Flamenco
Baltimore Consort
Baka Beyond
Capitol Steps
Cherish the Ladies
Cuarteto Latinoamericano
Lazer Vaudeville
Yuval Ron Ensemble
60th Season | 2007-2008
ZUM Gypsy Tango Passion
Leahy
Chicago City Limits
Moscow Circus
Chamber Orchestra Kremlin
The Wailin’ Jennys
Turtle Island String Quartet
Sarah Vowell
Anonymous 4 w/Darol Anger & Scott Nygaard
Shidara Taiko