Fairbanks Concert Association

“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.

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.