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Clayton W. Smith is a native Mainer who hails from Bangor. After attending the University of Maine at Orono, he completed his Bachelor of Music in Piano Accompanying from the Shenandoah Conservatory of Music. He has performed at Wolf Trap in Vienna, VA, and Musicana Dinner Theatre of West Palm Beach, FL, as well as serving a tour on the Canadian cruise ship MV Northern Ranger.

Mr. Smith's arrangements were used for the MPBN documentary Remember the Maine and he has written many silent film scores for Northeast Historic Film of Bucksport, ME. More recently, he performed as accompanist for soloists from the brass sections of the Atlanta Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

As a Co-Director of Brewer Youth Theatre, he has helped produce more than 30 shows, including a recent November production of George Gershwin's Crazy for You with more than 50 Brewer high school and middle school students. He is also the founding director of an Americana ensemble called the Bon-Ton Salon Orchestra which is available to re-create popular singalongs, foxtrots, marches, and ragtime music from the turn of the century.

Organist Sean Fleming has been active as an organist, pianist, accompanist and music director throughout Maine, New Hampshire, Michigan and Ohio. In addition to Down East Singers, he accompanies St. Cecilia Chamber Choir, Sheepscot Valley Chorus, Lincoln Arts Festival Chorus, Bowdoin Chorus, and Coastal Chorale. He has worked with the Ann Arbor Camerata, Bowdoin College Chamber Choir, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival Chorus, Oratorio Chorale, University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan Society, and University of Southern Maine Chorale and Chamber Singers.

Mr. Fleming has performed as accompanist in recitals at Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin colleges, University of Southern Maine, University of Michigan School of Music, and Round Top Center for the Arts. He has been music director or accompanist for over fifty theatrical productions. Mr. Fleming has performed as an organ recitalist in Maine, Michigan and New Hampshire. He serves as organist at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Newcastle, and teaches clarinet, euphonium, organ, piano, saxophone, and tuba privately. He studied organ with Ray Cornils, John Doney, Michael Lindsey, and Gerald McGee, and piano with Michael Lindsey.