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April Verch

The photos are a bit deceiving. The freshly scrubbed beauty of April Verch could be mistaken for a young television star instead of an accomplished player and composer, who started stepdancing at age three and playing the fiddle at age six. Who, by the age of ten, was winning fiddle contests and touring Canada—releasing two solo albums before graduating from high school.
Now Verch, who leads her band with her own simultaneous fiddling and dancing (selling out prestigious venues and festivals for years), is emerging to take the role of one of the top women in the roots genre with her recent release, Steal The Blue, which brings forth her confident and winsome voice on songs by familiar roots writers Ron Block, Sarah Siskind and Larry Cordle—as well as finely detailed instrumentals infused with pure and joyous energy.