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April Verch In Concert
What: April Verch in Concert,
When: Saturday, October 22, 2011 8 pm
Where: The Laboratory 2645 Willamette St Eugene, OR
Admission: $16.50 adv, $17 door
Contact info: Mike Meyer mmeyer@efn.org
Website: www.aprilverch.com
Tickets available at www.brownpapertickets.com
April Verch, doesn't just perform music, she exudes it. The internationally renowned Canadian fiddler, singer, songwriter and stepdancer has a passion for performing and her goal is to touch the lives of those who are listening at any given moment. "The world is this amazing puzzle that we can't fully understand and music is the joy that pulls it all together and helps us make sense of it," says Verch, with a dynamic excitement and confidence that
makes you believe her in a heartbeat.
Dirk Powell, a multi-instrumentalist, who's worked with Jack White, Joan Baez,
Riverdance and the film Cold Mountain, is awed by April's ability to play any kind of roots music as though it was her native tongue. "She's so fluent in the language of music that she never needs to imitate," Powell says. "She hears the heart of it and lets that become part of her core. April's just got that, man; she's always speaking the language for real. She is a rare mix of all the technique and super-flashy things, along with the deep soul and tradition that comes from having grown up with the music."
On her eighth CD, That's How We Run, April explores the Southern mountain
traditions known as old time music, but always brings her Northern roots with her. Plucky, straight-backed Canadian tunes fit so snugly beside ancient Appalachian airs that you'd think they'd been neighbors for centuries. When she sings her own songs, you feel sultry Southern air blowing through every wet, bluesy slide of "That's How We Run," just as you feel the tight-shouldered Northern chill in her heartbroken "Still Trying." Through sinewy
old time American reels or crisp Canadian hops, singing the happy Ontario chestnut "Moonshine Mac," or swapping hot licks with the cream of old time's new breed, like Dirk Powell, Riley Baugus, and Rayna Gellert, April is always being April.
Verch was born to traditional music, in Canada's hard-working, hard-dancing Ottawa Valley. She was a local star at four, step dancing with her sister and winning awards at contests. The fact that they were for "Youngest Competitor" didn't dampen her child-eyed enthusiasm. She became the first woman in history to win both of Canada's most prestigious fiddle championships, the Grand Masters and Canadian Open; and when Canada hosted the
2010 Winter Olympics, she was asked to represent her country's music at the opening ceremonies.
Ottawa Valley music is a foot-stomping, open-minded fusion of Irish, Scottish,
French, German, and Polish influences, sprinkled with tangy spices of American country music. The twang of the banjo and the driving Franco-Celtic pulse of the fiddle are as ingrained in April as snowbound winters and Saturday dances.
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LocationThe Laboratory (View)
2645 Willamette St
Eugene, OR 97405
United States
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