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Canadian Fiddler at EOH

Thu, Aug 25, 2011

Canadian Fiddler at EOH

Canadian fiddle player and stap-dancer April Verch and her band will perform at the Earlville Opera House Friday, Sept. 2 at 8 p.m.

She began performing at the age of 4 and developed into a triple-threat female roots music artist: champion fiddler, step-dancer and singer-songwriter anchored in the traditions of Canada's Ottawa Valley. Coming from where eastern Ontario meets western Quebec, her traditional songs emerge from the French and Irish immigrants who arrived to work in Canada's lumber camps.

Verch holds two fiddling championships – Canadian Grand Masters Fiddle Champion and Canadian Open Fiddle Champion. She is joined on stage by Cody Walters on upright bass and banjo and by Clay Ross on guitar as well as a mix of other instruments including the Kashakas, an African instrument. 

The band recently released its latest self-produced CD,That's How We Run! Verch describes the CD as “some Americana-flavored singing songs, some traditional French Canadian fiddle tunes and the requisite Ottawa Valley sing-along - it has a somewhat more pronounced old-time flavor, with some great fiddle tunes and more fine clawhammer banjo picking from Cody.”

General admission is $18 and $16 with an EOH membership. Students are discounted to $13. Premium seating is available for added $5. For more information, or to reserve your seats, call 691-3550.

 

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