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From Louisiana La Bande Feufollet in concert from the Grou Tyme Festival held on the Halifax Waterfront July 2004...
Vishten in concert from the 2004 Grou Tyme Festivalheld on the Halifax waterfront...Vishten's music is a hardy mixture of French, Irish and Scottish styles, with fiery fiddling and powerful step dancing taking front and center.Their stage show re-creates the joy and energy of the "kitchen party," the informal community gatherings where all are welcomed to sing, play and dance.The rhythms and melodies are inseparable, and reflect a special joie de vivre unique to the Acadian culture of Eastern Canada, with flying fingers, tapping feet, and an unabashed sense of celebration.
David Francey's work is the just about the complete opposite of the disposable, high-tech, hurry-up world that most of us find ourselves living in, which I think is where the rural part of his life informs his work. There are a lot of other people out there trying to strike that same sort of musical chord, but damn few ever pull it off. David writes songs about love and the losing thereof, yes, but unlike so many others he also writes songs about working for a living, about birds down the road and about those small precious parts of life that are slipping away all the time, like the last run of the St. John's Train and a family losing their farm.
Patrick Verbeke is a man who wears many hats. He is a man of the stage and a man of the theatre, a man of the radio and above all a man of blues. Originally from Normandie, France, Verbeke discovered the blues at the age of 13 with the music of Memphis Slim and Mickey Baker, among others. Now, he is considered "Mr. Blues" of French music.
Verbeke is a man of the stage who, since the 1980s, has been filling up concert halls and festival venues with an average of 140 performances per year. He is an eclectic, electric and acoustic guitarist. He is a teacher who has designed an exposition on the blues that he has been presenting since the 1990s to children and adolescents in the form of a musical guided-tour. He is a man of letters who wrote, in 1994 in collaboration with Jean-Émile Néaumet, "Un gentleman guitarist", the first French biography on Eric Clapton. Finally, he is a producer who has created and who assumes direction of the artistic label Magic Blues, which holds at its core the defence of the colours and the specificity of French blues.
The blues for Verbeke has always been music of fusion, of synthesis. For this remarkable musician, it is not only a performance, but an engagement, a way to stand up and fight for what one believes. Come see Verbeke and you will see just how talented, how wonderfully engaging and how right he is.
November 2004
Saturday Nov. 27, 2004
From Louisiana La Bande Feufollet in concert from the Grou Tyme Festival held on the Halifax Waterfront July 2004...
Saturday Nov. 20, 2004
Vishten in concert from the 2004 Grou Tyme Festivalheld on the Halifax waterfront...Vishten's music is a hardy mixture of French, Irish and Scottish styles, with fiery fiddling and powerful step dancing taking front and center.Their stage show re-creates the joy and energy of the "kitchen party," the informal community gatherings where all are welcomed to sing, play and dance.The rhythms and melodies are inseparable, and reflect a special joie de vivre unique to the Acadian culture of Eastern Canada, with flying fingers, tapping feet, and an unabashed sense of celebration.
Saturday Nov. 13, 2004
David Francey's work is the just about the complete opposite of the disposable, high-tech, hurry-up world that most of us find ourselves living in, which I think is where the rural part of his life informs his work. There are a lot of other people out there trying to strike that same sort of musical chord, but damn few ever pull it off. David writes songs about love and the losing thereof, yes, but unlike so many others he also writes songs about working for a living, about birds down the road and about those small precious parts of life that are slipping away all the time, like the last run of the St. John's Train and a family losing their farm.
Saturday Nov. 6, 2004
Patrick Verbeke is a man who wears many hats. He is a man of the stage and a man of the theatre, a man of the radio and above all a man of blues. Originally from Normandie, France, Verbeke discovered the blues at the age of 13 with the music of Memphis Slim and Mickey Baker, among others. Now, he is considered "Mr. Blues" of French music.
Verbeke is a man of the stage who, since the 1980s, has been filling up concert halls and festival venues with an average of 140 performances per year. He is an eclectic, electric and acoustic guitarist. He is a teacher who has designed an exposition on the blues that he has been presenting since the 1990s to children and adolescents in the form of a musical guided-tour. He is a man of letters who wrote, in 1994 in collaboration with Jean-Émile Néaumet, "Un gentleman guitarist", the first French biography on Eric Clapton. Finally, he is a producer who has created and who assumes direction of the artistic label Magic Blues, which holds at its core the defence of the colours and the specificity of French blues.
The blues for Verbeke has always been music of fusion, of synthesis. For this remarkable musician, it is not only a performance, but an engagement, a way to stand up and fight for what one believes. Come see Verbeke and you will see just how talented, how wonderfully engaging and how right he is.
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