"Dusty Miller", "Fiddle Fingers" & "Grizzly Bear", The April Verch Band
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- Опубліковано 22 жов 2024
- "Dusty Miller", "Fiddle Fingers" & "Grizzly Bear", performed by The April Verch Band (www.aprilverch.com), at the Institute of Musical Traditions (www.imtfolk.org), Rockville, Maryland, USA on January 14, 2013.
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-fashy things, along with the deep soul and tradition that comes from having grown up with the music."
Sound: Dave Eisner, Dave Richardson, Jim Ralph, Charlie Knuth
Camera: Laura Christoplos, Dick Tufts, Emily Whiting, Ralph Lillie
Editing: Ralph Lillie
© 2013, Institute of Musical Traditions
April, you are amazing: dancing and fiddlin at the same time
The best I've seen and heard !! Yay Canada!! I'm posting on facebook as election overjoy to bring some cheer to America.
vote for the imaginary candidate that isn't an old white man who's visibly losing his brain matter
And not even winded..Fantastic, April.
All at church! Amen sister!
Great set of songs here! Wonderful work.
Awesome dancing, and then add the fiddle, Amazing!
Bravo, April! Greeting from Douglas, ON.
You are JUST GREAT....so talented!
Wow again!
Nice playin' April and what a great guitar player.
Great talented fiddler and tap dancer. Natalie McMaster of Cape Breton would be proud !!
Totally and bestially awesome.Wow!
soooo talented!
April, I love you so much!
Fantastic!
What a bow arm!
I like that,,,,, thank u
Incredible talent, ~:-)
I can't even put one foot before the other without tripping. Let alone tap dance and play a masterful fiddle. I give up.
Angus Campbell's in there too, as the fourth tune.
Good fiddling but great guitar playing..!!
Smokin'
Nice bit of dancin'
Princess i bet you can dance The Irish Jig ! i have a childhood storey about fidle music
Great tune. But I believe it's Miller's Reel, not Dusty Miller. Nevertheless, your very talented.
I mean...
I'd like to see the tappers compete with this!
Awesome band ,April you were at the head of the line when God gave out talent . my only regret is I just found you on UA-cam
Doesn't Grizzly Bear go by a different name?
No that appears to be The Grizzly Bear, a composition in C major attributed to Don Messer. The last tune is not The Grizzly Bear but Angus Campbell, by James Scott Skinner. There are four tunes in there; she just omitted to mention the last tune. The strathspey version of Angus Campbell is the Laird of O'Drumblair, also written by James Scott Skinner.
You have magical feet.
She makes the "Classoes' look weak s urine.
Oh Hell, I didn't expect tap dancing. Still good, However!