Thu 10/18 @ 7PM
Some people can’t walk and chew gum at the same time, as Lyndon Johnson so famously said of Gerald Ford (his actual statement was cruder, but this version caught on). Canadian vocalist/fiddler/step dancer April Verch isn’t one of those people.
Verch’s music is the product of both tradition and formal musical training. Her father’s band played at dances in her native Ontario and she took up fiddle and step dancing as a little girl. As a teenager she began to win major competitions and attend workshops.
She went on to get a musical education at the noted Berklee College in Boston, giving her an even more solid foundation form which to interpret and build upon the traditional Franco-Celtic Canadian folk music of the Ottawa Valley.
Now in her late 30s, she has been recording for more than 25 years with 10 albums to her credit, including last year’s Going Home with Joe Newberry. On it they combine Verch’s roots with Newberry’s Appalachian/Ozark ones.
Come hear how she blends simplicity and earthiness with well-schooled chops when she returns to northeast Ohio to perform at the BOP STOP, Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door.
Cleveland, OH 44113