Fri 3/13 @ 8:30PM
Vocalist/fiddler/step dancer April Verch’s music is the product of both her family environment and high-level musical training. She grew up surrounded by music as her father’s band played at dances in her native Ontario and of course she wanted to join in the fun, taking up fiddle and step dancing as a little girl.
As a teenager she began to win major competitions and attend workshops, and she went on to get a musical education at the noted Berklee College in Boston, giving her an even more solid foundation from which to interpret and build upon the traditional Franco-Celtic Canadian folk music of the Ottawa Valley.
Now 36, she has been recording for over 20 years with nine albums to her credit, and a new one, called Newpart, on the way in April. On that album she reaches back beyond the commonly mined bluegrass and folk tunes of the mid 20th century to their roots in an earlier, simpler time and more homespun repertoire.
Come hear how she blends simplicity and earthiness with well-schooled chops when she returns to Nighttown with her bandmates guitarist Hayes Griffin and banjo/bassist Cody Walters.
Tickets are $20.
Photo by Parker J. Pfister