The Once, Sherry Ryan, etc.
David Dalton
guest comic storyteller Andy Jones at Gower Street United Church.
The Once wowed everyone with a mix of Christmas songs and
folk songs, and some folk Christmas songs. They are Geraldine
Hollett, Phil Churchill and Andrew Dale, and they were joined
by Greg Walsh on some numbers. They especially impressed
me with their vocal harmonies. I will have to get their self-titled
debut CD and when I do I'll review it on here. But they have
already won several MusicNL awards and are nominated for at least one
ECMA, I think folk/roots group.
After that concert I went to The Ship Pub for much of the open
mic set and the last headline set of Folk Night. Michael El-Go
and Peter MacGuire, Duncan Cameron, and Andrew O'Brien
all impressed me with their open mic sets, and then Sherry
Ryan and Friends got up and did a strong set of country folk.
Sherry Ryan said she is playing again on Dec. 28, I think at
The Ship again. Her friend Joe Belly said he will release a
new CD early in 2010.
The Skydiggers are at The Ship tomorrow night (Friday).
Next Wednesday (Dec. 9) Folk Night at The Ship features
Allan Ricketts and Fred Jorgensen.
THIRD ANNUAL FAS WASSAIL (Christmas Carol Sing Along)
is Dec. 12 at Cochrane St. United Church, start time TBA.
(See http://www.nlfolk.com .)
Tonight my ISP's mailserver seems to be down so I can't check
my e-mail, and haven't for a couple of days. So if you have
e-mailed me you will have to wait until tomorrow night for a reply.
David
ThatGuy
(Pougues) combined with Feed the world (Do they know it's Christmas
Time) was amazing.
At the beginning of the show they said it was being taped, and
mentioned not to use flash photography, yet I could not see a video
camera anywhere. I hope a recording of this becomes available for
purchase.
David Dalton
Maybe the video camera was in the balcony.
DD
PrettyOne
> On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 21:15:38 -0800 (PST), ThatGuy
>
> >Amazing concert at Gower - The version of Fairy Tale of New York
> >(Pougues) combined with Feed the world (Do they know it's Christmas
> >Time) was amazing.
>
> >At the beginning of the show they said it was being taped, and
> >mentioned not to use flash photography, yet I could not see a video
> >camera anywhere. I hope a recording of this becomes available for
> >purchase.
>
> Maybe the video camera was in the balcony.
>
> DD
The Once's CD is definitely worth buying. Sounds like a great show,
thanks for the recap.
David Dalton
wrote:
>Next Wednesday (Dec. 9) Folk Night at The Ship features
>Allan Ricketts and Fred Jorgensen.
They drew a good crowd and played two long sets so that
even with only Graham Wells (on accordion, backed by
Allan Ricketts on banjo) playing the open mic they finished
around midnight, and played one encore, Allan didn't
bring his accordion but played tenor banjo, bouzouki (or
maybe it was an octave mandolin) and sang, and Fred
played acoustic guitar, tin whistles, bodhran and sang.
Next week there will be acoustic blues from Denis Parker
and John Clarke.
>THIRD ANNUAL FAS WASSAIL (Christmas Carol Sing Along)
>is Dec. 12 at Cochrane St. United Church, start time TBA.
>(See http://www.nlfolk.com .)
The start time is 2 p.m., with doors open at 1:30 p.m., and
general adult cover is $10. See the web site for a list
of performers
David