April Verch to the Dekker Centre

Canada’s triple threat fiddler-singer-stepper APRIL VERCH brings her new release and live show to the DEKKER CENTRE – SAT NOV 5, 8:00PM

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“Among the most promising fiddlers in roots music today…Verch is never afraid to lace her playing with clever twists of bluegrass, blues, and pop.”
Boston Globe 
 

Bow. Feet. Vox. A trifecta of talent, keeping tradition feisty!

Verch-uosity begins at home. In the case of April Verch – Canada’s triple threat fiddler-singer-dancer – it started in The Newpart… a beloved nickname for an early addition to her Ottawa Valley home, which provided the family with a recreation area and rehearsal space. Releasing her first record at age 13, a second before she was out of high-school, winning both the Canadian Open Old Time Fiddle Championship and the Canadian Grand Masters Fiddling Competition (the first woman to do so), Verch is steadfast in her determination to share the music of her elders with a new generation of listeners hungering for the relevance of timeless, feel-good music. The release of her milestone 10th offering, The Newpart, bridges these two worlds and also cements the long road between teen prodigy and an enduring artist—one of music’s most unforgiving public transitions—with grace and grit to spare.

On The Newpart, Verch, with producer Casey Driessen, digs deep into songs and tunes from the era before the often-mined mid-century heyday of bluegrass and folk, harkening back to vaudeville and beyond. “These songs don’t need to be revived,” Verch exclaims. “They are timeless. They are still very much alive and relevant. it’s all about touching people, about bringing them together in a community to celebrate music. I’ve understood that better and better as time has passed: how to take this music that is at the center of my life, and make it live and breathe for other people”.  Indeed, The Newpart was, is, and becomes much more than a place – it’s a living, breathing, state of heartfelt musical kinship. 

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Verch and her trio, featuring bassist and clawhammer banjo player Cody Walters and guitarist Alex Rubin,
are pushing past all previous boundaries to bring forward time-honoured traditions in the spirit of breathing fresh life into old music, while injecting these songs and fresh originals with the pioneering spirit that contemporary listeners crave. Just ask notable roots fan Robert Plant, who sought her out in a recent UK tour that included North Worcestershire.

At the heart lie Verch’s delicate voice, energetic foot percussion, and shimmering fiddle-work. One might suspect an artist with as many talents as Verch would pause to take a breath, or need to compartmentalize her skills during a live show. But on stage, Verch is almost superhuman, flawlessly intertwining and overlapping different performative elements. She step-dances while fiddling. She sings while step-dancing. Sometimes she sings, steps and fiddles all at once, with apparent ease and precision. Verch is – as they say – a triple threat in performance, her live show a beautiful companion to her music: versatile, robust, and masterfully executed. 

WHERE:  Dekker Centre for the Performing Arts, The Dekker Centre, 623 Carlton Trail, North Battleford

WHEN: Saturday, November 5th, 8:00pm

INFO/TIX: $36 + gst    |  306-445-7700   |   boxoffice@dekkercentre.com