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NOVEMBER 2012
Rogue Folk Club
Celebrating 25 Years of the best Celtic & Roots!
www. roguefolk.com
Friday, NOVEMBER 9
Young Celtic/Folk + acoustic soul
FISH & BIRD bc REID JAM IE SON bc
Friday, NOVEMBER 16
Award-winning Cdn songbirds
MADISON VIOLET
Saturday, NOVEMBER 24
Reunion of Celtic funk quintet
MAD PUDDING bc
Sunday, NOVEMBER 25
Brilliant Trad Trio from Quebec
GENTICORUM
Friday, NOVEMBER 30
Hot Bluegrass & cool story songs
John Reischman &The JAYBIRDS
CBC Studio 700
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'Some of my personal highlights of recent concerts9
VANCOUVER - Comas (October 4 at St. James Hall). The local debut of this Irish-American/Belgian quartet was marked by some stellar piping by Isaac Alderson, and some incredible bodhran playing from Jackie Moran.
One song had him pounding out a frenetic rhythm on the drum, playing a much slower counter-rhythm on the high-hat cymbal, and singing in a tempo about halfway between them.
We also witnessed the Rogue's first songs in Belgian from guitarist Philip Masur.
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The following night Durham singer Jez Lowe launched a new retrospective CD, Heads Up, with 18 songs from his considerable repertoire - including Simian Son - a brand new take on the saga of the Hartlepool Monkey.
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The Chieftains came to Richmond's River Rock Casino Stage last month. I saw them in Paris in June, and, once again there were only three longtime Chieftains in the band: Paddy Moloney on pipes, Matt Molloy on flute and Kevin Conneff on bodhran.
The Paris show was longer and had two sets, but the local content in Richmond made for a memorable evening, with young fiddle protege Jocelyn Pettit stealing the show, for me.
The Triumph Street Pipe Band were
in fine form, too, and Mark Sullivan
also excelled on fiddle.
I love The Chieftains' new sound, with Hebridean singer Alyth McCormick and harper Triona Marshall, Nashville session fiddler/mandolinist Deanie Richardson and the Ottawa Valley Pilatske brothers dancing up a storm with Cara Butler.
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Former Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler was bom in Scotland and raised on Tyneside. He opened for Bob Dylan at the acoustically-challenged Rogers Arena and his band featured Capercaillie's Mancunian piper/flautist Michael McGoldrick and former Battlefield Band fiddler John McCusker
Mark's new CD, Privateering, is a double album with a lot of Celtic music sounds on it. It's a definite candidate for my album of the year, too. •
Oysterband - two Welshmen, a Scot and two Englishmen-releasedBBC's Album of the Year last year with singer June Tabor {Ragged Kingdom) but she doesn't like to fly so they gave a memorable show without her at The Rogue last month - and didn't play anything off that CD at all. They sold out of copies of it, though.
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Lunasa had to cancel the first date of their west coast tour (in Victoria) due to the ravages left by Hurricane Sandy on the transatlantic and transcontinental airline system, but they were in fine fettle at The Rogue the next night.
The packed house was riddled with musicians, including Mairi Rankin, Tom Landa, Kalissa Hernandez, Jenny Ritter, Keona and Neil Hammond, Tim Readman, Roxanna Sabir, Keirah Raymond, and piper Tim Fanning. They too sold out of copies of tiieir latest CD, La Nua.
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More musical memories are in store for you in the next few weeks at The Rogue, too. Fish & Bird is a quintet
from Victoria and Vancouver with a healthy Celtic influence in their songs and a whopping slice of Celtic tunes in their repertoire too.
Drummer Ben Kelly is the son of Spirit of the West's Geoffrey Kelly
and he arrived on the planet - in record-breaking speed - on the night that Ben Johnson won that 100 metres in Seoul; when Canadians felt immensely proud - for about three days.
Young Kelly has restored the good to the name since then, with stints in the North Shore Celtic Ensemble and The Paperboys before teaming up with pro-digiously-talented fiddler Adam Iredale-Gray and banjoist Taylor Ashton and co. in Fish & Bird.
They share the bill with the acoustic soul and rock n' roll encyclopedia of the golden-throated crooner Reid Jamieson on November 9 at St. James Hall (3214 West lOthAvenue). •
The following Friday (November 16) Madison Violet returns to town after over two years since their last show here.
Since then they have toured Germany a couple of times with The Paperboys and won friends across North America and the U.K. with their soulful songs of love, loss and separation.
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Brenley MacEachern and Lisa Maclsaac (Ashley's sister) met in 1999 when they were playing in separate bands.
They soon discovered a shared Scots/ Canadian heritage and - strangely -found out that their fathers sat next to each other in high school.
So began a musical and romantic partnership that lasted over a decade before the latter one fell apart.
Musically they are still on a solid footing, and the breakup yielded an album of even richer songs on their latest CD The Good In Goodbye.
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From 1994 to 2004 Mad Pudding graced The Rogue stage no less than 10 times, and toured the festival circuit here and overseas while releasing four superb albums of mostly original songs andmostly traditional reels andjigs.
They split up eight years ago, with Cam Wilson forming Van Django; Amy Stephen recording Persian/Celtic fusion music with her new husband Amir; Boris Favre teaching at Prussin Music and building bagpipes in his spare time; Allen Dionne joining Tim Readman's bands; and Andy Hillhouse moving first to St. John's and later to Toronto to earn his MA and PhD mEthnomusicology.
Now they are getting back together for a couple of concerts: Bowen Island on the 16th and The Rogue on the 24th. This is going to be a lot of fun!!
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It's going to be a memorable weekend, because the following night (Sunday 25th) The Rogue presents one of Quebec's finest young trad, bands, Genticorum, featuring fiddler Pascal
Gemme, guitarist Yann Falquet and flautist Alexandre de Grosbois-Garand.
For a three-piece band they make a mighty sound, with plenty of crooked tunes and traditional songs - delivered with rich humour and panache. •
The final Rogue concert of 2012 features the wonderful Bluegrass/Folk ensemble John Reischman & The Jaybirds at CBC Studio 700 on November 30 - another feast of stunning musicianship!
[Full details of all Rogue concerts can be found on www.roguefolk.com]
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Historic music series closes
Main Street's Cafe Montmartre has been sold. The cozy cafe has been home to a wonderful series of concerts and open mikes under the auspices of Tim Readman for almost a decade.
Bands like Cleia and solo artists like Jeremy Fisher cut their musical teeth there over the years, but it's all coming to an end on November 7 with Tim leading the final session from 8:30 PM.
Cafe Montmartre is at 4362 Main Street. Have one last delicious crepe and toast the musical history one last time.
Irish Sessions are becoming harder to find these days. There are two relatively recent additions, though: Cafe Deux Soleils at 2096 Commercial Drive hosts a session on the first Wednesday of the month, and the Railway Club (579 Dunsmuir) hosts one in the back room on the second Monday of the month. If you know of any others, please let me know.
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A couple of remarkable new releases arrived at Rogue Towers the other day: Going Places by The Mairtin O'Connor Band, and 20 by Kate Rusby.
Mairtin O'Connor is a veteran Gal-way accordion master who doesn't restrict himself to Irish music at all; indeed there is an incredible variety on all his recordings, and here we find him delivering a Parisian musette waltz, Indifference, and joining his band mates Cathal Hayden (fiddle) and Seamie O'Dowd (guitars, vocals) on a Runrig classic Scots folk-rocker Rocket To The Moon.
Every track is a gem here, but the album is hard to find in town - even online. Try Amazon.
It's hard to believe that Yorkshire singer Kate Rusby has been making CDs for two decades, but 20 is a double album of newly-recorded material to mark the occasion.
Her new band - which played here in 2010 - features her husband Damien O'Kane on banjo, Andy Cutting on accordion, and a host of guests including Richard Thompson, Eddi Reader, Dick Gaughan, Aoife O'Donovan, Chris Thile, Jerry Douglas, and Nic Jones.
Again, if you can't wait for the North American release on Compass Records later this month, try Amazon.
Don't forget to tune in to The Edge On Folk every Saturday from 8 AM to noon on CiTR FM 101.9 (or download the podcasts later from www.citr.ca) to hear some of the best music on the planet - and plenty of trad and Celtic music of course!