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Dapper's Delight - Toronto, Sunday May 21


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We're making a lightning visit for a family reunion in Canada during the May holidays and have arranged to play a house concert in Shelburne, Ontario, which I gather is not too far from Toronto. The idea is that we give a workshop in the afternoon and a concert in the evening. For more info and arrangements please either contact the host: John Parkinson, or send a PM or mail to Robin Harrison of this forum.

Hope to meet some of you there.

Adrian

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Alas, even farther for me than for David. I see on your website that you're performing in Boston, but it's the original one...maybe one day you'll make it to the US Boston. Maybe one day I'll make it to the UK at the right time.

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We did play a house concert in the Boston area a few years ago, but we kept pretty quiet about it since we'd come in with a tourist visa. The huge advantage with Canada is that as a visiting musician, you don't need a work permit. Playing the sort of places we generally do, it would never make economic sense to go to all the trouble of getting a US work visa, unless we had some pretty major gigs lined up.

 

Adrian

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Well, Dapper's Delight did their house concert on Sunday night.

The concert was a delight and Susanna and Adrian are a delight. It was a wonderful and invigorating concert, a change from the usual evening of trad. music.

As musicians they are accomplished, both masters of their instruments.

I am not familiar with recorder repertoire but Susanna is phenomenal musician yet restrains her fireworks ( mostly! ), not overwhelming the repertoire.

She also now plays the English concertina.

Anglo concertina players who play in the harmonic style with a high degree of accomplishment are very few and Adrian is one such.

If you are an anglo player who is trying to play the harmonic style, his style is a model.

He has used Gary Coover's excellent tutors as part of his anglo development, along with lessons from John Watcham. His playing is uncomplicated yet he plays with amazing assurance.

I was struggling all evening to enjoy the complete show but had positioned myself such that I could see his left hand chord work etc !

Their repertoire, and I know this sounds odd, is very fresh. 16th, 17th, 18th century music and yet fresh.

Some are tunes I had heard before that have come through the folk process, many more new but from similar sources.

Part of the enjoyment is to hear a selection songs and tunes from the source material for what we now commonly call Trad. or folk music.

The times they will appear in N. America will be unfortunately few due to travel costs but I encourage anyone in the UK to line up some house concerts or persuade folk club organisers to book them.

Thanks to C.net member, Parky, for organising such a great evening.

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