Thornhill, ON
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Exciting times for Hometown Bluegrass!
Our New CD.......Home Again
will be released on June 24th!
Also, the annual Tottenham Bluegrass Festival is coming up June 26, 27 and 28- lots of fun great music in a beautiful setting, come on and join us
Hometown @ the Gladstone recently........
Many thanks to Jason LaPrade at Crystal Clear Sound who is just wonderful in every way - including being very patient! It was very difficult to choose what to put on this CD with all the great tunes in the band's rep, but we have come up with a good variety which really represents the band well. My featured contributions are "Amazing Grace" plus "Doc Harris the Fisherman" (that's the one everybody calls a gypsy tune the way I do it :-) and a super sassy one I sing called "You Tried to Ruin My Name" I'm also singing harmony on some others. We are proud at Hometown to have developed into a very versatile band where everyone sings and plays also. It is definitely a plus to have the ability to choose from a lot of possible approaches for tunes and it's a very rewarding process finding out what feels right to us and working things out - certainly never gets boring! Please do check out our 1st CD, "Population 5"
about me.....
Eclectic is probably the best word to describe my rich, and quite varied artistic life. As a violinist, violist, mandolinist, singer, and actress, I'm excited to find myself an ever expanding variety of creative adventures.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra concertgoers will know me asone of just a handful of TSO violinists permanently seated in the first violin section, where I have been a fixture since joining the orchestra in 1975. On occasion I've also played in the orchestra's viola section, and have played mandolin for them as well.
Outside of the TSO, my music type activities include being concertmaster of the Brantford Symphony Orchestra, and on occasion I play violin and viola in the Amaro Quartet. On my own and with accordion or guitar I enjoy getting away from printed music and just playing by ear whatever the occasion calls for including jazz/and or "cafe" style type things for many varied events in various settings - private home concerts, garden parties, themed dinners - I've even strolled along the beach at sunset playing a couple's favourite song as part of a very creative marriage proposal - of course she said yes :-) The past few years I have seriously ventured into bluegrass and am very busy playing and singing in one of several bluegrass/country bands that I belong to. Great music and people all around and a lot of outdoors to share with my family and friends.
Acting is something I almost fell into by accident, really. One of my sons is a very talented actor and in the course of looking into things for him I found myself intrigued. At the suggestion of his agent Anne Marie Perrault of AMP Talent Group, I went to a few on camera workshops to try it out and found it suited me. Anne Marie is now my agent and I am having a great time with this new part of my life.
Once in awhile I will be asked which type of music I prefer - classical or bluegrass and my honest answer is neither. I think we all have unlimited capacity to love, and for me the love I have for music just expanded to include bluegrass and country when I started in four years ago. The ability of all music to transport ourselves and listeners in time and space as a shared experience is wonderful thing, powerful whatever the genre, and I am pleased to be a part of it always.
Thornhill, ON
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