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Take a ramble through the back forty of Canadian folk music-making.
In this special concert Anne Lederman and Ian Bell will take you along on an entertaining trip through almost four decades of music making and other adventures with a little bit of everything they've put their hands to over the years. Powerful singing and playing and great storytelling will make this an evening not to be missed. Anne and Ian will also be joined on a few numbers by members of the Blyth Festival Singers. The concert is being videoed by Lock 3 Media.
When you think of music you may picture a comfortable theatre, a summer festival or a recording studio. Anne and Ian have seen plenty of these places, but if you ask them about
their best times singing or playing they're more likely to tell you about a tiny community hall in Manitoba, the parlour of a Mennonite farm or a Newfoundland kitchen party.
For almost forty years Ian and Anne have taken the roads less-travelled in a quest for great Canadian roots music. When they have found it, that music has become part of their repertoire, influenced their playing and served as inspiration for their original songs and tunes.
Scottish and Irish-Canadian traditions, Metis fiddling, Mennonite shape-note hymns, Klezmer tunes and African drumming rub shoulders with lumberjack songs, ancient ballads and original songs that tell the stories of Lake Erie fishermen and fugitive slaves, old-time fiddlers and phantom hounds.
Anne and Ian started playing together in the late 1970s. They met in Toronto, Ian having
come from Ontario's tobacco belt and Anne from Manitoba. Their first performances were in front of a downtown church, for a mixed crowd of lunchtime office workers and street people. Since then they have performed their music at every major Canadian folk festival
as well as in the United States, Great Britain and Estonia. A two-week residency at Vancouver's Expo '86 saw them sharing the stage with legendary song writer Wade
Hemsworth ("The Blackfly Song" - "Log Driver's Waltz"). Later they provided period music for and sometimes appeared on the popular TV series, The Road To Avonlea. Anne has also appeared in many Blyth Festival productions over the years - you may remember her as Joanna Donnelly in The Outdoor Donnellys.
Blyth Festival presents:
A Journey in Time
Anne Lederman and Ian Bell in concert
Wednesday, April 15 | 8pm
All seats $20
Buy your tickets TODAY and be in the audience for this unique concert recording.
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Blyth Festival's 2015 summer season begins June 24. The Box Office is now open for all ticket sales. Buy your passes before April 30 to save up to 26% over single ticket prices. Visit blythfestival.com for more information.
Photo: Ian Bell.
2015-04-07
Blyth: The Blyth Festival presents "A Journey in Time" April 15