Iceberg Festival! July Tour coming up!
Hi all! Whew been busy lately! Visited Gander last weekend to make a “shed recording” with Matthew Byrne and Aaron Collis, two talented fellows I’ll be touring with this July! We spent a long and very enjoyable evening recording in Austin Sheppard’s shed – thanks Austin -awesome shed! Also big thanks to Louis McDonald who loaned us the microphone and Tony Norman, our man in Gander, who introduced us to Austin and took the photo below just after, also who called the cab when recording was wrapped and it was time to go for breakfast at 6 am. The result is a fun and loose recording that will be available only on our tour this July! Here’s one of the tracks, Dianne’s Happiness, composed by Emile Benoit, sandwiched between two tunes (Aaron what are these called?) from Boyd’s Cove.
Dianne’s Happiness
- Just after dawn. Just before McDonalds.
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Right now I’m in the St. Anthony area, attending the 1st Annual Iceberg Festival! It’s a great time so far, last night I was out on the water for fiddle tunes at sea, and there are lots of icebergs on the go! Tomorrow I’ll be performing a concert in Griquet, at a gorgeous old parish hall there, the oldest building in the community, I was in there today to check it out for the first time and the acoustics are fantastic, with wood everywhere, so that will be a real treat! To find out more about the festival, visit their site here!
I’ve finally updated my summer schedule! Been really busy lately finishing editing on Volume 2 of Learning the Newfoundland Button Accordion – and good news! Preliminary editing is finally done! Volume 2 will explore the bass, ornaments, and playing in different keys! Just received my second run of Volume 1, which means that my first run of a thousand is now out there making its mark, in addition to people around the island using it to learn accordion I’ve had people across Canada working with it as well as people as far away as Spain, Australia, and Taiwan! Pretty cool!
Ok that’s all for now folks! Take care and enjoy the warm weather now that it’s here! Daniel