![]() Your feet and your fiddle don’t show if you’re tired or have a cold. “At first, it was really hard, because I felt vulnerable. That’s what made me give it a go,” she recalls. “They said it would be good variety for (my) shows, and open more doors. It was only at the suggestion of Rounder Records that Verch began singing. The first four of her seven albums were instrumental. She left Berklee College of Music in Boston after a year, taking her love of roots and traditional Canadian music (and her newfound knowledge of other styles) on the road. The 30-year-old Pembroke, Ontario, native collected awards for both dance and fiddle as a child, and recorded two albums before graduating from high school. ![]() Chances are, if I am passionate about it, that will translate to the fans.” I wanted it to be material that I wanted to listen to, instead of focusing on what fans wanted to hear. “I also was trying to capture the music that I’m passionate about right now. “People really respond to our live show, and I’ve found it a challenge – without doing a live recording – to capture that on a record,” she says. You don’t realize you’re doing something so difficult.” She aimed to harness the energy of her live show on her latest album, “Steal the Blue.” ![]() When you do things like that when you’re young, it’s easier. It took a while to add steps, but I was pretty young. “It was pretty hard … a gradual process,” Verch says of intertwining her talents, both of which she took up as a small child. Verch’s shows come to a head as she leaps into fiddling and dancing simultaneously toward the end of each show. Her many YouTube clips bear witness to the Canadian fiddler’s high-energy performances, which combine her singing with award-winning fiddling and step dancing. ![]() She sings, dances, plays the fiddle… / by Courtney Devores – Charlotte Observer, November 16, 2008Īpril Verch is no one-trick pony. ![]()
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