- to do my best to make me understandable. Is that a word? Yeah. Thank you. So thank you for
- your comprehension. And I'm sure we will have a lot of fun. And I see here it's like a nice space if
- you want to dance. So our music is like perfect for that, I think. So we would like at the end of the
- show, like everyone in the front of the stage,
- continue with.
- Mostly a happy thing, but this one is a sad song. It's the only one in the show, so...
- I think the guy is dead now. But he was pretty famous, and I think he still is. Mr. Turtle Loaf or Carolyn?
- Maybe you heard of him? Yeah? So he wrote that tune called She Begs She More. That's a Gaelic name.
- So I did like, I think, 10 years of research to know what it means.
- happened to mean little fairy mound, big fairy mound. Didn't you know that? So yeah, I'm learning you
- something tonight. So yeah, so I heard it was a story about that tune. So those mounds were kind of
- a little hill. And it was two fairy, like one on each little hill.
- So on the one, like on the left, it was the Tooth Fairy. You know her? Yeah? So yeah. And the other
- one is the one in Peter Pan. Thinkabelle. Yeah. Thank you, Xavier. So they had a big fight that night.
- I think it was maybe for a guy. I don't know. But so they were fighting with their sword like that.
- And the story don't tell who won that night, but they found some toot on the ground. And $2. But that
- tune is really, really nice tune. I don't think it was that violent, because it's so beautiful. So we'll
- play Shibekishimo.
- It's so nice to be here as Timmy said and it's so nice to play that music here in the United States
- of America. Those three pieces were written by all American composers and it's one of the great exports
- that you've given to the rest of the world and also some composers in Europe as well. But up in Canada
- that style of music when I heard it for the first time absolutely just
- changed my life. And so it's such a pleasure to come down here and play ragtime. Yeah. Yes. And this
- being a world music festival, it's a great example of how the music spreads around and we get to hear
- music from different lands. And right now we're gonna play a piece from Quebec, Canada.
- It was written by a composer, his name is Philippe Bruneau, and he died in 2011, so he's pretty recent.
- But he played the accordion, that instrument right there, and he wrote hundreds of pieces that are played
- by fiddle players, accordion players, piano players, and many others across Canada and over in Europe
- as well, and probably certain regions here in your country.
- So this one we loved. It's a waltz called Hommage à Doratay, and we recorded it. So here's this piece
- from Quebec.
- Thank you very much. So maybe some of you seen that we don't have the usual fiddle player with us. So
- the one we have here is like a phenomenal young man. He plays fiddle. He plays accordion amazingly.
- He plays piano greatly.
- And he'll also play like he's a master on guitar. So I have to say that I'm a bit jealous about that.
- But he won't never look as good as me, but that's okay. So Xavier will do some guitar tune. I'll let
- him introduce that. How's everyone doing tonight?
- It's good to be here in this beautiful town. Never been here and it's really nice. I'm gonna be playing
- three tunes. The first one is a waltz that I wrote when I left home for the first time. I spent 18 years
- in the house and we all, my whole family, we moved four and a half hours north. And so I wrote this
- tune right before we moved. The second tune is a reel that I wrote that I still don't have a name for.
- If anyone has any suggestions, let me know. And the third tune is called Brilliancy.
- Thank you so much. Thank you. So we have a small surprise for you. So we have Xavier that plays many
- instruments and everything. And we have also Erin that can do many things. She plays piano, she plays
- fiddle, she plays drums, she plays bass, she plays about everything, but not the accordion. She's not
- able to play that.
- strong tradition of
- something different. We will do one of my compositions. I wrote that during four years of doing nothing
- but staying home. During COVID, I think a lot of us musicians were inspired by composing because it
- was the only thing we could do probably at the moment. But yeah, so I really like pop music.
- the simplicity of that and how we can, how they can communicate a lot in really simple song or chord.
- So I play a bit of piano too, I know four chord, only those one. So yeah, so I was playing those chord
- on the piano one time and I just decided to write a pop song on the accordion. And yeah, I think it's
- pretty cool.
- So yeah, it happened to be really catchy, so I called it Suck In My Head.
- you so much we have one last number for you tonight but just before we want to to thank some people
- first the sound was really amazing thanks to Tony and Wayne thank you guys those guys are really professional
- and it's amazing to work with them thank you we also want to
- Thanks. Tamara? Tamara, yes. Yeah. We are not well known yet in the area, and for them to hire kind
- of a new band, it's always a risk, and we appreciate that really much, so thank you. Yes.
- from the other side of the computer. The organization is awesome here, so thank you for that.
- And of course, thanks to you for being here because playing for nobody is really boring, so thank you.
- And last thing, if you like our music, we've made an album
- Well, we released it in 2020 January. Timing extraordinary. So we have a bunch of them still. And Aaron
- has also a solo album on the piano. It's an amazing album. So if you still have money, you can go buy
- some album.
- So thank you very much and spend a good rest of the night.