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.