Music
evergreentheatre@gmail.com
902-825-6834
Fundraiser -
Your ticket includes:
A Mexican Themed Dinner at the Margaretsville Fire Hall (cash bar) 6 pm
Andy and Ariana / Rise-up Shannon at the Evergreen 8 pm
One year Evergreen membership which includes at least 2 free shows (when offered)
Andy & Ariana:
What happens when a half-Danish Swiss and a half-Afghan Maritimer fuse their musical lives together? Well, 9 CDs and countless performances later, the answer to that question is of course still evolving. Take an avalanche of spoken-word-style lyrics and add a bit of jazz, a dash of eastern flavour, a sprinkle of reggae, some rural Nova Scotian flare and a healthy dose of fun and you'll start to get an idea. Oh yeah, and if you're not watching Andy simultaneously playing guitar and percussion, beat-boxing and flirting with the audience, then you're missing an important part of the Andy and Ariana experience. Add to that Ariana's expressively elastic vocals, unique violin and saxophone stylings, and the interplay between two musicians who have been doing it together for 15 years and you have yourself a spectacle.
The latest project is a CD called "Eye to Eye" to be released in April 2013. This one will showcase the duo's diverse musical experiences and influences. Employing Andy's own mouth as lead percussionist, this album also features Ariana's horn and string sections, and an overall feel they refer to as soul-folk. Lyrical themes tackle integrity, tolerance, and making music with random objects (burps are fine).
Andy and Ariana have spent the last seven and a half years getting to know and love Nova Scotia (okay, Ariana grew up in NS but moved away as a young adult, never to return...) This has involved much performing and recording, collaborations with other Nova Scotian acts, and presenting monthly local talent shows in Wolfville (and that's Talent with a capital T!). The two enjoy playing music for audiences of all ages, especially when they're all together at the same time, which is why they spend many a summer morning playing at Farmers' Markets around the province. Not to mention that local food is the best kind of food! Nova Scotia rocks really.
Rise Up Shannon :
When Denise Aspinall and Aran Silmeryn first crossed paths nine years ago, music filled the air. Around an unassuming table weighted with pints of bitter in a Wolfville pub, fiddles and mandolins and bodhrans were being lifted in a common zeal for Irish dance melodies - a weekly session that continues to this day.
By that time, both had already performed in other groups – Denise with Celtic dulcimer-whisperers Wellspring, Aran with pagan acoustic folk metal darlings the Thieves of Dagdad. But it was while striving in vain to quench their endless thirst for jigs and reels that the pair discovered a shared affinity for a darker and quieter side of this transatlantic tradition – the murder ballads and story-songs of the British Isles.
Naming themselves after both a river and a woman, the duo have been a familiar sight on the local music scene ever since, earning praise in particular for their sweet vocal harmonies. Accompanying themselves on a variety of strings and the odd whistle, they bring to life tales of dissolution and revenge, lost love and restless ghosts from songs both contemporary and flung far in the past.
evergreentheatre@gmail.com
902-825-6834
Fundraiser -
Your ticket includes:
A Mexican Themed Dinner at the Margaretsville Fire Hall (cash bar) 6 pm
Andy and Ariana / Rise-up Shannon at the Evergreen 8 pm
One year Evergreen membership which includes at least 2 free shows (when offered)
Andy & Ariana:
What happens when a half-Danish Swiss and a half-Afghan Maritimer fuse their musical lives together? Well, 9 CDs and countless performances later, the answer to that question is of course still evolving. Take an avalanche of spoken-word-style lyrics and add a bit of jazz, a dash of eastern flavour, a sprinkle of reggae, some rural Nova Scotian flare and a healthy dose of fun and you'll start to get an idea. Oh yeah, and if you're not watching Andy simultaneously playing guitar and percussion, beat-boxing and flirting with the audience, then you're missing an important part of the Andy and Ariana experience. Add to that Ariana's expressively elastic vocals, unique violin and saxophone stylings, and the interplay between two musicians who have been doing it together for 15 years and you have yourself a spectacle.
The latest project is a CD called "Eye to Eye" to be released in April 2013. This one will showcase the duo's diverse musical experiences and influences. Employing Andy's own mouth as lead percussionist, this album also features Ariana's horn and string sections, and an overall feel they refer to as soul-folk. Lyrical themes tackle integrity, tolerance, and making music with random objects (burps are fine).
Andy and Ariana have spent the last seven and a half years getting to know and love Nova Scotia (okay, Ariana grew up in NS but moved away as a young adult, never to return...) This has involved much performing and recording, collaborations with other Nova Scotian acts, and presenting monthly local talent shows in Wolfville (and that's Talent with a capital T!). The two enjoy playing music for audiences of all ages, especially when they're all together at the same time, which is why they spend many a summer morning playing at Farmers' Markets around the province. Not to mention that local food is the best kind of food! Nova Scotia rocks really.
Rise Up Shannon :
When Denise Aspinall and Aran Silmeryn first crossed paths nine years ago, music filled the air. Around an unassuming table weighted with pints of bitter in a Wolfville pub, fiddles and mandolins and bodhrans were being lifted in a common zeal for Irish dance melodies - a weekly session that continues to this day.
By that time, both had already performed in other groups – Denise with Celtic dulcimer-whisperers Wellspring, Aran with pagan acoustic folk metal darlings the Thieves of Dagdad. But it was while striving in vain to quench their endless thirst for jigs and reels that the pair discovered a shared affinity for a darker and quieter side of this transatlantic tradition – the murder ballads and story-songs of the British Isles.
Naming themselves after both a river and a woman, the duo have been a familiar sight on the local music scene ever since, earning praise in particular for their sweet vocal harmonies. Accompanying themselves on a variety of strings and the odd whistle, they bring to life tales of dissolution and revenge, lost love and restless ghosts from songs both contemporary and flung far in the past.
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Margaretsville, Nova Scotia
evergreentheatre@gmail.com
902-825-6834
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