Bluegrass & Grassicana Coming to Alberta's Blueberry & Edmonton Folk Fests
Fervor Coulee Bluegrass comments on the country music scene - Bluegrass & Grassicana Coming to Alberta's Blueberry & Edmonton Folk Fests
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Fervor Coulee Bluegrass comments on the country music scene - Bluegrass & Grassicana Coming to Alberta's Blueberry & Edmonton Folk Fests
Ben Garnett’s debut album, Imitation Fields, opens bravely, almost daring the casual listener to give up before anything recognizable as a tune emerges from the speakers. After two minutes of gentle cacophony, an angular theme emerges, tentative at first, played on banjo and fiddle.
Banjo player, singer and songwriter Gina Furtado’s distinctive original songs are an aspect of her music that has won her a boatload of bluegrass airplay. Still, she’s an equally distinctive interpreter, as her previous single, a tip of the hat to African-American gospel favorites, the Golden Gate Quartet, showed — and now she’s following up with another tribute, this time to a couple of bluegrass giants: Bill Monroe and Hazel Dickens.