Hallamór Concert	Friday, April 5 7:30 p.m.
The April Verch Band
	Tickets: $18 in advance $23 on concert day $10 students with ID
	April Verch  – fiddle, vocals, step dancing Cody Walters – upright bass, vocals Hayes Griffin – guitar, vocals,banjo

Internationally known Canadian fiddler, step dancer and singer-songwriter April Verch and her band will return to the Irish Cultural and Heritage Center to perform a high-energy mix of foot-stomping Irish, Scottish, Appalachian old-time, and bluegrass music. 

The band is touring in support of their album, Bright Like Gold, which will be released April 2. 

Headliners at the 2012 Milwaukee Irish Fest, the band has brought their shows filled with boundless energy, humor and energy to North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. They previously performed at the ICHC in 2010. 

April doesn’t just play music, she exudes it from roots deep in the traditions of lumber camps in Ontario’s Ottawa Valley, where a melting pot of immigrants from Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany and Poland shared song and dance. She started step dancing at age 3 and was playing fiddle by age 6. She was the first woman to win Canada’s most prestigious fiddle championships - the Grand Master and Canadian Open - and was a featured fiddle player during the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. 

Backing up Verch on upright bass and vocals, Cody Walters studied bass at the University of Kansas and moves with ease between bluegrass, old-time, folk, country, Latin and jazz. He has toured with Verch since 2007 and recently added clawhammer banjo to the band’s sound. 

Guitarist and vocalist Hayes Griffin was a member of bluegrass bands and was winning flatpicking awards in his teens before going on to study bluegrass and jazz at Denison University. He recently earned a master’s degree in contemporary improvisation from the New England Conservatory. 
  

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