ICONS wrap-up
I know it’s been a while. Part of the reason is that given some free minutes, I’d rather play than blog. Or see other people play. In exchange for a little donation to Boston’s NPR Art and Culture Station, I ended up with a set of all-weekend passes to this year’s ICONS festival. Besides an overdose of good music (I must have heard The Bucks of Oranmore in about 5 different renditions), we made an exciting new discovery:
Gadelle, a band of four P.E.I. lassies rocking their socks off with Acadian tunes. Before going to bed that night, my son said: “I’m never going to forget Louise” (the fiddler-stepdancer and band anchor). I hope we will hear more from them in the near future. Maybe they’ll even add a flute or whistle …
