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Archive for the month of June 2009

Welcome to my new site!

Hey everybody! Welcome to my brand new site!  I am really excited to launch my newly designed home on the complicated series of inter-connected tubes and pipes we call the internet…  I want to thank Dana Whittle of Vizou for her sharing her talent, expertise and time in designing this site and bringing it to life!  And [...]

New releases!

April’s newest release, Steal The Blue is now available! This highly anticipated project is the first to feature her touring band and includes familiar names like Tim Stafford, Steve Gulley, Craig Market, Larry Cordle, Ron Block, Melonie Cannon, and Patty Mitchell among the songwriters and harmony vocalists. There’s even one selection on which she’s backed [...]

See the April Verch Band this winter!

The April Verch Band is on the road in full force… Check April’s tour dates often to see when she’ll be in concert near you! Read more about “the band” here!

Canadian Fiddle Styles book published

April has teamed up with fiddle player Brian Wicklund to write “Canadian Fiddle Styles” (for the FiddlePal Explore Series published by Mel Bay Publishing). It’s not just a tune book, it’s a method book, and it’s fabulous! Visit the books page for more info.

Great video clips of April and band!

Visit the D’Addario website (BTW – they make April’s strings of choice!) for clips of April performing and giving fiddle tips on the D’Addario stage. You can also find live performance clips on April’s youtube channel! If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash [...]

Bluegrass Unlimited

…an effective, cohesive, and moving collection of songs spotlighting a musician who’s carved out her own niche in contemporary acoustic music. Bluegrass Unlimited

PopMatters.com

Verch is a master of subtlety and precision. PopMatters.com, “Steal the Blue”, Jill LaBrack

Clippings 2009

Sing Out! – CD Review / By Mike Regenstreif, May 2009 Verch’s reputation in the folk and roots music world was initially as a world-class fiddler, specializing in the music of the Ottawa Valley, who also drew all kinds of folk, Celtic, bluegrass and even international influences into her playing. In recent years, she has [...]

Clippings 2008

She sings, dances, plays the fiddle… / by Courtney Devores – Charlotte Observer, November 16, 2008 April Verch is no one-trick pony. Her many YouTube clips bear witness to the Canadian fiddler’s high-energy performances, which combine her singing with award-winning fiddling and step dancing. Verch’s shows come to a head as she leaps into fiddling [...]

Clippings 2007

Global Rhythm Review / by Rob Weir, December 12, 2007 Ottawa, Canada’s cosmopolitan capital, doesn’t exactly evoke rural life in the average person’s mind, but April Verch hails from the upriver Ottawa Valley, a region of farms and timberlands, not retail and politics. When Verch sings sweet country-laced songs or fiddles serious hoedown tunes, it’s [...]

Steal the Blue

Steal the Blue