Nafco Concert

Congrats to Maria, Valerie, Dominic and Danielle who did an excellent job on the Morning Show yesterday!

Ok, everybody! This is the big one!

For those of you who missed the rehearsal -- we have a new choreography for the Peak of the Topsail set - if you weren't at the rehearsal, you will be our "dance band" - Move over to stand by Ryan and play. We'll run over it at soundcheck tomorrow morning. When we play La Bastringue we will all bunch round the cloggers. Iona, can you please play the doll?

Sound Check 11:00 am.– 12:00 noon, Main Stage, Arts and Culture Centre Please be professional – no chatting onstage. We absolutely cannot waste one second of our time or the technicians time.
Concert 2:30 Please arrive at 2:00 to tune up.
Dress All black for Emile Benoit class; black and white for everyone else.

Free Pass Unfortunately the Conference can not afford to give us comps but we are entitled to one free pass each to the workshop of our choice I will have the passes later on Sunday afternoon – I will put them in the mailbox at 16 Maxse St. and you can come and get them at your convenience.

INTROS - can we do the intros as we did before? It would be great if they could be from memory! Here they are -


Rosemary

That was a set of dance tunes from the south coast of Newfoundland – two from Placentia Bay and two from Francois on the southwest coast.

Darhen

A Slow Air is a melody of a song, played on instruments. Our next selection comes from the singing of Philip Foley of Fogo Island, off the Northeast coast. It’s a beautiful song about lost love and it’s called I’ll Hang my Harp on a Willow Tree. After that we’ll play Genevieve’s Reel, composed by Dave Panting of St. John’s.


Jacqueline
Our next selection takes us to the Port au Port Peninsula, and Newfoundland’s French traditions. Our versions of La Bastringue and La Guenille come from the playing of Emile Benoit of l’Anse aux Canards. Darhen and Dominic are going to demonstrate some foot-clogging on this one. We’d also like to introduce Pierre Benoit, our dancer.
Julia

Next we’re going to play some single-tunes for you. Single tunes are unique to Newfoundland, and were used mainly for square dancing. This set of wonderful tunes comes from the playing of Luke Payne, a great accordion player who lives in Cow Head.

Anna and Danielle

In Newfoundland, “jigs” are often called “double tunes.” This set of double tunes comes from Placentia Bay. They're called The Peak of the Topsail, American 8 and Leo Bonnell's Crooked Double.

We got them from a tape that Mr. Wilf Wareham gave to our director, Christina Smith. They’re great tunes and we’d like to thank Mr. Wareham for collecting the tunes and for sharing them with us!


See you tomorrow, everybody!