It’ll be a PEI kitchen party
Richard Wood and Gordon Belsher will perform in Harrison Hot Springs on Oct. 30.
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The Harrison Festival Society is presenting the return of award-winning Prince Edward Island fiddler Richard Wood with PEI guitarist Gordon Belsher on Friday, Oct. 30 in the Harrison Memorial Hall.
Critics have raved that Wood and Belsher “make some wicked music together, the kind that keeps the kitchen party goin’ all night.”
They last appeared in Harrison for a sold out show at the 1999 Harrison Festival.
Praised for his Celtic step dancing, almost as much as for his fiddle playing, Wood also assured organizers that he would be doing a bit more dancing this time out.
For more than two decades he has impressed audiences all across Canada, as well as in the U.S., Europe and Japan. Highlights include TV guest appearances with Shania Twain on David Letterman and Good Morning America, Carnegie Hall with Irish legends The Chieftains, CBC’s Canada Day on Parliament Hill, Rita MacNeil and Friends, and with Jean Butler of Riverdance on Celtic Electric.
In the late 1990s he toured the UK and Europe headlining concert halls and folk festivals. He’s since played at the Lincoln Centre in New York City, Epcot at Disney World, and was a featured performer in the touring fiddle spectacle Bowfire.
As accompanist and featured vocalist with Wood, Gordon Belsher has toured extensively across Canada, the U.S., the UK and Europe, and performed as part of the cultural delegation for Team Canada in Tokyo, Japan in 1999.
Tickets are $20 plus gst and are available from the Harrison Festival Society at 604-796-3664, online at www.harrisonfestival.com or in person at the Agassiz Pharmasave.
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