April Verch Band - Fiddle, dance & song from the Ottawa Valley and beyond

A 3 minute video compilation featuring footage from the band’s last performance together before the pandemic, at “Wild Rose Moon“ in Plymouth, Indiana in late February 2020. While Verch is perhaps best known for playing traditional fiddle styles from her native Ottawa Valley, Canada, her performances extend into old-time American and Classic Country styles and beyond, for a well-rounded tour-de-force of folk roots sounds. Verch tours with world-class musicians as a trio, featuring Korey Brodsky on acoustic guitar and mandolin, and Cody Walters on bass and clawhammer banjo, in addition to Verch’s vocals, fiddle and foot percussion. One might suspect a performer with as many talents as Verch would pause to take a breath, or need to somewhat compartmentalize her skills during a live performance. But on stage, Verch is almost superhuman, flawlessly intertwining and overlapping different performative elements. She stepdances while fiddling. She sings while stepdancing. Sometimes she sin