Valley Folk Music: Finest Kind May 18, 2013

Unencumbered by allegiances to any one style, Finest Kind presents the hand-picked best of many genres Since 1991, this Ottawa-based trio, Ian Robb, Ann Downey, and Shelley Posen, have been playing an exhilarating mix of British, American, Irish, and Canadian traditional ballads that keep company with gospel rousers, drinking songs, sea shanties, and pop oldies. The timeless works of the Carter Family, the Copper Family, Rudyard Kipling, and Hank Williams mingle with originals by Robb or Posen. Born in London, England, Robb is renowned as one of North America's most gifted performers of British folksong, a concertina player extraordinaire, charter member of Toronto's Friends of Fiddler's Green, and composer of folk standards such as "The Old Rose and Crown." Downey from the southwestern U.S., plays guitar, banjo, and bass, and has performed in bands playing old-time and cowboy music, bluegrass, klezmer, jazz, and swing in North America and Europe. Pozen, a Toronto folklorist, is a versatile singer and multi instrumentalist who has spent a lifetime researching, teaching, writing about, performing, and composing songs. Admission: $15 at-the-door only. Students/disabled half price, 14 and under free w/adult.

Official Website: http://www.valleyfolk.org