Next up on the conundrums and decision making that the 2014 Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival has presented me with is Blind Boy Paxton (on the Garden Stage) or Chic Gamine (on the Westwood Stage) Saturday August 9th from 3:15 to 4:00 pm at Burnaby’s Deer Lake Park?!?
Oh why oh why must they torture me so!!! Do they not understand I want it all! It is blues and roots after all!
So whom would you choose?
Blind Boy Paxton
California’s Blind Boy Paxton promises to whip us back in time to the days of ‘ragtime, ’20s jazz and Dust Bowl–era blues, delivering them through a dizzying display of virtuosity on guitar, piano, banjo, and lately, fiddle.’
His fiddle playing is certainly something to behold! Just get a load of this …
And there’s his humour and mannerism from that same bygone era …
He certainly has me smiling!
Chic Gamine
Well as any Canadian knows, those long cold winter nights in Manitoba creates some F&*^^%$# FANTASTIC music! And it would seem that St. Boniface’s Chic Gamine certainly fit that stereotype!
Described as ‘three angel-voiced girls plus one drummer boy’, I am admittedly questioning the ‘angelic’ with these smokey blues vocals …
Well … I do hear angelic in this tune …
… although I suspect most warm blooded Canadian males, at the hint of the French Canadian gal blues, are hoping these angelic voices come with devil’s horns!
So which stage would you pick???
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