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Ariko Making Their Mariposa Return

Posted on May 27, 2015

ariko Smiles ignite, toes tap and hips swivel when Franco-Ontarian sister group, Ariko, reaches into its quiver of tunes.

Their fiddle-based music takes you on a journey through canadiana, jazz, gypsy swing and Celtic, with a repertoire that is energetic, rich in harmonies, and spiced with a mix of bilingual, traditional and original material.

Ariko has made numerous appearances at Festival du loup and other festivals, various Métis Nation events, and at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, performing music inspired by influences ranging from La Bottine Souriante and Natalie McMaster, to Stéphane Grappelli.

They’re making a return to our Mariposa stages this summer following a well-received debut performance last year

RéVeillons: Amuse-toi bien!

Posted on April 17, 2015

reveillons Québecois quartet, RéVeillons, sweeps audiences off their feet with rousing arrangements that are rooted in the traditional, yet are curiously avant garde.

With stunning musicianship, and tunes that lilt, howl and rumble, their music is like comfort food for the aural senses.

They are four cool dudes who will dance you to the soul of Québecois music, and demonstrate what joie de vivre truly means.

Playing bodhran, concertina, guimbarde, guitar, banjo, fiddle, and even suitcase, they step, stomp, sing and harmonize with swaggering panache.

This is a melodic, percussive, stirring sound that will get your spirit moving, toes tapping and hips swinging.

Amuse-toi bien!

Celtic Music for Purists and Modern Ears: Poor Angus

Posted on March 23, 2015

poorAngus Poor Angus interprets the music of past and present, performing original and traditional Scottish, Irish and East Coast pieces, and transforming them into thoroughly original, dynamic and entertaining arrangements.

This collection of five talented musicians expresses profound admiration for Celtic music in a manner that excites both traditional purists and modern audiences.

Featuring masterful highland and uilleann piping, tin whistles, fiddling, bodhran, guitar, mandolin, and bass, they’re a stirring group of players is also known for strong vocal harmonies.

These guys are the life of the party.

They always get feet stomping, dancers hoofing it, and audiences roaring for more.

Celtic Music for Purists and Modern Ears: Poor Angus

Posted on March 23, 2015

This collection of five talented musicians expresses profound admiration for Celtic music in a manner that excites both traditional purists and modern audiences.

Featuring masterful highland and uilleann piping, tin whistles, fiddling, bodhran, guitar, mandolin, and bass, they’re a stirring group of players is also known for strong vocal harmonies.

These guys are the life of the party.

They always get feet stomping, dancers hoofing it, and audiences roaring for more.

Ever-Lovin’ Jug Band Romping Through Mariposa

Posted on January 15, 2015

jugBand There’s something special about a jug band!

It’s like comfort food, tunefulness, history and fun all rolled together into one entertaining, wholesome package.

The Ever-Lovin’ Jug Band is this and more, with their original tunes in the style of the jug bands of the 1920s, plus some old-time, ragtime, and music of other bygone eras as well.

The band features five fine performers that juggle duties between guitar, kazoo, banjolin, violin, washtub, washboard, banjitar, cello, banjo, tuba, fiddle, vocals, and jug, of course.

Their first album, Tri-City Stomp, released on CD, vinyl and via download, is a musical romp through tunes and ditties that will really get you’re your juices flowing.

They’re coming to Mariposa Folk Festival this summer. Check it out!

Lomax Project is Mariposa Bound

Posted on December 20, 2014

lomaxProject Lomax Project is the latest adventure of two-time Juno winning musician, producer, educator and collaborator, Jayme Stone.

Focusing on songs collected by renowned folklorist and field recording pioneer Alan Lomax, this musical reawakening brings together some of North America’s most distinctive and creative roots musicians to revive, reinvigorate and re-imagine traditional music.

The repertoire includes Bahamian sea chanties, African-American a cappella singing from the Georgia Sea Islands, ancient Appalachian ballads, fiddle tunes and work songs collected from both well-known musicians and everyday folk ranging from muleskinners, roustabouts, sawyers, and prisoners, to homemakers and schoolchildren.

A Joyful, Foot Stomping, Energetic Musical Experience – Gordie MacKeeman & His Rhythm Boys

Posted on December 19, 2014

godie The exhilarating live show of Gordie MacKeeman & His Rhythm Boys will enthrall you with engaging, sometimes jaw-dropping, stagecraft and showmanship.

With flavors of traditional bluegrass and roots music, bolstered by stunning musicianship, these guys are literally taking the world by storm, and making their way to Mariposa’s stages via numerous stops in Australia and the U.K.

Featuring fiddle, feet, vocals, bass, drums, percussion, mandolin, banjo guitar and pedal steel guitar, these four blazing musicians know how to turn up the heat and really get a place hopping.

It’s a joyful, foot stomping, energetic musical experience, and one you surely don’t want to miss!

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My Sweet Patootie – Two Parts Exemplary Musicianship, One Part Vaudeville Comedy

Posted on May 22, 2014

This contemporary folk duo from Los Angeles sports a fresh sound with beautifully harmonized vocals, Acoustic roots group, My Sweet Patootie, brings twining vocal harmonies, monstrous finger style guitar, fiddle, percussion and abundant charisma together in one perfect package.

Complete with tall tales and corny jokes, they deliver a modern-day show that has been described as “two parts exemplary musicianship, one part vaudeville comedy”.

Their upbeat show is a carnival ride with good-time finger-snapping tunes and carefully placed heartfelt ballads.

Their vintage-style song writing is rooted in folk and Americana.

Throw in a penchant for light-hearted satire and a love of old-time artists, and you get a sound they liken to “Green Acres for the New Millennium”.

Pacific Curls: Put Your Finger on the Pulse of a Global Sound

Posted on May 12, 2014

pacificCurls Experiencing a Pacific Curls performance has been described as putting your finger on the pulse of a global sound.

This talented trio has an impressive repertoire featuring the ukulele, cajon (percussion instrument), various other percussive instruments, fiddle, Taonga pūoro (traditional instruments of the Māori people), guitar, stomp box, and kalimba.

With vocals in English, Te Reo Māori (Māori language), and Rotuman (indigenous language of a South Pacific island group), lifted up by backbeat Pacific rhythms, vivacious fiddle playing and evocative Māori instrumentation, Pacific Curls have pioneered a fusion sound that seamlessly blends their indigenous roots.

While their music defies classification, the joy it evokes is universally understood.

Ariko Swinging Through Mariposa

Posted on May 5, 2014

ariko1 Smiles ignite, toes tap and hips swivel when Franco-Ontarian sister group, Ariko, reaches into its quiver of tunes.

Ariko has made numerous appearances at Festival du loup and other festivals, various Métis Nation events, and at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, performing music inspired by their influences ranging from La bottine souriante and Natalie McMaster, to Stéphane Grappelli.

Their album, La première récolte, provides excellent listening.

Neo Folk Indie String Band – The BelleRegards

Posted on April 25, 2014

belleRegards With a pinch of bluegrass, a dash of rockabilly, and a dollop of neo folk, this 4-piece string band cooks up high-energy live shows, foot-stomping rhythms, trad breaks, and good humour.

Influenced by artists ranging from Johnny Cash and Hank Williams, to Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, The Clash and Fleetwood Mac, The BelleRegards serve-up something for every musical taste, with a heaping helping of indie edge on the side.

Led by a duo of singer-songwriter vocalists, the band’s sound is spiced-up by guitars, mandolin, harmonica, slapped and bowed upright bass, and old-timey fiddle.

They’re good, new-fashioned, foot-stompin’ fun, and we know you’ll find their sound simply ‘delicious’.