Due to illness this concert has been cancelled. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Oceans Apart combine the traditional music from the British Isles and America. The music is taken from the oral Celtic tradition common to Ireland, Scotland and Wales—a tradition passed down from father to son for countless generations—that was carried with, and survived, the Atlantic crossing of the hungry, disadvantaged and merely adventurous émigrés of previous centuries, as, below decks, they danced and played their way to the new world.
John Good and Steve Colby use an array of instruments, from the traditional penny whistles, bagpipes and flute that you would expect, along with mandolins, guitars and banjos picked up along the way. From a Welsh vocal to an Irish Jig from a 1940s-era show tune to a traditional Scottish Ballad, the music is a unique, audience-delighting blend. Both are gifted multi-instrumentalists and superb vocalists who sing from the heart. Their carefully crafted arrangements breathe new life into old and new perennials, combining the familiar with the unexpected.
