Finest Kind
Ian Robb
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Finest Kind  View Finest Kind's EPK View stage plot Browse Recordings Calendar Bookings Pictures Contact Get tickets for Finest Kind's Ottawa concert Feb 27th 2010 here  "Finest Kind's set on the Saturday
night was a flawless piece of work, an extraordinary melding of history and
song. Three of the finest voices in Canada singing about our past and filling
the dark and still air with soaring, glorious harmonies. In a set of splendid
songs, Shelley Posen's "No More Fish, No Fishermen" was, for me, the standout. I
have a recording of the song but to hear it sung from that stage, to that crowd,
was to understand the passion behind the piece. A very remarkable band."
David Francey, at the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival 2002 "lan Robb, Ann Downey and Shelley Posen together make one of the most captivating acts on the scene" David Kidman: Live Review of the 2008 Derby Festival of Traditional Music and Arts, in The Living Tradition (UK) Finest Kind is the remarkable folk trio from Ottawa, Canada whose exquisite harmony singing and brilliant vocal arrangements are bringing a fresh sense of excitement and discovery to the performance of old songs.  The trio's
glorious sound, served up with easy-going humour, has won a devoted following
across North America.Thrills and Chills...Finest Kind's vocal arrangements are a creative tour de force. Tradition-based yet curiously modern, the trio's harmonies are an enchanting feast of opulent chords and ever changing textures. The trio's amazing vocal blend has been called "molecular bonding" by one reviewer: "Any closer," he says, "and they wouldn't be allowed to do it in public." Audiences invariably mention "goosebumps." Who we are...Finest Kind was formed in Ottawa, Canada, in 1991 by Ian Robb, Ann Downey, and Shelley Posen. Ian, originally from London, England, 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." Ann, who hails 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. Shelley, a professional folklorist from Toronto, is a versatile singer and multi instrumentalist who has spent a lifetime researching, teaching, writing about, performing, and sometimes composing songs. Shelley and Ian were both columnists for Sing Out! magazine for many years. The trio is often joined on stage by fiddler and mandolinist James Stephens, a master of styles ranging from Irish to Cape Breton, bluegrass to swing.
CONTACTING FINEST KIND
For Finest Kind and Ian Robb recordings , visit Fallen Angle Music,For recordings by Shelley Posen, visit www.shelleyposen.com. |
