TUESDAY, December 3, 2024
7 pm, Silverton Memorial Hall
"The Midnight Clear" with
James Hill (Ukulele) &
Anne Janelle (Cello)
Location: Silverton Memorial Hall
Time: 7pm, doors at 6:30
Tickets: $20-$40 Sliding Scale, available in advance* at Silverton General Store and Raven's Nest. Remaining tickets will be sold at the door (pending availability).
*Tickets purchased in advance will be entered to win a signed copy of The Midnight Clear!
Whether creating new songs with 17th-century lyrics, reinterpreting familiar carol melodies, or writing new winter-inspired songs, James Hill and Anne Janelle are building bridges between new and old. How do we reconcile ancient traditions with modern life? How do we honour the expression of yesterday while telling the stories of today? James and Anne's new winter-holiday album, The Midnight Clear, has one foot in the past and the other in the present. It's music that does what music does best: binding us to our traditions while guiding us ever-onward.
Join James and Anne, December 3rd, for an evening of re-imagined carols and original winter songs. The duo's award-winning blend of voices, percussion, ukulele and cello makes “the perfect evening of tunes, stories and musical virtuosity” (Wellington Dominion-Post).
James Hill
A seasoned performer with a fan base in North America, Asia and Europe, James Hill has garnered wide acclaim for his ground-breaking approach to a chronically-underestimated instrument. Over the course of his first three genre-defying albums – Playing it like it isn’t... (2002), On the Other Hand (2003) and A Flying Leap (2006) – he re-wrote every rule that had previously kept the ukulele in the realm of novelty and obscurity. Then came the Canadian-Folk-Music-Award-winning True Love Don’t Weep (2009), his collaboration with cellist/singer Anne Janelle Davison, an album that pushed the budding singer/songwriter into new territory, topped folk radio charts in North America and opened doors to festival stages across the continent.
A singer, songwriter, educator and virtuoso instrumentalist, James Hill is a man on a musical mission. It's a mission that reaches beyond the concert stage and into communities, homes and classrooms around the world. After all, when the applause fades and the stage goes dark you can still hear the sound of ukuleles strumming happily into the night...
Anne Janelle
When challenged by a cello teacher to embody the music of her heart, Anne found herself, inexplicably, writing her very first song. It was life-changing. When she realized that creating and performing her own songs was the way to bring her two musical loves together, she embarked upon the path of becoming a singer-songwriter. The more she wrote, the more sense it made. Each element complemented and augmented the other. "The deeper inside the music I go, the more I realize that voice and cello are two sides of the same coin. They are both trying to create resonance, and communicate something beautiful," says Anne.
Throughout her three album releases, Anne's "gorgeous and syrupy voice" rings out. The sweetness of her long, tuneful melodies is often tempered by lyrics of searching for peace in dark times or grappling with unanswerable questions. Not surprisingly, Anne accompanies herself with visceral, resonant notes, often "playing her cello like Paul McCartney picks his Hoffner.". Her music melds the soaring choruses of pop music, the timeless simplicity of folk music and the acoustic elegance of classical music.
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for this special holiday concert!