Volume 8 No. 16
Friday, April 21, 2017
Fiddling up a storm at Home Routes Curling
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Daniel Gervais, along with accompanist Clint Pelletier, capped off their Home Routes tour at the Backroads Bed and Breakfast on April 13. This could be the last show as well for Les and Shirl Kunz who are unsure about hosting what would be their tenth year of Home Route concerts. photo by Becky Zimmer By Becky Zimmer Journal Editor
He was named the Canadian Grand Master Fiddle Champion in 2011 and 2016, played in New York, France, London, England, and all over Canada. And on April 13 he was at the Backroads Bed and Breakfast in Annaheim. Daniel Gervais, along with accompanist Clint Pelletier, capped off the last stop of his two week Manitoba and Saskatchewan Home Routes tour with Shirl and Les Kunz and concert goers. After doing a run of festival tours, having this intimate setting is great, says Gervais. And it is not only about the smaller sizes of the concerts, it is also about getting to know the area. “We’re not just coming through a community and staying in a hotel and not really seeing anything of the community or meeting everybody.” The Kunz’ hosted Gervais and Clint so they did get to tour around the area as well as talk with people during intermission and after the show. It does not matter if the concert was in a living room, the fiddle is the life of a kitchen party and that was the atmosphere that Gervais wanted to bring to the concert. As long as people had fun and a couple of laughs, says Gervais. With the Home Routes tour finished, 2017 means a lot more travel for Gervais with tours in Ontario with Clint and later flying solo in Quebec.
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With three small children at home, Gervais says he does not like being gone too long. “In a whole year in the whole grand scheme of things I’m not gone very long,” he says. The Home Routes tour was all he could stand with two whole weeks of concerts and being away from his family. His family does play a role in his music as well with songs written for varying family members, including his two boys, baby daughter, wife, and his fiddle. Growing up in St. Paul, lta., music was a big part of Gervais’s childhood with his mother being a classically trained pianist. After hearing an alto fiddler playing around a campfire one summer evening, Gervais was set on becoming a fiddler, he says. That was 25 years ago. Clint’s musical talent also runs in the family with his dad being well known Canadian musician, Freddie Pelletier. Gervais knew of Clint and Freddie through idolizing fiddler, Calvin Vollrath, who played with Freddie. Gervais met Clint at a fiddle camp in Emma Lake and have been playing together for 15 years. Winning the Canadian Grand Master Fiddle Championship in 2011 really opened doors for Gervais and his fiddle with invites to play a reception hall in Carnegie Hall in New York and playing at the 2012 London Olympics as a cultural ambassador for Alberta. Continued on page 7
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