Wendy Brook Festival\u2019s Sizzling String Performances

Wendy Brook Festival’s Sizzling String Performances

Rosanne Fortier News Correspondent

The finest young musicians awed the adjudicator and audience with their string performances at the Wendy Brook Festival at Vegreville United Church Auditorium on March 15.

Shade Clark performs Decision at Glady Fork by Bryan Sutton.

(Rosanne Fortier/photo)

Cally Austin performs Minuet No. 2 by J.S. Bach.

(Rosanne Fortier/photo)

Performers played the violin, fiddle, and guitar. Marie Forestier was the Adjudicator where she said the early violin’s performers made a beautiful sound and played well in tune. Constructive feedback she offered was to try to perform from memory more and to try to hold their violin higher.

For the younger guitar players, Forestier said they did a fantastic performance and to try to be more engaged, even if they are playing a familiar piece of music.

With the older guitar’s player, Forestier said the performance was incredible, were a real natural at performing music, and had blown her away; she felt they could go on tour. She had no constructive feedback to offer. So a guitar teacher came forward and said theperformer just needed to work on the hammer’s part.