{"id":3163,"date":"2011-11-17T19:51:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T01:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=3163"},"modified":"2011-11-17T19:51:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T01:51:44","slug":"the-once-11-16-11-winnipeg-folk-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2011\/11\/17\/the-once-11-16-11-winnipeg-folk-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"The Once \/\/ 11-16-11 \/\/ Winnipeg Folk Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday night at the Winnipeg Folk Exchange, the renowned folk trio from Newfoundland, The Once<\/a>, took the stage in the corner of the small brightly coloured room, and went on to perform yet another magical show.\u00a0 This was their fourth such show on their current tour of Pop Up shows, promoting their second album Row Upon Row To The People They Know<\/em>, in smaller more intimate venues across Western Canada, and it was simply incredible.\u00a0 No other stage could be more suitable for the power and honesty, the poise and wholesomeness produced by The Once.
\nA near twenty song set with ten songs played without amplification made this unlike any normal concert, but more of a family gathering in the host\u2019s kitchen; Newfie hospitality is unmatched. True to their roots, The Once played several of their own compositions, half a dozen or so traditional songs from the Maritimes and the British Isles like \u201cBy The Glow Of The Kerosene Light,\u201d and of course their own priceless covers of Leonard Cohen\u2019s \u201cComing Back To You\u201d and \u201cAnthem,\u201d Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cI\u2019ll Be Your Baby Tonight\u201d, Queen\u2019s \u201cYou\u2019re My Best Friend\u201d (which they originally took on for a wedding), and Al Pittman\u2019s \u201cCradle Hill\u201d and \u201cNell\u2019s Song.\u201d
\nThe stories they told about the history of the songs ranged from the truly heart wrenching tales of Geraldine Hollett\u2019s father\u2019s brushes with death as a fisherman which were retold in \u201cThree Fishers\u201d and \u201cCharlie\u2019s\u201d to Phil Churchill\u2019s playing his first shows in St. John\u2019s pubs and ordering a beer from the beautiful bartender in \u201cA Round Again,\u201d and Andrew Dale\u2019s explanations about the Feast of Cohen which lead to The Once performing two great Cohen songs.
\nArtistically I have no doubt that The Once could take any song and produce a cover that combines warming ingenuity and strong resemblance to the original; likewise for their own creations.\u00a0 Individually any member could have a strong career as a musician, but together their voices and instrumental abilities create remarkable sounds that are crisp and thoughtfully cultivated to bring audiences to a dead silence practically begging for yet another note to be struck.\u00a0 Beyond the impeccable musical and vocal abilities of the trio they have the stage presence to make any show memorable with casual banter, Andrew\u2019s especially witty remarks, and personal conversations with young audience members.\u00a0 The best moment from this particular evening was when a young man with an infectious laugh was invited to the front of the room so he could have a better seat.\u00a0 There is one negative thing, however, that I must say about this show and the limitations of The Once in general: they\u2019re only in Winnipeg for two shows\u2014so disappointing! Jesse Blackman<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wednesday night at the Winnipeg Folk Exchange, the renowned folk trio from Newfoundland, The Once, took the stage in the corner of the small brightly coloured room, and went on to perform yet another magical show.\u00a0 This was their fourth such show on their current tour of Pop Up shows, promoting their second album Row […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[975],"class_list":["post-3163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-bait","tag-the-once"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}