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SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE - Iqaluit is small but the town's live music scene enjoys diversity and depth.
Yellowknifers experienced some of what the Nunavut capital has to offer last weekend at the Top Knight.
The musicians of Twin River launched their debut CD at the bar on Friday evening and followed with a second show on Saturday night.
Michael Doyle and Stuart Crose are a plucky, bluegrass duo that plays fast-paced and lively bluegrass standards.
They're also members of The Northern Ramblers, a Celtic band Yellowknife live music fans know from their annual appearances at the Black Knight every St. Paddy's Day.
Crose, originally from California, brought his affection for bluegrass to Iqaluit where he hooked up with The Northern Ramblers a few years ago.
"As musical genres, East Coast music and bluegrass are cousins," Crose said.
Doyle, who grew up in Newfoundland, said he enjoys making the transition from traditional Celtic jigs and reels to the earthy, twangy sound of American roots music.
"As soon as I heard Stuart play mandolin I said 'yeah, I need to play blue grass,'" he said.
Twin River's set skipped between the bluesy, gospel-influenced bluegrass made famous by American music pioneers like Bill Monroe and Doc Watson to sharp, lightening-fast instrumentals like Whiskey for Breakfast.
The lyrics lament lost loves, lost souls and lonely dirt roads.
Crose and Doyle return to the Black Knight with the Northern Ramblers next St. Paddy's Day.
The band's website will be up in a couple of weeks. It will feature audio and video clips of performances.
- Daron Letts, Northern News Services
SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE - Iqaluit is small but the town's live music scene enjoys diversity and depth.
Yellowknifers experienced some of what the Nunavut capital has to offer last weekend at the Top Knight.
The musicians of Twin River launched their debut CD at the bar on Friday evening and followed with a second show on Saturday night.
Michael Doyle and Stuart Crose are a plucky, bluegrass duo that plays fast-paced and lively bluegrass standards.
They're also members of The Northern Ramblers, a Celtic band Yellowknife live music fans know from their annual appearances at the Black Knight every St. Paddy's Day.
Crose, originally from California, brought his affection for bluegrass to Iqaluit where he hooked up with The Northern Ramblers a few years ago.
"As musical genres, East Coast music and bluegrass are cousins," Crose said.
Doyle, who grew up in Newfoundland, said he enjoys making the transition from traditional Celtic jigs and reels to the earthy, twangy sound of American roots music.
"As soon as I heard Stuart play mandolin I said 'yeah, I need to play blue grass,'" he said.
Twin River's set skipped between the bluesy, gospel-influenced bluegrass made famous by American music pioneers like Bill Monroe and Doc Watson to sharp, lightening-fast instrumentals like Whiskey for Breakfast.
The lyrics lament lost loves, lost souls and lonely dirt roads.
Crose and Doyle return to the Black Knight with the Northern Ramblers next St. Paddy's Day.
The band's website will be up in a couple of weeks. It will feature audio and video clips of performances.
- Daron Letts, Northern News Services
Discography
Have released albums with a Celtic Folk Group The Northern Ramblers. Please check out our page on Sonicbids for a taste of who I am.
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Andrew Molloy was born and raised in the little fishing community of St.Shott's Newfoundland. Andrew started entertaining on stage at the early age of 13 years and by the age of 14 had released an album with a traditional folk band consisting of Andrew and two high school buddies who happen to be brothers . A product of the Newfoundland atlantic fishery demise Andrew found himself writing about the hard ship, and the dispear people were feeling from seeing there sons, and daughters have to move to find work.
When Andrew had to leave the Island to find work, he himself became part of the songs he was writing.
1998 Andrew moved to a small isolated town in the High Arctic of Canada named Iqaluit Nunavut. Here Andrew became one of the founding members of East Coast Music Award Nominees "the Northern Ramblers. Andrew and his band played accoss Canada in particular the Arctic. In his 8.5 years living in Iqaluit, he has learned his craft and found his voice as an artist.
Andrew's writings of late have brought him back to what he grew up listening to, Old Country, with an alternitive twist, but his Celtic music will always follow him.
Andrew has plans to release his solo effort soon.
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