I try to read the PEI Guardian everyday to keep up on my Island news. Today, however, I came across an article by a young writer that was both witty and entertaining. I can't remember the last time an article from the Guardian caught my attention....especially with so many stories that have been devoted to that dead blue whale lately.
Anywho, I digress. In reference to the Queens County Fiddlers annual spring concert, journalist Todd MacLean wrote a most amusing article that contained several references to the Chaisson family and my old (actually quite young) fiddle teacher Timothy Chiasson. A few amusing passages:
First up was Elmer Deagle, who proceeded to wow the audience into mesmerization, as he played some of the most smoothly picked out traditional pieces on a banjo that I’ve ever heard. Accompanied by two other giants on the Island music scene, his cousin Tim Chaisson on guitar, and his uncle Kevin Chaisson on piano, the trio did it all so easily that one was apt to think they could probably do it all asleep while standing on their heads. These Chaissons, I’m telling you — it’s almost sickening. And we all love them insatiably for it, of course. But, God, do they just hand them a pile of instruments as soon as they’re out of the womb or something and say, “Learn these or we won’t feed ya.”?
...Kristyn Visser did a fantastic step dance set, followed by Tim Chaisson playing fiddle this time, accompanied by Kevin and Elmer, as the three of them juggled knives and grenades in between chords to finish off the first half...
The article in its entirety: Stacked show on a stacked weekend
