A warm Saturday in March could only mean the BLUES. The band - Hat Fitz and Cara Robinson - bring an unusual take on on Blues to Calgary's Parkland community centre. A cosy venue accommodating 85 people, mostly from the community supplemented with a few interlopers. Everyone had the best seats in the house. The couple, Fitz and Cara, are truly world travellers, being from Australia and Ireland respectively and jet setting to Calgary for three concerts, ours being one. Their stage banter confirmed that the drum was taken in lieu of a performance fee when the client was found to be short. It appeared to be as well worn as his guitars.
Their form of blues incorporated electric and steel acoustic guitars, drums, tin whistle, flute, a fife, a washboard... and a spectacular set of pipes - the human type.
Fitz' electric guitar resembled the mirror image of a Gibson Thunderbird - with switches and (of coarse) a gnome. Boy could he make it sing. Their form of rocking blues had us bobbing heads and twitching in our chairs.
Eyes closed as often as open, his playing was more intuition than discipline. His form more akin to flying fingers than classical postures..all adding to the concert.
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Cara demonstrated incredible dexterity coordinating between the washboard, the drum set, smashing the symbols and singing.
A musicians cradle.
Cara demonstrated an incredible vocal range.
I would never have anticipated a whistle being used in the blues.
A talented pair. I have been lucky to have been invited to three concerts held in this community. I am looking forward to the next.
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