Town Hall Concert Series performance Monday at First Mennonite
Diem Lafortune, a Toronto musician, will perform in concert at 7 p.m., Monday, Jan. 19, at First Mennonite Church, in a Bluffton Town Hall Concert Series, according to Wendy Chappell-Dick.
LaFortune is a 2013 Canadian Aboriginal Songwriter of the Year nominee by the Canadian Folk Music Awards.
According to Chappell-Dick, “Her album Beauty and Hard Times is a varied collection including Acadian fiddle tunes, Celtic, prairie Cree drums, and the accordion and strings-fuelled tunes of the Jews and Romany in Eastern Europe.”
“I can get people dancing when I perform solo – I am a member of Toronto United Mennonite Church and I get them dancing too – or, at least up and, or seriously moving in their seats at our coffeehouse talent shows,” she said.
Georgia Leichty Adams of Findlay will open the concert. She has been active in language revitalization of her husband's Mingo language, which only has one living native speaker left. The songs she will sing will primarily be in Mingo. She will use a drum, which she made herself out of buffalo hide.
The concert is at First Mennonite because of a Bluffton council meeting taking place in the third floor of the town hall
Chappell-Dick said that the concert is free and open to the public with a suggested $7 donation per person.
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