The phot os on April Verch’s seventh album are a bitdeceiving. The freshly scrubbed beauty could be mistaken for a young television star versus an accomplished player and composer, who started stepdancing at age three and playing the fiddle at age six. Who, by the age of ten, was winning fiddle contests and touring Canada -- releasing two solo albums before graduating from high school. She followed it up with studies at the Berklee College of Music and a stint on Rounder Records.
Now, with her new independent release Steal TheBlue, April Verch is giving notice that she is again taking a step forward in a still-young career and emerging as the next frontwoman in the prominently masculine acoustic genre.
Canadian-born Verch had previously relied on her supple and inventive playing to build a catalogue of albums that were mostly instrumental takes on originals and treasures of the past. On Steal The Blue, she brings forth her confident and winsome voice to lead the April Verch Band through songs from familiar roots writers like Ron Block, Sarah Siskind and Larry Cordle – as well as finely detailed instrumentals infused with pure and joyous energy.
Led by her own simultaneous fiddling and dancing, The April Verch Band has been selling out prestigious venues and festivals for years -- while quietly humming just below the national radar. With the release of Steal the Blue, Verch is poised to take a leading role in women at the top of the roots genre.
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