High-energy Barachois delights Acadie en fête
Stephen Pedersen, The Chronical-Herald The Mail Star, Halifax NS, 27-Oct-97 When it comes to delighting the daylights out of a crowd, no one does it better than Barachois. This bouncy quartet of Acadian musicians from Prince Edward Island have got it all - energy, high spirits, wit, charm, and musical dynamite. They set off a flash fire of reels and high-toned ridicule on the second half of Symphony Nova Scotia's Acadie en fête concert in the Cohn Friday night, after a sleepy first half of sentimental anthems and sweet pop... The minute Barachois launched into their first tune on the second half, the whole mood of the evening lightened, quickened and began to heat up the blood. Hélène Bergeron and Chuck, Albert, and Louise Arsenault take their fiddle, accordion, guitar, keyboard, trumpet, reed organ, cardboard box drums and irrepressible joie-de-vivre to exponential heights. They showed, with their tapping feet, legs and thighs working like steam-engine pistons, why Acadians know better than anybody how to party. It was le good time, and no mistake. As Albert Arsenault put it, "Ca flip?" and we all shouted back, as he had coached us to do, "Ca flip pretty good!"... |