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Saturday Nov 30 - ASHLEY MACISAAC with locals The McGillicuddys!!!
| Message Board > Up n' Coming! (aka Shameless Promotion) > Saturday Nov 30 - ASHLEY MACISAAC with locals The McGillicuddys!!! |
| Soundgarden User Info... | SoundGarden Nightclub PRESENTS... "Cape Breton Fiddling Sensation" ASHLEY MACISAAC + very special guests The McGillicuddy�s In a very special unpunked session Saturday, November 30/ 2002 (7pm) SoundGarden 1630 Store St x Fisgard � VICTORIA, BC Age 19+/ General Admission TICKETS: $16 in advance. On sale @ SoundGarden & lyle�s Place Nov 16. aBoUt aShLeY mAcIsAaC Born: February 24, 1975 in Antigonish, Nova ScotiaCape Breton, Nova Scotia - One of the last remaining Celtic satellite communities of the world - a transplanted Scottish highland that has carried within its bosom a two hundred year old tradition of the finest fiddle playing. Down all the days the music has essentially remained the same. That is until the coming of Ashley MacIsaac - a precocious pioneering upstart who began presenting it in a different way, doing new things with the old music of the highlanders. MacIsaac, a native of Cape Breton, who began playing fiddle at the age of nine and has since become a local legend, is flagrantly challenging tradition to re-create, messing it up until it's unclear then forging ahead with his version - a new age fusion of Celtic soundscapes interwoven on a symbiotic tapestry with contemporary forms. The result is HI� HOW ARE YOU TODAY? MacIsaac's major label debut. "I have something that I enjoy and that I come from," he pronounces, "and now I'm developing a whole other thing around it because of media and culture." What MacIsaac is doing for the Celtic music tradition is, in essence, what rap artists have been doing for the urban soul music of America. MacIsaac agrees yet "I would parallel it a lot closer to, say, if Robert Johnson was in a time machine and got thrown into the 1990's and put his music in with what's happening now." Certainly, there is evidence of this on the multi-textured HI� HOW ARE YOU TODAY? HI� HOW ARE YOU TODAY? reverberates as much commonality (at varying times) with the voices of The Clash and The Ramones (The Devil in the Kitchen), with House & Industrial dance rhythms and with new age as it does with the age old echoes of the Scottish foggy dew. It is vulgar rhythm and groove music-gritty, unsentimental, bastardized, but always retaining the integrity of the fiddle tune (Brenda Stubbert). He continues, offering further insight into his rather eccentric muse; "The reason I don't mind wearing platforms and bell bottoms and basically being a fiddle slut is because I still do play in a structured way and it's totally fusion because of that. So I'm not a grunge fiddler, and I'm not a rock fiddler and I'm not a slow Celtic fiddler...I'm just a Cape Breton fiddler who's learned to put things other ways. It's multi-media to music." Ashley MacIsaac has a somewhat daunting presence for a fiddle player. His image and aura are such that he would not be found out of place as an extra on the movie Braveheart. He wears a kilt, a pair of scruffy army boots and bleached hair. His look and his music are barbaric and devilish, stubborn and proud, tawdry and threatening. When the fiddle players from the old country played in the sitting room they didn't sound too polite. MacIsaac offers little to alter this celtic custom. His music sounds at times like voodoo fiddle-carrying down a tradition of hundreds of years of celtic suppression, oppression and rage. This truly is heart music . "My father once said to me "If you want to play the fiddle get mad at it or don't play it at all," MacIsaac recalls, adding "When I go out and do my live show I present the image of angry young man when on stage. It's angst or punk and that's what the Celts were, punks. But it's also about romancing because the Celts were also about that." . HI� HOW ARE YOU TODAY? has already gone Platinum in Canada. He has impressed upon the stage, stomping the boards with Paul Simon, Edie Brickell (also guesting on Brickell's album Picture Perfect album), David Byrne, The Chieftans and avant-guard composer Philip Glass. So where does his ultimate vision lie for this celtic fusion movement he has cultivated? "I have no problem in fusing it with anything. My influences are very broad because of TV and range from wanting to do 'Danny Boy What A Girl' with Ru Paul and get dressed in drag to whatever takes flight." There remains little doubt about MacIsaac's character though. He, more than anyone, realizes where his music has and always will continue to grow from. "People who have really got attached to my whole image thing have also come to respect what it's all about in the first place. I do plan on continuing to live in Cape Breton and playing for square dances. I don't want any other label except 'Ashley MacIsaac, from Cape Breton, playing the fiddle." ASHLEY MACISAAC�S web site � http://www.ashleymacisaac.com McGillicuddy�s Website: http://www.mcgillicuddys.ca Information: The SoundGarden � Tamara Tulloch (250) 472-1011 [email protected] - Fri, 15 Nov 2002 4:41am | ||
| Anonymous | weeeiiirrrd... but I'll probably go. - Fri, 15 Nov 2002 2:10pm | ||
| ROSS B AY User Info... | Just watch your ass around that Ashley character. Literally. Unless of course yer over 13. - Fri, 15 Nov 2002 2:27pm | ||
| S.V. | Woot! I'm looking forward to this one! I just hope those McGillicuddy's characters don't corrupt poor wee Ashley. ;) - Fri, 15 Nov 2002 2:47pm | ||
| gabe User Info... | unpunked? - Sun, 17 Nov 2002 4:59pm | ||
| Ty Stranglehold User Info... | does "unpunked" mean that they're replacing Mike Walker? - Sun, 17 Nov 2002 6:32pm | ||
| matt t User Info... | I remember reading about ashley and how he came out and said he was a member or nambla (north american man boy love association). I think it was in the province with the title being something about his being canadas version of whacko jacko. - Sun, 17 Nov 2002 8:39pm | ||
| Golden Showers | Ya and he had a 16 year old boyfreind, and they practiced watersports on eachother. I read that . - Sun, 17 Nov 2002 11:59pm | ||
| Anonymous | unpunked meaning unplugged, or so i hear. - Mon, 18 Nov 2002 2:03pm | ||
| Ian | Hey Ty, we're replacing Mike with the guy from the Proclaimers.....hahahah - Mon, 18 Nov 2002 8:57pm | ||
| Anonymous | Yupp!! - Tue, 19 Nov 2002 1:25am | ||
| T Racy | Well, as long as it is the good looking guy from the Proclaimers. Not that sorry looking other one. - Tue, 19 Nov 2002 6:05pm | ||
| Ty Stranglehold User Info... | I thought Mike WAS the guy from The Proclaimers! - Tue, 19 Nov 2002 8:24pm | ||
| kyla User Info... | well i thought he was both of them - Tue, 19 Nov 2002 8:46pm | ||
| Ian | �K, I don't know if it's the good looking Proclaimer. It' s the one with the glasses. Does that help?? - Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:36pm | ||
| Anonymous | Ashley Macisaac likes to FIDDLE........with little boys. - Wed, 20 Nov 2002 1:05am | ||
| Anonymous | Hey Golden Showers what kind of watersports did they play, aside from the obvious. Hide the water balloon? - Wed, 20 Nov 2002 2:54pm | ||
| FeLiXtheCaT User Info... | should i clap? - Wed, 20 Nov 2002 3:04pm | ||
| Chuck User Info... | Shit Matt t you finally clarified for me what nambla was I always wondered. Wierd, speaking of that I saw Michael jackson on tv that guys just gets wierder. So Matt email about the LOC INDK and other letters that sound cool togheter. - Thu, 21 Nov 2002 9:19pm | ||
| S.V. | Are tix being sold at the door for this one? If so, how much? I already have mine...can't miss seeing MWPR & gang unplugged ;) Is it just the two acts that eve? - Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:31pm | ||
| kenny | I don't support child abuse. - Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:19pm | ||
| Ian Mcgillicuddy | Should be tix at the door, and yupp just the two acts. - Thu, 28 Nov 2002 1:00am | ||
| RAZOR | WHAT-EVER duuude. you mean if micheal jackson came to town you soooo wouldn't go see him? - Thu, 28 Nov 2002 7:16pm | ||
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