October 11, 2014 - Diane Taraz in concert 8pm October will also bring the return of Diane Taraz to the Branford Coffeehouse Stage. Diane previously performed a split bill for the society with Judy Cook and was part of another concert with the Gloucester Hornpipe & Clog Society. She is an artist who loves to write songs and loves to interpret traditional music. Variety is the spice of life, and Diane enjoys singing not just folk but blues, standards, the classic singer-songwriter repertoire, plus Renaissance music of the 1500s. Her latest album is a collection of jazz standards. Voice is her main instrument, although she delights in playing her three guitars and her mountain dulcimer. Shes performed in hundreds of venues including coffeehouses, schools, concert halls, churches, libraries, museums, restaurants, historical societies, and private houses. Shes director of the Lexington Historical Society Colonial Singers and is a member of Vox Lucens, a 12-voice Renaissance choir who are artists-in-residence at the Church of Our Saviour in Arlington, Mass. She also sings with the UUlations, an eight-woman a cappella group. Dianes songs draw much inspiration from traditional folk and many of her songs celebrate weird and wonderful events of the past. To wit: The Sea-Serpent of Cape Ann tells the story of that mythical New England beastie while Les Filles du Roi looks back at her great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandmothers leap into the unknown as one of the young women who sailed to New France in the 1600s to marry the settlers in Quebec. And one of her favorite creations is Lets Go Canoeing on Lake Chargoggagoggmanchaugagoggchaubunagungamogg, which sings the praises of this actual body of water in central Massachusetts, also known (thank goodness) as Webster Lake. First Congregational Church of Branford, 1009 Main St., Branford, CT
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 04:05:01 +0000