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18th October 2016 at Cecil Sharp House (Storrow Hall), London NW1.
Country: Canada - Prince Edward Island. Style: Traditional Maritime Provinces & Contemporary Folk.
Lineup: Richard Wood (fiddle), Gordon Belsher (g/v).
Richard Wood was born in Pembrook, Ontario and lived in Gagetown, New Brunswick before moving to Charlottetown, PEI in 1988 aged 10. Already a noted step dancer he soon took up the fiddle. Gordon Belsher was born in Mankota, Saskatchewan and grew up in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta. He had been a professional musician for several years when in 1978 aged 28, he moved to Guernsey Cove, PEI. The two of them started working together in 1995. I first saw them in 1997 when Wood was 19 at Sidmouth in a trio with Darla Chaisson on piano (one of the last gigs before she left the group), and again as a duo at the Green Note in 2011. Wood is particularly influenced by the Cape Breton tradition, playing here tunes by Winston "Scotty" Fitzgerald and Dan R. MacDonald. Plus others from the wider "celtic" world (by Liz Carroll and Ivan Drever), from Quebec and New Brunswick/the Ottowa Valley in Canada, Galicia, as well as many of his own compositions.
More information: www.rwood.ca/, www.facebook.com/Richard-Wood-257509707637541/, www.guernseycove.ca/.
Joseph Henry Sharp, American
b. 1859, Bridgeport, OH; d. 1953, Pasadena, CA
Oil on canvas
Bull Bear was the chief of the Kiyaksa band of the Oglalas from 1834 to 1841. Bull Bear was born to the Cheyenne tribe in the Black Hills, and he became a war leader of his people. In 1876, Crazy Horse and Chayton Black courted his friendship at the time of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and he contributed several Dog Soldiers to the Sioux cause in the victory against the US Army there.
Joseph Henry Sharp was an American painter and a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists, of which he is considered the "Spiritual Father". Sharp was one of the earliest European-American artists to visit Taos, New Mexico, which he saw in 1893 with artist John Hauser. He painted American Indian portraits and cultural life, as well as Western landscapes. President Theodore Roosevelt commissioned him to paint the portraits of 200 Native American warriors who survived the Battle of the Little Bighorn. While working on this project, Sharp lived on land of the Crow Agency, Montana, where he built Absarokee Hut in 1905. Boosted by his sale of 80 paintings to Phoebe Hearst, Sharp quit teaching and began to paint full-time.
In 1909, he bought a former chapel in Taos to use as a studio, near the house of the artist E. Irving Couse. In 1912 he and his wife moved to the area full-time. He built a house with studio near the chapel. Both artists' homes and studios are part of the Eanger Irving Couse House and Studio—Joseph Henry Sharp Studios, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In 1881, Sharp traveled to Europe, where he studied for a year at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium.
(Wikipedia)
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio
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Sitting at the pool and now for a slice of apple!!
Our Daily Challenge ~ Sharp ....
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Well after trying for at least 3 weeks to even see this rare Asian breed (here in Vancouver, BC) ...I finally was able to view and take many shots. Unfortunately the sun wasn't my best friend here...(back lighting the subject)...but I'm not going to complain. At least I have a record of the sighting now.
The shots were also taken at quite a distance so I had to crop quite a bit into the shots to see the subject...again not a problem...and due to the back lighting I had to do a 1 stop over exposure to get some detail and not a dark blob.
Thanks for looking!!!