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Along with Mike Farris, the Duhks were the highlights of last year’s Americana Music Festival & Conference. Karen Zarker described the Canadian band as “a plate full of all the good stuff, all mixed up. You’ll get rock (with a violin that sounds like an electric guitar), cabaret (with that tinge of the dark, somewhat perverse, rather intellectual approach which makes for the best of cabaret), foot-stomping Celtic, and a spicy bit of Afropop (wherein the fiddle becomes a thumb piano). Sarah Dugas’ versatile pipes can belt out gospel with the best of ‘em, followed by some good ol’ Louisiana Cajun. Sarah and Tania Elizabeth will sing to you in French and sing to you in English, but the band’s instruments sing in more tongues than any mere multilingual human can.” The band’s latest video “Fast Paced World” from the album of the same name was directed by Dream Rockwell, who works as artistic director of the vaudeville circus group Lucent Dossier. That circus vibe is evident throughout as band romp in fanciful costumes and evoke a rather surrealist tone. This video was created for the Elevate Film Festival in Los Angeles.
Photo: Sarah Zupko
