I was going to give the Sidney York show at the Slice a miss, June 11 due to exhaustion and having to go to Calgary early the next morning, but I was glad I didn’t.
It isn’t often you see a bassoon in a rock band, but there was one in York’s band. I leaped into the middle of a massively, packed party at the Slice.
The band was jumping around on stage, clapping their hands and getting the excited crowd to do the same.
This was another show that featured some impressive interplay between multitude of instruments including that bassoon as well as a clarinet in addition to keyboards, bass, drums, guitar and even ukulele.
York, who received an honourable mention in last year’s South Country Fair Songwriting competition, and won the year before that, has played the Slice four times, but I’ve never seen her with the orchestra behind her.
She sang beautifully while alternating between guitar, keyboard and ukulele.
