Dec 8

Written by: Joe Longo
Saturday, December 08, 2007 

The entire family is invited to a free musical performance by Larry Downing on Dec. 11 from 7pm to 8pm in the LaMarsh Room of the Victoria Avenue Library. Downing’s guitar, fiddle and vocals will be accompanied on keyboards with David Horton.

Born and raised in Niagara Falls, Downing has been a professional stage and studio musician since high school.

He has experienced the life of a full-time road musician, performing live on stage throughout Canada with the band Hourglass for twelve years, with the band Forum for six years and with his own The Downing Band for almost ten years.

Larry’s recording resume includes session work with The Mercy Brothers. One of those sessions produced “Your Eyes Don’t Lie To Me”, which made it to the top ten on the Canadian Country charts.

He also played on the Marie Bottrell album “The Star” which was nominated for a Juno Award, but lost out to Anne Murray.

Larry’s great uncle was the Canadian fiddle legend Don Messer and Larry can resin-up that bow and play “Orange Blossom Special” with the best of them.

The “Live Music at the Library” series is made possible through the financial support of R.N. Croft Financial Group Inc.

There are a variety of new music CDs which have arrived during the past few weeks including the following:

Angèle Dubeau’s Solo
The painted veil: original motion picture soundtrack by Alexandre Desplat
Beginner's guide to Greece
Gypsy flamenco by Grupo Macarena
The art of the flute by Wolfgang Schulz

Always popular are:
Just who I am: poets & pirates by Kenny Chesney
Reviva by John Fogerty
Chrome dreams II by Neil Young
Rock n roll Jesus by Kid Rock
Shine by Joni Mitchell
The awakening by Melissa Etheridge
Small miracles by Blue Rodeo
Graduation by Kanye West
Echoes, silence, patience & grace by Foo Fighters
Reba duets by Reba McEntire
The very best of Diana Krall