May 13th: Finest Kind

$18/16

Finest Kind was formed in Ottawa and features the musical talents of Ian Robb, Ann Downey, and Shelley Posen. Ian, originally from London, England, is renowned as one of North America's most gifted performers of British folksong, a concertina player extraordinaire, charter member of Toronto's Friends of Fiddler's Green, and composer of folk standards such as "The Old Rose and Crown." Ann, who hails from the southwestern U.S., plays guitar, banjo, and bass, and has performed in bands playing old-time and cowboy music, bluegrass, klezmer, jazz, and swing in North America and Europe. Shelley, a professional folklorist from Toronto, is a versatile singer and multi instrumentalist who has spent a lifetime researching, teaching, writing about, performing, and sometimes composing songs. The trio's glorious sound, served up with easy-going humour, has won a devoted following across North America

The Mariposa Folk Foundation is a proud sponsor of the Flying Cloud Folk Club in its twenty-seventh year.