April Verch Band

Ontario’s Ottawa Valley is steeped in cultural history, including a musical style and stepdancing heritage influenced by the French, Irish, Scottish, Polish, and German settlers of this region in Canada. April Verch, a modern pioneer of this tradition, is emerging as one of the top female artists in the roots music genre. She has built a repertoire rich in original tunes influenced deeply by the treasure chest of musical jewels passed down through the generations. Her fiddling and stepdancing styles were shaped by the diverse roots of the immigrants drawn to the region’s lumber camps in the mid-1800s.