{"id":15097,"date":"2017-11-29T09:01:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T17:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=15097"},"modified":"2017-11-29T11:30:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T19:30:01","slug":"camosun-music-instructor-daniel-lapp-comes-home-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/11\/29\/camosun-music-instructor-daniel-lapp-comes-home-for-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun music instructor Daniel Lapp comes home for the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Daniel Lapp isn\u2019t teaching music classes at Camosun through the Victoria Conservatory of Music, the world-class fiddler is organizing his annual Home for Christmas<\/i> concerts. Lapp\u2014who is also, among other things, a singer and multi-instrumentalist\u2014is legendary in the fiddle scene, having played with Gord Downie and the Country of Miracles, Lou Reed, Spirit of the West, and Elvis Costello, among others, and has travelled across Canada, the USA, and Europe to play his music.<\/p>\n

And now he\u2019s bringing it all back home for the holidays.<\/p>\n

\u201cRegardless of your faith, it\u2019s a special time of year,\u201d Lapp says. \u201cAs busy as we get, we need to stay connected to our family. It seems so obvious, and yet it\u2019s something that we don\u2019t do enough of. The idea of getting the family together and going downtown together, getting the last few presents and going for dinner [and] going to a concert that is very much about celebrating our community with joyful, good-intentioned, uplifting music has become a soulful, magical experience that a lot of people don\u2019t want to miss.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Local fiddle player Daniel Lapp loves the holidays and loves Victoria (photo by A Perreault).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To keep things fresh this year, Lapp has added a distinctly Canadian twist to complement some of the standard favourites.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat will be unique about this year,\u201d Lapp says, \u201cis it will be about 80 percent Canadian content\u2014Christmas carols, written by Canadians. Most people might have heard some of them. You will hear some of the old standards, but we look forward to singing a lot of Canadian songs, too\u2014Sarah McLachlan, The Band, and Stan Rogers, for example.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lapp, along with folk\/blues legend Roy Forbes, will lead a group of roughly 200 musicians on stage at the concert, including some of his Camosun students.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have our house band, the Swing\u2019n Shepherds,\u201d says Lapp. \u201cThis year we will have Danuel Tate on organ; Jamie Troy, who is a drummer and a bagpiper; Peter Dowse on bass. We\u2019ll have the Strings of Lights, made up of Camosun students. We\u2019ll have some representation of the Shiny H\u2019Ornaments, which is our horn section. We will have the Joy of Life Choir, which is made up of 90 singers. Folkestra, our adult folk ensemble, is 50 people this year. There are 50 kids from the BC Fiddle Orchestra.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lapp has been in Victoria since 1989 and has become an institution in Victoria\u2019s folk scene. He\u2019s seen the world, but, for him, Victoria is home.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne thing leads to another in this business,\u201d says Lapp. \u201cThere have been temptations to leave for various reasons and pursue the dream, but I realized on a tour with Rickie Lee Jones\u2014we were at Heathrow Airport, and everyone else was flying to the cities I thought I wanted to live in\u2014Paris, LA, New York\u2014and I had an epiphany. I was really looking forward to flying home to Victoria. I\u2019m a BC boy, and I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll ever leave.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Daniel Lapp isn\u2019t teaching music classes at Camosun through the Victoria Conservatory of Music, the world-class fiddler is organizing his annual Home for Christmas concerts. Lapp\u2014who is also, among other things, a singer and multi-instrumentalist\u2014is legendary in the fiddle scene, having played with Gord Downie and the Country of Miracles, Lou Reed, Spirit of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-november-29-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t