J.P.
Cormier wows crowd at his Cohn headlining show
Milestone for a maestro
By Sandy MacDonald
The Daily News
Sunday Oct 02, 2005
CONCERT REVIEW – Twenty-three years ago, a teenaged
J.P. Cormier snuck backstage after legendary guitarist Doc
Watson finished performing at the Rebecca Cohn.
Cormier, a master of the acoustic guitar at 13, was presumptuous
enough to slip Watson’s guitar out of the case in
his dressing room and rip into Black Mountain Rag, as Watson
signed autographs outside the dressing room door.
“Now that same dressing room is mine,” said
Cormier proudly, headlining the sold-out Cohn last night.
The Cape Breton multi-instrumentalist put on a dazzling
show that would have made Watson proud. Accompanied by his
wife, Hilda Chiasson-Cormier, on piano and Russell Sawler
on electric bass and five-string banjo, Cormier put on a
two-hour graduate class in musicianship.
Shifting between acoustic guitar, mandolin, banjo and fiddle,
Cormier is a master craftsman with staggering array of tools.
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