Saturday, April 16, 8:00 pm at Artword Artbar, $10. The Acoustics are back for their third visit! The Acoustics are a Canadian instrumental world/roots musical ensemble from the Hamilton, Ontario area. For the past ten years, they have been cultivating their own unique world/roots music, with a lively upbeat Mediterranean sound.
Alfonso Spoto accordion; Enzo Spoto, lead and rhythm guitar; Brian Ropcean, percussion; Bonnie Krenciglowa, violin; Andrew Eckart, bass. http://www.theacoustics.ca
The Acoustics were first recognized for their musical achievements in 2004, when their CD A Thousand Yesterdays was the winner of the Hamilton Music Award for Best Instrumental Recording of the Year. Next, their CD Forever and A Day was named Folk/Traditional recording of the year at the 2008 Hamilton Music Awards. Forever and a Day went on to come in second place for World Album of the year at the 2009 JPF Music Awards in Nashville, Tennessee. Subsequently, the album was nominated for two 2009 Hamilton Music Awards: Folk/Traditional Recording of the year and Instrumental Recording of the year.
