FishCastle--the folk duo Catherine Braik Selin and Cyril Everett Caster--gave a 90-minute family concert on a cloudy Sunday afternoon at West Grove Meeting House that kept both adults and kids entertained. The performers played guitars, a ukulele ("my snack-size guitar," Catherine quipped), a banjo, a trumpet, and a recorder and brought along a "treasure chest" full of instruments -- chimes, drums, a squeezebox and such -- so the kids could join in as they liked throughout the show. During one maritime-themed song we all waved scarves to simulate swaying seaweed, and one man shimmied around doing a truly inspired fish imitation.
The songs included old favorites like Peter, Paul & Mary's "Puff the Magic Dragon" and Pete Seeger's "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream," plus Leonard Cohen's "Bird on a Wire" and a beautiful Stephen Foster song, "Hard Times Come Again No More" (BTW did you know that Stephen Foster also wrote "My Old Kentucky Home"? I didn't.)
FishCastle seems to perform a fair amount around our area, including at supermarkets; they said their next show is at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 10, at the Darlington Arts Center in Garnet Valley.
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