JOE TRIO ‘COURT JESTERS OF CLASSICAL’ MUSIC AT UNITED CHURCH IN GRAVENHURST FRIDAY NIGHT
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com
GRAVENHURST — Stuart McLean called Joe Trio “the court jesters of classical music.”
Funny, but talented, the late host of the Vinyl Café dubbed his friends and sometimes collaborators.
Cameron Wilson (violin/fiddle), Allen Stiles (piano) and Charles Inkman (cello) are a mix of highbrow and lowbrow music and mirth.
And they’re the feature artists of this month’s Muskoka Concert Association (MCA) music series — Friday, April 21, at Trinity United Church in Gravenhurst.
Pianist and guitarist Mike Church, of TUC, is the pre-show opening act in the Trillium Court beforehand.
“Joe,” as they simply refer to themselves, is three fun, funny guys who take their music seriously, but their life less so.
Serious — but not stuffy
At least on stage.
Together they cover the musical gamut of classical, pop, jazz — and who knows what.
The Vancouver-based trio is on an east coast swing, which over the weekend included stops in Sarnia Friday, the Soo Saturday and Sunday, Toronto Monday, Thornbury Tuesday and Erin Mills Wednesday should be sharp and in a good mood for their Muskoka stop.
Wilson and Inkman have been together since 1989 and Stiles joined them in 2007.
They say they are “not your average piano trio,” and “don’t want to be neatly categorized, but instead strive for diversity, versatility, and more than a little humour and unpredictability.”
And in the confines of a new age church they should be able to raise the roof and bring praise to those in the pews.
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