Also this issue: Flash Forward Costumed lip-synchers Fischerspooner are not out to shock you. -Sean O’Neal Dirty Three -Paul Burress Jayhawks -Sam Adams VERSIONsound -Sean O’Neal Brentano String Quartet -Peter Burwasser Vir Unis/James Johnson -A.D. Amorosi The Funk Brothers -Nicole Pensiero CD Reviews -Sam Adams, A.D. Amorosi and Collin Keefe

April 10-16, 2003

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Gabriel Yacoub

For French-speaking folkies, Malicorne was the exciting be all and end all. Think of Pentangle, Steeleye Span and Fairport Convention and their rocking reverence for the old songs of the U.K. and then take that contemporary pulse across the Channel. Finally, let it be led by a young man who spent a great deal of time learning the old folk songs and dances of France under the tutelage of legendary harpist Alain Stivell. The much-loved folk revivalist band Malicorne has ceased to be, but ex-leader Gabriel Yacoub returns for a rare area performance with his trio. Among his many French gems, the bilingual Yacoub does a chilling version of U.S.-born Richard Shindell’s "You Stay Here" -- a cautionary tale of weary refugees that could be set in Bosnia, Rwanda or Iraq.

Sun., April 13, 7:30 p.m., $12-$14, Germantown Academy Art Center, 340 Morris Rd., Fort Washington, 215-247-1300.

—Mary Armstrong