The Duhks

Fri., Sept. 12, 7:30 p.m., $16, with Luke Doucet, Tin Angel, 20 S. Second St., tinangel.com.


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Published: Sep 10, 2008

Folk/traditional

Clogging teachers like to insist that if you can walk, you can dance. That always seemed a long jump of faith till first I spied the Duhks leading a troupe of jaded music-conference people on a Pied Piper-style dance-march. Old-time fiddle tunes were just the beginning for the Winnipeg-based group; the new Fast Paced World (Sugar Hill) reaches out and enfolds roots from all over. "Mighty Storm," about the 1900 flood in Galveston, Texas, has never passed from the common folk repertoire, but the Duhks' modern edges can't help but make you wonder what we've learned in the ensuing century — and which Katrina songs will wash up 100 years from now. Segue from the storm into clawhammer banjo introing the title cut, soon joined by snare, urging another march, this time into dubious conformity. The Duhks will make your mind want to make the same leaps your feet long for.

Fri., Sept. 12, 7:30 p.m., $16, with Luke Doucet, Tin Angel, 20 S. Second St., tinangel.com.