Dwayne Côté and Duane Andrews at the Franco American Center

[JDess at aol.com]

Last Wednesday night my wife and I got to the Franco  American Heritage 
Center in Lewiston Maine to see Dwayne Côté and Duane  Andrews in concert.
 
  Barb was a bit leery of taking an 8 hour car trip to  attend one 
performance but, after hearing the performance, all she could say was  "Wonderful. 
wonderful." and she agreed that the Dwayne Coté and Duane  Andrews' show was 
well worth the trip.to Lewiston.
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     The first half of the concert was mostly from  their new CD (which I 
bought). If you have read the reviews about the CD, you'll  know that it was 
a fine first half..  At the intermission, Phill  McIntyre announced to the 
audience that he believed we would be even more  excited by the last half of 
the show.  As far as Barb and I were  concerned, he was right.
 
    In there second half of the concert, Dwayne and Duane  performed an 
eclectic group of selections in response to requests from the  audience. The 
complete concert was fantastic, both men are top notch  musicians.  I'm a bit 
of a fiddle bigot and Dwayne's Côté playing  amazes me. He is able to do 
stuff with his violin that I haven't heard others  do, and it all sounds sweet. 
  I'm sorry I don't remember the titles  of most of the pieces played, but 
I know they did some Jerry Holland ("My  Cape Breton Home"?) as well as 
"Tullochgorum". It was all fine music and I think  that Dwayne's fiddle is one 
of the sweetest.
 
  Sadly for the performers and Phil, the audience was quite small  but they 
were very appreciative and I'm sure they could have listened to the  great 
sounds for a few more hours.
 
   Phil said he's going to try to get Dwayne and Duane together  again to 
play Lewiston. If he puts that show together, Barb and I will  certainly take 
to the trip to Maine to hear it. 
 
  I would like to thank Phill for bringing all of the fine Cape  Breton 
music to within a days drive for us here in upstate New York..  He  is doing a 
great job. 
 
  Joe
  Endicott, NY