This is a picture of Jerry Holland and Tony DeMarco playing tunes at the Red Shoe Pub in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.Tony DeMarco played in Vermont a fews year back for a memorial concert in honor of the late and great Johnny Cunningham. I had never heard of Tony DeMarco before that day. He's a big teddy bear of a guy and as he walked out on stage that night I couldn't imagine what kind of music was going to come out of his fiddle. Once he sat down and began to play, I quickly realized that I was not in the know. This man made my jaw drop with his fiddle playing. He was incredible.
DeMarco is a Brooklyn native with Irish and Italian in his blood. He plays County Sligo style Irish fiddle with lot of crisp ornamentation, fast rhythms and he improvises like nobody's business.
DeMarco is one of the musicians that will take the stage with Ashley MacIsaac and John Doyle next month at Chandler Music Hall to raise money for Jerry Holland's battle with cancer.
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