As a native Montrealer I felt some civic pride to see that the Arcade Fire won the Grammy for Best Album the other night. It was also very cool to see Marika Shaw, my high school orchestra teacher, go up on stage and receive the award from Barbara Streisand and co. Ms. Shaw–okay, Marika– is a touring member of Arcade Fire and she plays viola on The Suburbs (incidentally, also the place I grew up and she conducted high school orchestra…). I looked her up and found out she and her husband Marcus Paquin are in a new band called Silver Starling and they’re really good. Here they are at the Osheaga music festival in Montreal:
Their album is here and their website is here. Check ’em out.
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