April Verch has never sounded more comfortable in her skin than she does now, in the second decade of her career as an internationally touring Canadian fiddler, step dancer and singer-songwriter. Her ninth album, "Bright Like Gold," captures a woman who’s fleshed out her identity and is in full command of her gifts, a woman who’s grown from a prodigy into an enduring artist–one of music’s most unforgiving public transitions–with grace and grit to spare. The April Verch Band–rounded out by bassist and clawhammer banjo player Cody Walters and guitarist Hayes Griffin, who has a Masters in jazz improv from the New England Conservatory–is an energetic, virtuosic, tradition-celebrating outfit, and April's fiddling and step dancing–and often executing two entirely different intricate rhythmic patterns–at once is downright impressive! If you think you don't like old-time music, well ... you've never seen April Verch!