Shari Ulrich’s concert on Sunday to a packed house at the Pender Harbour Music School was really a glimpse into her life. Totally relaxed on stage and very engaged with her audience, she shared with us the various events in her life which have inspired her song-writing over the years – everything from her “escape” to Canada in her teenage years and giving up her first child for adoption and then finding him again, to the beauty of her surroundings on Bowen Island which she now calls home. She is a multi-instrumentalist seeming as comfortable on the harmonica and guitar as she is on the 5-string violin which was custom made for her. Her “trio mates” daughter Julia Graff and Cindy Fairbank were similarly comfortable on piano, accordion, mandolin and violin. She finished the concert with a signature tune “Fear of Flying” by Joe Mock of Pied Pumkin days, which had been requested by an audience member and a very happy crowd left the Music School with signed CDs in their hands and songs in their heads.
