NEW CD JUST RELEASED!       Kirk's latest musical outing features his main instrument, the violin (fiddle). Twelve new tunes and two traditional favourites include classical licks, jazz, Celtic, and country swing. Kirk plays fiddle, vielle (medieval fiddle), 5 string electric fiddle, mandolin, pipes, dulcimer, penny whistle, and guitars. With Sharlene Wallace, Celtic harp, Don Rooke, dobro, Steve Heathcote, drums, Tom Leighton, piano, and Garth Vogan, Pat Collins, and Peter Pavlovsky, bass. (©2005)   FIDDLER ON THE ROCKS   EVENTS 2005 Kirk has just finished collaborating with Eric Cadesky and Nick Dyer on the film score for PERSEVERANCE, a Canadian film which has recently played at the SUNDANCE Film Festival. Kirk played violin, dulcimer, penny whistle, guitar, accordion and harmonica, and perhaps most importantly wrote the music for the "pant dropping" scene. Sunday November 13 KIRK AND MAGOO appear at the Brew Pub in Kingston, Ontario. An evening of unpredictable mayhem with a host of guest artists. Kirk plays tunes from his new CD FIDDLER ON THE ROCKS, while Magoo becomes the unpredictable multi instrumentalist who will try to go an entire evening without playing a normal 6 string guitar! 7:30 - 10:30 PM Wednesday November 16 Kirk makes an annual appearance at the University of Toronto's Celtic Studies class, playing fiddle, mandolin, Celtic harp, flutes, vielle (medieval fiddle), bagpipes, cittern and baroque violin. He also brings with him Professor Wilbur Maust's exquisite photographs of the medieval manuscript of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, depictions of musicians from over 500 years ago. Sunday November 20 Kirk appears with Anne Lederman and John Shelman at Hugh's Room in Toronto. Traditional and contemporary fiddle tunes, styles and techniques, with a fully stocked bar nearby to dull the pain! 1:00 - 3:30 PM Saturday December 3 WE SHALL BE RELEASED! Kirk and his partner, Donna Griffith, co-host the release of Donna's "coffee table" book COACH HOUSES OF TORONTO, and Kirk's new fiddle CD FIDDLER ON THE ROCKS. Needless to say, these works of art are THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFTS. Again, a cash bar dulls the pain of your aching pocketbook. Live band of unmanageable proportions. Edward Day Gallery , Queen and Shaw Sts., Toronto. 416 921-6540 8 PM onwards. Wednesday December 21 ENSEMBLE POLARIS is at the Edward Day Gallery (see above) to celebrate the winter solstice. This internationally acclaimed uber-ensemble performs their own arrangements of music from northern countries, including Canada, Scandinavia, Russia, and the Baltic states. Come and adjust your blood sugar (cash bar) as eight fabulous musicians sing and play hurdy gurdy, fiddle, bouzouki, cello, ethnic pipes and flutes, recorders, clarinet, psaltery, dulcimer and all those instruments so beloved in dark cold countries where alcohol and suicide are just a way of life!!! 8 PM onwards