How a cherry tree inspired fiddler Scott Woods’ latest show
BRANSON MO NEWS: A cherry tree made a huge difference for Scott Woods’ family, and it’s the inspiration behind the latest show his band is bringing to Kamloops.
“Our theme Fiddling Up a Storm is not so literal about rain and wind and stuff like that as it is the storms of life. Some of the toughest storms to weather are those of the heart,” Woods said.
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Every year the Scott Woods Band produces a new show and album filled with new music and a new theme under the umbrella of their classic brand of old time fiddle and country music.
A narrative set to music is played every year and this year’s show features a poem Woods’ grandmother wrote about the night his grandfather nearly died during Hurricane Hazel.
On Oct. 15, 1954, Woods’ grandfather, who had been working in Toronto, was driving home when his vehicle was washed off a bridge and into the Humber River.
Had it not been for a small cherry tree, his grandfather would have surely perished that night, and while Woods would still have been born — his mother was 14 at the time — it would have changed all their lives forever.
“It [the tree] was only about six inches in diameter and it was enough for his car to rest against so he could crawl out the window and up this tree and he held onto that tree for six hours in the middle of the Humber River,” Woods told KTW.
Woods’ grandfather was finally rescued at about 3 a.m. and was lucky to be alive, as three other people who were washed off the bridge died.
Woods said the point of the story in the show is less about the storm and his grandfather’s survival and more the randomness of …
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