One of Canada’s best-known fiddle teachers has said of Winnipeg’s Patti Kusturok: “When it comes to old-time fiddling in Canada, Patti’s the ‘Boss.’” Indeed, Patti is a lauded master of Canadian ...

No one was more surprised than I was when I started work on a novel and it came out in the form of a crooked Métis fiddle tune. I always thought I’d been born without the music, that this ancestral ...

Sounds of jigs, reels and quadrilles will fill Lewistown next weekend when the 20th annual Metis Celebration and Powwow brings Metis to town to acknowledge their unique culture, with Native American ...

More than 50 years ago, near the start of his musical career, a young John Arcand won a fiddle championship at Back to Batoche Days. Throughout his career, Arcand worked hard to keep Métis fiddle ...

The fiddle club at St. Michael Community School is helping students learn more about the important roles Metis music, culture and traditions play in Saskatoon and Saskatchewan. At the club, students ...

Richard Lafferty, an iconic Métis fiddler, passed away in Yellowknife at the age of 76. (Submitted by Pat Braden - image credit) Métis fiddler Richard Lafferty, one of the N.W.T's most prolific ...

The fiddle accompanied Lewis & Clark across the West. Fur trappers danced to it. Fiddle music followed the Métís as they sought a safe place south of the border, and they shared it with the Blackfeet.

This article was published 15/06/2015 (3740 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. Twin brothers from Transcona are about to drop their first record — and they’re only 11 years old.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Gaudry Boys—brothers Dylan, Ryan, and Zachary Gaudry (Métis)—first played music together as children over twenty years ago. As their skills ...