• The Maritime Fiddle Festival is the longest running old-time fiddle contest in Canada. It is also the largest fiddle contest in the region. Occurring annually...
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  • the Heritage Music Festival. It was the second longest-running fiddle competition in the country (behind the Maritime Fiddle Festival in Nova Scotia), although...
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  • 2018-05-14. "Fiddle-duddle". Retrieved 2018-05-14. "A Don Messer fiddle to sing again | CBC News". CBC. Retrieved 2018-05-14. "Maritime Fiddle Festival, Don Messer...
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    2014 Glenfiddich Fiddle Champion of Scotland, 2013 & 2015 U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion, 2012 & 2014 Maritime Fiddle Festival Champion, 2011 Canadian...
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    Explosion, Halifax Maritime Fiddle Festival, Dartmouth Big Music Fest, Belleville and Owen Sound Burlington's Sound of Music Festival, Burlington Canadian...
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  • Music Awards Maritime Fiddle Festival Wikiquote has quotations related to Music of the Maritimes. LeBlanc, Larry (6 June 1998). "Maritimers Show African...
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  • continued to compete in fiddle contests and won the Maritime Fiddle Festival Champion Class in 1996, and the Canadian Open Old Time Fiddle Championship in 1993...
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    (Out Of Print) The Fiddle Album (1991) CBC UG 1003 He has won or been nominated for the following awards: Maritime Fiddle Festival- Best Reel - 1989 East...
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    throughout the year, including the Ice Festival in January, Dart Music Fest in May, the Maritime Fiddle Festival in July, and the Christkindlemarket in...
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  • country exhibitions and square dancing. The Maritime Fiddle Festival, which is the longest running fiddle festival in Canada, has helped to keep the traditional...
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  • Cook won the Championship Class at the Maritime Fiddle Festival in 1997. In 1999, he won the U.S. National Fiddle Championship in Weiser, Idaho, at the...
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  • including the Maritime Fiddle Festival and the Canadian Grand Masters. More recently, he often goes on tour as half of Twin Fiddles, a duo with Saskatchewan...
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    A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical...
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  • pages 299-306. "Heritage Music Festival, "Past Winners"". Sherry Anne Johnson, "Negotiating tradition in Ontario fiddle contests," Ph. D dissertation,...
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    "Maritime Fiddle Festival, Fiddle Winners 10-12". Retrieved 16 November 2023. "Past Canadian Grand Masters Champions"./ "Past Canadian Open Fiddle Contest...
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  • locations promoting local traditional music culture include: Rollo Bay Fiddle Festival which was created to preserve Prince Edward Island's tradition of music...
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    played on acoustic instruments, generally centering on a combination of fiddle (see old time fiddling) and plucked string instruments, most often the banjo...
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  • and noted Wilfred Prosper and Buddy MacMaster as influences. His first fiddle was a hand-me-down from his great grandfather, who reportedly received it...
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    of Edmonton "Northern Alberta Fiddle Project". Virtual Museum of Canadian Traditional Music. "Soundtrack Music Festival". www.soundtrackmusicfestival...
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    the Maritimes. The songs generally draw more from the French tradition, whereas the dance tunes are more closely related to Celtic traditions. Fiddle and...
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    Vines. Koady Chaisson passed away in January 2022. Tim Chaisson (vocals, fiddle), Jake Charron (guitar, synthesizer) Koady Chaisson (banjo, tenor guitar...
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    Celtic music idiom. The more predominant style in Cape Breton Island's fiddle music was brought to North America by Scottish immigrants during the Highland...
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    (ravanhatta, rawanhattha, ravanastron or ravana hasta veena) is a bowed fiddle that was once popular in Western India. It is believed to have originated...
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    French-Canadian (Québécois) and Maritime. Frank Ferrel, author of Boston Fiddle, uses the term Down East fiddle or Boston fiddle to refer to an eclectic blend...
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  • Métis fiddle is the style that the Métis of Canada and Métis in the northern United States have developed to play the violin, solo and in folk ensembles...
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    Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, Daveed Goldman and Nobu Adilman of Choir! Choir! Choir! lead a public...
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  • traditional dances of Quebec and the Canadian Maritime communities of British Isles heritage.[1] The Métis fiddle tune of the same name is not actually a jig...
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    Mystery (1986–) Mystery Machine (1990–2012) Mythos (1995–2018) Naden Band of Maritime Forces Pacific (1940–) Nadja (2003–) Nap Eyes (2007–) (2007–) Nathan (2001–)...
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  • (formerly known as “Seamus O’Flanahan” and “The Best Fiddle in the West”), Accordion and fiddle Conrad Shynkar - “Steve”, Mandolin Andrew Hay - “Squid...
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    arts organization that hosts a multitude of concerts, festivals, and workshops. These include "Fiddle Tunes", blues, jazz, voice, chamber music, and more...
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