How's this young fella doing??  https://www.facebook.com/528345879/videos/pcb.10159270587415880/145328008605423 

[Fwiw, his rendition of Florida Blues is one of my wife's favourites.]

Edit: ^^ not to be confused with "... one of my wives ... etc."   

He’s doing jest fine, Owen,,, maybe in a yr or 2 he’ll pick up the tempo a bit,,, (but don’t tell that to an of your wives). Then again,, maybe he likes at tha tempo. 

Tempo any better on this one??  https://www.facebook.com/528345879/videos/pcb.10159270587415880/877423713991105

regarding Florida Blues -that tempo works good for my taste when listening to that type of blues but to each their own-I have Arthur Smith playing it
-the metis guy gets a barrel full of tone--and it seems slightly related to cajun--maybe because of the french connection--but it is easier for me to comprehend than some cajun,that has that signature resolve

I always think of the 2 Florida fiddlers when I hear Florida blues - Chubby Wise and Vassar Clements
Calvin is a force, brother! He and his group played at our local BG Fstvl last July and they were super. He’s got 2 young champion fiddlers with him on guitar but when they all fiddle together it’s fantastic.

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Tempo any better on this one??  https://www.facebook.com/528345879/videos/pcb.10159270587415880/877423713991105

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Better is a relative term,, fer eech toon one must endeavor to play it where it shines the best

Here's a great album by Andy Dejarlis, my favorite Métis fiddler.

He made roughly 35 LPs for London Records of Canada.

youtube.com/watch?v=NasYpCa7T2...F2Evo36oh

Andrew's link led me to this one--a wonderful new to me free collection--thanks
youtube.com/@goldenagemedia207/playlists

I like that link --that fiddling is clean and to the point -with great taste--

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Andrew's link led me to this one--a wonderful new to me free collection--thanks
youtube.com/@goldenagemedia207/playlists

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Thanks for the trip down memory lane Tom.  As a kid, we didn't splurge on many extras (?) but we did have a record player and some 78s and LPs.  A quick once over of your link produced several of my Mom's favourites ... Don Messer, King Ganam, Andy DeJarlis, Ward Allan, Ned Landry, Graham Townsend.  We probably had recordings of half 'em.  

Some of her extended family "down east" [i.e. Ontario] apparently won local/regional fiddling contests and I don't know whether I'm dreaming it up or not, but somehow I think there may have been some tenuous (?) link to Graham Townsend.

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Here's a great album by Andy Dejarlis, my favorite Métis fiddler.

He made roughly 35 LPs for London Records of Canada.

youtube.com/watch?v=NasYpCa7T2...F2Evo36oh

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Thank you, Andrew. I used to see Andy on the Don Messer Show on Canadian TV

I know there are many regional "styles," but dunno where this fits.  The young lady used to be a regular at the MOBS campouts... but then she went off to university.

More ribald music ,, love the fiddle coming in. French-Canadian,, LeBlanc being a common name in New Brunswick ,,, as were the Whites - Roland, Clarence, and Eric.
fb.watch/v_x9fpHFnV/?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V

Just a hop, skip and a jump from West Of Medicine Hat. Fwiw, a couple of these names ring a bell. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10163208265885985&set=pcb.10163208272120985  [Use < and > to bring up other pics.... iffin that doesn't work the guy who posted to Facebook is Drew Borgwardt.]

Friday night continued with Calvin Vollrath’s 2025 North American Fiddle Convention and his Collaborations’ Album Release Concert at the Wyndham Edmolnton Hotel and Conference Center.

Calvin featured 24 of the best fiddle players and artists from around North America during the concert.

The second half of the concert included April Verch, Dennis Michael Harrington, Tyler Vollrath, Pati Kustoruk, Mike Sanyshyn, Brian Hebert, Redd Volkaert, Alfie & Byron Myhre, Daniel Lapp, Jeremy Rusu and Louis Schryer.

The event continues today and tomorrow with workshops and concerts throughout the afternoon and evening.

Additional photos will be posted on our Alberta Country Music Archives photo gallery shortly,

I’ve heard April, Alfie & Byron, and Louis. Good to see fiddling being still relevant in Canadian culture.

Blue Mountain Two Step

Mystery solved! Danish fiddler Dwight Lamb, called this tune only by "That Good Tune in A." (I didn't check the key) 

Great stuff! Thanks all!

At the first Ralph Stanley Bluegrass festival, I stayed up until about 5 am listening to Kenny Baker jamming with a Canadian fiddler. With the addition of the Milky Way overhead, it's one of my most memorable musical experiences.

More pics and videos from the NAFC in Edmonton.  This from Patti Kusturok >> Facebook >> BHO: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10164093534695656&set=pcb.10164093575645656

From Patti Kusturok’s FB ,,, and a sample of her fiddling prowess.
youtu.be/HhMPbi3Vj_k?si=s85bzy2oSHf_6NvT

Does Patti think that only slaves should play the banjo?

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Does Patti think that only slaves should play the banjo?

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I don't think it's a racial thing but a style of playing unique to the Métis people. I think we'd have to be involved in that Métis fiddling community to "get" what she means.  But then again, I'm not from the south but I play a lot of North and South Carolina-style banjo. Hmmm....

Well, I don't know exactly who she's talking about [maybe Bluffy??], but so long as there's no attempt to pull the wool, I don't see "cultural appropriation."   And furthermore and moreover, like I mentioned somewhere before: Is a F.N. person wearing a cowboy hat/boots an example of cultural appropriation?   

PK lauds Graham Townsend. Wiki tells me "... [he] absorbed the Irish, French and Scottish fiddle music of the Ottawa Valley that would later mold him ...  ."  Where does the appropriation start/end??   [Nobody asked, but I think we'd all be better off if a person's parentage/ancestry didn't matter a fiddler's ****.   I know Metis are "officially" indigenous, but IMNSHumbleO that's a bit of a stretch.]

On one of the fly-ins I was asked to be on the judges panel for BIg John McNeil / Big John McNeil / Big John McNeil / Big... etc., etc., etc.  I graciously (?!?!?) declined .... not out of concern for being accused of culturally appropriating something, rather because I didn't know anything about jigging.* [And it would never do to have Patti, "call me out."   ].  

* One of the guys I thought was pretty good, jigged in his green rubber bush-pac boots, but incorporated his arms and upper body in a way that others didn't.... and in the 3 or so contests we saw, he never got any prize [i.e. $$].  Iffin I'd been judging it could have led to me being banned by chief and council ... I doubt it would have extended to him, but ya never know.**   

** a couple of fairly common expressions:  Nothing's "normal up here," and "It's a whole different world up here."  

I have messaged Patti for more clarification and included a link to this thread. Maybe she’ll have time to respond.

Patti kindly responded… (I did notice she had lacked out the name of the original poster.

Well, I’ll take my foot out of my mouth now,, I didn’t catch the rest of it earlier. Here’s Patti’s remarks added to that post... err, or as Mrs. Lindsay, my long-suffering high school English teacher, would sternly recommend, "Charles, it should be "Here are Patti's remarks...".