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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Student Krysta Alexon is learning Métis fiddling from instructor Patti Kusturok at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brianna Lizotte is a Métis fiddle player from Alberta whose most recent album was nominated for a Juno award. (Jackie McKay/CBC - ...

The last strains of the master of Métis fiddling’s musical crown jewel have been played out. After nearly a quarter of a century, the John Arcand Fiddle Fest won’t be sprawled out over an acreage ...

“I try to take it back to the Bush Dances they had long ago. They had fiddle playing and they also had singing in Métis or Michif,” he said in a phone interview from his home in Belcourt, North Dakota ...

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 ...

North American Fiddlers' Hall of Fame member Patti Kusturok recently added university instructor to her long list of accomplishments. Kusturok is leading a new Métis fiddling course at the Desautels ...

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