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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...