Tag: Featured
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A friend recently asked me whether the North Country—northern New York State, where I grew up—has its own distinctive fiddle style. My immediate answer was: No—at least, not in the way Cape Breton or Quebecois styles are recognized as distinct musical dialects. Even if I don’t have the authority to declare that definitively, the conclusion still holds…
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Since Jeremy moved to the North Country from Winnipeg in 2019, we’ve found ourselves playing more and more with Don Woodcock. A couple of years ago, he invited us to join him for a set at the North American Fiddlers Hall of Fame picnic in Osceola. We started rehearsing for that show at our house and we…
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I have two favourite violins—both 19th-century Bohemian instruments—and each found its way to me in an unexpected way. The first came from a violin shop in Ottawa in 2019. We were staying in Gatineau for a week while the kids attended summer camps, and I spent my days happily fiddling in the little house we’d…
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When the pandemic hit, Jeremy’s work as a full-time musician came to a sudden stop. Like many performers, his gigs disappeared overnight. While he continued to do remote recording work from the studio in our attic—something he regularly does for musicians across Canada—there was a moment of collective uncertainty. People weren’t ready to move forward with projects.…