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The Canadian Open Old-Time Fiddling Championship began as a fundraiser for the Rotary Club, with sponsorship from the club and the CBC. [2] It came at a time when fiddle music was popular on the radio and the number of fiddlers in Ontario began to increase.
He continued to compete in fiddle contests and won the Maritime Fiddle Festival Champion Class in 1996, [7] and the Canadian Open Old Time Fiddle Championship in 1993 and 1996. [8] Scott Woods also won the Canadian Grand Masters Fiddling Competition in 1998 and 1999, as well as finished in the top eleven finalists between 1992-2005, including ...
[21] Kusturok won the Canadian Grand Masters three times, the first Western Canadian to win, along with champion titles from the Grand North Americans and Pembroke. While women have won the Canadian Grand Masters championship more often than at the Canadian Open, they are also statistically less likely to make the finals which is a continuing ...
Shane Ken Cook [1] is a Canadian violinist. [2] He is a long-time member of the celtic fusion ensemble Bowfire, [3] and is a past Canadian Grand Master fiddler and U.S. National Fiddle Champion. His musical career has taken him to tour across Canada, the United States, Mexico, Germany, England, China and Taiwan.
This list of notable fiddlers shows some overlap with the list of violinists since the instrument used by fiddlers is the fiddle. ... Canadian: Folk, rock, blues ...
Mari Black is an American multistyle violinist, fiddler, and composer from Boston, Massachusetts.She has won national and international accolades in many styles of music, including being named the 2014 Glenfiddich Fiddle Champion of Scotland, [1] 2013 & 2015 U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion, [2] 2012 & 2014 Maritime Fiddle Festival Champion, [3] 2011 Canadian Open Novelty Fiddle Champion ...
Canadian Junior Fiddle Champion (1985) 3 time Champion at the Pembroke, ON fiddle competition; 6 time Manitoba Fiddle Champion; 3 time Grand North American Champion; Canadian Grand Masters Fiddling Championship in Ottawa, ON (1994, 1995, 1996). Kusturok was the first woman in the history of Canada to win the Canadian Grand Masters Fiddling ...
Canadian fiddle is the aggregate body of tunes, styles and musicians engaging the traditional folk music of Canada on the fiddle. It is an integral extension of the Anglo-Celtic and Québécois French [ 1 ] folk music tradition but has distinct features found only in the Western hemisphere.