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 ...

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 ...

At the Metis Celebration and Powwow, people meet family members they never knew they had. The annual gathering held in Lewistown draws Metis from Montana, Canada and elsewhere and is a celebration of ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Carrie Gonzalez (Presenter); Dylan Gaudry (fiddle, drum, MÈtis Nation, St. Laurent, Manitoba); Ryan Gaudry (drums, fiddle, MÈtis Nation, St. Laurent, Manitoba ...

The fiddle club at St. Michael Community School is helping students learn more about the important roles Metis music, culture and traditions play in Saskatoon and Saskatchewan. At the club, students ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Gaudry Boys—brothers Dylan, Ryan, and Zachary Gaudry (Métis)—first played music together as children over twenty years ago. As their skills ...