Metis music is syncopated, or played off the beat, so the music sounds a "bounce," making it ideal for dance, according to LRI. "It's lively, mostly jig music," said LaFountain.

Patti Kusturok showed early interest in music, so her father, an amateur fiddler, got her a violin. She says, “All I ever wanted to do was learn how to fiddle,” and by age six she was.

The Metis fiddle is a style of fiddle-playing developed by the Metis people of North America, after the instrument was introduced by Scottish and French-Canadian traders in the 1800s, ...

Metis fiddle music is lively, with syncopated rhythms, fancy bow-work and foot tapping that accompanies the tune. A kids rodeo kicks off Saturday morning at 9.

Debut author of ‘A Grandmother Begins the Story’ says: ‘I approach writing with the same crookedness that my ancestors brought to their music’ ...

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 ...

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 ...