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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cochrane will come together tomorrow (September 30) to honour survivors, remember those lost, and reflect on the legacy of residential schools. A gathering runs from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at The ...
The well-known father-and-son duo of George and Lee Mandeville, of Yellowknife, have released three CDs of traditional Metis fiddle music during their musical career together.
When Brianna Lizotte was growing up, she would watch home movies recorded by her grandfather of 1970s kitchen parties. In them, she'd see family members playing the fiddle and guitar and dancing to ...