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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brianna Lizotte is a Métis fiddle player from Alberta whose most recent album was nominated for a Juno award. (Jackie McKay/CBC - ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Student Krysta Alexon is learning Métis fiddling from instructor Patti Kusturok at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg.

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 ...

An incident that happened approximately 25 years ago is the focus of Michif writer Wilfred Burton’s latest children’s book ...

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

This story is part of Resonate: Songs of Resilience in recognition of National Indigenous History Month and National Indigenous Peoples Day. CBC Indigenous with CBC Unreserved celebrates communities ...

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 ...

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 ...