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 ...

Ryan Keplin & Hicktown take the stage with their original Metis-influenced fiddle music. A group of talented musicians from Belcourt ND, this band performs both original music and popular favorites.

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 ...

SIOUX CITY | Kristian Bugge and Jamie Fox will present “Fiddle Music from the Metis and Nordic Traditions” at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Betty Strong Encounter Center. Admission will be free. A reception ...

Métis fiddler Brianna Lizotte’s JUNO nomination highlights the power of cultural storytelling, community, and the growing recognition of Indigenous artists. There were 67 Indigenous nominees this year ...

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 ...