Athabascan Fiddle Festival

[Keren Rice]

And in parts of the NWT


On 25-Nov-10, at 2:10 PM, Andrea L. Berez wrote:

> Fiddling as Athabascan popular culture went even further down the  
> Yukon too, at least as far as Anvik and Shageluk (Deg Xinag  
> territory). Whether it made it all the way to the sea, I do not know.
>
> Andrea
> -----------------------------
> Andrea L. Berez
> PhD candidate, Dept. of Linguistics
> University of California, Santa Barbara
> http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~aberez/
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:47 AM, James Crippen <jcrippen at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> I forgot to mention that the Athabascan Fiddle Festival happened a
> couple of weeks ago in Fairbanks.
>
> http://newsminer.com/view/full_story/10388278/article-Fiddle-Festival-celebrated-in-Fairbanks?
>
> Athabascan fiddling seems to have arisen from miners, trappers, and
> other white immigrants in the late 19th century. They travelled and
> settled in the Yukon and Alaska, bringing their music along with them.
> Athabaskans in the region (Gwichʼin, Hän, Upper Tanana, etc.)  
> adopted
> the fiddling traditions and made them their own.
>
> Cheers,
> James
>

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