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The Fiddlers of James Bay (1980), by Bob Rogers, is a short documentary tracing the history of the fiddle's arrival in Canada 300 years ago via Scottish traders from the Orkney Islands. The Cree population of what is now Northern Québec adopted the instrument, and many contemporary Cree residents are master fiddlers. In this film, two Cree fiddlers travel to the Orkney Islands, the birthplace of the music they learned from their fathers and grandfathers, to take part in concerts alongside Orcadian musicians. The film captures the warmth and goodwill of this reunion.
In Scots in the Sub-Arctic, Frances Wilkins show more recent ethnographic field videography from her research among Cree fiddlers in the James Bay region between 2011 and 2014. The film illustrates the fiddle tradition as it is now through portraits of musicians.
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- Elphinstone Institute
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- MacRobert Building
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