I was thinking in my next life I will come back as a Metis fiddle player. I have been hearing them on you tube..a great young girl called Sonia?? Serena? Starts with an S.

How come they are so great? It sounds like fiddling should sound to me. I think I am mostly oriented to French Canadian style of fiddle playing, mixed iwth eastern Canada. Irish often sounds too delicate to me..I like the foot stomping..literally.

Anyway, there is obviously a connection between French Canadian and Irish..I assumed it was just an ordinary one of travel and hearing stuff and changing it a bit. But I was reading some potato famine stuff and no I will not call it anything but that and they said there was a huge amount of intermarriage between the Irish famine immigrants and the French Canadians and a huge amount of adoption of orphans..who might have been too young to play the fiddle but who knows it all worked out. Has anyone else heard this? mg