If you want to learn to play the fiddle, the Aurora Fiddle Society may be a good place to start.

The programs they offer start from beginners and, over the course of years, help students gain mastery over the instrument.

Andrea Bettger, fiddling director and teacher, performed with a number of students and teachers at Somba KSA国际影视传媒檈 Park on June 19.

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One of the students, Logan Doll, had been taking classical violin lessons since he was five years old in Edmonton. Shortly after his family moved to Yellowknife in 2020, he enrolled.

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The main takeaway for Doll was meeting Daniel Gervais, a grandmaster fiddler from Edmonton who was invited to visit Yellowknife by the Aurora Fiddle Society to make music with the students. Together they wrote the song SA国际影视传媒淭he Terror,SA国际影视传媒� named after Sir John FranklinSA国际影视传媒檚 lost expedition. He commented it was one of his favourite songs to play.

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Alice Twa, a fiddle teacher, started playing in Grade 4 and learned the instrument from Bettger. She recounted her history as a fiddler.

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The following year, she entered into the fiddle societySA国际影视传媒檚 program for youth outside of school hours and also participated in workshops on the weekends.

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She didnSA国际影视传媒檛 remember the precise details of when she eventually became a teacher but she said that private fiddle lessons were difficult SA国际影视传媒� if not impossible SA国际影视传媒� to find when she was learning. At some point, she decided that she had learned enough and became part of the solution. She took on one or two beginner students initially and eventually expanded the number of students to nine.

Twa has since left Yellowknife to attend university to study history and journalism, but she plans to come back and continue teaching fiddle.

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