Life on the road for musicians is hard enough. Doing it without actual roads makes it tougher still. As a teenager at a residential school in Yellowknife in the early 1960s, Métis fiddler Richard ...
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 ...
Métis fiddler Richard Lafferty, one of the N.W.T's most prolific musicians who performed for Queen Elizabeth and before sold out crowds at Expo 86, passed away on Dec. 21. Lafferty's story begins in ...