Fiddlesong

Canada

Anne Lederman: Fiddler, singer, composer and storyteller, Anne is strongly rooted in several Canadian traditions and has long been known as a musical ambassador for her country’s heritage. In the early 1980s, she and longtime partner Ian Bell researched and recorded “Scatter the Ashes: Music of Old Ontario” helping to revive many earlier song and instrumental traditions from their home province. Anne went on to document the Metis fiddle traditions (mixed aboriginal and European) of her childhood home, Manitoba, in a groundbreaking 4-volume set. She has worked extensively with Celtic-based and Eastern European traditions in Canada, including French Canadian, Cape Breton and Newfoundland music as well as Klezmer and Macedonian. Both Anne and Ian also compose songs and tunes about historical and current events. Anne has recently written a play about Metis fiddling, called “Spirit of the Narrows” which premiered to rave reviews last summer and will be remounted in August 2005.

Anne Lederman - violin, mandolin, vocal
Ian Bell - guitar, mandolin, button accordion, harmonica

• Anne Lederman: +1 416 538 90 36 anne.lederman@sympatico.ca