Mariposa In The Schools Arts Programming
Fingers will be flying, bows will be blazing, and toes will be tapping as
fiddlers Anne Lederman and Alicia Blore bring a unique fiddle program to
Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory during First Nations Public Library Week 2009.
Anne Lederman, one of Canada’s first researchers of aboriginal
fiddling, is the coordinator of the Métis Youth/Elder Fiddler Legacy Project.
The project brings Canada’s few remaining Aboriginal elder fiddle players
together with young aboriginal fiddlers to preserve Canada’s aboriginal fiddling
legacy.
Fifteen-year-old Alicia Blore is one of the project’s talented
young aboriginal fiddlers. She has been studying the fiddle for six years and is
learning the traditional repertoires. Her great grandfather, Philip Zastre was a
well-known Métis fiddler.
As guests of Kanhiote Tyendinaga Territory Public Library,
Lederman and Blore will perform, lend support to dance workshops, and headline a
social dance evening on Friday, February 13, as follows:
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Morning Quinte Mohawk School – Performance for Students
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Afternoon Quinte Mohawk School –Social Dance Workshop for
Students
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7:00 p.m. Tyendinaga Territory Community Centre 1807 York
Road, Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory – Community Social Dance
Caller Bill Russell and musician Tom Leighton will join Lederman
and Blore for the afternoon workshops and evening social.
This unique fiddle event, made possible by generous funding from
the Canadian Race Relations Foundation’s Initiatives Against Racism Program, is
available to the Kanhiote Tyendinaga Public Library though Next Wave, a cultural
and arts learning exchange initiative developed by Mariposa In The Schools in
consultation with Southern Ontario Library Service.
The Next Wave initiative brings together native and non-native
performing artists, school children, and families to learn about each others’
music and stories, and to connect literacy and the performing arts. In January
2008, expressing its appreciation of MITS’ contribution to promoting the profile
of First Nation public libraries in their communities, the First Nations public
library community presented MITS with its Friends of Ontario’s First Nation
Public Libraries Honour Program Friendship Feather.
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