Medicine Fiddle

Fiddlers and dancers from Native and Metis families of the northern United States and Canada carry on the musical tradtions passed down from early settlers. The film weaves tunes, dance, and oral history together to reveal an older and broader vision of America.

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Travel & Events

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• medicine
• Fiddle
• Dance
• tradition
• Native
• Americans
• Early
• Settlers
• Reservations
• Michigan
• folkstreams
• folkstreamer

[3lackdog]

Who care's about his posture. Gad! What are you, the classical violin police? There is more than one way to play the FIDDLE.

[wikygirl316]

the man playing the fiddle in this clip is my grandfather......he was the best in my eyes....miss him soo soo much

[rainharper62]

@wikygirl316 where was this at?? zane bell is my cousin-ty

[rainharper62]

mmigwech! for posting this!

[TheSare10]

My Uncles and Grandfather and Cousins are in this film, some have passed since. I just wanted to watch the full documentary, but it's no where to be found!!!

[DebanGeo]

Luv it! My grandpa is in this :)

[MsWiiMii]

there is a fiddle in the middle and the middle with the fiddle .....

[penner264]

i bet this woman is german

[wikygirl316]

hey pete.....my name is linda and im the graddaughter of coleman trudeu....if you are serious about this write me back....then i can talk this over with his wife clara.....

[heybulldog13]

the trees can and do talk, you just have to be open to listen..im apache and if you listen to the wind and the storms and the rocks around you, one might be very suprized at they hear..its not all good..

[Hrimpurstala]

I highly recommend this resource:

OLD NATIVE AND METIS

FIDDLING IN WESTERN MANITOBA

Falcon Productions

[whoopiemudra]

Wonderful video. I live in Hessel. I play mandolin and am starting fiddle. I want to learn some tunes just the way Coleman played them. Any of the family playing? May I visit you, or buy a lesson? I can turn your Coleman tapes into CD with very good software to take out the noise. At your place- leave you with some CDs, and sign a contract that all the rights are yours and I will never make money off it, Please email me at my site birchbarquemusic(dot)com --Thanks! ---- Pete Goehring