Welcome
Musical greetings for 2025. After 38 years, we are looking forward to another great year for Strings Across the Sky (SATS).
Since 1987, a generation of children have benefited from the music education provided by SATS, combining the best of music, tradition and community spirit. With a focus on rekindling a once vibrant musical Canadian fiddling heritage in indigenous and rural communities across Canada, the legacy and work of Strings Across the Sky thrives through the Aurora Fiddle Society, the Kole Crook Fiddle Association, and many other teaching programs.
“Reconciliation in Action”
Learning and playing music together fosters opportunities for both indigenous and non-indigenous children to build respectful, lasting relationships with one another.
Promoting healing and wellness through the “medicine of music” SATS programs nurture cross cultural relationships and supports the Truth and Reconciliation Report’s 94 Calls to Action.
Learn more About Us.
Encyclopaedia of Native American Music of North America “There is also a lively indigenous fiddling tradition in the Arctic region. The active fiddling tradition in northern Canada today has benefited greatly from the Strings Across the Sky (SATS) program. This began in 1988 after violinist Andrea Hansen noted the response of young persons to the performances of the Toronto Symphony on their 1987 tour”... .
The 2025 Aurora Fiddle Society in Yellowknife credits its origins to the Strings Across the Sky program. ” SATS was founded in 1987 in Inuvik by Andrea Hansen of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Hansen had identified an interest and aptitude for fiddling in the North and worked tirelessly to provide youth with the opportunity to learn to play the fiddle. Throughout the communities, many people volunteered countless hours through workshops and performances to revive the history of fiddling. Twenty years later, the Yellowknife chapter of “Strings Across the Sky” decided to develop a Yellowknife-centric fiddling organization and opted for independence.”
2025 Activity
- Youth Fiddle Circles
Sunday 1 til 4:30pm, Parry Sound Friendship Centre - Community Teaching Visits
Moosonee Public School
Sagamok Biidaaban Kinoomaagegamik
Nawash Kikendaasogamig
