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Hi and musical greetings for 2026! We are looking forward to another great year for Strings Across the Sky (SATS).
Since 1987, SATS has been working to revive and sustain fiddle music in indigenous and remote communities throughout Canada. Teaching teams visit primarily in the Arctic, NWT, BC, Alberta and Northern Ontario delivering an innovative, easy and fun teaching method and instruments to the youth. This passion and dedication to restoring a once vibrant tradition of fiddling has continued for three decades. Today, SATS programs are flourishing and expanding with the young fiddle students in Moosonee, Moose Factory and the James Bay region, where fiddle music holds deep historical and cultural ties. It was established there by the Hudson’s Bay fur traders from Scotland in the 1700’s. The success of the work of Strings Across the Sky is also evident by the continuing work of other fiddle teaching organizations; the Kole Crook Fiddle Association http://kolecrookfiddle.org and the Aurora Fiddle Society http://aurorafiddlesociety.ca who attribute their origins to SATS.
“There is 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”... .Encyclopaedia of Native American Music of North America
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