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Hello and musical greetings for 2026! We are looking forward to another great year for Strings Across the Sky (SATS).
In 1987, SATS began the work of reviving and sustaining fiddle music in dozens of Canadian indigenous and remote communities in the Arctic, NWT, BC, Alberta and Northern Ontario by developing and delivering an innovative, fun teaching method and instruments to the youth. This dedication to restoring a once vibrant tradition of fiddling continues today. 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 brought there from Scotland by the Hudson’s Bay fur traders in the 1700’s. The success of the work of Strings Across the Sky is also reflected by the continuing work of other fiddle teaching organizations; the Kole Crook Fiddle Association (BC) and the Aurora Fiddle Society (Yellowknife) who attribute their origins to SATS.
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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”... .
