{"id":4252,"date":"2013-03-13T21:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T01:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/?page_id=4252"},"modified":"2025-06-02T11:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:30:18","slug":"fiddle-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/fiddle-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiddle Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Fiddle Studies\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>From the parlours of the Maritimes to the outports of Newfoundland, from the communities of the Northern Cree and M\u00e9tis peoples to the logging camps of Qu\u00e9bec and Ontario, fiddling has been a central thread in the fabric of Canadian musical culture for centuries. Carleton University continues its tradition of academic and musical innovation in announcing the first post-secondary Fiddle Studies program in Canada. Located at the crossroads of Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, Ottawa Valley, Irish, and Scottish fiddle traditions and with a reputation as a leading centre for studies in Canadian music, Carleton is ideally situated to offer such a program and will draw upon the experience of some the finest practitioners in the country including Denis Lanct\u00f4t and April Verch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Denis Lanct\u00f4t<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.denislanctot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.denislanctot.com<\/a>)<br>\nDenis Lanct\u00f4t is a \u201cfiddler\u2019s fiddler\u201d. Born in Qu\u00e9bec and residing in Ottawa, Denis is a highly accomplished self-taught musician and instructor who is equally at home as a fiddler or accompanist. Denis\u2019 style draws upon influences from Qu\u00e9bec (significantly, the legendary \u201cTi\u201d Jean Carignan whom he knew and played with), Ireland (Sean McGuire), and Scotland (James Scott Skinner). In his youth Denis was highly successful in the competition circuit with over 100 awards. Denis has had the honour of performing as an ambassador of French Canadian fiddling at two World\u2019s Fairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>April Verch<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/aprilverch.com\" target=\"_blank\">aprilverch.com<\/a>)<br>\nBorn in the Ottawa Valley town of Pembroke, April Verch is among the most successful and accomplished fiddlers in Canada with over 400 fiddling and step-dancing prizes. Drawing upon a wide range of fiddling traditions April has been recording and touring the world with her band since 1998. She is also an accomplished clinician and the author of <em>Originals by April Verch <\/em>(2004) and more recently (with Brian Wiklund) <em> The American Fiddle Method: Canadian Styles<\/em> (2008).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the parlours of the Maritimes to the outports of Newfoundland, from the communities of the Northern Cree and M\u00e9tis peoples to the logging camps of Qu\u00e9bec and Ontario, fiddling has been a central thread in the fabric of Canadian musical culture for centuries. Carleton University continues its tradition of academic and musical innovation in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[54],"class_list":["post-4252","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","cu_page_type-general"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5476,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4252\/revisions\/5476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}