Welcome
Hello, Aanii! Musical greetings for 2024. We are excited for 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 indigenous communities across Canada, SATS helps rekindle and sustain the once thriving cultural and social tradition of fiddle music.
Today, Strings Across the Sky lives on in the legacies of the Aurora Fiddle Society, the Kole Crook Fiddle Association, and many indigenous communities in the far north and throughout Canada.
Events & Activities 2024
- Fundraiser- Irish Ceili & Old Tyme Dance
Saturday, November 23rd, 7 to 10pm
The Sound Community Hub, 86 Gibson, Parry Sound - Summer Fiddle Camp, July 14 thru 20th at the Parry Sound Friendship Centre https://www.facebook.com/share/p/Ykk2DA32PVidJwwV/?mibextid=Nif5oz
Youth ages 7 to 14 - Fiddle Camp Concert, Stockey Centre as part of Festival of the Sound, July 20th, 2024 @ 11 am
- Weekly Youth Fiddle Circle Sessions,
Sunday 1 til 4:30pm, Parry Sound Friendship Centre - School Teaching Visits
Sagamok Biidaaban Kinoomaagegamik & Nawash Kikendaasogamig
“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.
The many resulting friendships from SATS programs nurture cross cultural bridges 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 Aurora Fiddle Society “owes its origins to the
Strings Across the Sky program. The program 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.”
