VFS Blog

Victoria Fiddle Society logo floats over top of a get together with music.

Cape Breton Comes to Victoria (Mairi Rankin, Wendy MacIsaac and Mac Morin)

ByMike Osborne

Monday, November 7th, Here’s something that doesn’t happen every day: three of Cape Breton’s most respected musicians – Wendy MacIsaac, Mairi Rankin and Mac Morin – will team up for a rare intimate performance together in Victoria at Imagine Studio Cafe (31 Erie Street).

Victoria Fiddle Society logo floats over top of a get together with music.

Fiddle Workshops with Geoff and Trish Horrocks

ByMike Osborne

Beginner / Intermediate Workshop (Noon to 1:30 pm) Come out for a fun afternoon of fiddling with Geoff and Trish Horrocks! In this class, you will learn some standard jam-session tunes along with “groove” and harmony lines suitable for all skill levels. We’ll also work on some basic technique, and give you some ideas to help…

Victoria Fiddle Society logo floats over top of a get together with music.

Qristina & Quinn Bachand “LITTLE HINGES” Pre-Release Concert

ByMike Osborne

Saturday January 3rd, doors at 7:00 pm, concert at 7:30 pm, Oak Bay United Church. “Little Hinges” takes Qristina & Quinn into a new musical direction, one that is less traditional and more indie / alternative / folk / roots oriented. The album’s title gets its name from the saying “big doors swing on little hinges”.

Concert – De Temps Antan

Concert – De Temps Antan

ByMike Osborne

They are only three, yet they sound like six! With Ce monde ici-bas, De Temps Antan propels folk to a whole new level. Éric Beaudry, André Brunet and Pierre-Luc Dupuis – Quebec’s most powerful trad trio – switch between a variety of instrumental combinations from violin, guitar, bouzouki, accordion, and harmonica to vigorous foot-stomping percussion….