{"id":72947,"date":"2021-12-13T08:30:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T13:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=72947"},"modified":"2021-12-13T15:19:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T20:19:13","slug":"valley-youth-fiddlers-celebrate-25-years-of-music-in-the-bulkley-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/valley-youth-fiddlers-celebrate-25-years-of-music-in-the-bulkley-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Valley Youth Fiddlers celebrate 25 years of music in the Bulkley Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Valley Youth Fiddlers began performing as a group in 1997 in the Bulkley Valley and the music is going strong nearly 25 years later.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This group from northern British Columbia features fiddlers who play with their friends and family as backup on instruments, from accordion to drums. Members range in age from 6-60 and with diverse levels of skills, they create a sense of community among the valley\u2019s musicians. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The group\u2019s influences and tunes range from French to Scandinavian to African and they also feature a lot of Canadian songs, naturally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But just because it\u2019s a community group, don\u2019t think for a second they\u2019re lacking in professionalism or polish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s the director of the Valley Youth Fiddlers, Leslie-Jean MacMillan, speaking with CICK about the history of the group and the lessons learned from COVID-19:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Valley Youth Fiddlers began performing as a group in 1997 in the Bulkley Valley and the music is going strong nearly 25 years later.\u00a0 This group from northern British Columbia features fiddlers who play with their friends and family as backup on instruments, from accordion to drums. Members range in age from 6-60 and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":72951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,218,219],"tags":[3683,11247,11245,4797,11246,11244],"radio":[245],"origine":[280,263,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72947"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=72947"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=72947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}