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The Donegal Fiddlers Orchestra formed in 2002 when a group of area musicians decided to fulfill a desire to form a fiddle orchestra to play oldtime fiddle music, including Irish Jigs, Scottish reels and Celtic tunes from Ontario and Cape Breton. Over time, the fiddlers have added vocalists and developed a repertoire that now includes the entire spectrum of music from big band dance music and country, to set pattern dance music. The orchestra offers a unique take on the In addition to its regular monthly dance at the Norwood Town Hall, the group performs at church halls, community dances, diners’ clubs, agricultural fairs (including the International Plowing Match in 2006) and dinners, summer festivals and service club fundraisers such as the Frankford Fiddlers on the Trent for the World Food Grain Bank. They have performed twice at the Sir Sanford Fleming College Foundation Gala, Peterborough Campus. The group has recorded two CDs to date. The Donegal Fiddlers Orchestra enjoys travelling to venues a little farther afield, as well. For the past four years or so, they have performed fundraising concerts in Bridgenorth and in Amherstview, near Kingston. In 2006, they performed at a fundraising dance in a community near Sherbrooke, Quebec. In the summer of 2007, about 12 of their members made a 17-day East Coast tour that included concerts and ceilidhs in Quebec, P.E.I. and Nova Scotia, from the southern shore at Yarmouth right up to the tip of Cape Breton Island on the Cabot Trail. |
traditional old-time community hall fiddle band. The approximately 25-member group comes from far and wide including Courtice, Baltimore, Warkworth, Peterborough, Norwood, Campbellford, Stirling, Marmora, Lakefield, Bridgenorth and Havelock. Copyright 2008 Cobourg |
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