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Anne’s latest release, Fiddlesong, is both a bold new undertaking and, in some ways, the perfect culmination of what we might expect from a musician long known as a champion of Canadian traditions, old and new. Though few know her as composer and songwriter, Fiddlesong may change all that. Fiddlesong is full of tapestries inspired by the Celtic and French music we have come to think of as Canadian fiddling, as well as by African, Middle Eastern and other immigrant traditions. But this is no pastiche of djembes and fiddles. It is a truly new music where fiddle brings its voice to world sensibilities as much as the other way around – a truly Canadian world music. The recording features Fiddlesong bandmates and a host of special guests, including African musicians Kwazi Dunjo and Njacko Backo, accordion master Sasha Luminski and Colleen Allen on soprano sax.