Métis Rhythms

Move those feet faster! Métis jigging and fiddle music is part of the Métis identity. This musical pastime is handed down through generations, and enjoyed today for fun, competition and sharing.

[adrianhuysman]

I am thrilled to see Parks Canada giving this time and space.

[kimkochel]

My neighbor is part Metis. Love the music. Thank you.

[historyhayden]

The Metis always amaze me, I kinda see them as cousins bc im part Blackfoot.

[farnorthpicker]

I could listen to this music all day, and sometimes do😊👍

[pjfountaine]

In the United States, there are many mixed blood Indigenous-Euro people. We are called hillbillies

[triciaannenewbury]

I finally found my people. I'm matis any fellow matis here

[robertkiehn]

Does anyone know the reel starting at 1:48 to 2 minutes? I remember it from my childhood, I’ve heard it played in the maritimes in Acadian traditions but ’ve never been able to find it since.

[bernardturcotte]

The big I don't mean that malice was the intended in this video by Parks Canada....Jean Arcand says that this was the music of the Red River was speaking from his recollections and they are for sure is not accurate is for the Metis Federation and Parks Canada and other political organizations to assert that this music is an exemplar of Metis culture unique to the Metis west of the Ontario is the big is anything but true video was a description of the musical culture that is inherent and typical to all of the communities of Indigenous, half breed, non status, peoples who grew up in the river communities of the great rivers of the St Laurent, the Ottawa, the Gatineau, the Coulonge, the Petawawa and Mattawa highways of the voyageurs to the west and eastern extremities of this great along with our western relatives of Manitoba Sask and Alberta is the real Metis Political Metis bureaucrats have to learn about inclusion and what that means....your Metis world is bigger than the one you are talking limit metis culture to the Red River is a diminishing travesty of our precious universal pan Canadian musical Metis are everywhere in the voyageurs hunted for furs...because not all of those voyageurs wanted to go back to liked the Indigenous communities they experienced and decided to stay voila and Ainsi-soit-il