Shane Cook and the Woodchippers For many years, the St. Clair River -- and the Canadian border in general -- has been a permeable border for fiddle music. Fiddlers like…
Johnny Durocher was a fiddler of aboriginal Canadian descent from Sarnia, Ontario. Years ago I (Trae McMaken) had the honor of crossing the river from my home into Sarnia and…
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Trae McMaken Clare and Aileen Nichols (Leaders of Nick and His Cornhuskers) with their son, Wayne. One example of a public dance band in Michigan was the Thumb band Nick…
Lois Bettesworth Biography Lois Bettesworth was inducted into the Michigan Fiddlers Association Hall of Fame at the North Central Regional Fiddlers Convention in Hillsdale Michigan, August 2011. I (Trae…
Check out the article about Trae McMaken and Patrick Bonner on the MSU Museum Great Folks blog: http://gr8tfolks.blogspot.com/2014/09/a-tale-of-two-michigan-fiddlers.html