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2009 Sherbrooke Now Fiddle Camp
Instructor Bios
 Shane Cook - Shane Cook managed to do what no other Canadian has done - win the prestigious U.S. National Fiddle Championship. Shane is a master of an array of fiddle styles and is one of Canada’s most highly awarded old-time fiddlers. Among his awards are the US Grand National Fiddle Champion, 3-time Canadian Open National Fiddle Champion, 3-time Canadian Grand Masters Fiddle Champion and Grand North American Fiddle Champion “Shane Cook rates at the top of the short list of the finest fiddlers in the world today." -Canadian Fiddlers Hall of Fame In 1999, Official Website
Ivan and Vivian Hicks - Vivian and Ivan Hicks are well known for their contribution to the preservation and promotion of old-time fiddling throughout North America. Many albums and hundreds of concerts have made Vivian and Ivan a very popular duo in the entertainment scene. Ivan and Vivian have made an outstanding contribution to the Canadian music scene. Many awards and honours have come to them including induction into the New Brunswick Country Music Hall of Fame (Ivan & Vivian) and the North American Fiddlers Hall of Fame (Ivan). Ivan and Vivian Hicks have always demanded and achieved a high standard of excellence in their performances and related musical activities.
Official Website
Kimberley Holmes has been playing the piano since the age of five, achieving her Royal Conservatory Grade VII and the fiddle since 1985. She has been a house accompanist on piano for both the Maritime Fiddle Festival (Dartmouth, N.S.) and the Downeast Old-Time Fiddle Contest for many years. She has worked with such artists as Graham and Eleanor Townsend, Richard Wood, Calvin Vollrath, Gordon Stobbe, Winnie Chafe, Alisdair Fraser, and April Verch among others, and has appeared on a long list of recordings by such artists as Richard Wood, Jocelyn Bourque, Sherryl Fitzpatrick, Peter Dawson, Ray Legere, J.P. Cormier, and Tara Lynne Tousenard.
 Skip Holmes has been playing the guitar, banjo, and fiddle for many years. He is currently a member of the Gordon Stobbe Trio and has collaborated with Gordon in a number of musical projects including the Up Home Tonight Show, Those Fabulous Clichés and several recording projects. Skip recorded and toured Canada and Britain with fiddler Richard Wood. He teaches at the Canadian Conservatory, and is in demand as an accompanist for Maritime fiddlers at concerts, dances, contests and recordings.
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