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SASKATOON Growing up in Lintlaw, fiddler JJ Guy never thought he would make enough noise to grab the attention of people in New York. On Thursday Guy was inducted into the North American Fiddlers Hall of Fame (HOF) and Museum in Redfield, New York. It was a shock for sure, said Guy. It s very humbling and very, very prestigious. Every year the HOF inducts one fiddler from the state of New York and one from the rest of North America. I hardly feel old enough to be in the Hall of Fame. I feel like I have a big career left in front of me. ....
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And, while the COVID-19 pandemic threw some bumps in the road, Guy has kept on giving concerts, albeit online, and recording. The new album Twin Fiddles has Guy teaming with Gordon Stobbe, the two managing to get the album out through the pandemic. So, how was it creating an album during a COVID pandemic? Well Guy explains that the recording was actually done just before things shutdown. The album Twin Fiddles 5” was recorded in December of 2019, pre-Covid with intentions to release in the summer of 2020, but with everything cancelled tours, workshops, music camps it made little sense to release the project then, he told Yorkton This Week. ....