EMILY DUBOIS
Emily Dubois is a 3-time Canadian Grandmaster competitor fiddler hailing from small-town, Saskatchewan. Her affection for the fiddle started early; regularly attending fiddle camps like the Kenosee Lake Kitchen Party, and this community of fiddle camps nurtured Emily’s passion for collaboration, performance, and her own evolution to mentoring and teaching young fiddlers. Emily spent five years out in Victoria, BC, learning from great musicians like Ivonne Hernandez and Daniel Lapp, and took those practices and brought them back to the prairies where she opened up her own school of fiddling music, the Flatland Fiddling Studio. She is committed to her own role in the rich tradition of Canadian fiddling, and is beyond excited to be back in the SK fiddling scene and do her part to sustain it!
Since her move back home, Emily has been motivated and inspired to tour and perform her own music. Last Fall, she came out to PEI to record her own compositions, and is thrilled to share her debut EP “Sounds Like Home” for the first time this Summer! This album features well-known and award-winning artists Tom Gammons, Ray Knorr, and Tuli Porcher, who together with Emily create unique arrangements of her tunes that beg the audience to immerse themselves in the tales and stories that are spun within them. To properly bring these arrangements to life on stage, Emily is joined here at Small Halls by the duo Gammons & Knorr, composed of PEI’s very own Tom Gammons and Ray Knorr, who are featured in the entirety of the album.
Although living across the country from each other, these musicians find a familiar sense of home in the music they create together.
