Following the success of their first collaboration disc, Twin Fiddles, which garnered a Western Canadian Music Award nomination, has released a second album.
Gordon Stobbe and JJ Guy, originally of Lintlaw, released their second album titled, Twin Fiddles 2 on June 26.
The music featured on Twin Fiddles 2 continues the collaboration between JJ Guy and Gordon Stobbe, who are fiddlers, fellow travelers and storytellers. The tunes celebrate the music, dance, friendship and landscape across Canada, all the while continuing and expanding the tradition of twin fiddling.
Guy is originally from Lintlaw and is no stranger in the fiddle world. This established artist continues to make waves and inroads all across Canada. His performances, while steeped in tradition, have taken fiddle music to a new and exciting level, said promotional information. Growing up in rural Saskatchewan, surrounded by fiddle music, this tradition is now reflected in his own playing and his passion for the music.
Guy started out by performing at a young age in many shows and dances across Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba with his two sisters in a family band, the information said. This award-winning fiddler competed in and won many fiddling competitions around the prairies including the Saskatchewan Junior and Novice Fiddling championship.
Early in his career he joined the band Highway 49, and freelanced with many other groups. In recent years Guy has played many shows and festivals with the bluegrass and old-time group, Lone Tree Road which has released several albums.
His years of stage experience keeps him in demand and his busy schedule has allowed him to work with some of the biggest names in the fiddle and acoustic music world, it said.
During much of the winter Guy works teaching the fiddle to youth in Manitoba through the Frontier School Division and often can be found giving workshops for The Kole Crook Fiddle Association in the Northwest Territories, it said. He has been featured at festivals, concerts and fiddle camps all across Canada from New Brunswick to British Columbia and all stops in between. This extensive work schedule allows him to meet many fans consequently, this has made him an attraction on the Canadian fiddle circuit.
His fiddle albums, Nothing But Blue Skies (2005), Cadillac (2007), Fiddler (2009), Old Time Dance (2011) and Traveler's Jig (2014) are full of lively traditional and original fiddle music.
All the albums have received airplay across Canada on radio stations that support and play fiddle music, it said. As a result of his hard work and dedication, he was nominated by the Saskatchewan Country Music Awards as fiddler of the year and most recently winner of the People’s Choice Award at the 2013 Canadian Grand Masters, it said. In addition to these achievements, he has been featured in several publications including Prairies North Magazine, The Western Producer, and SaskTel's Max Magazine. Currently, this Canadian artist is the host of Access 7 TV show Fiddling Around.
