Canada ROCKS! (With fiddles)

I've always liked Canada, and I've often thought that they place a higher value on their traditional music than we do in the US -- it certainly gets more spot-light time. I think they demonstrated that pretty conclusively, now. There was an EPIC fiddle and step-dance showcase as part of the opening ceremony for the Vancouver winter Olympics! It's totally awesome.

I'm getting ridiculously excited over it for a number of reasons -- high-profile fiddling, great fiddling, and the fact that I've jammed with one of the main fiddlers, and met/chatted with/sketched two of the others. It's pretty amazing to see trad music take this kind of center stage, and there is a certain glow to "Hey, see that guy in the bizarre blue plaid costume? I stayed up 'til 3 a.m. jamming with that dude!"