Internationally known fiddlers Ashley MacIsaac and Natalie MacMaster hail from Cape Breton and perform there every year.

FORBES: Eden at a Discount

"We were the only people for many years to employ Mr Acheson on the Fiddlers Ferry project, " he added.

BBC: Anti-blacklist campaigner Steve Acheson's picket pledge

Esther Rantzen, a celebrity candidate running in a seat whose previous incumbent had been among the most egregious expense-fiddlers, won a humiliatingly small number of votes.

ECONOMIST: Election results

Music commentator Miles Hoffman joins Renee Montagne to discuss the two famous fiddlers and how they each set new standards for the art of playing the violin.

NPR: Heifetz and Kreisler: Setting Standards for the Violin

Till then he combined Russian and French art in unique scenes of shtetl life at once realistic and magical, personal and archetypical, with floating brides, upside-down people, fiddlers on roofs and calves in cow's bellies.

ECONOMIST: Marc Chagall

There will be a range of music from Bothy Nichts traditions to the contemporary interpretations of a Karine Polwart or Alasdair Roberts, from Nordic Fiddlers Bloc to Shooglenifty, from the Lowland Pipes of Hamish Moore to the step dance rhythms of Fin Moore.

BBC: New folk festival Tradfest launches in Edinburgh