Don and his wife Cindy are 2018 National Heritage Fellowship Award recipients from the National Endowment For the Arts. Don Roy’s music is deeply rooted in two strains of Franco-American tradition – Québécois (from Canada’s Province of Québec) and Acadian (from the Maritime provinces of Canada) – significant to the heritage of New England’s robust French-Canadian communities. Uncle Lucien (Lou) Mathieu, a well-known fiddler in Franco-American circles, introduced Don to the fiddle when he was 15 and became Don’s musical mentor. Only one year after picking up the fiddle, Don won his first fiddle competition. He has since been named winner of numerous fiddle contests throughout the Northeast and earned three Individual Artist Fellowship Awards from the Maine Arts Commission.
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Don Roy
Downeast / French Canadian Fiddle
