Bake the Bread from William Ekomiac - Devon's Tune of the Week 67

My dad and I are teaching workshops and leading a session at Virtual Lark 2026! It's free and online, sign up here, we're teaching Friday February 20 to Sunday, February 22: https://www.virtuallark.org/ Here's a great new tune we'll be teaching from a wonderful fiddler we just discovered, William Ekomiac. He was an Inuit fiddler who lived his whole life in Québec. I think he was born in the Southwestern part of Nunavik and migrated with his family following Inuit food pathways to Fort George, Québec, now Chisasibi, where he was recorded by CBC in the 70s:    • William Ekomiac - Fiddler From Fort George...   I think he passed away in 2024, but he was beloved in Canada's Baha'i community, being the first Inuit to convert to the faith. He was a spiritual and philosophical man who brought traditional Inuit beliefs and medicine to his Baha'i faith. I love this quote from him: "Where I come from in northern Quebec, Canada, our land is full of blackberries, which ducks and geese feed on, get plump, then head south. Up here you can actually see how the Creator works." Here's an incredible oral history of the Ekomiak's centered on his sister Sarah who played the accordion: https://oceanflynn.wordpress.com/hono... I can't quite figure out where his fiddle tunes come from. They sound part Québécois, part James Bay Cree (he could speak Cree as well as Inuktitut and English), part Inuit, and part Scottish, which were the worlds he lived in. His father and his grandfather were all fiddlers, so I'd imagine he inherited a wealth of Inuit tunes from them. He was a wonderful fiddler though, and most of the tunes on his only album are worth learning, like this one, "Bake the Bread." Now that I've completed my Tune of the Day journey, I'm moving back to Tune of the Week (and also Song of the Week)! Subscribe to my Patreon to support this work and you can get access to fiddle videos, sheet music, fiddle lessons, source recordings, and more resources for over 400 videos!   / devonlegertunes