KIM BURTON-SCHRAM
LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER
St. Anthony’s Church in Apple Hill celebrated its tenth annual Fiddle Mass with a large group of attendees who enjoyed both the Sunday mass celebrated by Father Steven Gaudet and Deacon John Kennedy, and the accompanying fiddle music provided by the Glengarry Massed Fiddlers.
The Mass is celebrated on the fourth Sunday in October and was the inspiration of Frederick Leroux, a parishioner at St. Anthony’s Church and an Apple Hill resident. Leroux is a self-taught guitar and fiddle player who has promoted Celtic music for over 70 years in Glengarry. He thought the Mass would be an opportunity to uphold and share the traditional sounds of the fiddles even further. In his retirement, Leroux learned to be a luthier, building and repairing violins and guitars, and was inducted into the Glengarry Celtic Music Hall of Fame in 2015.
The Glengarry Massed Fiddlers is an all-ages group that volunteers to perform at church services, the Glengarry Highland Games, social gatherings and other events to entertain and encourage a love of toe-tapping fiddle music in everyone. Some members are from the MacLeod Fiddlers, while others were part of the Glengarry Old Time Fiddlers who entertained people for over 45 years.
Fiddle music and Glengarry seem synonymous and there is nothing better than hearing a big group of fiddlers fill the air with Celtic music. Sixteen-year-old Abbey MacLeod has been playing for over ten years and is part of both the Glengarry Massed Fiddlers and the MacLeod Fiddlers. Abbey says being a member of these groups is just like being part of a fiddle family – with the fiddle and Celtic music as the beating heart.
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