Originally from Manitoba, Anne Lederman is a fiddler, singer, composer storyteller who performs solo, with Lederman/Bell, with Njacko Backo, and with fiddle-based group, Portage. Also a founding member of Muddy York, The Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band and Fiddlesong, she is especially known for her work with Indigenous fiddle traditions (recording elders, youth mentorship and international performances and workshops). Anne also composes and performs for theatre (Barndance Live!, The Outdoor Donnellys, Spirit Horse and her own play, Spirit of the Narrows), has released five CDs and performed on over fifty with other artists. Her latest is Old Man’s Table, devoted to the Indigenous fiddle music of Manitoba. She has several solo music/storytelling shows: Stick Tales: Life in Tradiitonal Canadian Music, Hardanger 2:5: A Celtic Fiddlers’s Journey into the World of Norwegian Hardanger, and Talamh an Eisc: Irish Music in Canada.