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Saskia Tomkins musician

@fiddlersas.bsky.social

Musician🎻, mother, equity-seeking human, from the UK, grateful to live as an immigrant on turtle-island 🐒 (She/her)

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🎻Musicians incl. my pals Kevin Laliberte, Drew Birston and Saskia Tomkins @fiddlersas.bsky.social from Sultans of String, as well as incredible special guests Marito Marques, Rebecca Campbell, a children’s chorus & more!

πŸŽ›οΈProduced by Chris McKhool, Kevin Laliberte, John Bailey

Thanks for watching!

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After our shows in #Collingwood, Saskia Tomkins @fiddlersas.bsky.social and I went to visit the gorgeous Awen' Waterplay Area at Harbourview Park, designed by Duke Redbird, and his son Jay Bell Redbird, with a beautiful tribute to Jay Bell and Indigenous teachings.

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Come say hi

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Sultans of String interview on CHCH News
YouTube video by Sultans of String Sultans of String interview on CHCH News

If you were ever wondering what the heck a #Nyckelharpa is, here is a fun interview I did with Saskia Tomkins @fiddlersas.bsky.social on CHCH TV where she shows it off and we chat about Sunday's Sultans of String - Live at The Westdale - Hamilton Arts Signature Event!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVSo...

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Thank a teacher - you never know how your actions affect someone

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Wanna see something cool?

At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is.

The result? The crowd losing its mind. πŸ”₯

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And what amazing performances from our collaborators, Padideh Ahrarnejad, DonnΓ© Roberts, Leen Hamo, Majd Sukar, Saskia Tomkins @fiddlersas.bsky.social, Alberto M. Suarez, as well as Kevin and Drew from Sultans of String! #MusicSky

Thanks to Anne on sound and Robert Hess for the photos!

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I just found this. Thanks Anne for sharing

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I’ve just found this! πŸ₯°

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My string quartet Medusa are heading stateside on Friday. Hoping to show the US that Canadians are ok, and to spread some joy amongst anxious folkies.
#concert #nyckelharpa

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Our first Ottawa show of the year is this Sunday March 9, at 7pm at Ottawa’s Wintertime Music Festival! β„πŸ˜Šβ„ It's going to be a fun show presented by The Gladstone Theatre and Ottawa Music Industry Coalition. For Tix & more info please visit: tgti.na.ticketsearch.com/sales/salese...
#festival #music

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Chris McKhool from Sultans of String reminding you that the Walking Through The Fire - Visual Album screening is happening at The Burlington Performing Arts Centre on Fri, Mar 7, 7 pm!

@mariannemeedward.bsky.social

πŸ’» Tickets are Pay What You Can: burlingtonpac.ca/events/walki...

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HIGHWAY OF TEARS - Sultans of String feat. JoseΓ© Bourgeois, Don Ross, MJ Dandeneau
YouTube video by Sultans of String HIGHWAY OF TEARS - Sultans of String feat. JoseΓ© Bourgeois, Don Ross, MJ Dandeneau

#NewMusicVideo Here's our collaboration with
@donrossmusic.bsky.social, bassist MJ Dandeneau, and dancer & choreographer, JoseΓ© Bourgeois!

This is β€œHighway of Tears” and concerns the the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVNf...

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Peterborough Symphony Orchestra combines clarinet with string quartet for β€˜Mozart to the Moon’ | kawarthaNOW By Megan Gallant. March 7 chamber concert at All Saints' Anglican Church features the orchestra's principal string players and principal clarinetist.

#Ptbo Symphony Orchestra combines clarinet with string quartet for 'Mozart to the Moon'. March 7 chamber concert at All Saints' Anglican Church features the orchestra's principal string players and principal clarinetist.
kawarthanow.com/2025/03/04/p...

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Pride Toronto loses corporate funding as Trump’s DEI purge has chilling effect Canadian event loses three sponsors who also do business in the US to avoid being seen as supporting LGBTQ+ rights

Pride Toronto loses corporate funding as Trump’s DEI purge has chilling effect www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Reasons to Live Through the Apocalypse

Sunrises. People you have still to meet and laugh with. Songs about love, peace, anger, and revolution. Walks in the woods.
The smile you exchange with a stranger when you experience beauty accidentally together. Butterflies. Seeing your grandparents again. The moon in all her forms, whether half or full. Dogs.
Birthdays and half-birthdays. That feeling of floating in love. Watching birds eat from bird feeders. The waves of happiness that follow the end of sadness. Brown eyes. Watching a boat cross an empty sea. Sunsets. Dipping your feet in the river. Balconies. Cake. The wind in your face when you roll the car window down on an open highway. Falling asleep to the sound of a steady heartbeat. Warm cups of tea on cold days. Hugs. Night skies. Art museums. Books filled with everything you do not yet know.
Long conversations. Long-lost friends. Poetry.

- Nikita Gill

Reasons to Live Through the Apocalypse Sunrises. People you have still to meet and laugh with. Songs about love, peace, anger, and revolution. Walks in the woods. The smile you exchange with a stranger when you experience beauty accidentally together. Butterflies. Seeing your grandparents again. The moon in all her forms, whether half or full. Dogs. Birthdays and half-birthdays. That feeling of floating in love. Watching birds eat from bird feeders. The waves of happiness that follow the end of sadness. Brown eyes. Watching a boat cross an empty sea. Sunsets. Dipping your feet in the river. Balconies. Cake. The wind in your face when you roll the car window down on an open highway. Falling asleep to the sound of a steady heartbeat. Warm cups of tea on cold days. Hugs. Night skies. Art museums. Books filled with everything you do not yet know. Long conversations. Long-lost friends. Poetry. - Nikita Gill

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How Spain’s radically different approach to migration helped its economy soar As immigration has increased, GDP has surged and unemployment has fallen to lowest level since 2008

Spain embraced their migrants & their economy has soared as a result! Their working age population DOUBLED driving the growth! Felon & Elon on the wrong side of the β€˜immigration problem’ of course!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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The aurora right above me

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This feels so relevant right now.

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Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

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This is going to be such a special concert featuring Saskia Tomkins, Padideh Ahrarnejad, Majd Sukkar, Leen Hamo, Donne Robert, Alberto Suarez and more! 🎢❀️

Tix: www.aurora.ca/en/town-squa...

#FamilyDay2025 #ValentinesDayGift #Save20

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I’m playing 3 gigs this weekend. Hibernate Festival in Port Hope, and a special reading of Toronto love letters from WW2, both with fantastic musicians. #livemusic #musician #cultivatefestival #concert

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Thought for the Day…

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Aw hugs my friend. β€οΈβ€πŸ©Ή

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How Sultans of String turned Walking Through the Fire into a visual album Walking Through The Fire-Visual Album is a documentary that has at its genesis a challenge from Dr. Duke Redbird to Sultans Of String co-founder Chris McKhool t

How Sultans of String turned Walking Through the Fire into a visual album

www.rootsmusic.ca/2024/12/21/h...

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