June Eikhard

Fiddler June Eikhard began her music profession with her hubby, bassist Cecil Eikhard, in the ’50s. These were both element of a small-time music group known as the Tantramar Ramblers. June Eikhard takes on several instruments, nonetheless it was her amazing skill using the fiddle that positioned her in the limelight at displays. It didn’t consider a long time before she was focusing on her personal. In 1959, she released her debut recording, Canada’s First Woman from the Fiddle. That same yr, she became the first woman to ever put in place championship course in Shelburne, Ontario’s Canadian Aged Time Fiddler’s Competition. June Eikhard was created in the wintertime of 1932 in Moncton, New Brunswick. Her name in the past was Marguerite Cameron. Actually before she was older enough to start out school, she had been playing the piano. Music was a big element of her youth. Her grandfather performed the violin therefore it seemed organic that as a teenager she grab the violin aswell. Later she learned the steel electric guitar, the bass, the accordion, and various other instruments. A number of the music fans can test on her behalf albums consist of “Rodeo Reel,” “Perry’s Polka,” “Rose Waltz,” “Westmorland Nation Hornpipe,” and “Highland Jig.”