Richard Wood

Among Prince Edward Island’s best fiddlers and stepdancers, Richard Hardwood has won many competitions, like the Don Messer Memorial Trophy (for top level maritime fiddler), which he won twice. In 1998, he was called Best Instrumental Musician and Best Root base/Traditional Artist on the East Coastline Music Honours in Halifax. A critic for the Shetland Situations claimed that Hardwood was “the very best, or more specifically, the most engaging fiddler I’ve ever noticed,” as the Scotsman announced that he was a “bow-shredding fiddling feeling.” Furthermore to his very own thriving career being a soloist, Hardwood provides added his distinct fiddling to a number of outside tasks. He performed using the Nova Scotia Symphony in Halifax and documented with Rita MacNeil and Close friends. His many performances with country-pop vocalist Shania Twain possess included performances over the Late Display with David Letterman and HELLO America. Wood’s most publicized efficiency arrived when he was selected to accompany Canadian Primary Minister Jean Chrétien and a Group Canada trade delegation to Japan. Furthermore to carrying out for the emperor, prince, and excellent minister of Japan, he performed a display for an viewers greater than 1,000 Asian promoters and skill buyers. A publication with 60 of Wood’s unique compositions, The Richard Real wood Collection, Vol. 1, was released in 1999.