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After an extended time jamming with one another at various folk festivals and fiddle camps, fiddler Lydia Garrison from the Trumansberg, NY-based Turtle Island Wish and banjoist Leonard Podolak and guitarist Jordan McConnell, both from the Winnipeg-based Duhks, finally joined forces within a side task called TurtleDuhks in 2007. TurtleDuhks …

After Leonard Podolak’s band Scruj MacDuhk split up, the Appalachian-style clawhammer banjoist decided that gave him an ideal possibility to start another group, one which would fuse eclectic modern sounds with traditional origins. In 2002, alongside lead vocalist Jessica Havey (who brought blues affects with her), fiddler Tania Elizabeth (who …