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The Rideau Ramblers

Traditional Celtic Music and Song

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Upcoming Concerts

See us Live!

NAC 4th Stage, Dec 18, 2024, 7:30 pm

Centrepointe, Mar 20, 2025, 2 pm

Shenkman Centre, Mar 19, 2025, 2 pm

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The Rideau Ramblers

Celtic music and song from Ireland, Scotland and beyond

Individually the members of the Rideau Ramblers have been fixtures of the Celtic music scene in Ottawa for the past two decades. They have been active as session musicians, performers, organizers, and instrument makers. They have now pooled their considerable talents to bring a mixture of Celtic styles and influences that is uniquely Ottawa in its roots.

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Meet the Ramblers

Fiddle, Viola

Dennis Alexander

Dennis started his musical career at a young age, playing mandolin in the family band in Pontiac Co. Québec and has been involved with traditional and old time music for many years as a fiddle player. He is the reigning 2023 Old Time Fiddle Champion, Senior Division in the Ottawa and Pembroke Fiddle Contests and was inducted into the Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann Music Hall of fame in 2005. Dennis is well known throughout North America and beyond as a violin maker. He is a former member of VSA Violin Society of America and WMAAI Violin Makers  Association of Arizona International. He has won numerous awards and medals  for his violins, and in 2007, was awarded Grand Champion Status by the VMAAI in Tucson Arizona. He has released four popular albums of fiddle music; "Fiddlemaker Series - Volumes 1, 2 and 3” and "Tunes of Choice"

Contact

Ottawa, ON, Canada

ellen@laughingbrook.ca

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