In 1994, Bill Miller took a small crew of fiddlers in his handmade, wooden canoes down a section of the Tobique River from his family's historic shop in Nictau, New Brunswick. So delighted were he and the fiddlers at the harmonious combination of river, fiddle, and canoe that the group decided to meet again the next year. Dubbed em Fiddles on the Tobique /em , the low key event grew in numbers, peaking in years where canoe's would number in the thousands and dozens of fiddle's would echo through the valley for a celebration of music and joy. After 25 years and as many events, Bill Miller beams at the mention of his days when his small hamlet of ten people would swell into the thousands and his log cabin over flowed with laughter and music. When asked, year after year, Miller would insist "This was the best Fiddles on the Tobique ever."
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00:00Sound of rushing water.
00:07Sound of birds chirping.
00:26Laughter.
00:32Well, Nektar only has a population of ten people, and this is the busiest that Nektar will be all the rest of the whole year.
00:39There's nothing else can top Fiddle Sonatovic.
00:42Music.
00:55Put this bolt down, and it'll work.
00:58Pretty close.
01:04You have to tie it around the cord.
01:06Oh, yeah.
01:15Music.
01:44Music.
02:13Music.
02:34A little bit of charcoal never hurt anybody anyway.
02:37Whitens teeth, apparently.
02:39I don't believe it. I tried it.
03:09Music.
03:38Music.
03:45Applause.
03:47Okay, that was my two tunes.
03:49One more.
03:52Laughter.
03:55Applause.
04:00Bravo.