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Compliment:  I liked how you connected the song not only to the land but to Dennis grandmother herself and highlighting that there was no supper store no fruit stand just the wilderness to gather food

Comment: I thought that it was cool you expressed nature though your fiddle and used pizzicato to show the grand mother hiking up and down the mountains for food.

Question: If you had more time would you add a high track on top or keep it the way it is

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Compliment: I really like how you used pizzicato to bring a new texture to your piece as well as the contrast between the short, perky pizz texture and the longer groove and heavier melody parts. I really liked the overall mood that the multiple tracks in your piece came together to create.

Comment:The way you composed your piece directly based on the story Dennis told of his grandmother paints a strong picture of what is happening throughout.

Question:Do you think that using the different timbre and registers of other instruments would be able to add even more to the story of your piece?

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Tune Title: Foraging for Food

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Connecting Culture Through Composition: Noé Kwan Teau

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Compliment: You were able to convey the contrasting feelings and situations you were going for in your piece very well. I liked how you changed the weight of your playing to do this. I enjoyed listening to your piece a lot. The variety in it kept it quite engaging.

Comment: The residential schools is a difficult subject to write a piece on. You were able to use music to bring awareness to that part of history in a very moving way.

Question: Is there anything that jumps out at you, listening back to your recording now, that you would like to do differently?

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Compliment:  I like how you conveyed the feeling of the tune, I knew when I should feel sad and when I should feel happy.

Comment:  I think the tune could  have an other track, something over the melody like a harmony or a drone just to add more feeling into the tune. (Keitha's note to Noé: Owen-had thought of this as well and his garage band recording had three different parts, but I had suggested recording with just piano, so his other parts weren't reflected in the video)

Question: what inspired you to write  about residential schools, this is such a difficult theme to write about. You conveyed the feeling in this composition.

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Tune Title: Through the Hills

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Connecting Culture Through Composition- Owen Krikorian

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Compliment:  I really love the high fiddle part that represents the sky, every notes harmonizes perfectly in the pieces and it really intrigues me into the tune.  I also like how you could convey being in Nature, whenever I hear the tune  I really feel like I’m in the middle of a vast forest surrounded by trees

Comment: this is a great tune and I think fiddleheads would love to learn this, maybe adding more parts or easy part for younger fiddlers to learn, I would love to play this with my brother

Question:  how do you think of your melody cause when I white tunes I usually have a hard time figuring out a main melody

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Compliment: I like how you conveyed the vastness of the nature with silence and sounds from your fiddle

Comment: I think it was cool how you made the person in the song feel small compared to the nature around them and that helped express how small us humans really are.

Question:What inspired you to add the cello in the song and how did you come up with the cello track?

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Tune Title: Being Home

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Connecting Culture Through Composition- Jack Walcher- Wegmann

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Kaska Artist Dennis Shorty shares the story behind his song, Gucho Hin

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Gucho Hin (Ancestor's Song)- Dennis Shorty