Video:Otis Thomas and Cape Breton Fiddle Music

[P Josey]

CBC's Land and Sea featuring fiddle maker Otis Tomas
http://www.cbc.ca/landandsea/2011/12/cape-breton-fiddles.html

[Jim Ferguson]

I grew up in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia & spent some quality time in Cape Breton as a child & youth.........I grew up listening to a lot of this marvelous music.......thanks for posting.
Peace,
Jim

[Eric Charles]

Thanks for the link...a wonderful culture.

[George R. Lane]

The correct spelling of his last name is Tomas.
Here is his website
http://www.fiddletree.com/

[Bernie Daniel]

And if you are looking for recorded Cape Breton fiddle music Paul Cranford's (http://www.cranfordpub.com/)Lighthouse business is the place to go for it. His CD is great too -- lots of great cuts on it.

[Jake Wildwood]

I thought he seemed familiar. I've played a mandolin and octave mandolin of his owned by Claudine Langille of Gypsy Reel. Fantastically beautiful instruments with a warm, sweet and woody tone -- great for Celtic -- and certainly entirely unlike anything Gibsonian -- more like an ultra-warm Weymann flavor.

[usqebach]

I've got a fiddle made by Otis. It's a lifetime keeper! I use it as my cross-tuner for old time music, but it can handle anything.