Connecting Elders through song and dance – Anishinabek News

December 9, 2025

THUNDER BAY — A group of Elders enjoyed the fiddle music of Darren Lavallee at the Anishinabek Employment and Training Services (AETS) Elders Dinner and Square Dance on Dec. 1 at Delta Hotels Thunder Bay. Lavallee and the Country Junction band, who are from Winnipeg, performed for the Elders during the gathering.

“I really enjoy dancing to that music, they’re awesome,” says Biigtigong Nishnaabeg’s Beatrice Twance-Hynes. “It just makes me think back to our younger days — we’re really having a good time, it’s just awesome.”

Gerald Hynes says there was a lot of excitement when they were dancing.

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