Athabaskan Fiddling Festival

What do Alaskans do when the weather is numbingly cold and the nights are long?  There's a limit to how many times you can play Monopoly or watch your favourite movie or play cards or play games online.  After a couple of weeks of that, it's time to come up with something that brings people together, that's lots of fun, that gets the blood flowing (in addition to doing Tai Chi, of course) and gives folk an outlet for their talents.  The Athabaskans have the perfect solution.  When the days are nearing their shortest and the winter temperatures have set in, they hold a Fiddling Festival in Fairbanks and they really let their hair down - young and old, very young and the young at heart.

It's an important date in the Cultural Calendar of Fairbanks.