Andrea Bettger

Andrea Bettger has experience playing classical, jazz and bluegrass styles, and experiments in the electric world of sounds on her instrument. She has become heavily involved in the Northern-fiddling scene. The fusion of these approaches results in an exciting blend of toe-tapping material, complemented with meditative and heart-warming melodies.
She has performed and recorded with countless artists including The Rheostatics and the Jerry Cans and has opened the stage for Jimmy Rankin and Buffy St. Marie. Her musical efforts won her the honour of “Citizen of the Year” in 2007, and she represented the North as a fiddler at “NorthernScene” at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa in 2013. Andrea was an artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 2016 and 2019 and toured as the fiddler for the Jerry Cans in the summer of 2017. She performed at Yellowknife’s Folk on the Rocks in the summer of 2018 and 2021 and the release of her first all-original album got her a nomination for Instrumental Solo Artist of the Year by the Canadian Folk Music Awards in November of 2018. Her band performed at the CFMA Awards Ceremony. Her single “Yellow Snow” was nominated as Single of the Year by the CFMA in 2021. Her second album, “Bush Chords”, was released in 2020. Her latest single, “Thin Ice”, is released along with a music video with the same name.