Finding “the carrying stream”: Locating and Defining “Traditional” Irish/Scottish Music in Saskatchewan through Autoethnography and Community Connections

Through an autoethnographic methodology, this project seeks to locate and define traditional Irish and Scottish music in Saskatchewan by making meaningful connections with trad musicians in the province and investigating their relationships to and definitions of “traditional” Irish/Scottish music on the prairies, particularly in the context of local musicians’ own trad compositions. Examining the “authenticity” of such compositions illuminates trad music’s life outside of Ireland and Scotland.