The Red River Ramblers are a band in the Canadian province of Manitoba that performs Métis fiddle music. The band was founded in 2019 by Métis musician Douglas Richard Sinclair, a citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation.[1]
The band's first record, "Metis Fiddle Music", features banjo renditions of traditional Métis fiddle tunes. The band recorded the entire record live off the floor at Lincoln County Social Club, a recording studio owned by John Dinsmore in Toronto, Ontario.[2] Métis poet Katherena Vermette collaborated with the band to produce a video for Historica Canada, that details the life of Pierre Falcon, a Métis poet and music composer. Sinclair provided the narration for the video, as well as an instrumental arrangement of Pierre Falcon's song La Chanson de la Grenouillère.[3] [4]
Sinclair composed original Métis fiddle compositions and released them on his record titled "Reverie", on January 8, 2023. The band received a Juno Award nomination for Traditional Indigenous Artist of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2024.[5] [6] The band performed at The Honouring Ceremony for the 2024 Juno Awards.[7]