Taeven Lopatecki

Taeven Lopatecki is a fiddle player and multi instrumentalist from S,DÁYES (Pender Island). She fell in love with the fiddle and began playing at age six, and Jam Camp has been part of her life for nearly as long. She has performed and travelled as part of the Pender Young Violins, the BC Fiddle Orchestra, her parent’s band Pondside, and as a duo with her sibling, Cedar. She is currently completing a Diploma in Music Performance at the Victoria Conservatory of Music and Camosun College, studying fiddle with Daniel Lapp. Taeven has also taken up clawhammer banjo, guitar and voice. Her playing and songwriting is inspired by a love of folk, old time, and blues, and the fiddle traditions of Turtle Island, Ireland, and Scandinavia. She loves to jam and collaborate, finding joy in sharing the resonances of love, activism, hardship, and the ageless beauty of storytelling. 

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