Rachel Davis is a Canadian fiddler from

Baddeck Baddeck () is a village in northeastern Nova Scotia, Canada. It is situated in the centre of Cape Breton, approximately 6 km east of where the Baddeck River empties into Bras d'Or Lake. Local governance is provided by the rural municipality ...

on Cape Breton Island,

Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". Most of the population are native Eng ...

, Canada.

Career

Davis has performed with musicians such as

The Cottars The Cottars are a Canadian Celtic musical group from Cape Breton Island formed in 2000. The group's current members are Ciarán MacGillivray, Fiona MacGillivray, Bruce Timmins, and Claire Pettit. History The Cottars were founded in late 2000 wh ...

, Buddy MacDonald, Carmel Mikol and Donnie Campbell. She has been showcased at the

East Coast Music Awards The East Coast Music Association is a non-profit association that hosts an annual awards ceremony based in Atlantic Canada for music appreciation on the East Coast of Canada. Its mission is to develop, advance and celebrate East Coast Canadian mu ...

and performs regularly at the

Celtic Colours Celtic Colours International Festival is a Celtic music festival held annually in October in communities on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. First held in 1997, the festival has featured musicians from the Celtic world and attracted vi ...

Festival. Davis has toured throughout Canada, the United States, Scotland, and Australia. Her eponymous debut CD was released in 2009, at the Celtic Colours Festival. Davis is one of the members of the Celtic Music Group Còig.

Awards

*2020

Canadian Folk Music Awards The Canadian Folk Music Awards are an annual music awards ceremony presenting awards in a variety of categories for achievements in both traditional and contemporary folk music, and other roots music genres, by Canadian musicians. The awards progr ...

, Traditional Singer of the Year *2010 Nominated for

, Young Performer of the Year * 2009 Frank “Big Sampy” Sampson Award, sponsored by the

Festival Volunteer Drive'er Association, and

Lakewind Sound Studios Lakewind Sound Studios is an award winning studio in Canada. Artists to have their work recorded at the studio include, Gordie Sampson with ''Stones'' in 1998, Damhnait Doyle with ''Davnet'' in 2003, The Cottars with '' Made in Cape Breton'' in 20 ...

*2007 Tic Butler Memorial Award

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Davis, Rachel Fiddler Records artists Musicians from Nova Scotia Cape Breton fiddlers People from Baddeck, Nova Scotia Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Canadian violinists and fiddlers Canadian women violinists and fiddlers