Barrie Thornton Fiddle Club
Out & About With Our Fiddle Friends
BTFC musicians play at the Simcoe County Museum,
August 10, 2025
BTFC musicians take a shady break from the midsummer heat at the Family Fun Day, Simcoe Manor, Beeton, June 20, 2025
Dancers, fiddlers and the band kick off the summer fun at the June Jam, June 10, 2025
National Fiddle Day and COPE Service Dog Fundraiser
at Eady Hall, May 17, 2025
Musicians get things rolling for the square and pattern dances along with a little line dancing which took place at the National Fiddle Day and COPE Service Dog Fundraiser at Eady Hall.
Service dogs are a handsome part of the fundraising presentations, with event organizers Ralph and Sandy Price onstage.
A very successful and entertaining event for all!
BTFC members and new friends made the fiddles sing & the music dance at the Fiddling Basics course, January 16, 2025
BTFC fiddlers in the little church at the Simcoe County Museum,
July 21, 2024
National Fiddle Day and COPE Service Dog Fundraiser
at Eady Hall, May 18, 2024
Local and Club musicians keep it going with the dancers on their toes all day long.
National Fiddle Day and COPE fundraiser at Eady Hall, May 18, 2024.
Plenty of supporters on the dance floor for the COPE fundraiser at the National Fiddle Day event at Eady Hall, May 18, 2024.
Who can resist this charmer - he is obviously loving the experience! Eady Hall, May 18, 2024.
See more photos on the COPE service dog facebook page.
Special thanks to event organizers Ralph and Sandy Price.
At last! Getting back to the Dance & Jam after a long wait,
March 14, 2023
A great turnout of happy fiddlers for the first Thornton fiddle jam since February 2020!
March 14, 2023
Behind every great Dance & Fiddle Jam is a group of keen square dancers! And these are
happy to be back out at the Thornton Dance and Jam for the first event since February 2020.
March 14, 2023
Interview with Al Beardsall and Lloyd Preston, longtime musical duo,
by Richard Bullis on “Ramble On With Rich”, September 2022
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Pictured above during the interview, longtime musical duo of vocalist/pianist Al Beardsall (left) and the late fiddler/saxophonist Lloyd Preston, who were well known around the region for their presentation of popular dance and fiddle music. September 2022.
Special thanks to Richard Bullis for the photo and recording.
A little bit of Liberty Two Step at the Angus Library
featuring the Barrie Thornton fiddlers, November 2019
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Garden Tour, Oro-Medonte, 2016
Stepping out at the Dance & Jam
Anniversary party, August 2018
Lunchtime entertainment at the Great Northern Exhibition
Fiddle & Step Dance Contest, Collingwood, September 2018
Fiddle Club float in the Ivy Parade, 2017
Pembroke Fiddle Park jam, 2018
National Fiddling Day, Midhurst, 2015
Thornton Library, July 2017
Duet class, Carden Fiddle Contest, 2015
Fiddling fun on the float at the Pioneer Parade, Bond Head, 2012
International Plowing Match, Ivy, 2014
