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Erin Gifford

Erin Gifford is a travel writer based in Virginia. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Afar, USA Today, Travel + Leisure, Outside and National Geographic.

For more than four decades, the Athabascan Fiddle Festival has filled community halls in Fairbanks with a sound that is both global and distinctly Native.

How Old-Time Fiddle Music Took Root in Indigenous Alaska

In Fairbanks, fiddling thrives—bridging cultures, sustaining traditions and filling the dance floor with life