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the four piece band Wheel Hoss upon returning to
Edmonton, Alberta. In 1988, he began teaching at the Emma Lake Fiddle Camp and has since taught at various fiddle camps in Canada and the United States, as well as given fiddle workshops at various performance levels throughout Canada, the United States, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Great Britain, as well as online through his personal website. He started his own recording studio while in Edmonton, and named it Astromonical Studios upon moving to St. Paul, Alberta in 1998. He also plays acoustic guitar and bass as well as backup fiddle for various projects through his studio.
206:, who was raised near Barrhead, Alberta. His father's family included five brothers who played fiddle. His father developed his own reputation as a great fiddler in the Edmonton area and passed on the family tradition to Calvin. When Calvin was young, he used to mimic his father with two butter knives. Calvin was raised on the
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Clearwater Band playing swing, jazz and country music, honing his abilities as a backup fiddler. In 1983 he joined Edmonton country singer Danny Hooper and his band moved on to join the Jess Lee Band in 1988 and moved to Vancouver in the process. He later performed with
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Ross, Andrea (10 September 2013). "Fiddler's Roost moving on".
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in Berlin in 2000. He became the first fiddler to play at an
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Red River Jig & Other Old Time Fiddle Favorites (1983)
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155:invited him to play during the
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384:Calvin Vollrath Waltzes (2002)
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