Born in Saint John in 1921, Landry rose to fame in the '50s. In 2012, he was still playing his fiddle and entertaining his peers at the veterans home where he lived. "This fiddle, it's my life, I just have to play my fiddle," he told CBC at the time. Ned Landry is still playing his fiddle at the age of 91 2:32Fellow fiddler Ivan Hicks had an immediate connection with Landry when they met in the early '90s. "All of these children had learned how to play the fiddle and played a lot of his music," he said.

Source: CBC News August 26, 2018 13:18 UTC