Storied career of Donny Parenteau garners Sask. Order of Merit

For Donny Parenteau, there wasn’t much of a learning curve when he first picked up the fiddle. Beginners typically take around six months to get the basics down. A young Parenteau, in high school, was getting the hang of things in the first evening.

“I could play half a fiddle tune that was in my head after one night,” said Parenteau.

The next day, after perplexing his parents with his sudden knack for fiddling, he went to his high school music teacher in Prince Albert to show him his newfound talent.

“He said, ‘you have a gift. Now here’s the second half of that tune’. Within a day and half, I was playing a tune.”