Fiddles on the Rideau Festival

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Donations & Sponsorships – with your support, we can continue to grow and provide this important cultural event for our community. If you would like to donate to the Fiddles on the Rideau Festival, please visit our Community Donations page or our Corporate Sponsorship page.

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Interested in joining our Flotilla? – We want to hear from you! 
Do you own a pontoon boat and would like to host fiddlers for the Sunday afternoon of our 2024 Festival? Please fill out our online volunteer form.
Are you a fiddler that would like to participate in Fiddles on the Rideau? Please fill out our online flotilla participant form. 
All musicians and pontoon boat owners must pre-register for the event.  Waiver forms for pontoon owners and musicians will be sent out in advance by email.

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Supporting Mental Health in the Ottawa Region
It is part of our mandate to be a fundraising initiative to bring awareness and support to mental health.  This is the fourth year for the FOTR event but the first year for the Youth of Manotick Association (YOMA). To date, FOTR has raised close to $15,000 for mental health organizations in Ottawa.  The Youth of Manotick Association is dedicated to providing a safe, inclusive and socially accepting environment to help support local and area youth build positive relationships, to experience new opportunities and to connect them to their community. Youth with serious additions to drugs and alcohol, mental health, isolation and boredom were also highlighted as issues affecting rural youth. Rural youth did not have a safe place to gather nor a means of accessing these resources.

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