Paddies on the Tundra is a lively dance band. Inuit call it Inuktitut dance music.
Paddies sound byte.
A Bit of the North Paddies on the Tundra regularly play for Inuit parties and other northern events in Ottawa, where their music brings a bit of home to Inuit living far from the north. They performed at Qaggiq, the Inuit cultural festival held at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and at the 1996 and 1997 Ottawa Folk Festivals. In the nineteenth century whalers from Scotland and Ireland brought Celtic music to the arctic. The whalers' music became part of Inuit culture and the tunes passed down through the generations. Inuit musicians still play them.