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2026 INSTRUCTORS:
ANITA MAMELA – FIDDLE
Anita says she has been playing fiddle most of her life. She has competed in the Canadian Grand Masters’ Fiddle Competition, and has won awards in many of the BC Old Time Fiddle Championships over the years. Anita is a seasoned performer, and she has spent the last 32 years promoting music through her teaching, both privately and in the school system. She has brought students to national venues such as MusicFest Canada and they have twice won the prestigious Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) grant for their school.
ADAM JOHNSON – FIDDLE
While growing up in Quesnel Adam played the fiddle since he was four, and soon became involved with the BC Old Time Fiddler’s Association. By the time he was six, Johnson was competing and earned awards, including first place at the BC Provincial Fiddle Championships in 2015, 12th place at the Canadian Nationals in 2015 and fourth place at the Grand North American Championships in 2016. He competed in August 2025 in the Canadian Grand Masters Competition. He plays with a country-bluegrass band featuring dynamic rhythms and fiddle melodies – The Milltown Philosophers – who have received an official nomination for May’s B.C. Country Music Awards. As the band’s fiddle player, Adam was also nominated for the Mike Norman All-Star Band – Fiddle/Mandolin award. “His deep roots in Canadian Old Time, Celtic, Métis and Western Swing have been instrumental in shaping the Milltown Philosophers’ sound,” the band said in a news release. Hear some of Adam’s backup in the band’s single ‘Devil of a Time’ which reached number eight on on the Canadian Indie Country Countdown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMR_VqOB1OA
HUNTER GROSSE-PEAREN – FIDDLE
Hunter is currently completing the first half of his nursing degree, and has been playing violin for over 14 years. Over that time, he’s developed a strong love for improvisation and cultivating a personal style, which he’s brought to various competitions and music camps.
He’s taught lessons for several years and enjoys collaborative sessions where they all explore ideas together and draw out each student’s creativity. More recently, he’s been fiddling with a country band called ’The Unbranded’, where he said he’s gained experience playing across different styles and improvising solos that keep the dance hall lively.
Hunter believes music is about expression and connection. He hopes to share that with his students and audience in the same way he invites you to share your own musical voice.
ROXI DYKSTRA – FIDDLE
Born and raised in Northern BC, fiddler, violist and educator Roxi Dykstra brings decades of professional experience. From her earliest childhood days of fiddle contests and touring to play with the Calgary Fiddlers, Roxi loves sharing her passion for fiddle and folk music. She moved to PG in 2004 to teach fiddle at the PG Conservatory, and founded the PG-based fiddle group Nechako Fiddlers, which served a generation of PG fiddle players. Since, Roxi plays regularly for dances and can often be found inventing twin fiddle harmony parts in jams or in the dance band. In addition to home-grown music, Roxi has travelled extensively and makes a habit of learning and sharing the traditional music from the places she goes.
Roxi believes that music is about community, and has been able to share her passion for this as a teacher, group lessons coach, director, and camp instructor, and adjudicator. She is passionate about arranging music for ensembles of varying playing levels and loves to arrange fiddle music for ensembles.
Roxi’s other life as a classical violist has earned masters and doctoral degrees in performance and arranging. Her work as a classical performer has taken her performing in Europe and beyond. She is co-founder and director of the Orchestra North Summer Program, founder of Festival North, and director of a northern professional development program, the Orchestra North Academy.
These days, Roxi is once again based in Smithers where she is a mentor with the Valley Youth Fiddlers and has a small private teaching studio. She maintains a professional life in Vancouver with a position in the Vancouver Opera Orchestra, and is active in Prince George as the director of Orchestra North Summer Program, Festival North, and as Artistic Director of the Prince George Symphony Youth Orchestra.
CLINTON PELLETIER – GUITAR
Clint began to play at the age of eleven under the guidance of his dad, Freddie Pelletier, who soon noticed that only three months after he had started, his speed and dexterity were phenomenal. A short time later he and Freddie produced a “Beginner Guitar” instruction video that was released independently and continues to sell well. They also recorded an album of guitar instrumental standards in 1999 appropriately entitled, “Like Father, Like Son”.
In 1998 Clint traveled to Toronto to represent the superior guitar line, Fury Guitars at a guitar show and is now endorsed by them. He also snagged an endorsement with Elixir Strings, also a superior product.
Clint spent his high school years playing in a variety of local events and bands as well with his family group “The Pelletiers,” before enrolling in the music program at Grant McEwan College in Edmonton, Alberta in 2000. After college Clint played guitar for Rounder Records fiddle and step-dance sensation, April Verch, and then moved on to perform with the famed world music fiddle group, “Barrage”. He toured extensively throughout Canada and the United States with both acts, gaining valuable experience in music and theater. After a time he chose to quit touring in order to continue his rigorous practice schedule. Clint continues to study music independently and has an admirable dedication to continue to improve.
At home now in Burns Lake, BC, his hectic pace continues as he has become a sought-after free-lance guitarist, playing a variety of styles from jazz, rock and flamenco to country and bluegrass. He also is a popular instructor at various guitar and fiddle camps in Western Canada. Clint continues to study music independently and has an admirable dedication to continue to improve. We are thrilled to have Clint join our Jamboree Instructor team this year!