Jaime RT hails from the Kootenay’s where she began her performing career at 12-years-old with family band “The Huscroft Family Fiddlers”. She took her love of music and created a career after university with teaching, establishing the Salt Spring Fiddle Workshop that draws fiddle lovers from all over the globe to the founding of Fiddleworks, a teaching series of music books and CDs.

Jaime RT is an innovative and spunky violist who is putting the sound of West Coast Folk on the map. Her debut album "Reach" was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award and her original writing is winning composing accolades. Her music has been featured on CBC's Vinyl Cafe and radio stations around the globe. Jaime and Andy Hillhouse have recorded a stunning new album "Spark" on the Dog My Cat Record label which will be released this fall; the album features the expansive original music of RT and Hillhouse, and the unique sound of the Jaime's 5 string viola (fiddola). Jaime and Andy will be touring across the Canadian landscape and heading to Europe this year. RT can also be found touring from sea to sea playing fiddola and keys with Canadian folk legend James Keelaghan.

Performing with numerous players over the years such as Kettle of Fish, Song of the Isles and The Billy Goats Gruff, Jaime has honed her dynamic live performance and has established herself as one of the top fiddlers in the country. Summers find Jaime teaching and performing at fiddle camps across Canada and the US, sharing the stage with fiddlers such as Oliver Schroer, Pierre Schryer, Jerry Holland, Gordon Stobbe, Ian Fraser, & Catriona MacDonald. Sharing her talents in Canada’s arctic and northern communities with Andrea Hanson and Strings Across the Sky, an organization committed to restoring the historic fiddle legacy among youth, is another one of Jaime’s passions.

Jaime RT also loves to share her musical passion with kids, through teaching and school shows. She is often found treking throughout the Canadian Arctic with Strings Across the Sky or enthusiastically working her magic at fiddle camps. Fiddleworks is her company, dedicated to innovative fiddle education through music camps, teaching books, recordings, videos, internet, & lessons.

At home on Salt Spring Island Jaime can be found performing at community events and teaching fiddle, violin, piano, theory and composition in her unique straw bale music studio.