American-born musician Alex Kehler has spent his life crossing musical borders. Raised in the coastal Nova Scotia, he now resides in the Eastern Townships of Québec, where the threads of folk and classical music weave together into the artistic path he follows today.

A multi-instrumentalist fluent on violin, nyckelharpa, and mandola, Alex has built a reputation as a versatile crossover artist, most notably through his long-standing work with Skye Consort and La Nef, touring with these ensembles across Canada, the United States, and Europe.

His musical story begins with classical roots: in the late 1990s he studied baroque violin at McGill University with Chantal Rémillard, later performing with early-music ensembles such as Toronto’s Aradia Ensemble and Montreal’s Studio de musique ancienne.

In the early 2000s Alex became a fixture of the Québécois and New England traditional music and dance communities, performing and touring with the Kehler-Williams Duo, Skye Consort & Emma Björling, and the New England trio Triton. His commitment to sharing this music extends to teaching, having served on staff at North East Heritage Music Camp (VT), Acadia Trad School (ME), and Ashokan Northern Week (NY). He is currently an adult mentor for the Young Tradition Vermont Touring Group and will accompany them to Sweden in April 2026. He is also a teaching assistant in the composition department at the Université de Sherbrooke. Over the years Alex has collaborated on many recordings with his colleagues but also for soundtracks for NFB productions and more recently for composer Jean-François Racine for movie and videogame sound tracks.

Since 2011, Alex has followed a growing passion for Scandinavian music, especially the nyckelharpa, studying with renowned Swedish masters Torbjörn Näsböm, Magnus Holmström, and David Eriksson. Today, his playing carries traces of all these musical worlds—early, traditional, and contemporary—blended into a voice that is distinctly his own.

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