A special event presented by the Stratford Symphony Orchestra featuring award-winning First Nations, Métis, and
Inuit artists performing with 6x CFMA winners Sultans of String!  Walking Through the Fire is a musical multimedia experience unlike any other.
From Métis fiddling to an East Coast Kitchen Party, rumba to rock, to the
drumming of the Pacific Northwest, experience the beauty and diversity of music
from Turtle Island with Alyssa Delbaere-Sawchuk of the Métis Fiddler Quartet,
Ojibwe/Finnish Singer-Songwriter Marc Meriläinen (Nadjiwan), Coast Tsm’syen
Singer-Songwriter Shannon Thunderbird, Mi’kmaw Fingerstyle Guitarist Don Ross,
Dene Singer-songwriter Leela Gilday, and The North Sound from the prairies,
performing on stage, as well as virtual guests on the big screen, including Dr.
Duke Redbird, the Northern Cree pow wow group, and more!

The songs beautifully reveal the depths of contemporary Indigenous experience
and music, expressed in the spirit of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s
94 Calls to Action, and Final Report that asks that Indigenous and
non-Indigenous people work together as an opportunity to show a path forward.

“The very fact that you’re doing this tells me that you believe
in the validity of our language, you believe in the validity of our art and our
music, and that you want to help to bring it out. And that’s really what’s
important, is for people to have faith that we can do this… That’s really
good”.

– Honourable Murray Sinclair – Ojibwe Elder – former chair of the TRC

“We are opening doors for each other, as Indigenous peoples, as
settler peoples. It’s just about further creating more openings and more
connections through being a conduit… and through creating more spaces.”

– Alyssa Delbaere-Sawchuk – violist -Métis Fiddler Quartet

https://www.stratfordsymphony.ca/Walking_Through_Fire/

Adult $45

Student $15

Children under 12 Free