A special event presented by the Niagara 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

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Tickets/Information:  https://tinyurl.com/bdch4tyt

905-688-0722, boxoffice@firstontariopac.ca 

Regular: $75

Diamond: $100

Arts Worker (w/valid ID): $52

35 under 35: $46

Student (University/College – w/valid ID): $29

Youth (18 and Under w/valid ID): $24

A special event presented by the Niagara 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 experiences 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
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905-688-0722, boxoffice@firstontariopac.ca 

Regular: $75

Diamond: $100

Arts Worker (w/valid ID): $52

35 under 35: $46

Student (University/College – w/valid ID): $29

Youth
(18 and Under w/valid ID): $24