This special performance presented by the Brantford Symphony Orchestra
brings the magic of collaboration to the stage, with award-winning First
Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists from across Turtle Island joined by 6x CFMA winners Sultans of String!

From Métis fiddling to an East Coast Kitchen Party, from Rumba to
Rock, to the drumming of the Pacific Northwest, experience the beauty and
diversity of musicians onstage with Alyssa Delbaere-Sawchuk of the Métis
Fiddler Quartet, Ojibwe/Finnish Singer-Songwriter Marc Meriläinen (Nadjiwan),
Coast Tsm’syen Elder and Singer-Songwriter Shannon  Thunderbird, Mi’kmaw Fingerstyle Guitarist
Don Ross, Dene singer-songwriter Leela Gilday, and Saskatchewan’s The North
Sound, 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