A special event 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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