Sultans of String

Award-winning First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists performing with JUNO Award nominees Sultans of String, Walking Through the Fire is a musical multimedi event unlike any other! From Métis fiddling to an East Coast Kitchen Party, Rumba tot Rock, to the drumming of the Pacific Northwest, experience the beauty and diversity of music from Turtle Island/Canada with Alyssa Delbaere-Sawchuk of the Métis Fiddler Quartet, Ojibwe/Finnish Singer-Songwriter, Marc Merliäinen (Nadjiwan), and Coast Tsm'syen Elder and Singer-Songwriter, Shannon Thunderbird 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 Comission'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 Deibaere-Sawchuk - violist - Métis Fiddler Quartet