Indigenous music series launches third season – Winnipeg Free Press
, 2023-01-19 06:00:51,
The third season of a video series highlighting live performances and original new music by First Nation, Métis and Inuit artists will première on Facebook and YouTube on Jan. 20.
Anishinaabe and settler singer-songwriter Ila Barker will kick off the new season of Talking Stick, followed by country act Jerry Sereda on Jan. 27, hip-hop artist Stun on Feb. 17, and Metis singer/songwriter and actress Victoria Turko on Feb. 24.
Barker, a Winnipeg-based folk-soul musician who released her first album in 2013, says projects such as Talking Stick are a great way for Indigenous, First Nations and Métis artists to be supported.
Ila Barker (right) and vocalist Hera Nalam, record a session for Talking Stick at the Southeast Resource Development Council’s Wellness Lodge. (Supplied)
“We are so lucky here in the province. I haven’t found that same hub of community building in other cities,” Barker says. “Manitoba Music has helped out in so many different ways in the years of me being an artist, making space for Indigenous artists and their stories. It’s genuinely huge and uplifting for a lot of us.”
The project is led by the Indigenous Music Development Program (IMDP) at Manitoba Music and produced by Winnipeg-based Cree/Ojibwe producer and director Erica Daniels.
It is a 100 per cent Indigenous project, Shaneen Robinson-Desjarlais, co-ordinator of the Indigenous Music Development at…
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