KWPeaceNov 11, 2024

Film: Walking Through The Fire at Zion United Church, New Hamburg at 7pm on Thursday 14 November 2024

From Caterina Lindman’s newsletter:

What: Walking Through the Fire
When: 7:00pm on Thursday 14 November 2024
Where: Zion United Church
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Register: https://walkingwilmot.eventbrite.ca

This is the screening of a visual album, entitled Walking Through the Fire. It’s an opportunity to hear music and stories from Indigenous musicians from across Canada. This film, created by the award-winning Sultans of String, will be screened at Zion United Church, New Hamburg on Thursday, November 14, 2024 at 7 p.m. Register now.

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Exposé OnlineApr 13, 2024
New #review today: "On this new #SultansOfString album, the group has a variety of collaborators from #FirstNations, #Métis, and #Inuit peoples. These range from the #CountryRock of #CrystalShawanda to the #FolkRock of #LeelaGilday and #LeanneTaneton to the more mainstream country of #TheNorthSound to the #katajjaq (traditional Inuit throat singing) of #KendraTagoona and #TracySarazin to the distinctive fiddle techniques of the #MétisFiddlerQuartet." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/sultans-of-string-walking-through-the-fire-2.html
Reviews | Sultans of String - Walking Through the Fire

Exposé Online
Windspeaker.comAug 15, 2023

Raven Kanatakta of Digging Roots says he doesn’t want to walk around on Anishinabe territory being angry.
He wants to feel good about who he is as an Algonquin person. He wants to feel empowered.

A new collaboration with the band Sultans of String went a long way to lift a heavy weight from him, and Kanatakta thinks the work will be a step towards getting the Indigenous perspective inside the Canadian narrative.

https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/digging-roots-sultans-string-collaboration-helps-lift-heavy-weight-through

#Indigenous #music #arts #SultansofString #medicine

Digging Roots, Sultans of String collaboration helps lift a heavy weight through the medicine of music

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the eyes of Canadians and the world were opened when Tk’emlups te Secwepemc identified 215 unmarked graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in May 2020. “The whole announcement of children being found because of residential schools and what was going on, it really hit me and I ended up cutting my hair because of it, out of condolence for those little ancestors that never got to live their full life,” said Raven Kanatakta, one half of the two-time Juno-award winning duo Digging Roots with wife ShoShona Kish.

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Curtis BrayMar 18, 2023
Today I was lucky to attend one the first shows by the Sultans of String as they start their spring tour. These guys did an amazing job engaging the audience and getting the kids excited about music. Give them a listen https://sultansofstring.com - a ton of fun! #SultansOfString #LiveMusic #Music #EdmondsCenterfortheArts #Kids #today
Sultans of String

Juno award nominee and Billboard charting band Sultans of String creates “energetic and exciting music from a band with talent to burn!” (Maverick, UK). Thrilling audiences with a genre-hopping passport of Celtic reels, flamenco, gypsy-jazz, Arabic, Cuban and South Asian rhythms, the group celebrates musical fusion and human creativity with warmth and virtuosity. Fiery violin dances with rumba-flamenco guitar, while bass and percussion lay down unstoppable grooves. Acoustic strings meet with electronic wizardry to create layers and depth of sound, while world rhythms excite audiences to their feet with an irresistible need to dance.