“We’ve been told when we’ve met with Elders before that we really need to be putting Cree into our work and so that’s what we’ve been doing.”

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“We’ve been told when we’ve met with Elders before that we really need to be putting Cree into our work and so that’s what we’ve been doing.”

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New work from Métis composer Karen Sunabacka to be performed by Tafelmusik at Hearing Her Voice

Karen Sunabacka, a Métis composer, will premiere a commissioned work at the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra’s Hearing Her Voice performances from April 30 to May 3 at the Jeanne Lamon Hall in Toronto.“This piece has been a really fun project to work on, and I’m just really honoured that Tafelmusik asked me to write the piece,” Sunabacka said.Her work, titled nitatisipwētānān: We are Leaving, is set to text written by her mother Joyce Clouston. It’s rooted in Métis intergenerational collaboration and storytelling.

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