The Burlington Performing Arts Centre is staging a special performance to recognize Secret Path Week.
Walking Through the Fire: Sultans of String in support of the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund, takes place Sunday, Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. in the Main Hall at the Locust Street venue.
The show will feature award-winning First Nations, Métis and Inuit artists from across Turtle Island joined by Billboard charting/6x CFMA winners Sultans of String, performing original Indigenous music along with Tragically Hip covers like Fiddlers Green, Ahead By A Century, Courage and more. The musical multimedia experience delves into an array of genres: Métis fiddling, East Coast kitchen party, rumba, rock, and even the drumming of the Pacific Northwest.
Guest performers include Alyssa Delbaere-Sawchuk of the Métis Fiddler Quartet, Ojibwe/Finnish Singer-Songwriter Marc Meriläinen (Nadjiwan), Coast Tsm’syen Singer-Songwriter Shannon Thunderbird, as well as virtual guests joining in on the big screen, including Elder and poet Dr. Duke Redbird, the Northern Cree pow wow group, Kendra Tagoona, Tracy Sarazin and Tom Wilson.
Those who attend the show can visit the Burlington Performing Arts Centre's Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund Legacy Space -- one of the first in Canada inside a public venue.
Secret Path Week, a national movement commemorating the legacies of Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack, takes place Oct. 17 to 22, marking the dates that Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack joined the spirit world. Now in its sixth year, this concert series provides a fundraising opportunity meant to aid in our collective reconciliation journey to promote awareness, education, and thoughtful action around Canada’s true history.
“When Gord Downie took time in his final days to shine a light on the need for reconciliation with Canada’s First Peoples, he left us all with an important job. The Burlington Performing Arts Centre was the first performing arts centre in Canada to install a Legacy Space in its venue, and BPAC is proud to produce and present LEGACY once again this year, supporting our partners at the Downie-Wenjack Fund and hosting an evening of storytelling and song that will stay with you, long after the curtain has closed,” said BPAC Executive Director Tammy Fox.
The Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund is part of theTragically Hip frontman's legacy and embodies his commitment to improving the lives of First Peoples. The goal of the fund is to continue the conversation that began with Chanie Wenjack’s residential school story, and to honour Gord Downie’s call to action to “do something.”
Tickets for Walking Through the Fire are available on the Burlington Performing Arts Centre website.
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