Wesaketewenowuk: Roots Growing Up (after a fire) is a beautiful educational short film about Métis resilience and stories to encourage revitalization of the endangered Michif language through development of a new Michif-language song. Andrea Menard’s […]

Esther describes ways music changed lives from mother’s songs and encouragement to gramophones and fiddle music.

Cecile explains why she chooses to sing all the time.

Cecile was a good singer and she played guitar in her day and her husband was fearful that she’d become a singer and leave him. But she kept singing and still sings today. It’s good […]

Don, Julia, and Cecile describe how many Indigenous musicians played songs by ear rather than sheet music. Their feet were the rhythm section.

Tom, Cecile and Don remember the many kinds of unconventional instruments to make music they’d heard in their youth (jews harp, spoons, bones, and washboard).

Julia explains how to use music and Michif to teach children to dance.

Dianne tells a story about singing the “I Love You” song to school children.

Tom tells a story about his sister using unique Métis singing through the teeth to soothe babies.

Don describes how exposure to music in his youth inspired him to play music for the people.