RIP Shingoose

WINNIPEG FOLK FEST 2016 FEAT. A SELECTION OF NNA V1 TRAILBLAZERS

Dad/Père

Winnipeg (August, 2015)

Native North America at Plug In ICA w/ Shingoose, David McLeod, and Sipreano (August 5, 2015)

NNA TNT in WPG + WD RIP

I've just learned that it's been 2 years to the day that singer songwriter Willie Dunn passed away. It was a massive privilege to have met him and to help share his music through the Native North America (Vol. 1) compilation on Light In The Attic Records. Tonight, we'll be honouring Willie's legacy w/ a screening of his National Film Board of Canada produced The Other Side of the Ledger: An Indian View of the Hudson's Bay Company (1972, co-directed by Martin Defalco). Joining us for the evening will be Shingoose (Curtis Jonnie) and David McLeod from NCI FM - The Spirit of Manitoba for a special Q&A. We will also be screening Duke Redbird's The Paradox of Norval Morrisseau (co-directed by Henning Jacobsen and featuring Shingoose). Please join us at Winnipeg's Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art for an celebration of music, art, film, discussion, and culture... PEACE

Album aims to give Indigenous trailblazers overdue recognition (Globe and Mail re-post)

Laura Beeston

The Globe and Mail

Published Sunday, Aug. 02, 2015 12:00PM EDT

The success of Native North America (Vol. 1), a seminal compilation of nearly lost aboriginal folk, rock and country music from 1966-85, is being celebrated Aug. 5 at Winnipeg’s Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art. Album curator Kevin Howes, a Vancouver-based record archeologist, curator and DJ renowned for uncovering undocumented Canadian music history, is taking part in a discussion alongside indigenous singer-songwriter Shingoose. The event will also feature screenings of the documentaries The Paradox of Norval Morrisseau and The Other Side of the Ledger, the latter a critical examination of Hudson’s Bay Co.’s treatment of aboriginal peoples. “I think it will symbolically be an interesting and dynamic evening,” Howes says, noting that it’s taking place on the roof of the gallery, which has a direct view of HBC’s flagship store on Portage Avenue. “The relevancy of the messages in these songs, with their substance, depth, culture and soul [are] still very timely today,” he continues. “It’s resonating with people because so little has changed … and because there is a desire to appreciate, preserve and share this culture.” The compilation, issued by Seattle’s Light in the Attic Records, was long-listed for the 2015 Polaris Prize and aims to give Canada’s indigenous trailblazers some long-overdue recognition. It has proved popular – the album is going through its second print run.

*Re-post from http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/album-aims-to-give-indigenous-trailblazers-overdue-recognition/article25803130/

Native North America at Plug In ICA

Native North America (Vol. 1): An evening of music, discussion, and film with Shingoose, David McLeod (NCI FM), and Kevin "Sipreano" Howes

Peg poem

After the moment has passed, I think of other concrete streets, ones with less dust.
Still, as I walk alone in the afternoon sun, I feel a special kind of warmth that I've never experienced anyplace else.
Peg is short for Winnipeg. It's also a song by Becker and Fagen. Jazz-rock pop sampled into rap. In 2015, is it still possible for OG bars to morph into something so fresh?
And while there's no Steely Dan to be heard, I can't stop thinking about the dirty work ahead.
What would happen to me if I lived in Peg?
After years of trying my best, would I stand tall like that other Peg tune or would I be left alone to eat my shoe?
Born to the east, how long will I pray to the west?
Only the Jga Jga knows and the Jga Jga is not speaking.
Until the sun goes down.
Stop and listen friends, with your ears to the ground.
Or simply look a-r-o-u-n-d.

The Lenny Breau Show (1966)

Brown Town Muddy Water

Native North America (Vol. 1) interview w/ Sipreano and Birdapres TGIFR UMFM 101.5 Winnipeg

sunshine pop

hanging w/ ronnie & natalie

recently spent some time in winnipeg, manitoba, doing research for a couple of upcoming LITA projects. through some good fate and fortune, met w/ the multi-talented ronnie and natalie pollock (capitol recording artists, private press pioneers, and oddball cable TV gurus!@#$%!!!). they not only shared some of their incredible cultural history, but also asked me to do a youtube drop (an honour)!@#$%!!! definitely seek out the pollock's music and TV work. well worth the effort...

mood jga jga

red top restaurant

(time to) finish your plate

"third-world state"

the bay

october 3, 2011
the bay (paddlewheel restaurant)
winnipeg, manitoba

roast of the day w/ scalloped potatoes, carrots, peas, yorkshire pudding, gravy